Indie cycle retailer by day, choral leader & composer by night. Wimbledon champion 2020 (trust me on that). He/Him. NeilRid on Bluesky, though I'm never there.
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EXCLUSIVE: 1/15 Jason Arday was cast as a serial plagiarist. Three formal reviews had found no plagiarism or fabrication.
My @BylineTimes investigation exposes the errors and omissions in @thetimes “impossible data” story.
Read the investigation - bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/j…
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Standing charges will be scrapped from household gas bills for millions, says Chancellor John Healey, ahead his first Budget later today.
Citizens Advice chief Dame Clare Moriarty and Helen Miller from the Institute Fiscal Studies assess how much impact the change will have.
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Katie Zacharia leaving her White House role less than five days on the job bbc.in/4yUIMbu
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Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
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On the day after @peterjukes & I broke the story of Arron Banks’s covert meetings with the Russian ambassador, I was invited onto @BBCr4today to discuss it. Big news! Finally the chance to break through to a BBC audience. Only the interview was cancelled because they needed ‘someone from the other side’ & the Russian ambassador wasn’t available. Facts don’t have a side. It meant the BBC never covered the story. And here we are..
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My birthday tomorrow and you can gain 20% off everything in store
Apply coupon MASATO0510 at the checkout or subscribe to emails masato.co.uk #shopindie make it an #indiechristmas
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The Norwegian Consumer Council made a video about enshittification and got 2.5M views and 168K likes on IG. (If the style feels familiar, it was created by NewsLab, the same advertising agency that made the brilliant Visit Oslo video from a few years back.)
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Someone took stats of all the black people interviewed on chicken shop date over the years and it progressively goes fown from 100% to zero 😭
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It's not a small team of hacks though, @FraserNelson. It's a corrupt platform owned by Farage's megadonor Paul Marshall, who gave the Clacton MP hundreds of thousands in donations disguised as salary - the highest salary per hour of a TV anchor in the UK.
Beyond that, they colluded with George Cottrell - who your current employer beautifully exposed - to bury an earlier independent reporting into the shenanigans of the convicted fraudster. Spectator's @Freddygray31 teamed up with @RaheemKassam to come up with some conspiracy theory about me being some sort of super spy (when literally everything I write is open source and verifiable).
You should also remember George Cottrell was happily mixing and mingling with journos and politicians at the Spectator Summer Party.
What you may or may not know is that Cottrell was also inviting little birds associated with @spectator and @GuidoFawkes for jolly visits to Montenegro.
Spectator are not a serious publication. Just like GBN, they are not "right-wing". They are a Reform mouthpiece. And Reform are a criminal mafia. Guilty by association? Well, when you work with criminals - yes.
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At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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🦢 There’s a swan flying through the September sky.
From 2–11 September, Globe at Night is inviting citizen scientists around the world to look up and help measure light pollution. Submit your data at globeatnight.org 🌎✨
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
channel4news.substack.com/p/…
