Gary Godfrey
@transparencyfirst.org
Developer of Transparency First, The UK Parliament declarations of interest analysis tool.
www.transparencyfirst.org
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@news.sky.com you've just asked a question about means testing the state pension.
It doesn't need to be, it's taxed, the more income somebody has in their retirement the more likely somebody is to have to pay it all back, without having the additional admin of means testing.
It doesn't need to be, it's taxed, the more income somebody has in their retirement the more likely somebody is to have to pay it all back, without having the additional admin of means testing.
September 30, 2026 at 7:46 AM
@news.sky.com you've just asked a question about means testing the state pension.
It doesn't need to be, it's taxed, the more income somebody has in their retirement the more likely somebody is to have to pay it all back, without having the additional admin of means testing.
It doesn't need to be, it's taxed, the more income somebody has in their retirement the more likely somebody is to have to pay it all back, without having the additional admin of means testing.
Transparency really should be first. It should be our decision and based on facts rather than tabloid style hysteria.
Voters have been denied the right to know whether any ministers declared past criminal convictions when appointed, after a transparency tribunal upheld Whitehall attempts to keep its vetting processes secret for data protection reasons.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Ministers’ criminal records to remain secret, tribunal rules
The public has been denied the right to know of ministers’ disclosures of criminal records during vetting processes, despite a ‘legitimate public interest’
www.thetimes.com
August 3, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Transparency really should be first. It should be our decision and based on facts rather than tabloid style hysteria.
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✅ Touring Clacton
✅ Visiting local businesses
✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns
✅ Hi-vis vest
Make your Vote Count!
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✅ Visiting local businesses
✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns
✅ Hi-vis vest
Make your Vote Count!
#VoteBinface #Clacton
July 31, 2026 at 7:00 AM
✅ Touring Clacton
✅ Visiting local businesses
✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns
✅ Hi-vis vest
Make your Vote Count!
#VoteBinface #Clacton
✅ Visiting local businesses
✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns
✅ Hi-vis vest
Make your Vote Count!
#VoteBinface #Clacton
Most of the time, I try to stay impartial.
August 3, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Most of the time, I try to stay impartial.
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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
August 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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@news.sky.com I support any decision that keeps Palantir out of Britian. It's a question of sovereignty & morality. Fujitsu couldn't be trusted with the Post Office. Why trust a company whose CEO doesn't pretend to have a moral compass when a British citizen, Paula Venals, is unaccountable.
June 22, 2026 at 6:36 AM
@news.sky.com I support any decision that keeps Palantir out of Britian. It's a question of sovereignty & morality. Fujitsu couldn't be trusted with the Post Office. Why trust a company whose CEO doesn't pretend to have a moral compass when a British citizen, Paula Venals, is unaccountable.
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"The cost of high energy bills must be tackled at source" Rachel Reeves says at #Budget2025
That means ENDING PRIVATISATION
That means ENDING PRIVATISATION
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
"The cost of high energy bills must be tackled at source" Rachel Reeves says at #Budget2025
That means ENDING PRIVATISATION
That means ENDING PRIVATISATION
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Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
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What I find disturbing is that they are allowed to use the term "Gaming", but I don't see the UK Parliament getting a grip of them while they have links into Parliament like this.
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July 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
What I find disturbing is that they are allowed to use the term "Gaming", but I don't see the UK Parliament getting a grip of them while they have links into Parliament like this.
www.transparencyfirst.org/entity_view/...
www.transparencyfirst.org/entity_view/...
New feature on Transparency First!
Registered users can now activate a weekly notification summarising all changes to politicians, e.g. Labour MPs standing against the party leader or Reform MPs embroiled in corruption allegations.
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Registered users can now activate a weekly notification summarising all changes to politicians, e.g. Labour MPs standing against the party leader or Reform MPs embroiled in corruption allegations.
www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
New feature on Transparency First!
Registered users can now activate a weekly notification summarising all changes to politicians, e.g. Labour MPs standing against the party leader or Reform MPs embroiled in corruption allegations.
www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
Registered users can now activate a weekly notification summarising all changes to politicians, e.g. Labour MPs standing against the party leader or Reform MPs embroiled in corruption allegations.
www.transparencyfirst.org/site_news_ar...
Is an electrician turning off the leccy in your building tomorrow?
Why not pop in to Jelly Liverpool and say hello?
They have juice at The Science Park, both kinds.
Why not pop in to Jelly Liverpool and say hello?
They have juice at The Science Park, both kinds.
This coming Thursday 20th February join us at Liverpool Science Park - right next to the Catholic Cathedral.
Meet up with fellow homeworkers, freelancers and generally people who don't have or want an office to work from - so many people just come for the social element.😀
#FreelancerLife
Meet up with fellow homeworkers, freelancers and generally people who don't have or want an office to work from - so many people just come for the social element.😀
#FreelancerLife
July 16, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Is an electrician turning off the leccy in your building tomorrow?
Why not pop in to Jelly Liverpool and say hello?
They have juice at The Science Park, both kinds.
Why not pop in to Jelly Liverpool and say hello?
They have juice at The Science Park, both kinds.
I'm roaming down to Liverpool Library for Makefest. It's all about land at Ignite today..
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July 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I'm roaming down to Liverpool Library for Makefest. It's all about land at Ignite today..
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
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Over 7,000 people have asked Google and Apple to stop putting profit before children's safety.
Will you join them?
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Will you join them?
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It’s time for app stores to ban fake age ratings
Google and Apple must stop making cash out of conning kids and their parents through fake app store age ratings. Join our fight!
goodlawproject.org
July 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Over 7,000 people have asked Google and Apple to stop putting profit before children's safety.
Will you join them?
goodlawproject.org/petition/tim...
Will you join them?
goodlawproject.org/petition/tim...
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We're at Liverpool Central Library today (Saturday 5th July 9am - 5pm), as part of Liverpool MakeFest. Come and have a chat.
And don't miss Mike G's newly finished, completely hand latch-hooked, Very Large Rug (3.12m x 4.05m) on the first floor!
#LpoolMakeFest #Makers
And don't miss Mike G's newly finished, completely hand latch-hooked, Very Large Rug (3.12m x 4.05m) on the first floor!
#LpoolMakeFest #Makers
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
We're at Liverpool Central Library today (Saturday 5th July 9am - 5pm), as part of Liverpool MakeFest. Come and have a chat.
And don't miss Mike G's newly finished, completely hand latch-hooked, Very Large Rug (3.12m x 4.05m) on the first floor!
#LpoolMakeFest #Makers
And don't miss Mike G's newly finished, completely hand latch-hooked, Very Large Rug (3.12m x 4.05m) on the first floor!
#LpoolMakeFest #Makers
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🧵 Just finished reading Upgrading Democracy by @pollycurtis.bsky.social at @demos-uk.bsky.social .
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
July 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
🧵 Just finished reading Upgrading Democracy by @pollycurtis.bsky.social at @demos-uk.bsky.social .
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
It’s a sharp, hopeful intervention in the face of democratic breakdown, and it aligns in profound ways with the epistemic collapse I’ve been tracking in my own work.
demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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New blog post on recent news in MP register of interests land www.mysociety.org/2025/07/02/w...
WhoFundsThem Update: July 2025
Recently declared freebies, cash for questions paper trails, paid membership of APPGs, and how we can help the public set the rules of the game.
www.mysociety.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New blog post on recent news in MP register of interests land www.mysociety.org/2025/07/02/w...
Makers, get down to MakeFest and party.
Join us at DoES Liverpool for the Liverpool MakeFest After Party 2025! Let's celebrate another successful event together once the public has gone home. Don't miss out on the fun - Saturday, July 5th at 6:00 PM. Get your tickets here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/1433050555...
#LiverpoolMakeFest #LivMF25
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#LiverpoolMakeFest #LivMF25
Liverpool MakeFest After Party 2025
Once the public have gone home, and the kit is all packed away, join us at DoES Liverpool to celebrate another successful Liverpool MakeFest
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June 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Makers, get down to MakeFest and party.
We have just implemented some long overdue filtering options on Transparency First. Read about them and sign-up here...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We have just implemented some long overdue filtering options on Transparency First. Read about them and sign-up here...
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🤫 new stickers in the works for our Django Software Foundation donors www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ Come get them at #EuroPython / #DjangoConAfrica / #DjangoConUS!
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 AM
🤫 new stickers in the works for our Django Software Foundation donors www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/ Come get them at #EuroPython / #DjangoConAfrica / #DjangoConUS!
Bored of sitting in the house working on your own?
Get to Jelly Liverpool tomorrow, 19th June, at The Liverpool Science Park.
It's by "Paddy's Wigwam" (I'm Scouse, of Catholic heritage, and a friend of The First Nations) for some IRL social networking in the sunshine.
Jelly, it's good for you.
Get to Jelly Liverpool tomorrow, 19th June, at The Liverpool Science Park.
It's by "Paddy's Wigwam" (I'm Scouse, of Catholic heritage, and a friend of The First Nations) for some IRL social networking in the sunshine.
Jelly, it's good for you.
This coming Thursday 20th February join us at Liverpool Science Park - right next to the Catholic Cathedral.
Meet up with fellow homeworkers, freelancers and generally people who don't have or want an office to work from - so many people just come for the social element.😀
#FreelancerLife
Meet up with fellow homeworkers, freelancers and generally people who don't have or want an office to work from - so many people just come for the social element.😀
#FreelancerLife
June 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Bored of sitting in the house working on your own?
Get to Jelly Liverpool tomorrow, 19th June, at The Liverpool Science Park.
It's by "Paddy's Wigwam" (I'm Scouse, of Catholic heritage, and a friend of The First Nations) for some IRL social networking in the sunshine.
Jelly, it's good for you.
Get to Jelly Liverpool tomorrow, 19th June, at The Liverpool Science Park.
It's by "Paddy's Wigwam" (I'm Scouse, of Catholic heritage, and a friend of The First Nations) for some IRL social networking in the sunshine.
Jelly, it's good for you.
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Call for Speakers: Who Owns the Land?
5th July
We’re inviting speakers to contribute to an event exploring the history and future of land ownership in the UK — a subject that touches on everything from power and privilege to housing, environment, and justice
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
5th July
We’re inviting speakers to contribute to an event exploring the history and future of land ownership in the UK — a subject that touches on everything from power and privilege to housing, environment, and justice
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
Ignite Futures – Who owns the land? | Ignite Liverpool
igniteliverpool.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Call for Speakers: Who Owns the Land?
5th July
We’re inviting speakers to contribute to an event exploring the history and future of land ownership in the UK — a subject that touches on everything from power and privilege to housing, environment, and justice
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...
5th July
We’re inviting speakers to contribute to an event exploring the history and future of land ownership in the UK — a subject that touches on everything from power and privilege to housing, environment, and justice
igniteliverpool.com/2025/06/igni...