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[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

This is who lobbied the British government to ban the IRGC:

- Jewish Leadership Council (JLC)
-Board of Deputies of British Jews
- Campaign Against Antisemitism(CAA)
- We Believe Alliance (merging We Believe in Israel and National Jewish Assembly)
- Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
- Conservative & Labour Friends of 'israel'

The British public voted for none of these subversive foreign agents.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Could you do us all a favour Andy Burnham?

A proper investigation into Russian interference into the Brexit referendum, who was involved, which online and social media platforms enabled it, were any politicians bribes the same way Nathan Gill was - find out what happened please

Starmer (like Johnson, May, Truss, Sunak before him) wasted two years not bothering to do so

Don't be the next PM who doesn't bother to do so either

Pit our democracy first and expose the extent to which Russia helped sway our democratic process

And then legislate social media better to protect our democracy going forward

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

So much has been said and written about Star Wars – so let’s do it with a twist or two.

The original trilogy is the adventure. The prequels are the civilizational lesson. And nobody was paying attention to the right film.

1. The prequels show how a free Republic destroys itself. Not conquered from outside. Not defeated in battle. Hollowed from within – through fear, manufactured crises, and emergency powers accumulated legally, one Senate vote at a time. This is not science fiction. This is Rome. This is Weimar. This is every republic that discovered, too late, that the constitution is only as strong as the people operating it.

2. Palpatine doesn’t seize power. He is given it – democratically, gratefully, with thunderous applause. He manufactures the crisis, presents himself as the solution, and asks only for temporary emergency authority. The temporary becomes permanent when the crisis is resolved – as it never quite is, because the crisis is the instrument. Every step is legal. Every step is popular. Every step is irreversible.
Reminds us of anything?

3. “So this is how liberty dies – with thunderous applause.” Padmé says it watching the Republic vote itself into an Empire. The most important political sentence in fifty years of popular cinema. And yet nobody puts it on a banner. It came and went in two seconds in a film everyone considered inferior to the originals. The originals gave you the adventure. The prequels gave you the explanation. The audience preferred the adventure.

4. The Jedi Council is the failed establishment – a priestly, unelected caste with special knowledge, too political, too institutional, too convinced of their own wisdom to see the corruption metastasizing around them. They sense that something is wrong. They form committees. They deliberate. They send one man to investigate. By the time they understand what Palpatine is, he has already won. The establishment always sees the threat last – because acknowledging it would require acknowledging their own failure to prevent it.

5. The Force is Hayek’s spontaneous order. You don’t control it, plan it, or impose it from above. You flow with it – or you fight it, which is precisely what turns you to the dark side. The dark side is the Ring: the totalitarian temptation that this time, in the right hands, for the right reasons, absolute power can produce good outcomes. Anakin falls not because he is evil but because he believes total control can save what he loves. He is wrong for the same reason everyone who reaches for the Ring is wrong.

6. The Death Star is the endpoint of central planning taken seriously: if the system cannot persuade you, it will destroy your planet and use the remaining ones as an example. This is not a metaphor. This is the logical conclusion of the General Will applied at galactic scale. Order through absolute deterrence. Compliance through the elimination of alternatives. It is Plato’s Republic with a superlaser.

7. And now the twist within the twist. The Empire is nasty. The Death Star is inexcusable. Nobody is defending either. But ask yourself one question: why has every studio, every cultural institution, every progressive establishment figure spent fifty years telling you the rebels are the good guys – and casting themselves as the rebels? Not a bit suspicious? The people controlling the algorithms, the narrative, the NGOs, the content moderation policies all go to work convinced they are Luke Skywalker. But aren’t the rebels — externally funded, media-celebrated, arriving with a program to tear down the existing order — actually the progressives? Aren’t they the color revolutions? (The real rebels are the ones being deplatformed, demonetized, and cancelled.)
At some point you have to ask: if everyone with institutional, cultural, and financial power is the Rebel Alliance – who exactly is the Empire?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit.

About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit.

Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in Gaza right now.

Families have nowhere to run.

Nowhere is safe.

The genocide has not stopped.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Online leftists celebrating Lindsey Graham's death are vile, we are told.

So what words are there to describe Lindsey Graham openly lauding the mass slaughter of Palestinians, many of them children?

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🔥 Bloody hell. This isn’t a leader column, it is a P45 for Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage is now described as a “vehicle for chaos” whose behaviour is damaging Reform and whose standing “will continue to falter”.

And the killer passage: Farage claims to be an insurgent asking voters to believe he’ll sweep away a self-serving political class, but cannot credibly make that case while treating disclosure rules and scrutiny as an intolerable intrusion.

The media spent years coveting Farage. Now the worm has turned. 🎥

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Farage someone who will use any tragedy for his own ends, his words encouraged violence against the police only weeks ago and now seeks to hijack the Police investigation into a murder. He clearly thinks rules are not for him, how very Trump Lite he is.

Easy to imagine him claiming election fraud if the people of Clacton Vote Binface..:)

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[Earthdweller #FBPE #RejoinEU🇪🇺🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦😷 @MellorJS]

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[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

It's maybe time for a long story on @carolecadwalla who had warned and done the work on potential corruption around Farage et al years ago but was instead hounded and insulted and later sued.

Even worse, she wasn't listened to at the time. Why not?

[Bill McGuire @ProfBillMcGuire]

Pretty obvious really - we don't need economists to tell us

The UK is especially at risk - almost half of food imported and the 3 worst harvests in the last 5 years - resulting in a loss of a year's worth of bread supply

Don't rule out some rationing

https://t.co/DOvK3dTkxj

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Rent controls would save households up to £2,400 a year and the Government £2 billion a year. It's a no-brainer.

But only the Green Party has a policy to introduce them.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

The rich are going to be the most shocked by climate breakdown

[Bruce McD @brucemcd23]

Shocking but unsurprising that both Tice and Oakeshott, without a shred of evidence alleged that the NCA has leaked information to fit their establishment stitch up narrative

Also entirely in keeping with past practice that Tice instead of responding to the Guardian’s request for comment on its story , handed the story, presumably on his terms to the Telegraph

This technique rang a particular bell with me . Same players Same trick .Using the right of reply to hijack a story

So I checked. And yes Isabel Oakeshott was involved

Here’s a reminder of how Oakeshott pre-emptively took a story to The Sunday Times on her own terms after The Observer, approached her and her associate for comment

The story regarded secret emails and documents linking millionaire Brexit campaign donor Arron Banks to high-level Russian officials

In June 2018 @CaroleCadwalladr obtained a cache of emails showing that Banks—the co-founder of the https://t.co/LlCLT2ZnfV campaign—had multiple undisclosed meetings with Russian embassy officials and was offered lucrative business deals in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum. Up until then, Banks had only publicly admitted to one single, brief meeting over a "boozy lunch"

On a Friday, The Observer contacted Arron Banks to ask for his comment on the upcoming, highly damaging scoop. Banks requested more time to look over the documents, and The Observer granted him the benefit of the doubt, holding the story

At the time, Isabel Oakeshott already had access to these exact emails from when she ghostwrote Banks's book, The Bad Boys of Brexit, but she had sat on them for nearly two years without publishing them

Instead of just providing a statement, Oakeshott contacted Cadwalladr on Saturday morning, asking her to delay The Observer's publication until Monday, promising to hand over her files if they waited.

While The Observer held back, Oakeshott immediately went to The Sunday Times—where she was a former political editor—and handed over the emails.

The Sunday Times immediately rushed the story online on Saturday afternoon and splashed it on their front page on Sunday morning, effectively spoiling and hijacking The Observer’shard-earned scoop

Oakeshott published a companion comment piece in The Sunday Times, controlling the narrative by presenting the emails on her own terms. She defended holding onto the material for two years, claiming she had lacked the definitive context to publish sooner.

The Observer and Cadwalladr publicly called out the maneuver, highlighting that Banks and Oakeshott used the journalism safety net of a "right to reply" period to subvert the media cycle and neutralize the investigation's impact

Ten years on we are still dealing with the same crap from the same people. Only real difference is we are dealing with billionaires influencing our democracy instead of millionaires

Banks looks like small beer these days

This time at the expense of @Annaisaac . A full accounting is well overdue.Time to make it happen

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions”

Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla on her loooooong decade investigating Nigel Farage

*including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Tice threatened to injunct the Guardian then fed the story to a pet publication.

Pretty funny that his girlfriend Isabel Oakeshott did same thing in 2018 on Banks & the Russian emails. Only the pet publication was the Sunday Times. Enjoy the irony in that one.

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

Nigel Farage says that Reform UK have offered to cover the cost of the Clacton by-election. Just don’t ask questions about where the money’s coming from

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

“The Arctic is currently warming at four times the rate experienced by the rest of the planet. But the Antarctic has started to catch up, so that it is already warming twice as quickly as the planet overall.” https://t.co/gTDinE6ClH

No time to waste. #ActOnClimate

#climate

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🏆@CountBinface lands another knockout blow in the Clacton by-election campaign with @joshglancy

“I thought I’d take a leaf out of the current incumbent’s book. I specifically have never visited it because I thought that was the done thing.”

[Amnesty International USA @amnestyusa]

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