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I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 4h

NEW | On disappearing stories… MICHAEL GOVE, LOLA SALEM, AND A SUDDEN SILENCE Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/michael-go...

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Michael Gove, Lola Salem, and a sudden silence

Why did a series of newspaper stories vanish and why are right-wing organisations involved in a coordinated campaign to forget about one particular contributor?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

Robert Jenrick for Reform says that Royal Marines using "lethal force" on small boats could end it in days. "Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days."

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 7h

From The Archives #492 That time in October 2019 when Farage got all his Brexit Party MEPs to vote against EU plans to tackle Russian propaganda. 7 years later, almost to the day, he accuses Burnham of lying that there was Russian interference in Brexit...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6h

Nigel Farage, "The Prime Minister is a liar. Yes, a liar" "Boris asked was there seen to be Russian interference in the Brexit referendum campaign, and the answer was no" But Stewart Hosie, who sat on the UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament said no evidence as gov didn't look

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 6h

This is pretty astonishing: buff.ly/PhlYzPs As is the response from Deloitte Cyprus: it didn't comment "because the documents were more than 20 years old and no longer accessible." They certainly seem to be accessible...

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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm

Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 6h

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm

Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 8h

Brexit effect • Reduction of UK economy by 6%-8% in real GDP terms • Total cost of £180bn to £240bn as of late 2025/2026 • A £3,700 average decrease in GDP per person • £90bn lost in potential tax revenues per year • £29bn drop in business investment #politicslive www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests

Analysis showed how much the UK could have grown if it had not exited the EU.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h

Everyone continues to underestimate the Houthis’ military power...suddenly these guys in flip-flops can double or triple your winter heating bills.” www.ft.com/content/bd2c...

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Houthis show military reach with deadly missile strikes on Riyadh

Yemen’s Iran-backed militants have evolved from insurgency into potent armed force

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11h

Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, will be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 at 11:05pm, following the real life investigation into the Tadamon massacre in Syria. It'll also be available on More4 from tomorrow onwards www.channel4.com/programmes/k...

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10h

My take with @goldbergradio.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social on Andy Burnham and why it took so long for the British Government to come clean about Putin’s role in Brexit youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI

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Russia's Brexit Meddling Proven

YouTube video by Byline Times TV

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 9h

Kallas: "this is not the time to ease pressure on Moscow but to increase it" 👀

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 8h

Old school Little Englander nonsense about regulations. The reason the UK didn't massively deregulate after Brexit was 1/ because regulations and standards are international norms, and 2/ the people and more importantly politicians even businesses of the UK want them.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 8h

The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 13h

Confirmation that a Reform UK government would mean Ice-style mass roundups and deportations. In fact, in one way the Reform plan would go further than Trump, in retrospectively stripping rights from people granted asylum as long as five years ago and tracking them down for removal.

Farage pledges to shut down asylum system

Reform to declare a ‘national security emergency’ and deport 90,000 migrants immediately

Nigel Farage has pledged to impose a five-year ban on migrants being granted asylum and to deport 90,000 applicants immediately.

In his most stringent border policy to date, the Reform UK leader will declare a “national security emergency” and announce a suspension of all asylum tribunals, legal refugee routes and resettlement schemes.

The policy, which Mr Farage will announce on Monday, would mean tens of thousands of applicants would be immediately deported and any refugees granted asylum in the last five years would have their cases reviewed by the Home Office.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Zelenskyy: “When our strikes reached Yandex data centres, there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations on social media. “Because there were fewer bots, it's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Zelenskyy at the Warsaw Security Forum: “This winter, if Russia does not agree to an energy ceasefire, we will respond.”

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 12h

"Barrister Andrew Mitchell KC, an expert in financial services law, said Panorama's evidence showed the scheme was 'straightforward' tax evasion and 'it couldn't be more blatant'." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth, BBC finds

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, investigation finds.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h

More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇

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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court

Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Polish PM Donald Tusk to the Warsaw Security Forum: “Nobody wants escalation and war. We are all dreaming of peace. “The road to peace is not through weakness. It is through stopping the aggressor by all means available.”

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 12h

Today, we will adopt nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex. This will be the single largest expansion of our sanctions list since Russia started its war.

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TwitRuss @twitruss.bsky.social · 9h

To placate eurosceptics in the Tory party.

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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 12h

agree with this post in general, but also, heat pump subsidies are not supposed to be redistributive, they are supposed to incentivise switching to heat pumps! it is a *good thing* if people take them up, regardless of whether they’re well off or not, and making them affordable to all requires scale

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11h

Why we're moving into uncharted territory in the Baltics, as Russia gets increasingly desperate and vulnerable.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 13h

I don't really know what to say about the fact HM Treasury can't seem to get its head around the fact that heat pump grants are industrial policy not household subsidy. It doesn't signal great depth of policy thinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12h

This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic?

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 12h

I know that people that shout at the radio when it’s Justin Webb but him saying “there’s no evidence” of Russian interference in 2016 is so enraging. There were online ads. This is not in doubt. Even the Torygraph has reported it… www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11h

the caption that tells you everything you need to know

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 20h

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 11/10/2026

💥 The Trump administration has threatened European capitals that it could stop paid-for weapons shipments to Ukraine if Kyiv does not halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, officials told @christopherjm.ft.com and me @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/bc5bd7e2-3...

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US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries

Officials lobby European capitals and Kyiv following Trump’s diesel deal with Putin

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Update on the ceasefire Trump announced this morning.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🔎 From the archive: Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Now Andy Burnham has revealed there was key evidence Russia interfered in the Brexit Referendum

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Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It

Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

Whatever one thinks about this place, all of the larger ones, controlled by Zuckerberg & Musk, are nothing but giant propaganda/misinformation/porn/surveillance machines owned by oligarchs actively collaborating with fascists.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Was just on Threads and this was my "For you" algorithm when I posted a comment debunking the story. Say what you will about BlueSky being a bubble, but its not designed to enrage and deceive its users

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 23h

“Reform, the Russian spy & rolls of Kremlin cash..Farage has been trying to distance himself from Gill…however…Gill was described variously as Farage’s “enforcer” & “right-hand man”…He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage’s.”” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

Zelenskyy: “Don’t attack us. Don’t kill our children. We will stop attacking your diesel. I think it’s a fair deal.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

Andy Burnham has confirmed what @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warned about for years: Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. She was right to keep asking questions while governments looked away.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13h

Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.

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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Did Russia interfere in the 2016 EU referendum? Theresa May: No comment Boris Johnson: No comment Liz Truss: No comment Rishi Sunak: No comment Keir Starmer: No comment Andy Burnham: "Clearly." The first time a PM has confirmed Kremlin meddling in Brexit. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Burnham confirms Russia 'clearly' interfered in Brexit referendum

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

European capitals should now stop talking and instead seize Russian assets in Euroclear to expedite funding to Ukraine Lots of thinking has been done on how to overcome Belgium's opposition. Those plans should now be put in place

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In case it’s not obvious, this is a setup so he can blame Ukraine for breaking a non-existent ceasefire they never agreed to as a pretext for more pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine actions.

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