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Sam Bright
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Sam Bright
@WritesBright
Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. Now inhabits Substack and Bluesky.
Joined August 2014
- Reform has five MPs. Three used to work in the City of London (including one for Lehman Brothers). One is a property magnate. One is paid £100k a year as a GB News presenter. This is apparently a “party of the people”
- 35% of UK prime ministers have been educated at one school: Eton. This was an entrance exam question set by the school in 2011. bullingdon-club.com
- Prince Harry should tell the press he’s urgently flying back to London. Would properly fuck with everyone
- If you’re shocked about the Michelle Mone story, wait till you find out that a firm owned by the finance manager of Michael Gove’s 2016 Tory leadership campaign won £170m in PPE deals. After being referred to the PPE VIP lane by the office of… Michael Gove.
- BREAKING: Carole Cadwalladr wins libel case against Arron Banks
- If you want to know where power lies in modern Britain: new records show that Liz Truss's first external meeting as PM was with the CEO of News Corp, Rupert Murdoch's firm that owns the Sun, the Times etc.
- If Johnson and Javid had to commute on a packed 8am Tube, instead of in a chauffeured car, I very much doubt they would be telling us all to bin our masks
- Stephen Fry describes Elon Musk perfectly here
- “We are proud to be British” says #GBNews founder Andrew Neil. Every single one of GB News’ major shareholders is based outside Great Britain
- Harry and Meghan have done a remarkable, brave thing in calling out our rotten tabloid press. They should be celebrated for it.
