Bear in mind that Phone Hacking was only the (more benign) tip of the iceberg when it came to unlawful information gathering which included blagging, email hacking, burglary #TheHack

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Exposing the Real UK Race Riot Instigators: The Key Players and Transatlantic Network Around Tommy Robinson Nafeez Ahmed uncovers a worrying nexus of tech platforms and far-right conspiracy – with links to Europe, Russia and the January 6 insurrection bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/e...

"Donald Trump is not the person who you want leading a country when it's divided like this - he's doing a lot of the dividing..." Mehdi Hasan, Editor-in-Chief of Zeteo, on whether the US can come together after Charlie Kirk's death. #Newsnight

“I am also reminded how Trump refused to call Minnesota Governor Walz or make any statement showing compassion for the political assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, who was a Democrat.”

"The head of the Utah FBI Field Office was a well-respected career agent named Mehtab Sayed, a Pakistani woman. She was fired a few weeks ago because she was Pakistani and a woman." www.meidasplus.com/p/thoughts-o...

The real dishonesty unveiled in the Farage testimony to congress… www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-d...

This thread should be read by our government who seem hell bent on echoing the far right rhetoric and racism⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

The body of evidence showing that when centrist parties adopt the priorities and talking points of the far right, they torpedo themselves is vast and powerful. Yet Keir Starmer's Labour Party seems determined to ignore it. A few examples in 🧵: theconversation.com/how-should-l...

Held hostage over a war on European soil… www.politico.eu/article/anto...

Still staggered that Byline has no less than six contributors named on the Kremlin’s latest stop list - way more than any other UK media organisation. But beginning to wonder if this is as much to do with our investigation of the Levedevs (who still control a raft of UK media)

This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.

🔴Shock and Orr: Meet the Farage-Supporting ‘Philosopher King’ of British Authoritarianism The Cambridge professor providing the intellectual underpinning for JD Vance and Nigel Farage, is described by one colleague as ‘more Tommy Robinson than St Thomas Aquinas’ bylinetimes.com/2025/08/26/j...

COMMENTARY: Short of something Vladimir Putin could call a victory, continuing with the war on Ukraine is useful for the Russian president.

Column, on a grimly familiar Farage plot line and Starmer sticking to the script in the Brexit sequel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Are​ we, as Richard Seymour suggests, “in the early days of a new fascism”? In 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮, Seymour argues that in trying to understand the new far right, we have been looking in the wrong places.’ @trillingual.bsky.social on far-right populism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jeremy Kyle joins ReformUK Ltd… Never saw that coming? www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...

Reading this and trying to take in the full enormity of what is happening. The scale of it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Great to see good journalists rewarded with sanctions from a hostile regime👍⬇️

🔴Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain’s streets is a disgrace, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

This is all becoming very dangerous and the Government's failure to show any kind of resistance to it is a disgrace www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🔴Robert Jenrick and the Conservative Party’s Embrace of ‘Blood and Soil’ Nationalism The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us should be so worried about, argues @jdportes.bsky.social

Breaking News: The right-wing cable channel Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to settle accusations that it aired false claims about the voting machine company Dominion Voting System rigging votes in the 2020 election.

August 18--A Historic Day? Will Starmer stick with Europe and defy Trump over his betrayal of Ukraine. Or is it too terrified to lose its (perceived) Special Relationship? Great and terrifying analysis by @PhillipsPOBrien open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

🔴The Real Story of the Trump-Putin Summit Is a US Oil Deal Hiding in Plain Sight While no progress was made on a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire, the Kremlin opened the door to a deal that could pour billions into its own war coffers, reports @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/18/t...

Free speech has never, will never, exonerate you from lying on oath, contempt of court, conspiring to commit a crime, defrauding, blackmailing, inciting hatred or any law in which your speech (or tweet) contributes to breaking. It’s pretty simple. Speech is an act

Trumps big beautiful world and the reality of it… Trump posted a photo of me sitting by my tent - then a bulldozer arrived www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2014, when the world refused even to recognize russian aggression. Ukrainians didn't surrender in 2022, when the world expected us to fall in 72h. Ukrainians won't surrender in 2025, either. For us, freedom and sovereignty are not empty words.

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. More and more it seems that Anchorage has seen Putin and Trump come together to push a deal that could permanently hobble Ukraine. Trump is pushing Ukraine give up more territory to Russia and get nothing meaningless. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Dunno guys, maybe international diplomacy is harder than it looks from the shrimp buffet at Mar-a-Lago?

The logic of a true Brexit voter humiliated by facts and figures!!!

Just sent out this free piece. I hear some saying yesterday's summit changed little--nothing could be further from the truth. The summit helped Russia and hurt Ukraine. It had 3 main components. First, US-Russian relations are being normalized in front of our eyes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Ukraine is a secondary topic for both Trump and Putin in Alaska. This is a mafia meeting arranged by war criminal Putin to restore Russia internationally & economically. Trump wants his "peace" glory and Putin used that to get this summit. But it's mainly about money for both of them, as always.

Two of the intelligence sources recounted that, in at least one case since the war began, the Legitimization Cell misrepresented intelligence in a way that allowed for the false portrayal of a journalist as a member of Hamas’s military wing.⬇️⬇️⬇️

Listening to this story on BBC Look North who blamed the closure on VAT on private schools… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

✍️ BBC Countryfile shines spotlight on Yorkshire’s River Nidd Local campaigners in Knaresborough are using innovative technology to monitor and reduce sewage pollution in the River Nidd By Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social

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BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Stop all votes that are against our fascist ideas? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is as good a reason as any for Trump not releasing the Epstein files.

🔴 Online Hate and Offline Violence: What We Learnt from the Dan Wootton Saga Extremist threats are no longer confined to virtual echo chambers but spreading into offline harassment – a phenomenon known as ‘stochastic terrorism’, reports Dan Evans bylinetimes.com/2025/08/08/o...

I often wondered what the world would look like if the most ignorant, dangerous & daft opinions of radio phone-in hosts/callers were permitted to prevail. I never expected to find out…

Anything Maxwell has testified so far has been lies or false statements and now the Trump team are wanting us to believe that Trump did nothing inappropriate because Maxwells has said it?

“A Government [that is] this out of touch with how communications works in the country it governs isn’t going to be able to govern very well.” bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/k...

Seems the KGB may well have used the Epstein child sex ring to make the rich and famous afraid of what they might release. Trump would surely have a great deal to lose if they have?

Brexit has caused so many problems but migrants is not one. It is a problem that right wing media are creating and Blair and others are able to financially benefit from the aftermath.