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The Bear is a full time Healthcare Strategist by day and political commentator by night. South African by birth, he emigrated to the UK over a decade ago and now lives in London with his long-suffering husband, an elderly rescue cat known as the fur daemon, and prefers a quiet life of coffee and playing Dungeons and Dragons. As a self-confessed ‘Vicious, Opinionated Homosexual’, he is also vociferously opposed to the general skullduggery of the modern world, and is an active online trawler for misinformation, disinformation and right-wing nonsense to dissect. Follow The Bear on Bearly Politics

Row of bright yellow lifeboat jackets hanging on a metal rack, RNLI lettering visible across the backs of the coats.

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The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs

by The Bear

18 September 2026

Online disinformation about channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk

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The far right has put RNLI volunteers in the crosshairs

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