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Kathie Sayer.

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Proud Brit, believer in democracy and fundamental rights, cranky cat lady, 2x cancer survivor, opposed to oligarchs, B.S

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Observers raise concerns over secret ballot breaches at Gorton and Denton byelection Democracy Volunteers say they saw 32 cases of apparent collusion – the highest levels in its 10-year history An election observer group has raised concerns over people appearing to collude on voting in the Gorton and Denton byelection. Democracy Volunteers, an organisation founded by Dr John Ault, and supported by Conservative peer and psephologist Prof Robert Haywood, deployed four accredited election observers across the constituency. Continue reading...

Observers raise concerns over secret ballot breaches at Gorton and Denton byelection

26.02.2026 23:59 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 45    📌 15
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Kinship carers in England to be given financial support in government pilot Charities hail ‘groundbreaking’ scheme for grandparents and others who take full parental responsibility for a child Grandparents who step in to provide full-time care for their grandchildren to prevent them being taken into care will be given guaranteed financial support under a government pilot scheme. Charities welcomed the trial as groundbreaking and said if fully rolled out across England it had the potential to transform the lives of tens of thousands of children looked after under “kinship care” arrangements. Continue reading...

Kinship carers in England to be given financial support in government pilot

27.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 43    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 2

This link between Reform policy head James Orr and Victor Orban (& Russian oil money) via the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation also reveals how linked all these right-wing groupings are to the idealised anti-enlightenment brand of English nationalism, which Scruton represented. This is why Farage 1/2

20.02.2026 12:01 — 👍 53    🔁 28    💬 1    📌 1
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A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade, and why most of Europe – including the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy – dismissed them

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them

20.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 187    🔁 108    💬 13    📌 19
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Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agrees to pay up to $35m to settle survivors’ lawsuit Class-action suit accused Epstein’s lawyer and accountant of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking, filing says Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has agreed to pay as much as $35m to resolve a class-action lawsuit that accused two of the disgraced financier’s advisers of aiding and abetting his sex trafficking of young women and teenage girls, according to a court filing. Boies Schiller Flexner, a law firm representing Epstein victims, announced the settlement in a brief filed in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday. Continue reading...

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agrees to pay up to $35m to settle survivors’ lawsuit

20.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 359    🔁 119    💬 44    📌 19
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Consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson falls into administration Global Counsel stops trading after clients cut ties over former ambassador’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein * Business live – latest updates The consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson has collapsed into administration, after a number of clients cut ties with the company over the former ambassador’s relationship with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Global Counsel, which Mandelson co-founded in 2010, said on Friday that it had stopped trading and its staff in the UK were being made redundant. Continue reading...

Consultancy co-founded by Peter Mandelson falls into administration

20.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 49    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 6
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The Equality Act is an essential safeguard against discrimination, and it should matter to everyone Humanists UK is dismayed at Reform UK’s announcement that it intends to repeal the Equality Act 2010 if it were to win the next general election. Humanists UK believes the Equality Act is a vital piece...

The Equality Act is an essential safeguard against discrimination, and it should matter to everyone

20.02.2026 15:03 — 👍 97    🔁 47    💬 4    📌 1
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Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin faced GB News complaint over colleague’s claim of ‘inappropriate comments’ Exclusive: Nigel Farage understood to have known of grievance against byelection candidate, whose lawyer described it as resolved ‘minor workplace matter’ of miscommunication

“Farage…decided the complaint was not serious enough to warrant a rethink about Goodwin’s selection…
[He]characterised the complaint as “just Matt being Matt”

Hmm. Not sure a pair of misogynists are the best people to judge what’s “serious enough”.
Let’s ask her.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

20.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 510    🔁 210    💬 31    📌 11
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The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.

Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

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I encourage everyone to read Virginia Giuffre's memoir, Nobody’s Girl, published posthumously in October 2025, and to share it with others.

The best way to honour her legacy is to believe & support sexual abuse survivors, and amplify their voices above the power & wealth that seeks to silence them.

19.02.2026 11:46 — 👍 640    🔁 183    💬 17    📌 10
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🚨 NEW: Turns out Generation Z, who have to live with Farage’s Russian project, don’t want Brexit.
83% of 16- to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, while just 17% would keep Farage’s Russian project going.
Gen Z was too young to vote in 2016.
Source: ITV #UKNews

19.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 131    🔁 42    💬 7    📌 2

Grim. One can only imagine what passes for ‘banter’ or ‘locker room talk’ when these ghouls converse in private.

19.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 1211    🔁 325    💬 66    📌 16
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Which police forces are investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the UK and why? Nine forces are looking into Epstein’s links to UK, including those relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

Which police forces are investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the UK and why?

19.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 85    🔁 30    💬 10    📌 3
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Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and forme...

“Reform’s plan to scrap net zero won’t take a penny off your energy bills. it’ll just hand your wallet over to the gas giants and markets controlled by dictators like Putin”

MAGA, Putin, Orbán, Bannon, Farage, Reform. All the v worst people colluding to screw us over.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/r...

17.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 396    🔁 171    💬 11    📌 4
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More garbage coming out of Reform.

This time that they want to tear up the Equality Act.

So you’re stuffed if you’re a woman, black, gay, pregnant, old.

No rights. Allowing bad bosses to do exactly as they please. This is not how our country should operate.

17.02.2026 15:52 — 👍 116    🔁 60    💬 15    📌 1
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Police assessing records of private flights at Stansted after publication of Epstein files Move comes after Gordon Brown’s claim that files show sex offender used airport in Essex to ‘fly in girls’ Police are assessing information about private flights to and from Stansted airport after the publication of millions of files relating to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown claimed that the newly published files showed in “graphic detail” how Epstein was able to use the Essex-based airport to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia”. Continue reading...

Police assessing records of private flights at Stansted after publication of Epstein files

17.02.2026 21:29 — 👍 166    🔁 66    💬 7    📌 3
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Insanity. They are laughing at us.

17.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 11130    🔁 5652    💬 596    📌 387
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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

🔎 From the archive
“Has the BBC ever investigated the source of this leak?”

‘BBC Bias’ Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants — by @nafeez.bsky.social
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm…
🔗 https://bylinetimes.com/2025/1…

17.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 102    🔁 61    💬 2    📌 1

Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

17.02.2026 22:47 — 👍 1024    🔁 410    💬 42    📌 14
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Nothing says the ‘special relationship’ is over like this picture of Donald Trump and Liz Truss | Zoe Williams It’s awkward, nobody seems to know what is going on, and the president’s thumb is at half-mast. It’s almost a metaphor for diplomatic relations between the US and the UK, writes Zoe Williams

Nothing says the ‘special relationship’ is over like this picture of Donald Trump and Liz Truss | Zoe Williams

16.02.2026 17:14 — 👍 121    🔁 26    💬 31    📌 8
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Orbán’s pay checks: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

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The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
https://goodlaw.social/lhqt

16.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 154    🔁 89    💬 3    📌 2
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Starmer ally Josh Simons faces fresh questions about digging dirt on journalists Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists

🔴 Wife of Keir Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists

Full story on Democracy for Sale:

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...

16.02.2026 14:59 — 👍 73    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 3
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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

16.02.2026 12:17 — 👍 641    🔁 419    💬 41    📌 32
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NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK Health officials fear Palantir’s reputation will hinder the delivery of a “vital” £330m NHS contract, according to briefings seen by the Guardian, sparking fresh calls for the deal to be scrapped. In 2023, ministers selected Palantir, a US surveillance technology company that also works for the Israeli military and Donald Trump’s ICE operation, to build an AI-enabled data platform to connect disparate health information across the NHS. Continue reading...

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

12.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 209    🔁 81    💬 17    📌 10
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Imagine if your name was mentioned 1M times in The Epstein Files

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Frost on seeing the "unredacted" Epstein files: A few takeaways. Number one, there's a lot of documents that are still redacted. When I asked the DOJ about it, they said they received it that way, which means that Kash FBI kept them redacted when they gave it to the DOJ, which is interesting...

12.02.2026 01:48 — 👍 10124    🔁 3083    💬 236    📌 81

The world now knows about this case as Seamus Culleton was able to phone an Irish talk radio show from a Texan ICE facility!

12.02.2026 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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“A modern-day concentration camp”

Seamus Culleton, an Irishman still detained by Trump’s ICE goons for 5 MONTHS (making private prisons rich), here LEGALLY for two decades, married to a citizen— describes horrific conditions: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

12.02.2026 03:41 — 👍 1195    🔁 613    💬 35    📌 25
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Vetting process for Mandelson needed more awkward questions, expert says System used for civil servants not thorough enough for those with ‘baggage’ of years in politics or business, Peter Ricketts says Downing Street cannot appoint politicians or business figures to senior diplomatic posts using the same security vetting it uses to check civil servants, a former national security adviser has said. Peter Ricketts said there had to be more “awkward questions” asked of a person such as Peter Mandelson than the system allows, given “all the baggage” of his three decades in politics and business. Continue reading...

Vetting process for Mandelson needed more awkward questions, expert says

12.02.2026 06:07 — 👍 30    🔁 8    💬 17    📌 9