Well let’s see how this story pans out. La Repubblica has a source who saw Boris Johnson at the nearest airport to Lebedev’s palazzo & a flight plan that matches. Downing Street categorically denies it.
BUT there are some pretty inconvenient details. Perugia Airport actually put out a statement on Sept 17 confirming Boris Johnson’s presence at the airport ‘over the past few days’...
And there are some more odd details. A whole lot of activity in & out of the airport with flights coming from London - including Tony Blair - & the dates coincide with the super secretive christening of which no photos were released..
Add in Johnson’s weirdly dodgy central London 20-minute wifi issues on Friday & his cancelled meetings on Monday morning & 🤔
But surely *even* Johnson would not be blatant enough to skip town to meet his ex-KGB mate weeks after refusing to investigate Russian interference & ennobling the KGB mate’s son & then lie about it?!?Surely...
Update: PM’s spokesman says story is ‘completely untrue’. He has not travelled to Italy ‘in recent months’ & repeating it is ‘a falsehood’.
The barrister for the Crown has laid out the background and context for the case, including Ukraine's efforts to join the European Union.
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The barrister confirms that Gill was en route to Moscow when he was stopped at Manchester airport in 2021 (as first reported in @thenerve_news. 3/ thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-…
There are sound reasons to criticise BBC. We’re all pissed off with it over something! But our valid critiques are being weaponised by the enemies of democracy.
The BBC is a crucial firewall in a moment of unprecedented danger. Why do you think Russia is joining in?! 3/
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have spent years on this. The MPs are persevering even tho they've now left parliament. And whole subject couldn't be more urgent or more timely 🙏 3/
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve_news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
Meet Nadia Sass.
This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.
Today @thenerve_news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.
In Israel, Ellison’s Oracle partners with Rafael Systems whose weapons are being used in the Gaza genocide & implicated in the deaths of British aid workers.
The targeting & killing of journalists in Gaza & the failure of the media to show collective solidarity & to take collective action is…incomprehensible.
I feel a such profound sense of shame & failure. It’s not just the death of journalists. It’s the death of journalism. 1/
This is Mariam Abu Daka, one of 3 journalists killed in latest strike, warning that journalists are being deliberately targeted & killed.
‘The Israeli occupation targets journalists because they tell the truth’
She calls for urgent international protection. It did not come. 2/
It is not that there has not been efforts to mobilise a collective response by press freedom orgs, including @RSF_inter, but there has also been silence , denial & cowardice from the prestige legacy outlets.
There’s a reason trust in all media is plummeting.
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