"A #GoodLawProject investigation has uncovered a network funded by #Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor #Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian #oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the #UK.

A conservative network led by #MichaelGove and #NigelFarage’s senior adviser #JamesOrr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing a far-right agenda – some of it fuelled by profits from #russian oil."

#autocracy #corruption #extremism #war

https://goodlawproject.org/putins-megaphone-orbans-far-right-push-into-uk-universities-is-fuelled-by-russian-oil/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=glp_post_22778&utm_medium=social_media&utm_content=12-02-2026

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil

Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Good Law Project

Tories pledge to block social media for under 16s and stop tech giants profiting from children’s ‘anxiety’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/11/calls-grow-block-kids-social-media-tories-pledging-bring-ban-26223249/

Blackpool – Kicking the Poorest People into the Gutter

Improving the lives of people "entrenched in poverty" would be praiseworthy if this project did that but gentrification removes poverty from an area by forceable displacement of the current poverty stricken residents. The council fails to clarify how the lives of the evicted are being improved. Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people. 400 homes in Blackpool will […]

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/01/blackpool-kicking-the-poorest-people-into-the-gutter/

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

Byline Times

'I can't comment' - Piers Morgan dodges Newsnight question over top BBC job

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-cant-comment-piers-morgan-36301186

Mehdi Hassan COOKED Micheal Gove SO HARD He Loses Ability To Speak.

YouTube
My verdict on the ‘woke’ review of England’s school curriculum? It isn’t radical enough

When I heard it was dumbing down education, my heart sank. In fact, it’s outspoken about the chaos of Michael Gove’s reforms and the changes needed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian