Channel 4 sting targets James Orr over Reform UK funding
The Channel 4 expose on Reform is telly ecstasy. Prestige TV is great but can it beat watching Nigel Farage, James Orr and James Johnson getting stitched up for blatant corruption? No it cannot
Lucy Janes47Do we think this Cambridge professor caught clearly engaging in actual, real law-breaking will be hounded for days with 100s of articles & TV reports casting aspersions on all aspects of his life..? 🤔 Tho' honourable mention to the FT for having a first go at it today www.ft.com/content/c2d0...
Jon Wensley38Fantastic work from Ch 4 News . Farage and Reform must be shitting themselves tonight .
Paul35They weren’t “stitched up “, they were exposed and found out to be criminals.
timfulfordnews29Getting James Orr is gold icing on diamond cake
stefaniabarutta.bsky.social24I hope it comes to something concrete (Farage behind bars), because honestly the Tories got away with money from Russia which we are at war with and got away with it scot free.
Stuart Hemingway23Play it on repeat at the conference in Birmingham and let those cheering him realise he is nothing more than a slimy old fool who will do anything for money.
Farage’s ludicrous minions selling what’s left of their souls for coins, while either not knowing or caring that their boss secretly trousered five million for his ‘personal use’. He makes absolute twats of everyone who trusts him. And this James Orr character is supposed to be some sort of genius…
Stuart Hemingway343A full video is available by the investigative team who exposed the scandal may be worth your time watching it… www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...
bexhc73.bsky.social74James Orr seems to be akin to a cult leader, the @bylinetimes.bsky.social have done excellent work on his dodgy activities in Cambridge.
Mykeprime55Binface ain't getting any time off is he?
jsewtz.bsky.social32Don't worry their "top media" presenter will clarify things for us. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Wilson32How many fucking Clacton by-elections will it take?
Ash Oro30I think the real question will be will it matter? You had the privilege of talking to one of the cult acolytes today did you not? All I heard as I read this - “…it isn’t like that… ok it was you are right… out of context… establishment hit job… woke etc…”
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
Elinor Elliot74It should also be pointed out that he is not a professor, but an "associate professor", a title equivalent to "reader" in the UK university system. He does not hold a chair. It's more correct to address him as Dr James Orr.
Lewis Muirhead30So, I await the multi-week campaign demanding he resign in disgrace. Or maybe this is different “somehow”.
drnedflanders.bsky.social24This is the full video. Share it with everyone. It is dynamite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RugP...
Ian Fozzy Foster24Will the gutter press hound Orr as they did Professor Jason Ardey who was guilty of nothing RIP.
Tom (he/him)20if this gets a couple of days of headlines and then disappears, while Arday generated something like the 250-article avalanche, that contrast is going to be pretty glaring
Stuart Hemingway20Dan Jukes (hopefully no relation) really puts the cat amongst the pigeons giving names of foreign donors and calling the electoral commission “dumb and ineffective”.
Ed Morrish412a lot of people doubted how much the british media genuinely cared about integrity in academia and now is a great chance for the british media to prove that they’re not just gullible racists!
Charlotte Lydia Riley36also he’s not actually a professor, he’s an associate professor. I mean ffs *I’m* an associate professor.
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷26[image: screenshot of Orr in Verbatim/Channel 4 report with closed caption: "So the reality is we can easily get away with it"]
Steve B5Josiah Mortimer (also at Byline Times): Astonishing if Orr keeps his Cambridge role. The university's reputation is already damaged - this would be cataclysmic.
Belle Wood 3And what's the betting he won't be hounded to death over this?
Meira Kensky2I have been known to have some opinions about ethicists
🍁🍂 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑2Ethics professors have a rep. (Empirically speaking)
Jane2Ethics is a county right ?
Dewie2I hope there are 186 articles attacking him in major newspapers over the next 6 days because....oh hang on. Never mind. He's white.
Ben McKenna2In fairness, this has always been the ethics of Cambridge University.
The legwork, and the sting, which seems to have caught out James Orr, Nigel Farage and Reform-UK was carried out by Verbatim Investigations who have dropped their own take on the story.
Kevin Thurston11Verbatim are the reincarnation of Panorama. BBC shamed.
Adamski8So, will Nigel etc be joining Nathan Gill?🤞
Ewan Sutherland6Does the University of Cambridge have a position on Professor Orr?
My name is Rich.4All well and good but their intrusive website can fuck the fucking fuck off:
Mike3Hopefully someone senior will be pictured being "perp-walked" by the Met. My schadenfreude meter may melt down.
Alastair Baker2Verbatim is such a perfect name for catching any policial party taking a bribe on camera
Steve Peers242The polling company JL Partners is unwilling to follow the rules, so should not be in the polling council. Also the Telegraph appears to have lied about the provenance of the poll it published. Even if they didn't know that Reform commissioned it, it was dishonest to suggest it was a Telegraph poll.
Malcolm LibDem🔶🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦2Some very naughty people revealed here - and they won't answer the questions! Why?
Re the Channel 4 investigation: We said James Orr was up to something... @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Liz Aspden20Yes, I first heard James Orr was up to something via @bylinetimes.bsky.social I would like a word with Orr.
Stuart Hemingway5The bloke is even worse than his boss… bsky.app/profile/henr...
Nick Gerrard4@bylinetimes.bsky.social has been all over Orr for months. This should be the final nail.
General Iroh needs a long long walk2Ah, that's how I remember the name Orr... I kept thinking as I watched the documentary why the name/profile sounded familiar - it was your piece!
A full video is available by the investigative team who exposed the scandal may be worth your time watching it… www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...
Margot Finn24It’s a video that deserves extensive humanities and social science analysis. Let’s start with gender…
Saz of Wokeshire9I haven’t enjoyed watching the news this much since Johnson resigned.
Dave K8Queue Farage’s speech tomorrow claiming the “establishment” is trying to take him down. Always playing the victim. Bent as a five-bob note.
ssej25.bsky.social6Thanks for sharing. My goodness, this is bad. @financialtimes.com - today trying to convince the public that Reform should be taken seriously with finances. Like they did Trump. Makes you wonder, how far does this criminal behaviour stretch.
DC🕊🌍🔥🌱5Lawrence Carter and Louis Wilson (Verbatim) worked together at the Centre for Climate Reporting. Also excellent journalism 👏
Leonard Richards4Could this be the end of Nigel Farage and Reform Limited? Some dodgy shenanigans going on in the Reform Limited Party.
The full report is utterly damning. Farage's policy chief James Orr boasts that they can "easily get away with it" because the Electoral Commission are so "dumb and ineffective" youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?...
Steven Fielding51I wonder if Orr’s college or the University of Cambridge would like to comment on his role here?
Cam all one word 🇵🇸17Uh oh, strongly worded letter from the Electoral Commission incoming. They might even think about considering taking action
Buck Frexit13Let’s see if he’s right….
John Roberts9The statement from the Electoral Commission to C4 doesn't do much to disprove that claim.
Phil Leighton8It’s an organised crime gang
lizziec.bsky.social7James Orr, who has until now managed to fly under the radar was particularly “unguarded”. Hubris is my favourite word.
Simon Parker13I'm sure this story about a Cambridge academic behaving very badly will be on the front pages of every major newspaper tomorrow since they monstered Prof. Jason Arday over allegations that pale into insignificance in comparison.
Alisdair Calder McGregor5If this doesn't end up with Jail sentences then our democracy is dead. This cannot be allowed to go without consequences.
Jussie Northside5I mean, it hurts to say it but Orr’s not wrong about the Electoral Commission
Public Benjamin4*both proceed to easily get away with it as stated*
children of the corncob4i mean they're not wrong. the electoral commission *are* dumb and ineffective and maybe we should fix that? idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shyamali Rodrigues 🔶️3I've just watched the whole report. I hope all the people who need to see it do and act accordingly.
Les von Darrow2A lot of people will say “well yeah, we all know he’s a crook”, and that is true, but this is … fucking hell
Tony2Let's get this hashtag trending! #NigelFraud
Totally missed the bit about the Reform guy James Orr being an associate professor at CAMBRIDGE, caught it on the rewatch Had a check of his Twitter and frankly I don’t have the energy for the discourse on this one AUDACITY! ™️
Elron Hubbard8There is more in this link. Cambridge needs to get to grips with this. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
Fed Up Toby5If you’ve not seen it, Byline Times has been investigating Orr/Cambridge’s link to Palantir.
Sue Reeve4Bet the press won't be hounding him incessantly... BTW, with remarkable timing, the FT profiled #JanesOrr today. I reposted article again, fairly recently. #Farage
md700a.bsky.social1He’s probably the one who put Nathan Cofnas onto the trail in the first place
Nie mój cyrk, nie moje Musk-y1Orr is right at the heart of the extreme-right web of politicians, journalists and academics that have led to the rise of bigotry in the UK
Ian Rennie1The associations between Orr, Thiel, Cofnas, and the Free Speech Union are a byzantine and fascinating example of opinion manufacture. @skepticswithak.org did a great podcast on it that also dropped today.
If tonight's incredible Channel 4 exposé is the first time you've heard of James Orr, let me introduce you It is impossible to overstate how great his influence has been on the right of British politics, for years He chaired this conference in 2023 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Lizzie Dearden31The tagline then was “faith, family, flag” But the mission was nakedly white nationalist, anti-trans, anti-abortion, anti-equal marriage, steeped in conspiracy theories including "cultural Marxism" The vehicles used by Orr have changed many times, the message hasn't
Martin Futter5Just had a peek at his twitter and I feel sick. Waiting for the pressure on Cambridge to ditch him. Actually, waiting for Cambridge to do it unilaterally. (Joke.)
Slow Down Arthur4I’m amazed he is an academic, he comes across as your classic upper class scum bag.
yorkshiremao.bsky.social3It's always the same 'oh Russian money, blah blah' while US nutters slide under the door and have been doing so for much longer. IIRC Nadine Dorries was also funded by US evangelicals.
In the past 24 hours - Zia Yusuf racist tweet - Nathan Gill to repay Russian bribes - James Orr, Nigel Farage soliciting illegal donations Have I missed anything?
Dr Jo Kershaw32Also, James Orr in the FT more or less outright saying he wanted Britain to be invaded and our current way of life and forms of government destroyed.
Chris Addison14Well, I mean, the Reformers are literally meeting for conference right now. There’s no way we can know the entire list of Horst Wessel Song Contests and Get Eyeholes Cut In Your Cotton Hood For Free! stalls.
TensegrityFan🐝🍯2- ‘Double Dame’ Andrea just being herself bsky.app/profile/tens...
Misterpatrick1Bartoromo is leaving Fox News. I’m assuming to join the administration.
Prof Rob Dover1It's quite a week. And not over yet.
