A reminder from mine & @peterjukes news story today. The docs that @andywigmore passed onto Russian embassy? The subject line said "Fw Cottrell - Eyes Only". So, here's what I'm wondering. Did they come from @Nigel_Farage?? If only, he'd be up for a chat..
https://t.co/OCCMOjw70M
NEW: here’s *actual* evidence that Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is accepting foreign donations via PayPal. Dollars, yuan, Swiss francs, roubles..you name it, they’ll take it. Laundered by PayPal into British £. This *cannot* be legal, surely?? Electoral Commission MUST investigate
@ObserverUK Whoah! Loving this detail. Dinner with @Telegraph owners Barclay Brothers & Nigel Farage on the day after LeaveEU press launch. You know what else happened then?? Banks & Wigmore were discussing gold & diamond deals inside the Russian embassy. I know! Let's Take Back Control...
ICYMI
Our timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations (now at least £33m) to Farage, Johnson and their parties vs crypto-friendly announcements and policy commitments
https://t.co/z1fXHfKHtB
Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.
Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison
Huge coverage of both
Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.
Media coverage? You judge.
Mandelson described the £750m Palantir deal as “My Personal Pride and Joy”. But what do the just-released documents reveal about his role in the network of Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein?
My first take for @BylineTimes
https://t.co/SkxpcJCP67
Not a parliamentarian.
Not a member of the Shadow Cabinet.
And certainly not the Shadow Home Secretary.
Also missed “Ltd” off the end of Reform UK.
This is just not true, @ZiaYusufUK
Palantir’s UK mouthpiece has been uncritically platformed the BBC (multiple times), the Sun, the Times, the Observer & now the Evening Standard.
It’s a really instructive lesson for everyone on how power works & the role the media plays
So you know what @bbcquestiontime did with Farage? They’re now doing it with AI.
This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice.
Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And for ‘balance’? A Tory MP.
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Whatever world Tony Blair inhabits appears to be one without climate change & where UK temperature record for May hasn’t just been smashed by over 2C. How else to explain his extraordinary dismissal of net zero & erroneous claim that fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables? 🙄
Anyway, if you want to know more about Blavatnik, his investments in Israeli defence tech & r’ship with Blair, read @thenerve_news
Because this ridiculous confected @misanharriman ‘scandal’ is yet more evidence of why we need a truly independent press
https://t.co/fe4XCnqW01