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@carolecadwalla
Jun 20, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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NEW: GB News isn't crap. It's dangerous. I have form with Andrew Neil. Which is why I dread & fear what this new venture means.
keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/andrew-neil-…
Not that it isn't crap. It is. It's just also going to be a massively distorted influence in our already massively distorted news & information system.
The BBC & our strict Ofcom rules have been a bulwark against worst excesses of online mis- & disinfo. But for how much longer? The hounding of Newsnight's Nick Watt this week was a horrifying example of where this leads. And GB News has thrown a powerful new grenade into the mix.
I rang up @martinjemoore on Friday who's one of the smartest interpreters of all things media & he thinks it's inevitably going to impact BBC. Arguably, the whole channel is a troll on the BBC, a knowing provocation. UK news & info system just lurched a little bit further right
This has a personal element for me. How could it not? I deal with the aftermath of Neil's abuse of me every day. But it's also why I have an early warning system encoded into my cells. I wish I could laugh at GB News but I don't. I dread it.
I have strict policy of ignoring GB News's political correspondent. I make an exception only to point out that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. This is who got to ask 2nd question at the PM's news presser on Monday. GB News already key part of govt's spin operation
This is why I'm writing this newsletter with @allthecitizens. It's part of our Keeping The Receipts project. The plan to destroy the Electoral Commission announced this week is exactly why we're doing what we're doing. Subscribing will help us keep track & hold to account.

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Jul 5
NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.

But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from?
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thenerve.news/p/boris-johnso…
In early 2022, Harborne switched his donations to the Tories giving first £500k then on May 6, another £500k.

It wasn't his only transaction that day. UK defence firm, QinetiQ 3% issued a notice that he now owned 3%.

The next day, he spent hours with Johnson at Chequers.
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Jul 5
Bravo to the @Gabriel_Pogrund & team. This is the story in plain sight that needed to be nailed. Congrats are in order for getting it over a difficult line.

George Cottrell has operated with impunity at highest levels of UK politics for more than a decade
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Sun Times story is the gamechanger we need. But this is a decade-long story that was ignored by papers like Sun Times - as was Farage - for years. Because…Brexit.

Cottrell was central in both Brexit & building Brexit Party in years after
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And remember this. It was Cottrell’s indictment that Wigmore emailed across to his contact at the Russian Embassy. No good explanation for that.
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Jun 28
NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal.

New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve_news
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Johnson is now in the frame for breaching for the same parliamentary rules as Farage by accepting a gift from the same donor.

Report for @TheNewsAgents from me & @CharlieNotOld
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Harborne provided his private jet & pilot to Johnson in Jan 2023, after he’d resigned as PM but when still an MP.

There is no record of the gift in Johnson’s Register of Members Interests.
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Jun 15
A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! WtafImage
It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence
against PM.
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The stakes couldn’t be any higher. And I was already gripped by the incredible detail of what BBC uncovered - & which apparently Met police had missed - when Sergei Nalobin suddenly enters the chat..as a tutor to the guy who directed entire UK sabotage operation. Image
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May 23
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve_news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts.

A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Nigel Farage’s crypto announcements.

And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift.

By @charlienotold & @LuciaOC_
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Nigel Farage’s crypto enthusiasm took off 2 months after Harbourne’s £5m gift…& escalated from there.

And in lockstep with an increasing number of donations from crypto billionaire Harbourne.

But that’s not all…
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thenerve.news/p/investigatio…
The Nerve’s @CharlieNotOld then went back & examined Harbourne’s donations to Boris Johnson…& guess what?!

It’s the exact same pattern as Farage.

Harbourne’s crypto donations immediately preceded Johnson’s crypto policy announcements.
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Apr 26
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door.

A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption.
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Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS…& won multimillion £ contracts with both, a pattern repeated across the UK govt.
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The Palantir pipeline also includes 4 members of the House of Lords, the ex head of MI6, 2 generals & a former chief adviser to the PM.
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