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Goddammit theres a timeline.

As co-convener of Vote Leave, Michael Gove occupied a position of legal responsibility. The unlawful spending & campaign coordination happened on his watch. The denials - proven to be false - ditto. Vote Leave, ultimately, accepted the finding & paid the fine.

There were no other consequences.

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The Vote Leave scandal, one year on: ‘the whole thing was traumatic’ A year after revealing that the official leave campaign broke electoral law, Shahmir Sanni assesses the impact

The whistleblower of that public interest investigation, @shahmirsanni.bsky.social was viciously smeared by figures around Gove including those in government.

He lost his job. He was outed as gay.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Farage plays the old ‘it was only banter’ card to explain away anti-semitic & racist allegations against him by a former NHS doctor who was at school with him. Many of us familiar with the ‘it was only banter’ line in other contexts.

Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel Physics prize speech in 2024, warning about AI. Dr Hinton’s work on artificial neural networks earned him the title "the Godfather of AI".
2 huge concerns: AI being used for bad stuff & profiteering, & how will we be able to control AI smarter than us?

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The Labour Govt for England & Wales plans to scrap jury trials for all criminal offences except the most serious crimes of rape & murder. Under the shake-up, most jury trials would be abolished except in the most serious trials. All other cases would be heard by a judge sitting alone.

Labour’s con trick in the election was that it campaigned on a platform of radically improving public services alongside a vow not to increase the rates of the country’s most important taxes: income tax, national insurance, VAT or corporation tax. Together, these taxes bring in 75% of the tax take.

Must watch this: the BBC has CENSORED the Reith Lectures shocking & disgraceful x.com/rcbregman/st...

The state of the UK is so corrupt that this has never been investigated or even reported by the BBC or MSM. No police investigation or blue tents for Starmer’s Labour - just the SNP?

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This Christmas show in Inverness for children should not have been cancelled. We must stop colluding with & placating these far-right extremists. We must stand up to these bullies, otherwise democracy & decency are threatened.

Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?

Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

I'm not a historian but I am a political scientist and in my professional opinion saying Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history is less controversial than saying 2+2=4 or Victor Wembanyama is tall.

LESS controversial.

THIS -
Blaming the Scot Gov for Mossmorran is ridiculous 👇

To all of you at BBC Radio Scotland 'Good Morning Scotland' that has had it last programme today.
Editors, Producers, Researchers, Analysts and not least their presenters.
Good riddance, the lot of you nor the programme will not be looked upon kindly nor missed.
Yours
Scotland

I note that former UKIP in Scotland leader David Coburn is also mentioned by the BBC as being involved in the Nathan Gill case, but has not been charged yet.

MSM Monitor on X: "The documentary that exposed the BBC and revealed how it took advantage of a pandemic and exploited those bereaved by a deadly virus to smear Nicola Sturgeon." / X The documentary that exposed the BBC and revealed how it took advantage of a pandemic and exploited those bereaved by a deadly virus to smear Nicola Sturgeon.

How the BBC & BBC Scotland in particular, smeared Nicola Sturgeon, to discredit her & destroy the Scottish independence movement. That this was done during a global pandemic, undermining the public health messaging in Scotland, is shocking & a new low for the state broadcaster
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Same old, same old

BBC Scotland #GMS just told listeners that ‘no other country had sub-state governments implementing different health policies during Covid’. This is yet another falsehood. In USA, Canada, & Australia, in France & Germany & many other states, regional govts had powers to have very different responses

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed

Reith lecturer accuses BBC of censoring his remarks on Trump
Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removed www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

What it looks like in the transcript versus what I actually said.

Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.

downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...

Must watch this: the BBC has CENSORED the Reith Lectures shocking & disgraceful x.com/rcbregman/st...

Saying that Putin is a threat to all of us in Europe is obvious - well except to Farage & ReformUK.
The idea that America would be Europe’s guarantor of security, even our values, is now in tatters. The people in charge of USA right now, have more in common with Putin’s values.

Looking through the details they want to:

1) Identify a list of "thousands of regulations" which enforcement should be paused, and that should ultimately be rescinded

They write they'll be doing so based on the court cases West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022)...

Honestly, even I'm surprised how crude their proposal is. Since this was supposed to be about "efficiency", I expected there to be at least some effort to make government work better for citizens.

But no, they don't even mention it, it's all about "cutting government down to size", in their words.

Opinion | Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The DOGE Plan to Reform Government Following the Supreme Court’s guidance, we’ll reverse a decadeslong executive power grab.

What a surprise! Turns out the "Department of Government Efficiency" has nothing to do with government efficiency but is simply a pro-business deregulation, mass layoff and cost-cutting exercise...

It's all explained by Musk and Ramaswamy in the WSJ: wsj.com/opinion/musk...

A small 🧵

Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right The writer’s new argument for left-wing foreign policy has earned a mainstream hearing.

Quite a sign when Stephen Walt, one of the most renowned scholars of international relations in the world (and Harvard professor), writes an article in Foreign Policy arguing that "Noam Chomsky has been proved right"

foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/c...

A 🧵 on the article

Hard to compete with that, especially given the U.S. system where key diplomatic posts are often filled by political appointees who get the job because they've donated to the president's campaign...