Rachel Reddan

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[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Bills up.

Wages too low.

Record profits for Oil & Gas.

50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population.

Shit in our rivers.

Pensioners jailed for protesting.

Migrants thrown under the bus.

Supporting a Genocide.

That's Starmer's legacy.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I really don't care which genocidal member of Labour Friends of Israel is Prime Minister.

[James Foster @JamesEFoster]

Everyone!

Please follow @zeteouk.

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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA has just withdrawn ALL the World Cup tickets supplied to Iran, meaning that none of their supporters will be able to attend their games.

Donald Trump is banning Referees and banning supporters, he is trying to fix the World Cup.

The USA have to be disqualified.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport.

But the USA still refuses to let him in.

The USA need to be disqualified

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0
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[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

There's a video on the timeline today of a Palestinian man weeping over the body of his dead 6-year-old daughter. She was killed in an Israeli attack on a tent. There is no ceasefire. There was never a ceasefire. And they have never stopped slaughtering the children of Gaza.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran.

[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

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

When three politicians conspire to end the career of a policeman

We rightly criticise Trump for e.g. the false narratives around the murder of Renee Good, so why aren't more Brits criticising Labour about what's just happened?

Order of events

West Midlands Police informed the Home Office of the Maccabi fan ban

Shabana Mahmood accepted this and did not object

A week later Keir Starmer objected

Instead of saying we should look into whether a full ban is needed

Keir Starmer played the antisemitic card instead

Just like he previously repeated the island of strangers card

They were then supported by Lisa Nandy

Who stood up in parliament, lied about the police advice

Who also played the antisemitic card

And then attacked MPs questioning their integrity

Andy Cooke’s report found no evidence of antisemitism

It found no evidence of malice or negative intent

But it did find errors, which should rightly be addressed

The claim that an AI scenario said Maccabi were violent was wrong

The AI scenario did not say Maccabi fans were violent

If anything, it made the case for the fans, not against them

Despite being unable to prove antisemitism or bias
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood needed a win

So she said she lost confidence in West Midlands police chief constable

Forcing Craig Guildford to take early retirement

Keir Starmer, Shabana Mahmood, Lisa Nandy, all conflated public safety with antisemitism

When antisemitism couldn’t be proved, they desperately wanted a win

Three of the most influential politicians in our country chose to sacrifice the chief constable of West Midlands Police, the second largest police force in our country, to satiate their egos

We pride ourselves on the indolence of the police and the judiciary

This form of interference by Starmer, Mahmood and Nandy is the sort of thing you see in tin pot dictatorships, not in democracies

Shouldn’t we be more concerned about this abuse of power and authority?

And why hasn’t Shabana Mahmood resigned?

The Home Secretary accepted police advice for over a week before changing her mind under political pressure from Keir Starmer

Is this really the standard the country wants from a Home Secretary, so fickle, cheap, and willing to compromise her integrity just to fit in for a seat at the table?

The country deserves better than Starmer, Mahmood and Nandy

And the sooner Labour MPs find an ounce of integrity and call for a vote of no confidence, replacing him and his team, the better

Antisemitism like Islamophobia is a very real problem. Our Jewish, Muslim, and all communities should never be subjected to mistreatment and abuse. Nor should the real dangers of antisemitism or Islamophobia ever be misused by politicians in this way again

By all means question public safety, by all means question a ban, but the way Labour did this should shock everyone

The fact that it hasn't makes me wonder if we aren't that far behind Trump's MAGA

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Family members identify Aisha Ahmed Bakr Al-Aqqad & her daughter in an israeli soldier’s post — it’s believed they were killed after the photo

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

A few days ago, David Lammy wrote a letter to the Justice Committee answering some questions about his proposals to restrict jury trial.

This is a welcome step.

It’s a telling letter.

But not for the reasons you might think.

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[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

Six prisoners for Palestine are on their 32nd day of hunger strike.

Their health is severely deteriorating, with one described as 'skeletal'.

Each face upto two years on remand before trial and face harsher treatment as they are labelled as 'terrorists'.

This is an emergency

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

The head of a British PR consultancy which works for the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems admitted to placing a story in the UK press claiming that Iran was funding proscribed direct action group Palestine Action, a "trusted witness" told Private Eye https://t.co/Oxayn0Zj70

[Sudan War Monitor @sudanwarmonitor]

An overview of the latest events in El Fasher, Sudan, along with background information and analysis: https://t.co/O7VTeuT3mK

[Rachel Reddan @rachreddan]

@Seanchuckle @X I reported a comment last week that directly called someone a p**i. No violations of the rules apparently

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

This heavily redacted email proves that the UK Attorney General’s Office sent contact details for the police unit dealing with Palestine Action cases to the Israeli embassy.

Israel is directly interfering in the legal process in this country.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Sky News report: Israel has been arming and supplying a militia group (formerly affiliated with ISIS) in the south of Gaza.

It wasn't providing aid, GHF has been directly supplying an armed participant in a conflict.

Everything Israel does is a lie - they can never be trusted

[MenchOsint @MenchOsint]

Israeli occupation forces release a Palestinian child with autism, who they had abducted in Gaza and detained for months.