Simone Hochgreb

Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion' The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether.

He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

The “anti establishment “ party financed by the establishment and promoted by most of the establishment media on a daily basis. Nothing to see here just a nasty racist with a craving for fascist ideas being bankrolled by wealthy arseholes.

I just dont understand why this isn't the lead story on BBC news.
If this was any other political party it would be.
It's complete in your face corruption.

Can that be written in upfront às some sort of depreciation or does it have to be negotiated some time in the future?

I was living in a simple world where capital is at risk. Now you are telling me that CFD subsidises pension funds by charging higher electricity prices to the consumer. Head explodes. Or did I get this wrong?

Brilliant piece by @mjrobbins.com on the Oxfordshire rubbish dump - and what it says about the failure of state institutions and rising sense of lawlessness.

martinrobbins.substack.com/p/rubbish-mo...

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

He really does.

Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? Can Dutch higher education part ways with Microsoft? The sector is trying to break free, and alternatives are being explored here and there. At the same time, more and more tasks are being completed b...

The actions banning the ICC from US software accounts and software is extremely ominous. Business and universities are very dependent on the US. Beware: dub.uu.nl/en/news/can-...

You do excellent work on the diagnosis. Wishing for prescriptions to a cure. Not easy, given that the forces of disinformation led by profit.

“Ich bin ein Clactoner”

@monkemma.bsky.social : National Treasure.

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.

Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph

Because this does NOT add up!

No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…

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The version of the Gospels where the Samaritan crossed the road to kick the robbery victim in the head and go through his pockets for loose change was suppressed by the woke fathers of the early church.

Do I recall a precedent of the East India Company shaking down the crown?

Shame.

Next time someone asks what's the matter with Musk's Twitter, show them this:
An account in India, amplifying a billionaire from South Africa being cheered by an Irish passport holder (using an alias) to encourage civil unrest in the UK.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Truly Skandalous.

Surpassing human capabilities isn’t the biggest threat that AI poses, says activist and author of “Enshittification” Cory Doctorow.

Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics:

"Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?"

Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

"It’s curious that the Orwell Prize – Britain’s most celebrated award for public interest journalism – has turned to a man who’s spent much of his career trying to stifle it.”

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And yet there has been plenty of agency. Brexit would not have happened without agency. Pulling out of the single market likewise.

A leader with a long term vision and ability to explain (in nice ppt charts if you will) direction, and why things need to be changed would succeed.

Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.

"Farage repeatedly... said Hitler was right and 'gas 'em', and that was frequently followed by a 'sssss'... the sound of escaping gas.

"He said Farage's words had "hit hard" because his grandparents had escaped Nazi Germany and much of their family had perished in the Holocaust"

Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS

Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming:

Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS

> Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

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This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

Oh dear. Very bad call from the BBC