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Poor Kemi.

Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.

At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years

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Why is the Reform Party's Russian links not a major news story?

On the one hand I like it that Victoria is going to interview @zackpolanski.bsky.social. On the other hand I was looking forward for Zack to give it to Tory Laura. Did she chicken out?

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I’ve got an email from Tim Davie thanking me for my input into a BBC questionnaire earlier this year. The fact that he is writing to me as DG shows they’ve ignored my main recommendation!

Number of wars ended by Donald Trump:

The Middle East is being conned just like America has been conned.

None of what Trump is saying about the Israel-Gaza war being over is true.

None of the agreements he claims have been made have been made, besides a single hostage deal.

He’s lying to the world, and much of the world believes him.

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

"a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid". #FreePalestine

Trump has the attention span of a goldfish
and the diplomatic skills of a real estate developer.

Western leaders and media who have drunk the Kool-Aid on this 'peace plan' have also ignored justice for Palestinians, and Israel's accountability.

Which is consistent with the last several decades.

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’ * UK politics live – latest updates * Gaza ceasefire – live updates A protester who was threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act for holding a Palestine flag and signs saying “free Gaza” and “Israel is committing genocide” has received an apology from police, including for “unlawful false imprisonment”. Kent police have also agreed to pay damages and legal costs to Laura Murton, 43, in connection with the 14 July incident in Canterbury in which armed officers told her her demonstration expressed views supportive of Palestine Action, which had been banned earlier that month. Continue reading...

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag

I laid out the details of the extraordinary corruption case against Benjamin Netanyahu a few months ago in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. It seems like it’s helped him bond with Trump.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

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University of Sydney argues academic’s article not racist against Jewish people as ‘Zionism is a political concept’ Case taken by academics against two colleagues and the university is considered a major test case for hate speech in Australia

"Keane and Riemer...have argued that criticizing Zionism or Israel is not racist hate speech."

It is ludicrous that this commonsense position should have to be defended in court.

And shows just how far the Israel lobby will go to silence their critics. #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"This is a significant case for free speech in Australia. Critical even. The lawsuits...are, in the opinion of this observer, lawfare; an attempt, as is the messy action against journalist Mary Kostakidis, to muzzle criticism of Israel and its atrocities against the Palestinians." #auspol

Again this morning a long, leading article citing many Conservative complaints and in the final few paragraphs referring to Mr Cash as ‘a former parliamentary researcher’. No reference to his Conservative MP employer. #Bluewashing

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

BBC News going big on the China spy story and why it may have collapsed. It took me down a trail of 3 previous articles to find reference to Christopher Cash having been employed by a Conservative MP. If he had been employed by Labour that would have been the headline and repeated every 2nd para.

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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?

Sanctioned six times by the Kremlin, banned from both Reform and Conservative Party Conferences… what better time to support @bylinetimes.bsky.social by subscribing to our monthly newspaper

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Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

This Nathan Gill who was a UKIP MEP before joining Reform after the demise of UKIP?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_...

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

Russian bribes, Farage/Johnson, Brexit and now Nathan Gill? Motive, Nigel’s fake indignation/Tice’s rant : it’s all adding up. You’re guilty as hell. Oh and no idea of how to govern, run a complex relatively small organisation (Kent county Council), bring people together. You’re incompetent snakes.

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

'Stunned?' #Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His #Kremlin Associates = Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – Byline Times

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

Reporter: Do you know Nathan Gill?
Farage: Nathan who?
Reporter: Have you ever been a friend of former UKIP MEP, now former leader of Reform_UK in Wales, Nathan Gill?
Farage: Look I can't keep track of everyone I meet - I don't remember him.🤷‍♂️

#NigelFarage #NathanGill #RichardTice