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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Danny Tommo got his start in far-right activism in France, filming himself harassing asylum seekers and migrants. He, along with 9 others, was banned from French territory as a result. No banning orders yet for this new wave.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A salesman from Portsmouth, a YouTuber playing for a charity football match, and a notorious 'auditor' banned from Surrey are among those who have gone to France in recent weeks. Local charities say their behaviour has escalated rapidly.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Far-right activists linked to Patriot Platform and Restore have been clashing with police in France, following aid workers and trying to enter tents in the Dunkirk and Calais camp overnight. We unmasked them. www.thetimes.com/article/migr...

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‘Migrant hunters’ targeting small boats clash with French police

A new group of hard-right influencers has been in skirmishes with the authorities after ten British activists were banned for ‘inciting hatred’

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This person is just saying shit for attention, they've received enough of it on X, do we have to drag their nonsense here too?

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It appears that the US government pressured the Canadian and Lithuanian governments (as well as the EEAS) to pull their support and representives from the @disinfo.eu conference in Vilnius. This decision happened at the absolute last minute.

The EU disinfo lab 2026 sponsors. Three names have been tapped over

CU you can see the Canada sign has been tapped over.

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Bron Maher @bronmaher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's easy, perhaps, to imagine that the days of open street homophobia in the UK are a thing of the past. And sure, things aren't as bad as they were even two decades ago, of course. But, as I find in a new piece for @thefence.bsky.social, abject anti-gay hate remains a familiar occurrence.

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Hate in Hampstead

Our LGBT dispatches have taken a sadder turn.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely insane story about the arrest of August Hanning, former head of German intelligence agency BND Added gimmick is that investigators only found out because Hanning is accused of involvement in another absolutely insane story of a German millionaire trying to abduct her own children

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Florian Flade @florianflade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

News🚨Ex-BND-Chef Hanning und festgenommen. Sein ehemaliger Büroleiter (auch festgenommen) soll ihm noch bis 2022 geheime Dokumente aus dem #BND verschafft haben. Landeten sie bei fremden Mächten? Unsere Recherche: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hann... #Geheimdienste #Spionage #Justiz #BKA #GBA

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Affäre beim BND: Ex-Geheimdienstchef Hanning wegen Spionageverdacht festgenommen

Der frühere Präsident des Bundesnachrichtendienstes August Hanning ist festgenommen worden. Es bahnt sich einer der großen Spionagefälle der Bundesrepublik an.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fantastic news, well done. I know that was a tough one to work on, but an important one too. Congratulations to the team.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That looks great. Most of these I learned years ago for climbing, I'm just rusty enough that I can't check my own work... Good old fashioned books are going to be the way forward.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And yet that won't change anything... Years ago I remember looking at Amazon 'climbing' gear that was completely unsafe, no weight rating etc. Climbing centres had seen broken legs and warned of worse. It's even worse today.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI is poisoning searches, episode 9,000. I'm learning to sail and wanted a diagram to refresh a few rope skills. Search how to tie specific knots and you get shite like this: learn to tie a Clive Kot and a Sheeeeeet Ben

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Counter-terror police say they were arrested following a joint CTP investigation in partnership with security services; and this is not believed to be connected to RAF Fairford in any way.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi allegedly cquired the components of a homemade explosive device plus a document entitled Steps for Making [a] Powder Chlorine and Car Brake Oil/Fluid Bomb. They allegedly carried out recon with maps, videos and photos of their potential targets.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two Iranian nationals have been charged with a terror plot against Manchester's Jewish community, allegedly in contact with "overseas third-party" possibly in Iran. The Home Secretary has confirmed that both men arrived on small boats, in 2020 and 2023. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

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Two Iranians charged over suspected terror plot on Jewish community

Counterrorism police said that they had charged Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi over the suspected plot in Manchester

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 01/10/2026

Great thread to read if you respond to every paywall like someone has shot you in the chest

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today, as a journalist who covers home affairs, early release is quite literally the largest story on my patch. So... no?

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's not entirely clear why BTP didn't just go in and rearrest him while he was sitting in the nick, saving everyone the resources of freeing him. But there we are.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Early release latest: a man was released from Wandsworth, outside of which British Transport Police immediately arrested him for bike thefts he was wanted on from June and August.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Perhaps congratulations are owed to the National Farmers Union @nfudc.bsky.social, whose calls for rural crime to be taken more seriously and given more resources has paid off on an international scale

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fairford suspects had no explosive but a sizeable amount of petrol...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well yes, bringing in a bomb disposal robot tends to send that message. But it more significantly came from counter-terror police who said they had detained the men "on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act"...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The five men arrested over a potential terror plot near RAF Fairford are being released on police bail, says head of Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor 👀

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The assumption that you are getting both a home and a lucrative investment is probably ruining society. I always found this v persuasive goodreason.substack.com/p/maybe-trea...

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Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

Trying to see the world more clearly

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Someone in a local Facebook group is renting out this room for £450 a month. Presumably no refund if you get cursed.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

IIRC there are connections that could be added in to run direct Gatwick services from the south coast all the way from Southampton to Ashford

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas has been denied bail. His case will go to Crown Court on Tuesday.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not guilty pleas on both counts from Thomas at Basingstoke Magistrate's Court.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Daniel Thomas/Tommo has been charged, with a single count of criminal damage, plus a fresh charge under Regulation of Investigatory Powers for failing to provide his phone pin. He will appear in Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bank fees, plus the payment people are willing to make is always more micro than the one that would make it viable...

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you're just coming to this, here's my in-depth piece on what happened in the Channel this week: a 40-hour small boat crossing, and a game of cat-and-mouse between Border Force and anti-migrant protesters. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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How Danny Tommo came face to face with migrants in the Channel

A group of 60 people spent nearly 40 hours at sea, during which time they were pursued by the Patriot Platform founder and diverted due to protests in Gosport

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know. I just want people to understand that there are reasons we don't rush names out: these decisions have to be made very carefully by each publication.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The downside is that those who understand contempt of court laws have to spend hours reading posts from people who don't and fuming internally

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 24/09/2026

🔺 BREAKING: Danny Tommo, an anti-migrant activist, has been arrested after a dinghy used by asylum seekers appeared to be slashed by a protester with a member of rescue staff still on board

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Danny Tommo arrested after ‘migrant boat slashed in Channel’

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Would encourage many Bsky users to read ZXC v Bloomberg asap.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a particularly baffling line of questioning given that we know exactly where the empty, used dinghies go: they are either destroyed, or in some cases held by the Home Office in an evidence facility near Dover. You can go there and see them through the fence. There's no secret here.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It had been at sea for 30+ hours at that point and French authorities have said people on board were weakened and unwell, which likely explains Border Force and Coastguard requesting RNLI assistance. The RNLI is involved in less than 5% of crossings.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

12. The individuals on the small boat which departed France on Monday eventually arrived in the UK at around 12.30am on Wednesday morning. They were first identified on a small boat by French coastguard at around 9am on Monday. HMC Vigilant returning to base in the middle of the night, from PA:

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

11. Hampshire Police say six people who took part in the protest in Gosport have been arrested, including for assaulting an emergency worker. The force is making inquiries into what happened at sea and hasn't confirmed identity of the arrests.

To help facilitate peaceful protest, ensure the safety of the local community and support partners in the event of any emergency at sea, we deployed officers to Gosport and Portsmouth.

Following news that the vessel would be docking elsewhere in the country, police were met with a group of people who remained in Gosport, some of whom became hostile towards officers.

As a result, six people were arrested for offences including careless driving, assaulting an emergency worker and aggravated trespass.

They remain in custody at this time and our enquiries into these incidents continue.

We are also aware of a video circulating online relating to damage being caused to a boat in the English Channel on the afternoon of 22 September, and we are conducting enquiries into the matter.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thank you. Think it was approximately here (or at least within a couple of km)

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is fascinating and very helpful. Thank you. I think this happened outside the 12 NM limit - does that complicate matters for police?

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

10. French authorities putting out a fairly direct warning that attempts to interfere with their actions in the Channel can be prosecuted. Thomas/Tommo is I believe subject to an entry ban to France, which he is thought to have violated once so far.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not an RNLI boat. Empty dinghy after asylum seekers on board had been moved to an RNLI vessel. Empty dinghies need to be secured and brought to the UK, which is what the person is on board doing when Thomas slashes it.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Somewhat ironically, Thomas is currently learning in real time why maritime authorities do not generally intercept and arrest people when they're in a small boat.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

9. French authorities have just confirmed there are around 60 people on the small boat, and it set off at around 9am yesterday. Expected to be a 36+ hour crossing. For comparison, boats leaving around Calais normally take 4-8 hours to reach UK waters.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

8. So having departed French beaches sometime yesterday morning, with a sea temperature of around 17, they will only be brought ashore in Britain in a couple of hours. Thomas is nearly out of fuel, and is heading for Gosport, which has been closed off due to his activists. Heavy police presence.

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