@Peston What’s even more amazing is that he’s on a luxury holiday, his tenth of the year, hasn’t been seen at Westminster for months despite being paid to be an MP and most journalists haven’t even mentioned this. And is he still living at Chequers?
Well, this is also fascinating. The responses to this thread are overwhelmingly dominated by Kremlin denialists. Clearly organised. Very reminiscent of peak Brexit years.
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.
B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf
What is happening in the UK is entirely the result of allowing the Daily Mail, GB News, Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and all the others to spew their bile to hundeds of thousands every single day.
Traitor Tommy Robinson serves Russia and Israeli interests. How can that make sense?
Russia and Israel share several interests in British politics. Both gain from Islamophobia. It serves Israel's anti-Palestinian objective and its conflict with the Iranian regime, while, ever since the days of Tony Blair, Putin has used the Islamist bogeyman to distract from his hybrid war against democracy, and to divide and weaken Western democracy.
Both Russia and Israel have more friends on the hard and far-right than on the liberal-left. So it is entirely consistent for both of them to work through political prostitutes like Traitor Tommy.
The man is receiving bribes from overseas actors and certain corners of the press continue to act as if it was all business as usual.
£5m is not a gift. It's a bribe. End of.
Hearing that an African immigrant with a troubling family history, has had kids with multiple partners and now lives in a country with a major drug and violence problem had been criticising the UK.
1.EXCLUSIVE: @BylineTimes exposes the Russian neo-Nazi network – promoted by Tommy Robinson – pushing 'White Lives Matter' propaganda to sow division and race war across the UK and Europe. Founded by a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin🧵https://t.co/rNHXhfFOrj
Brexit stands as one of the most disastrous self-inflicted wounds in modern political history, engineered by a toxic mix of traitors and fools.
It leaves both the United Kingdom and Europe profoundly less safe while serving the strategic interests of global rivals.
Splitting from the European Union permanently damaged the continent's collective security architecture. By fracturing the Western alliance, the architects of Brexit directly compromised European stability at a moment when unity is vital.
This geopolitical vandalism benefits nobody except Russia, China, and the United States, all of whom gain from a divided Europe. Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have capitalized on a weakened, fragmented European voice on the world stage, using the friction between London and Brussels to advance their own agendas.
This failure remains the defining, shameful legacy of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage.
Ultimately, the only logical path forward for future generations is for the United Kingdom to rejoin the European Union, because reversing this isolationist blunder simply makes sense for the survival of the nation
Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger on Brexit: “Putin would have been absolutely delighted by our decision.”
“So would Xi. France has effectively eclipsed us. Brexit has marginalised us.” Most striking of all: “Just nobody mentions the UK.”
Very sad that Sir Alex Younger, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, born on July 4, 1963, died of pancreatic cancer on June 2, 2026, aged 62