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If you need a sunday read about sticking it to billionaires, I was interviewed by @josiah.writes.news for @bylinetimes.bsky.social about our @everyonehateselon.bsky.social campaign ❤️✊ bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

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Byline Times is facing major DDOS (malicious traffic-flooding) issues on our site apparently after this article went live... bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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🔴 ‘Don’t Buy a Swasticar’: Tesla Hit by UK Boycott Campaign Over Elon Musk’s Far-Right Support Electric vehicle producer Tesla has been targeted by activists due to its far-right owner’s interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

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Campaigners from Keep Our NHS Public will gather outside Parliament on Weds 26th Feb, from 12-2 PM to "oppose the government’s push towards NHS privatisation" The demo - ‘Patients Not Profit: Keir Starmer, Invest in the NHS – Not the Private Sector’ - will be at Old Palace Yard, Westminster

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New from YouGov: 67% of Brits say that they both want Ukraine to win and care a great deal or fair amount that it does so. But one in ten Reform voters (10%) say that they want Russia to win, compared to 2-5% of voters from the other parties.

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The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been charged with bribery after an investigation by counter terrorism police. He faces nine charges related to bribery, the Met Police said. news.sky.com/story/nathan...

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New from YouGov: Only 1 in 5 Brits say maintaining good relations with the US is more important than supporting Ukraine Nearly half (48%) said it was more important for the UK govt to support Ukraine, while 20% said it is more important for the UK government to maintain good relations with the US

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Via Cornwall Resists: "Groups across Cornwall are uniting for a noisy protest to stop Nigel Farage from speaking at Reform's Cornwall conference at the Carn Brea Leisure Centre on 24th February. The protest starts at 3:30 and will run until early evening." The groups want to shut down the conference

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🔴 UK Political Parties to Be Forced to Reveal How Diverse Their Election Candidates Are Keir Starmer’s Government is set to implement a long-dormant requirement for political parties to publish diversity data about their candidates bylinetimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Via Positive Money: Lloyds Bank became the last of the ‘Big Four’ British banks - succeeding HSBC, Barclays and NatWest - to announce its full pre-tax profits for 2024 this AM, which stood at £6bn. This takes the total pre-tax profits of the ‘Big Four’ up 1% on 2023 to a record £45.9bn for 2024"

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A ground-breaking official report in Wales recommends that the Welsh equivalent of the Representation of the People Act, the RPO, be amended to ensure that any political candidate or campaign manager who issues a deliberately false statement to gain electoral advantage could be guilty of an offence

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I feel like every day we get closer to an opposition frontbencher referring to the Labour government of 2010 to 2024.

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In case you’re not sure how it’s going down here, America.

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@luketryl.bsky.social said the Arc conference "had compounded his view that the UK right risks “becoming a bit too online and a bit too ‘US pilled’.” "The biggest mistake you can make in politics in the UK is assuming we’re the US." Inside London’s ‘right-wing Davos’ - on.ft.com/3D74EJ2

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A flaw in Ofgem’s regulation of the energy sector, based on estimates of costs from 2021 to 2028, has meant that households were forced to pay billions in undeserved profits to companies during the cost of living crisis while racking up record levels of debt, according to Citizens Advice

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Pretty direct response from PM Starmer to Trump calling President Zelenskyy a dictator. No 10 says the PM noted on a call with Zelenskyy it's "perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the UK did during World War II."

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🔴 Trump-Supporting ARC Conference After Party Cancelled at London Nightclub Following Protests Venue was set to host a cigars, cocktail and DJ night for British Trump-backers attending a conference addressed by Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch bylinetimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

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ICYMI - Sadiq Khan gave a speech to EU Heads of Missions earlier this week He said: “As Mayor, I’m strongly in favour of a new youth mobility scheme...I’m keen for us to look at how we can make it easier for school children from the EU to visit the UK & learn more about our shared ties and history"

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Via Fossil Free London: "Execs from some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms are attending Jordan Peterson’s ARC conference in London. "They're getting together for an ‘unofficial’ after party at the Southwark nightclub Omeara [tonight]" Will Badenoch be partying with Peter Thiel and Farage?

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You may have seen some reporting about a Welsh Senedd committee rejecting the idea of making lying to voters a criminal offence It is misleading. The committee actually has recommended making lying to voters a criminal offence, for candidates. For elected MSs, it would be handled by the Senedd.

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New analysis of policies lowering the voting age to 16 makes seven key recommendations for how to make sure it's a success (e.g. when it's rolled out for Westminster elections). Via JRRT drive.google.com/file/d/1KPCN...

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A major lobbying loophole in the House of Lords here: Via Politico Influence: "The Lords’ Code is clear on the prohibition of payment in return for providing 'parliamentary advice'... But.: "Providing 'advice on public policy & current affairs' or advice 'in general terms' on Parliament is allowed

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Cool new campaign ad from Make My Money Matter, which encourages people to ditch fossil-fuel funding banks. The group, founded by filmmaker Richard Curtis, "mounts further pressure on UK high-street banks – Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Santander, and NatWest – to stop financing new fossil fuels"

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TUC chief Paul Nowak has issued a stark warning to UK voters after President Trump’s first few weeks in power has seen him attack workers’ rights and vital workers’ institutions. In a swipe at Reform leader Nigel Farage, Nowak has warned “this is what happens when you let the populist right in”.

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Via the Treasury today... "The top brass from JP Morgan, Blackrock, Abrdn, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Fidelity, and Schroders were welcomed into No11 Downing Street for breakfast this morning" with moves announced to speed up securities trading

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