# nigel (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 8 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nigel. Page: Feed: --- ## [Tory fantasy on net zero](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/tory-fantasy-on-net-zero.html) _2026-08-20 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Independent reports that green campaigners have accused the Conservatives’ of “living in fantasy land” after the party laid out plans to ditch net zero and prioritise cheap energy over decarbonising Britain’s power grid. They were commenting on plans by the shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho to ditch net zero, insisting that the UK “should focus all our attention on making electricity… ## [Exclusive: Andy Burnham’s Northern home address easily available since becoming Prime Minister](https://national.thelead.uk/p/exclusive-andy-burnhams-cheshire-home-address-online-companies-house-number-10-security-concerns) _2026-08-19 · The Lead · The Lead_ National security concerns deepen after some basic sleuthing from The Lead saw Number 10 act swiftly, reports Michael Holmes ## [Reform civil war?](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/reform-civil-war.html) _2026-08-19 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Mirror reports that Reform UK has suspended one of its highest-profile supporters as cracks start to show in Nigel Farage's party. The paper says that Tim Montgomerie criticised Mr Farage after he refused to attend the Clacton by-election count on Friday. They add that he also hit out at combative frontbencher Zia Yusuf, suggesting people "cannot behave like a child" in politics and lifting… ## [Nigel Farage won Clacton, but he's lost the dressing room](https://national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-farage-clacton-by-election-reform-uk-count-binface) _2026-08-18 · Zoe Grunewald · The Lead_ The Reform leader has failed to reinvigorate his party with his recent by-election win ## [The climate change dilemma facing Burnham](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-climate-change-dilemma-facing.html) _2026-08-18 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Times reports that Andy Burnham faces a potential showdown with Labour MPs after suggesting faster extraction of North Sea oil and gas could help pay for the transition to clean energy. They are referring to the decision by the prime minister over whether to approve the Rosebank oilfield and Jackdaw gasfield after consultations on both projects closed: Industry sources have told The Times they… ## [Could water companies put up prices to pay for drought?](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/could-water-companies-put-up-prices-to.html) _2026-08-17 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Guardian reports that water companies could be allowed to raise bills for customers during periods of drought under proposals being considered by the sector’s regulator for England and Wales. The suggestion is that suppliers would be permitted to factor “water scarcity” into bills as part of efforts to reduce consumption under Ofwat’s plans, which are being likened to surge pricing – the… ## [Nathan Cofnas: ‘After the revolution, I’ll be the head of the dept of eugenics & race science at Harvard’.](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/__trashed-2/) _2026-08-16 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ This is chilling stuff. ## [Labour government needs to give universities a break](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/labour-government-needs-to-give.html) _2026-08-16 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Guardian reports that university leaders are warning of financial turmoil in British higher education after new figures suggested a collapse in international student numbers would deprive the sector of vital income and undermine its future. The paper says that the sector’s leaders have called on the government to rethink the levy on international student fees imposed under Keir Starmer, as a… ## [Cofnas Admits To Revenge For Sacking](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/cofnas-admits-to-revenge-for-sacking/) _2026-08-15 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ https://x.com/i/status/2088588003530711533 ## [Jason Arday, Racism, Eugenics And The British Press](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/18409/) _2026-08-15 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ I started writing this blog post days before the news broke that Professor Jason Arday had been found ‘unresponsive’. For weeks, Prof Arday had been the target of the right-wing press and their outriders on social media, all of them Continue reading ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/2DAil3pc3WNc) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [The Saturday Read: Summer of scandal](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-summer-of-scandal) _2026-08-15 · The Saturday Read_ The weekend's line-up. ## [Yet another mock castle](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/yet-another-mock-castle.html) _2026-08-15 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ When I was a student Clyne Castle was student accommodation and one that hosted legendary summer balls, that often ended up on the beach at 5am the next day. It is now luxury flats, a victim of the trend by universities to cash in on their assets and contract out student digs to outside providers. Wikipedia , describes the Castle as a Grade II\*-listed building situated on a hill overlooking… ## [Review of the Week: Farage beats bin, Labour goes private, and Britain burns.](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/review-of-the-week-farage-beats-bin) _2026-08-14 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ A review of this weeks news ## [Another Reform UK misdemeanor](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-reform-uk-misdemeanor.html) _2026-08-14 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ It doesn't seem as if elected Reform officials can keep out of trouble. The Independent reports that a Reform councillor has been suspended after resurfaced social media posts appeared to show him calling for the Commons speaker to be hanged. The paper says that in response to a post about then Commons speaker John Bercow, an account linked to Kirklees councillor David Rowan wrote on social media… ## [Email do Nigel! Fantasma parte 2](https://nigelgoodman.substack.com/p/email-do-nigel-fantasma-parte-2) _2026-08-13 · Nigel Goodman · Email do Nigel!_ A continuação do conto sobre fantasma que eu comecei em outro email. ## [The Lead Untangles: North Sea drilling](https://national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-untangles-north-sea-drilling) _2026-08-13 · Adam Barnett · The Lead_ There's cries of 'drill Andy drill' and the new Prime Minister has been hinting there may be a change in policy - we drill into the facts ## [Has a convicted fraudster moved into Reform UK party HQ?](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/has-convicted-fraudster-moved-into.html) _2026-08-13 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Times reports that the convicted fraudster who secretly bankrolled Nigel Farage has moved his company’s address to the same building as Reform UK’s headquarters, amid questions over how close he remains to the party. The paper says that Geostrategy International Unlimited, set up by George Cottrell last year, has changed its registered company address from the address of a company formation… ## [Beaches, blue skies, and bins: What we found out on the streets of Clacton-on-Sea](https://national.thelead.uk/p/clacton-by-election-nigel-farage-reform-count-binface-voters-thoughts) _2026-08-12 · Fred Garratt-Stanley · The Lead_ Ahead of a contentious by-election forced by Nigel Farage's resignation as MP, the Essex seaside town is weighing up Reform's leader against Count Binface and a vast array of other fringe candidates ## [A very British scandal](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/a-very-british-scandal) _2026-08-12 · The Saturday Read_ Cambridge university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials ## [The targeting of journalists is a real threat to democracy](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-targeting-of-journalists-is-real.html) _2026-08-12 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ The Guardian reports that the businessman and Reform UK backer Arron Banks is facing calls to lay out the extent of his surveillance of journalists, described by an industry body as an “attack on our democracy”. The paper says that the News Media Association (NMA), which represents regional and national media, has raised concerns after Banks appeared to admit over the weekend to hiring private… ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eVd7LICEjIW7) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [When Fiction intrudes on real life](https://peterblack.blogspot.com/2026/08/when-fiction-intrudes-on-real-life_01503326228.html) _2026-08-11 · Peter Black · Peter Black_ I've already blogged a few times here about Ianto's memorial wall, a place in Cardiff Bay where devotees have posted momentos concerning a fictional character from the Torchwood TV series. The posts are here , here , here , and here . Now there is another example of how seriously people take their entertainment. Metro News reports that Harry Potter fans have proven there’s clearly power in… ## [Why Is Trump Talking About Communism?](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/why-is-trump-talking-about-communism/) _2026-08-10 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ Sometimes I think that I ve gone to bed the previous night and woken up in the 1950s with the Second Red Scare in full swing and “Reds under the bed”. Recently, we’ve heard Donald Trump talking darkly about a communist Continue reading ## [The Saturday Read: Ends and beginnings](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-ends-and-beginnings) _2026-08-08 · The Saturday Read_ The weekend's line-up. ## [Exclusive: Brexit "bad boy" Arron Banks launched probe into Sunday Times journalist](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/exclusive-brexit-bad-boy-arron-banks) _2026-08-08 · The Saturday Read_ The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances ## [Who Owns Britains Wealth](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/who-owns-britains-wealth) _2026-08-07 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ Continuing the seriues: Who Own's Britain? ## [The Lead Untangles: How extreme heat is impacting our health service](https://national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-untangles-heatwaves-nhs-doctors-excess-deaths) _2026-08-06 · Ellie Broughton · The Lead_ Clinicians and healthcare professionals saw the human cost of the heatwave last month – but risk suspension for climate protests ## [Nigel Farage doesn't want to stop the boats... he wants to make money.](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/nigel-farage-doesnt-want-to-stop) _2026-08-05 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ A closer look at the corrupt greedy money making machine that is Nigel Farage ## [Europe's shame](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/europes-shame) _2026-08-05 · The Saturday Read_ The Ceuta crisis has exposed the continent’s hollow centre ## [It's the end of Reform as we know it](https://national.thelead.uk/p/nigel-farage-end-of-reform-as-we-know-it) _2026-08-04 · Zoe Grunewald · The Lead_ A bad few months for Nigel Farage's insurgent party has shown their true colours ## [The Saturday Read: The world burns](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-the-world-burns) _2026-08-01 · The Saturday Read_ This weekend's line-up. ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OtemAc02PtxN) _2026-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [Review of the Week: FIFA, Burnham and a New Manchester Mayor](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/review-of-the-week-fifa-burnham-and) _2026-08-01 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ A review of the week ## [The Lead Untangles: Planning reforms](https://national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-untangles-planning-reforms) _2026-07-30 · The Lead · The Lead_ New planning rules have sparked claims that councils will no longer be able to block HMOs, but the reality is more complicated ## [Social Change vs Political Change](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/social-change-vs-political-change) _2026-07-29 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ Exploring the role of social movements in the wider political context ## [The new terror](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-new-terror) _2026-07-29 · The Saturday Read_ Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race ## [The house that Burnham builds](https://national.thelead.uk/p/the-house-that-burnham-builds) _2026-07-28 · Hannah Fearn · The Lead_ A new generation of council homes is promised but the myths of who gets them are taking hold ## [The Saturday Read: A new start](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-a-new-start) _2026-07-25 · The Saturday Read_ Good morning. ## [“While anyone can drown, drowning is not equal”: The race gap in Britain’s water safety crisis](https://national.thelead.uk/p/water-safety-world-drowning-prevention-day-ed-accura-no-lifeguard-west-mersia-deaths) _2026-07-25 · Natalie Morris · The Lead_ A new film explores the stark racial and socioeconomic inequalities shaping water safety in Britain ## [The Lead Untangles: The push to regulate therapy](https://national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-untangles-the-push-to-regulate) _2026-07-23 · The Lead · The Lead_ A new petition says it’s time to regulate the profession– but therapists and clients disagree ## [No laughing matter](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/no-laughing-matter) _2026-07-23 · The Saturday Read_ Jim Davidson and Nigel Farage represent an England that will not go quietly ## [Keep Politics Out Of Sport And Art?](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/07/22/keep-politics-out-of-sport-and-art/) _2026-07-22 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ How many times have you heard the words “keep politics out of sport or art”? Too many, I would imagine. The thing is both of those sporting activities are intrinsically political so you if have an opinion on a particular Continue reading ## [The Take Over](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-take-over) _2026-07-22 · The Saturday Read_ In his first days in No 10, Andy Burnham showed his determination to do politics differently ## [The Contradiction Of The Far-Right’s Security Concerns](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/the-far-rights-security-contradiction/) _2026-07-14 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ Following Ann Widdecombe s murder, far-right politicians like Reform s Nigel Farage and Richard Tice, and Restore s sole MP, Rupert Lowe, have been demanding taxpayer-funded security. Here s the irony: Farage actually refused parliamentary-appointed protection, claiming that it was inadequate . Now, it seems, Continue reading ## [Why I am Supporting Count Binface](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/why-i-am-supporting-count-binface) _2026-07-12 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ I'm a Green supporter, but this is more important. ## [Nigel Farage and the Establishment - a Closer Look](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/nigel-farage-and-the-establishment) _2026-07-11 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ Is Nigel Farage part of the establishment? Lets examine the facts. ## [The Nigel Farage Show](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/the-nigel-farage-show/) _2026-07-09 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ On Tuesday, Nigel Farage resigned his Clacton seat. Only, it wasn’t so much a resignation as it was a flounce for the cameras. Everything he does is for the cameras. Farage said that he was triggering a by-election and claimed, Continue reading ## [My Review of the Week](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/my-review-of-the-week-072) _2026-07-06 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ Farage is finished, and FIFA corrupt - what's new? ## [Who Owns Britain? The Land beneath our feet.](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/who-owns-britain-the-land-beneath) _2026-07-02 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ An explorative series looking at who really owns Britain. ## [Revisiting Terry Eagleton’s ‘What Is Fascism?’](https://buddyhell.wordpress.com/2026/07/02/revisiting-terry-eagletons-what-is-fascism/) _2026-07-02 · buddyhell · Guy Debord's Cat_ It wasn’t so long ago. Maybe, 10 or 16 years ago that, if I wanted to read far-right content, I had to go to the Stormfront site or buy a copy of The British Nationalist from a BNP paper-seller. I Continue reading ## [Email do Nigel! Verdades Absurdas e Miaugazine](https://nigelgoodman.substack.com/p/email-do-nigel-verdades-absurdas) _2026-06-29 · Nigel Goodman · Email do Nigel!_ Olá, como você está? ## [My Review of the Week](https://harryeccles94.substack.com/p/my-review-of-the-week) _2026-06-26 · Harry Eccles · Harry Eccles_ A closer look at the week for my paid subscribers