Ashley Pringle

Alternative Left Media researcher.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

ΤΟ ΝΑΤΟ ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΠΕΘΑΝΕΙ: Αποτελεί προκεχωρημένη βάση για πολέμους που η Ευρώπη δεν επέλεξε, εναντίον αντιπάλων που η Ευρώπη δεν έχει, στην υπηρεσία υπερδύναμης που βλέπει την Ευρώπη ως αποικία https://t.co/ymca3uHNKs

[Ben Wray @Ben_Wray1989]

Written a piece for @GreenEUJournal about “grey power”: what the growing political power of the elderly in the context of an ageing population means (link below).

The grey vote matters, but it doesn't necessarily mean that inter-generational conflict is the future of politics🧵

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

El gobierno Boliviano del agente de la CIA, Rodrigo Paz ha iniciado una brutal reprensión a su pueblo, el ejército está disparando a mansalva, por favor difundir que este delito no quede en la obscuridad, que el algoritmo no lo oculte #RTMasivo

Todo el apoyo y nuestra solidaridad al hermano pueblo Boliviano
#FuerzaBolivia
##RodrigoPazRenunciaYa 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Nationalise Morrisons, use it as the foundation for a new, publicly-owned grocery store selling high quality, affordable food. National-level version of the Mamdani plan in New York.

Need to think big in a world with repeated, major shocks to essential supply systems.

[The Crispin Flintoff Show @CrispinShow]

The attempt to link the ambulance arson in Golders Green to an Islamic group allegedly tied to Iran IS a false flag.

The so-called ‘Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right’ claimed responsibility on a Telegram page but it is as authentic as Keir Starmer - it even calls Palestine ‘the land of Israel’!

Even though the police have not pursued the terror link, the media are still running with this nonsense.

False flags have been part and parcel of Mossad operations for decades. And these are proven: the bombing of synagogues in Iraq in the 1950s to the assassination of cartoonist Naji Salim Hussain Al-Ali in 1987 and the 1994 car bomb outside Israel’s embassy in London.

To suggest this arson may have been a false flag is neither offensive nor outrageous. It would be based on the evidence of the past.

It’s certainly not grounds to force someone out of public office.

Supporting Israel’s genocide, however, should be.

[Peace & Justice Project @corbyn_project]

We stand with the Allianz6 against this disgraceful lawfare and abuse of the courts to effectively destroy the lives of activists speaking out against corporate complicity in the Gaza genocide.

https://t.co/iifB60ijao

[Ammar Kazmi 🇵🇸 @AmmarKazmi]

The ‘antisemitic terrorism’ narrative around the Golders Green incident on Wednesday has now collapsed. The alleged assailant was mentally unwell with previous convictions for stabbing, dating back years, and he had left psychiatric care in recent days. One of his three victims (yes three, not two!) was a Muslim. While suffering an apparent mental health crisis, two Met officers kicked his head in IDF-style and then the Met justified it like a Netanyahu press conference.

We’re supposed to believe this man was an ‘antisemitic terrorist’ in the pay of Iran, motivated to attack Jews because of pro-Palestine protests and chants. This is a total sham and deeply insidious. The mainstream media, politicians, and the Metropolitan Police are colluding with Zionists to exploit this attack to further erode freedom of expression and assembly, and to expand Jewish militias in London.

Welcome to the complete Zionisation of British politics!

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

How is it possible that the Republican candidate for the last New York mayoralty race sounds like Bernie Sanders more radical drinking buddy?

🤣

[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

A former human rights lawyer who cheated his way to the PM job by faking antisemitism charges against Corbyn is now using a violent act by a mental health case to weaponise antisemitism in order to ram through legislation to remove all of our human rights. All seems scripted.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

UK: *Has 49k stabbings per year*

Media, politicians: *silence*

Known mentally ill man: *stabs 2 Jews*

Media: Iran-linked terror attack

Politicians: This is a national emergency

Clown world

[Liberation News Network @l_n_n_26]

Accordng to the Metropolitan Police's own statistics there are 45 stabbings per day in London. That this one has been elevated to "terrorism" whilst the other 44 incidents go unreported tells us that there is a clear agenda at work here. They will try to use this incident to (somehow) blame Palestine solidarity activists and/or Iran and increase the legal prohibitions on protest. We must resist this agenda.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.

Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.

We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.

All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?

[Michael BURN @MICHAEL37656467]

@DavidPBMaddox Johnson was a bluff scattergun liar at times
But in my opinion Starmer is worse as his lies are cynical, mendacious & calculated
He is a total fraud of a politician - his whole career is based on cynical lies

Only hypocrites still believe in him

[Ashley Pringle @pringlean]

@OneQuantumLeap Spot on. Why is no party in the UK making this anti militarist case?

[OneQuantumLeap @OneQuantumLeap]

Why are so many 'Greens' pro militarism?!

There is no case for building alternatives to NATO.

The UK is not under threat. Rather, the UK and Europe (as well as the US) pose the threat, both to their own people and to the rest of the World.

End imperialism. End militarism.

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

A resurfaced clip of Hillary Clinton from 2008 is circulating online in which she says, "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran."

[OneQuantumLeap @OneQuantumLeap]

I would campaign against Rejoin

The EU is a fascist imperialist genocidal political entity.

Outside of the EU, we have one thing to fix. Inside, we would have two.

And I say this as a former soft Remainer.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

We’re not doing this. We’re not going to allow them to rewrite history of the president who propped up, defended and oversaw Israel committing genocide of the Palestinian ppl for over a year and half.

Absolutely the fuck not. Fuck this genocidal war criminal.

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

Absolute nonsense. Starmer certainly came into politics to make a difference but not the altruistic difference you view through rose-tinted glasses. Starmer was parachuted into the safe Holborn and St. Pancras seat in 2015, the same year Corbyn became Labour leader. Did he spend time finding his way as a politician and MP? Did he show some loyalty to his democratically elected leader? Not at all. From the get go be aligned himself to the most determined opponents of Corbyn. He was part of the 2016 coup that tried to take down Corbyn’s leadership. When that didn’t work he was a principal sponsor of Owen Smith’s failed leadership bid that same year. He then started working to undermine Corbyn from within Corbyn’s own Shadow Cabinet. He secretly joined the Trilateral Commission behind Corbyn’s back - an organisation of which Peter Mandelson was also a member - an organisation comprised of transatlantic right wing zealots fanatically opposed to Corbyn’s leadership. And then, months before the 2019 election, he secretly set up his own team for a future leadership bid. He made a difference alright - non-stop secret plotting, duplicity, deception and betrayal: qualities that define him as a man, a politician and a Prime Minister.

[The Fraud @StarmertheFraud]

PAUL HOLDEN STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERVIEW WITH JOSH SIMONS ON BBC NEWSCAST

Yesterday, BBC Newscast published a lengthy, forty-minute interview with former Cabinet Minister Josh Simons MP. The interview addressed how Simons, as a director of @LabourTogether, had appointed a firm called APCO Worldwide to investigate me and my colleagues.

I was not told by the BBC ahead of the broadcast that the episode was being recorded or aired. I was not approached to respond to the lengthy comments made about me or the small anti-corruption organisation, @ShadowWorldInv1 , that I run with my colleague @andrewfeinstein. Andrew, who is also repeatedly mentioned, was also not approached for comment.

I only found out last night, when a friend texted me, that the person who hired a major multinational reputation management firm that produced a despicable and defamatory report on me and my colleagues, and who reported me on the basis of these false and defamatory reports to the UK’s security services, was being given forty minutes to give his version of events on a major podcast published by our national broadcaster.

To be clear, the BBC has NEVER - not once - approached me to comment on a story that is, ultimately, about me, my investigations, my family and my colleagues. They did not approach me when the story first broke, and they did not approach me for this episode.

If the BBC had done so, I would have raised several issues with the way in which matters related to me were discussed. For example, Simons repeatedly stated in the interview that he instructed APCO to investigate whether my reporting or sourcing derived from a ‘hack’ of the Electoral Commission. The word ‘hack’ is used eight times in the interview.

At no time was it acknowledged in this discussion that this allegation – that I might have received hacked materials – is entirely false, and I have repeatedly proven it to be false.

Following the broadcast, I contacted the BBC to complain and to raise serious issues with the broadcast. I was contacted by the Newscast editor, Sam Bonham, to say the BBC would update the Newscast episode and further reporting to reflect some of my concerns. This has not yet happened with regards to the podcast, although I note some online reporting finally reflects a very small and limited sampling of my comments. I will wait to see if amendments and updates will follow. If they do not, I will be escalating this matter to OFCOM.

In the interim, I have decided to share the full statement I provided to the BBC, which is produced below:

I would like to put certain things on the record.

First, my reporting on Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney was entirely factually accurate and based on impeccable, legal sourcing. My sourcing has been reviewed by multiple media outlets, who confirmed the authenticity and legal provenance of my sources. Revelations based on my book, The Fraud, has subsequently been covered widely across the mainstream media, including in multiple front-page scoops, in outlets such as The Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The National and ITV.

The stories I produced in 2023 and 2024, and which prompted Labour Together's investigation into me, were subject to extensive editorial and legal checks. They were, I believe, entirely accurate reporting on matters of profound public interest, which included raising concerns about the character of powerful individuals like Morgan McSweeney. Considering the recent Mandelson affair, I believe I have been entirely vindicated in attempting to alert the public about McSweeney's past, including how McSweeney made use of £700,000 in funding that he unlawfully failed to declare to the Electoral Commission to procure power and influence for himself and Sir Keir Starmer.

Second, Josh Simons states that he never intended for APCO Worldwide to investigate me or my journalistic colleagues. However, a copy of the contract between APCO Worldwide and Labour Together, addressed to Simons, has now been published. The contract sets out a scope of work written in plain English.

It states that APCO will 'investigate the sourcing, funding, origins of a Sunday Times article as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi.' The contract then states that the aim of the APCO investigation will be to 'provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together.' The contract then sets out a range of potentially invasive investigative methods that will be used to generate this 'package', including 'financial investigations' and 'human intelligence investigations.' I provide the full text of this contract below.

This contract is clear. APCO were hired to investigate me to produce materials that would 'proactively undermine' my factually accurate, public interest reporting. They would use a range of investigative techniques to do so. APCO then did exactly as was suggested in the contract, using these investigative methods to "investigate" me. This investigation has caused me and my family significant anxiety and distress.

Third, Josh Simons was provided with a report called Operation Cannon. It is the result of a lengthy investigation into me and my colleagues by APCO Worldwide. I have seen a copy of this report. It makes a series of extremely defamatory and utterly false allegations against me. It identifies my home address and sets out private information about my family. I cannot express how profoundly shocking, outrageous and defamatory this report truly is.

Simons may claim he never intended for APCO to investigate me, but on receipt of this despicable report, he then chose to use it. He submitted sections of the report to the National Cyber Security Centre to convince them to investigate me. The Guardian has published the email correspondence in which Simons repeated some of the substance of the allegations in the APCO reports.

Fourth, multiple media freedom advocacy organisations, including the NUJ, have strongly criticised the APCO investigation and these related matters. They have all, to my mind correctly, strongly criticised Labour Together and APCO for investigating journalists producing factually accurate reporting in the public interest.

Finally, I am still reviewing the Newscast interview. I will be responding in due course and I hope that the BBC will, this time, give me the platform to set out what really happened and why.

Text of Contract Between Labour Together and APCO Worldwide, addressed to Josh Simons

Dear Mr Simons

We are pleased that you have selected APCO Worldwide Limited (“APCO”) to provide the following scope of work (“services”) during Term:

APCO will devise a concise strategy to aid Labour Together. APCO will investigate the sourcing, funding and origins of a Sunday Times article about Labour Together, as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi – to establish who and what are behind the coordinated attacks on Labour Together. The approach should provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up for use in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together. The material can also inform any future legal strategy that Labour Together might wish to pursue against any of these parties.

The work will include:

• Open Source Investigations (OSINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Human Intelligence Investigation (HUMINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Financial Investigation: Forensic Accounting Focus
• Digital Forensics Investigation: Recovery and Preservation of Evidence
• Stakeholder Outreach
• Media Packaging and Dissemination