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Feb 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
This is what happened to me for reporting on Russian interference in UK. This wilfulness ignorance continues even on the cusp on war.

Detail after detail about Arron Banks’s r’ship with Russia emerged in my court case. To total silence from every major news org except @guardian
There is a war on information that Putin’s winning. By exploiting the malign incentives of social media, the competitive nature of news orgs & in Britain, the compromising effects of decades of dirty money. A potential war in Europe is just one of results. And maybe not the worst
This is not a joke. And Putin’s malign & corrupting influence in our politics, elections & public life is not joke either. Yet *still* being treated like one. And that’s why lack of curiosity about latest moves by biggest funder of Brexit boggles my mind
A relentless propaganda campaign depicting me as a lone conspiracist, a ‘mad cat woman’, worked. Banks’s legal case seen by many as my just desserts. The astonishing lack of trial coverage of new info - even as Russia prepares invasion - is so revealing

pressgazette.co.uk/bbcs-andrew-ne…
So much of this story is in plain sight. Boris Johnson told us who he is. A man who covered for Putin. That’s what he did when he suppressed both Russia Report & any subsequent investigation. By any strict definition of the word, he is a Russian asset

theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…

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Feb 8
More extraordinary scenes in the High Court involving Arron Banks.

LeaveEU - & its last remaining director, an ex-South African special forces intelligence officer - failed to show up to its own appeal.

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
This is nuts. Even for Banks. Eldon Insurance & LeaveEU brought this appeal against the Information Commissioner. Then didn’t show up.

Also: curious dates. My libel trial ended Jan 21. 5 days later Banks’s solicitors @kingsleynapley ‘came off record’
Mr Jacobus Coetzee, the named director of LeaveEU who failed to show up to court, is an old associate of Arron Banks. On this exciting page of ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ featuring all the greats inc Andrew Neil & the Russian ambassador, he describes him as a ‘South African spook’.
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Feb 5
Vote Leave broke the law. Deliberately & spectacularly.

Met investigation dropped without explanation.

Russia Report revealed grotesque national security failure.

He came to power on a *mandate* of breaking the law. It’s idea we should be shocked by any of this that’s shocking
Facebook in 2016 was a global threat surface.

Elections in Philippines, UK & US attacked by domestic & foreign bad actors.

In Britain, one of these bad actors was the man who’s now PM.

His investment in the cover-up of his own campaign has led to a cascade of catastrophes
The lies are the point. They brought him to power. The entitlement to break the law was baked in. Because that’s what cover-ups do. And that’s what Boris Johnson did.

And it’s why the institutions failed us so spectacularly post-2016: the Met, the NCA, the intelligence services.
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Feb 1
The idea Boris Johnson has the ability, desire or moral leadership to ‘stand up to Vladimir Putin’ is utterly absurd. This is the man who personally suppressed Russia Report, who refuses to investigate foreign interference in our elections & who ennobled the son of a KGB officer
There’s so much absurdity in his speech, but don’t overlook this. Boris Johnson is knee deep in Kremlin cash & everything about the Russia Report was a national security disgrace & disaster.
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theguardian.com/world/2020/jul…
I’m going to re-cap why @allthecitizens with 6 cross-party MPs & peers, @BenPBradshaw @RhonddaBryant @CarolineLucas @StewartMcDonald @LordStras & @PJWheatcroft took legal challenge against PM over his refusal to investigate Russian interference.

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Jan 30
This is Hannah. My amazing, beautiful, STRONG stepdaughter.

I’ve taken on power. And what’s happened to me is result of that choice. But for some women - like Hannah - there’s no choice. This 🧵= little bit of how she was targeted, hacked, stalked. And came back stronger.
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Hannah was harassed over months & years. The Met police refused to take seriously. Refused to investigate. They finally did when they appeared to acknowledged there was a risk to life. Her stalker was stopped & detained at Heathrow. And then let go.
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In 2018, Hannah learned that her friend from school, Alice Ruggles, had also been stalked. She’d also reported it to the police. She’d also not been believed. And then she was murdered.
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Jan 23
I have been through a trauma. And I need to speak publicly about it. About why this lawsuit sent me to such a dark place. And why the pursuit of individuals outside their news orgs is barbaric, cruel & a threat to all journalism

This is where it began. Nov 2017 with this video
This was 2 weeks after first Mueller indictment showed Trump-Russia investigation began in London & referenced Russian ambassador. And one day after Theresa May made a landmark speech about threat from Russia: ‘Russia, we see what you are doing’

This is how LeaveEU responded. Image
This is how I responded at time. I found it extraordinary LeaveEU was retweeting Russian Embassy’s attacks on MPs & journalists -
@BenPBradshaw @RhonddaBryant @hugorifkind & I all tagged in.

But it was only me - the sole woman - who was singled out for the punishment beating Image
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Jan 22
It’s an obscenity that the machinery of the British legal system can be used to target & harass journalists. This has to stop. I am profoundly grateful to Gavin Millar QC for setting out the legal & moral case for why we must defend public interest journalism.

And I survived 🙏
I wasn’t on trial for my life. But I was. My professional reputation, my career, potentially my home. I survived because I had to. And because I was lifted & supported by so many others who understood this was about something much bigger than me. And that I couldn’t do it alone.
What happens next is up to the judge. The verdict won’t be for weeks. But no-one who witnessed what happened in court can be in any doubt that this was about more than 23 words. The entire process was designed to punish, shame & humiliate me.
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