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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Why does this matter? This 2017 congressional testimony from @selectedwisdom is one of the best explainers of how Russian ‘active measures’ work. And how politicians help the Kremlin achieve its goals

That was 5 years ago & start of US investigation into Russia’s attack on its election. In Britain, we know domestic actors subverted our laws. We know they don’t work any more. But as @IanCLucas says here, we’ve had zero investigation into foreign interference. Zero new laws.
Meanwhile, this damming damning statement from the Electoral Commission today. Johnson government intends to rip apart its dependence & put it under political control
So to the lefties & progressives who find this all very 2016, tell that to the Ukrainians. Prepare for a reality in which we’ve giving up even trying to have free & fair elections. And that however bad you think it already is, Silicon Valley is going to make it awful lot worse

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Feb 22
Out all day so just catching up with sweeping no-holds-barred sanctions Johnson promised if Russia invaded. Three people sanctioned. THREE! And doesn’t even include oligarch US authorities named as subverting global elections - aka @George_Osborne’s boss

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
We need to talk about Roman Abramovich. But first we need to talk about Oleg Deripaska.

He’s been major player in UK for more than a decade, he employs a lord & former Chancellor of Exchequer. And - according to Senate Intel Report - he subverts elections
Remember. There’s been zero - ZERO - investigation into Russian interference in UK because as we now know, the govt ‘actively avoided’ looking.

So these US reports are closest we get. That & work by UK journalists - half of whom are being sued for undertaking this work.
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Feb 21
Can you see it now? Image
A lot has been said about the cost to me of Arron Banks’s libel suit. But this is an optical trick. Because it’s not to do with me. It’s all about him. About why he’s spent £1m to shut my reporting down. And why he’s so bothered about my 23 words? When his own are so much worse
Update. ‘But’ Image
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Feb 19
“If Ukraine is invaded, the shock will echo around the world” If Boris Johnson thinks Russian aggression is a “shock”, it’s because he suppressed Intelligence & Security Committee’s report on Russian interference & refused to act on its recommendations

In 2016, he blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the EU. He went on to use it as an argument for Britain to leave the European Union
inews.co.uk/news/uk/boris-…
In 2018, after the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, NATO called an urgency summit to discuss Russian sanctions. Johnson left it, skipped his security detail & flew to Italy where he met an ex-KGB officer whose son he later ennobled

theguardian.com/media/2019/nov…
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Feb 13
Yay! Finally a trend we need. Knuckledusters are now a THING. The amazing Hannah designed these after seeing off a stalker. I wore them to do battle in the High Court. Today featured in @thesundaytimes. For women who punch up…
thetimes.co.uk/article/bold-i…
Hannah kitted out not just me but a whole battalion of my female friends who came to court. Back story here…
Oh blimey. For the people commenting on wearing an offensive weapon. They’re a talisman. Not *actual* knuckledusters. Story by @louise_eccles. ImageImageImage
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Feb 12
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
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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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