Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds
Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian
But if evidence emerges that someone on the breadline has filled in a form wrong, they have to pay it back and they will be arrested if it looks like it may be intentional. This is outrageous. So arrest him, and interview him under caution.
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Israeli hostages released: all living captives freed as Trump tells Knesset โage of terrorโ is over โ latest updates
Donald Trump speaks to Israeli parliament as released hostages are seen in first images
The only images I want to see coming out of Israel today are 1 Hostages from both Israel and Palestine reunited with their families 2. Bibi in irons and heading to where he belongs (hell but prison first) Everything else is just piss and wind www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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The first Swiss journalist to reach Gaza under the army of genocide lost his temper at the horror he witnessed, saying: โHumanity was destroyed here.โ
We renew our call on international media and investigators to pressure the genocidal state to allow immediate access to Gaza.
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The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.
He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,
My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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Just tuned in to Trumpโs AF1 gaggle. On Hamas shooting Palestinians in the streets, he says โtheyโre keeping order since 2M are returning home to Gaza, itโll be all alrightโ.
I wonโt share the graphic footage, but it doesnโt resemble โorderโ by any stretch of imagination.
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A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from peopleโs rectums, not foreign ones
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BBC report reading:
Incumbent Mohammed Ben Sulayem is poised to stand unopposed in December's election for the presidency of motorsport's governing body, the FIA.
Three potential candidates had expressed an interest in standing - American Tim Mayer, Swiss former racing driver Laura Villars, external and Belgian journalist Virginie Philpott, external.
But a quirk of the FIA's election rules means that no other candidate is able to challenge Ben Sulayem.
Presidential candidates must submit a list of their prospective vice-presidents for sport, which must be selected from each of the FIA's six global regions.
But the world council list contains only one candidate from South America, Brazilian Fabiana Ecclestone, wife of former F1 boss Bernie. She is already a member of Ben Sulayem's team.
That prevents any other candidate from naming a potential vice-president for sport from South America, which means no-one else can enter the election.
Blimey. 'Quirk' doing a heroic amount of lifting in this BBC report on why F1's big cheese will not face a challenger. In democratic terms, it's exceptionally 2025
12.10.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight
We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?
Boris Johnson broke the news model โ smirking as he lied on camera, knowing no journalist would dare call him out.
The joke was on us.
Peter Thurlow reports
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Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trumpโs China tariff announcement, a crypto โwhaleโ opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.
4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whaleโs profit: $192 million
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Nathan Gill isnโt an outlier but a node in a sophisticated ๐ท๐บ network blending ideology (anti-NATO/Soros) with cash, echoing Sass/Voloshynโs ops.
UKโs wilful blindness per 2020 contrasts U.S. probes. With Senedd elections looming and ๐ท๐บ cyber threats rising (MI5 warning) we need public inquiry.
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Nadine Dorries, "People can have whatever opinion they want of President Trump but he has delivered on this. As as businessman, a dealmaker"
Dorries ignores Trump selling Israel $6 billion in weapons since he came into office, much of which is responsible for completely destroying parts of Gaza
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_newsย in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...
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Did the Russians pay Farage to say thisโฆjust asking questionsโฆ
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Nathan Gill who went from UKIP โฉ Brexit Party โฉ Reform UK has admitted to taking bribes to speak pro Russian and anti- EU statements?
Photo collage
โก๏ธ Oleg Voloshyn and his wife Nadia Borodi
โก๏ธ Nigel Farage with Nadia Borodi
โก๏ธ Nathan Gill with Nadia Borodi
โก๏ธ Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill
11.10.2025 15:44 โ ๐ 585 ๐ 347 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 20
Awkward for Zia Yusuf, who keeps being sent out to lie as cover for the Reform UK leader
Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?
Why, it's Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill, who then did the important news briefing on his behalf (to Russia Today)
#BBCQT
10.10.2025 15:39 โ ๐ 121 ๐ 77 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 2
This article is more than 11 years old
Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny
This article is more than 11 years old
The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason
Mon 31 Mar 2014 21.37 BST
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Nigel Farage's near monthly appearances on state-owned Russia Today have come under scrutiny after his expression of admiration for Vladimir Putin this week.
In one of his 17 appearances on the channel seen by the Guardian and transmitted since December 2010, he claims Europe is governed not by elected democracies but instead "by the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945".
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny
The Ukip leader has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims.
The Ukip leader did not issue a word of criticism of Russian democracy in any of the Russia Today interviews viewed by the Guardian. Last August he told the channel that British intervention in Libya and Syria would go ahead regardless of any vote in the UN, and said he was still not sure President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons.
Farage's relationship with Russia has been under the spotlight since his comments last week on Ukraine. In a TV debate with Nick Clegg (pictured above) he said Russia had been provoked and that the EU had blood on its hands for trying to force Ukraine to choose between itself and Russia.
Nigel Farage was regularly being paid by Putin's public TV propaganda arm Russia Today (RT) in the years before Brexit, while he was failing to represent UK interests as an MEP.
At least 17 appearances from December 2010 - March 2014
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Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?
Noted Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill - seen here giving an important news briefing on his behalf to Russia Today.
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A UK presenter shouldnโt crow about an audienceโs ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism ๐ฅบ ?
11.10.2025 14:29 โ ๐ 673 ๐ 235 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 9
Andrew has lied about his relationship with Epstein again and again. Charles and William have conspired to protect Andrew for over a decade. We need a Royal Epstein Inquiry NOW. #AbolishTheMonarchy #Epstein
12.10.2025 08:30 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3
Byline Podcast: PPE, The Pandemic and Cronyism with Russell Scott
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Billions of pounds worth of unused #PPE literally went up in smoke.
@russellscott1.bsky.social has been investigating the UK's biggest waste of taxpayer's money - and wonders why no one has been held to account.
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11.10.2025 06:25 โ ๐ 25 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1
Our media:
Tony Blair met with Epstein 6 years before he was known to be a pedophile. Full coverage.
Nathan Gill admits to 8 counts of treason last week. Silence.
12.10.2025 06:28 โ ๐ 151 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 8 ๐ 2
Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.
Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
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Sunday School: The Big Blag Theory
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โฎ๏ธ๐ Who is Marรญa Corina Machado & how bruised is Trump?
๐ธ Reform struggles to find DOLGE cuts
๐RIP Jilly Cooper & all hail the trashy novel
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Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.
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Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gillโs office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.
Six days after the first bribery charge
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