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IndyCelt<p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/writesbright/p/nigel-farage-to-headline-tufton-street?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=4dm0b3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/writesbr</span><span class="invisible">ight/p/nigel-farage-to-headline-tufton-street?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=android&amp;r=4dm0b3</span></a><br>Farage, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReformUKFascistParasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReformUKFascistParasites</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> fraudsters and criminals destroying truth and democracy</p>
Donald Roy<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>People recognised this in the middle of the last century - but then a lot of shady propagandists and 'think tanks' got to work - culminating in the world view of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LizTruss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LizTruss</span></a> - a malfunctioning creation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuftonstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tuftonstreet</span></a> !</p>
Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️‍⚧️♿<p>It seems the UK Torries have an infestation of embedded agents from Institue of Economic Affairs <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AtlasNetwork" target="_blank">#AtlasNetwork</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TuftonStreet" target="_blank">#TuftonStreet</a></p>
JuneSim63<p>Some good news ( and we&#39;ll done the GLP)</p><p>&quot;The Good Law Project (GLP), a legal advocacy group, yesterday announced that it had been successful in forcing the Charity Commission to open a “regulatory compliance case” against the IEA&quot;</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/IEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IEA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CharityCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CharityCommission</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a></p><p>Institute of Economic Affairs Under Investigation by the Charity Commission - DeSmog<br /><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/23/institute-of-economic-affairs-under-investigation-charity-commission/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">desmog.com/2025/05/23/institut</span><span class="invisible">e-of-economic-affairs-under-investigation-charity-commission/</span></a></p>
Roger S Wilson<p>The LGB Alliance "victory" in Supreme Court is another Tufton Street success in creating conflict on road to intolerance &amp; UK fascism<br>We can win by smart, happy, humourous behaviour: tolerant cohesion looking after all<br><a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgb-alliance-55-tufton-street-think-tanks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgb-</span><span class="invisible">alliance-55-tufton-street-think-tanks/</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuftonstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tuftonstreet</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opendemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opendemocracy</span></a></p>
Christie Elan-Cane<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Badenoch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Badenoch</span></a> banging on again about <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UK</span></a> leaving the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ECHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ECHR</span></a>. So tiresome! And irresponsible given everything that&#39;s happening right now. Was addressing <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> mafia echo chamber that was behind <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BrexitCarnage" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BrexitCarnage</span></a> while being funded by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>US</span></a> far right.</p>
Police State UK<p>"Conservative leadership favourite Kemi Badenoch is running her campaign from the home of a wealthy Tufton Street donor."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://bylinetimes.com/2024/10/22/neil-record-kemi-badeoch-donor-climate-change-sceptic-tufton-street-think-tank/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bylinetimes.com/2024/10/22/nei</span><span class="invisible">l-record-kemi-badeoch-donor-climate-change-sceptic-tufton-street-think-tank/</span></a></p>
Christie Elan-Cane<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Streeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Streeting</span></a> proposing weight loss jabs to get unemployed people into work. Seriously! No mention of benefits being made conditional [yet] but this is scary stuff. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tories</span></a> would be proud.</p><p>Let me be clear, nothing at all wrong in helping people to lose weight but something sinister about this &amp; reminiscent of &#39;30s Germany. Wes, from instigating <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cass" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Cass</span></a> &amp; now judgementalism over &quot;unhealthy lifestyles&quot;, has the stench of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> all over it.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/14/unemployed-could-be-given-weight-loss-jabs-to-get-back-to-work-says-wes-streeting" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2024/o</span><span class="invisible">ct/14/unemployed-could-be-given-weight-loss-jabs-to-get-back-to-work-says-wes-streeting</span></a></p>
Steven Heywood<p>"What do Restore Trust’s unnamed backers want? The National Trust’s land? Its coastlines? Its artworks? Or are they as annoyed as me that it’s increasingly difficult to buy commemorative thimbles in the gift shops?"</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/NationalTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalTrust</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BrokenBritain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrokenBritain</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OpaquelyFundedThinkTanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpaquelyFundedThinkTanks</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/15/the-tories-have-left-the-stage-but-their-toxic-cultural-legacy-is-doing-an-encore" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/sep/15/the-tories-have-left-the-stage-but-their-toxic-cultural-legacy-is-doing-an-encore</span></a></p>
MarjorieR<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>simon_brooke</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@DaiE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DaiE</span></a></span> Amazingly many of the right-wing pressure groups hosted at 55 Tufton Street are also registered as Charities, though of course they do nothing for young people - apart from lobbing for causes that would prevent them having a future.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufton_Street" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Tufto</span><span class="invisible">n_Street</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a></p>
Simon Brooke<p>"Over the last five years, the Street Foundation, a charity set up to support “individuals and organisations involved with children/young people with a disability/special needs”, has given rightwing pressure groups £749,000 – more than 40% of the money it handed out during this period"</p><p>h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.wales/@DaiE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DaiE</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://goodlawproject.org/disabled-childrens-charity-hands-43-of-grants-to-rightwing-think-tanks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">goodlawproject.org/disabled-ch</span><span class="invisible">ildrens-charity-hands-43-of-grants-to-rightwing-think-tanks/</span></a></p>
JanPV<p>Well, well, well. Thank goodness for the likes of The Good Law Project:</p><p><a href="https://goodlawproject.org/disabled-childrens-charity-hands-43-of-grants-to-rightwing-think-tanks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">goodlawproject.org/disabled-ch</span><span class="invisible">ildrens-charity-hands-43-of-grants-to-rightwing-think-tanks/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuftonstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tuftonstreet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbyists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a></p>
JuneSim63<p>Today, the Good Law Project is airing their documentary short, &#39;Carbon conspiracy: How shadowy think-tanks went to war on net zero&#39;.</p><p>In it, we hear from leading figures in media and politics to explore the insidious network based around 55 Tufton Street with undisclosed donors - a network that lobbied for Brexit for years and is now focused on downplaying the climate crisis. </p><p>Link goes live at 1pm BST</p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxKlsVtpPI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxKlsVt</span><span class="invisible">pPI</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GoodLawProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GoodLawProject</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateDenial</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"The Tories' unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life." <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Cameron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cameron</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austerity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/FoodBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodBanks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Boris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Boris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Truss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Truss</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> </p><p>“We know too much about everyone on earth, making it incredible that British people don’t seem to know much about the man on the verge of running the sixth largest economy in the world.” <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> </p><p>“I know you’re about to die, but there’s no need to make a scene.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/GE2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GE2024</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/24/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-uk-election" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a</span><span class="invisible">rticle/2024/jun/24/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-uk-election</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>A decimated <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tory</span></a> party will not make the opaquely funded think tanks of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> go away. They are now an entrenched part of the political scenery as this latest speedy investigation by the charity commission revealed. </p><p><a href="https://leftfootforward.org/2024/04/regulator-rejects-call-for-investigation-into-tufton-street-think-tank-behind-liz-trusss-budget/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">leftfootforward.org/2024/04/re</span><span class="invisible">gulator-rejects-call-for-investigation-into-tufton-street-think-tank-behind-liz-trusss-budget/</span></a></p>
Juggling With Eggs<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ToryAnnihilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ToryAnnihilation</span></a> on 4th July will mean the implosion of Britain’s most historically successful party. </p><p>The party of reinvention has perhaps reached the same point in the road as Madonna. </p><p>But the dark money that funnels it’s way through shell companies to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> think tanks won’t just disappear…it will find its way into new pockets. Whose?</p>
Simon Johnson<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@richardgomer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>richardgomer</span></a></span> haha. Us too - every year, the membership renewal elicits a sharp intake of breath but then…</p><p>I remember that £113 a year is nothing, to help keep the Tufton St mafia away from fucking up yet another great national institution </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NationalTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalTrust</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a></p>
Rosie WaltersOpinion Piece
Juggling With Eggs<p>The inhabitants of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TuftonStreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TuftonStreet</span></a> think tanks don’t want you to be aware of who they are, who funds them or why they get airtime thanks to the likes of Andrew Neil. They just want you to think they are ‘legitimate’ and do ‘research’.</p><p>Vorderman not Voldemort…catchy enough for Gen X and Millennials? Possibly. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/21/andrew-vorderman-voldemort-gb-news-tufton-street-angela-rayner-mark-menzies" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/apr/21/andrew-vorderman-voldemort-gb-news-tufton-street-angela-rayner-mark-menzies</span></a></p>
A.Stringer<p>My favourite line in this hilarious piece ...<br />&quot; And the Eurosceptic MP Bill Cash, who... rose from his coffin of moist earth and rats to wonder, utterly nonsensically, if the National Trust will “stop selling Madeira cake because of historical events in Madeira”.</p><p>The right is as stale as its ‘woke National Trust scones’ gambit | <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StewartLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StewartLee</span></a> | The Guardian<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/07/the-right-is-as-stale-as-its-woke-national-trust-scones-gambit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2024/apr/07/the-right-is-as-stale-as-its-woke-national-trust-scones-gambit</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>satire</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/tuftonstreet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tuftonstreet</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RestoreTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RestoreTrust</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nationaltrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>nationaltrust</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vegan</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/rightwingbollocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>rightwingbollocks</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/betterthingstodowithmytime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>betterthingstodowithmytime</span></a></p>