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Mar 29 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: It is absolutely NUTS given what’s happening but Johnson is STILL refusing to investigate Russian interference. We at @allthecitizens + 5 MPs/peers believe this is a fundamental breach of our human rights. So it’s going Strasbourg.👊👊👊
theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/2…
Kudos to @BenPBradshaw @CarolineLucas @LordStras @AlynSmith & @PJWheatcroft. A cross party group fighting this for 2 years already. See this new film for a full explainer. The #RussiaReport found a gaping hole at heart of our national security. And European court only option left
Thank you to Tessa Gregory, @notnottom & team at @LeighDay_Law. This will be a slow, laborious process but as @JamieGrierson explains here, they believe govt isn’t just denying the obvious, it’s also in breach of European convention of human rights. Image
Thanks also to everyone who’s contributed so far. This is the UK govt denying the existence of Russian hybrid warfare even after a chemical weapon was used on a British street. It is an extreme step but we believe it is endangering us & our democracy.

gofundme.com/f/legal-action…

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Mar 31
One month before Russia invaded Ukraine, I stood trial at the High Court. And now I wait, in purgatory, to be judged.

But I believe this trial and the silence around it - & all the Kremlin's men - has revealed something profoundly rotten at the heart of the British state.
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The case rests on a single question: was it in the public interest for me, a journalist, to speak about a years-long investigation into Russian interference?

That's what the High Court heard, in a £2m trial against a single journalist, on eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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And the trial, itself, revealed new details of the relationship between the Russian govt & Brexit's biggest funder.

Details that went entirely unreported.

Besides Guardian, there was not a peep from a single mainstream outlet.
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Mar 22
Imagine a weird small island on outlying fringes of the continental landmass. Its ruling party has been infiltrated by Russian interests.

It recently changed its constitution after populists won a poll that election officials say was tainted & corrupt.

And this man paid for it
As fighting across Europe intensifies, the riverside capital remains calm.

State-run media refuses to confirm or deny that the supreme leader covertly met Kremlin officials at a drug-laced ‘bonga bonga’ party.

However, cracks are now starting to emerge in pro govt news outlets
(With apologies to @gathara. Patrick help me out here.)
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Mar 20
Very proud to have been part of this tonight. @frontlineclub projected the Ukrainian flag onto the Russian embassy in London tonight to support the work of independent journalists reporting from Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
All journalists reporting from Ukraine are doing vital work. Without them, Putin’s lies will win. But freelance journalists do this work without the support of a news organisation. And whole purpose of @frontlineclub is to try & keep them safe.

gofundme.com/f/frontline-uk…
I didn’t get a clear shot but no-one understands this better than @waadalkateab. She’s the amazing filmmaker who documented destruction of her city, Aleppo. ‘It’s not a war,’ she said ‘It’s mass murder.’ Standing here with picture of killed journalist, Oleksandra Kushynova
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Mar 20
This is so bizarre. This week’s @bbc Media Show asks ‘Why are Russian oligarchs only now in the spotlight?’

& ‘Why is it only now that the mainstream press has put the oligarchs in the spotlight?’

WHAT?!? We at @guardian & @ObserverUK did. The problem is @bbc NEVER followed up
This, I believe, is what is known as ‘gaslighting’.

@lukeharding1968 & @skirchy & @JulietteGarside & @nickhopkinsnews & @TownsendMark & I & many more have been filing these stories over years. The problem has not been ‘the press’, it’s been the national broadcaster
It is extraordinary for eg how BBC failed to cover this @ObserverUK. Boris Johnson met Lebedev snr, an ex colonel with the KGB, in November 2019.

It is wildly misleading of BBC to claim ‘mainstream press’ didn’t cover these stories. We did! @bbc didn’t

theguardian.com/media/2019/nov…
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Mar 20
Saturday, March 19, 2022. MasterInvestor conference, London.

Jim Mellon, LeaveEU donor, & ex-business partner of Arron Banks delivers his view on financial outlook post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.”
I’ve just deleted a thread on Jim Mellon because I want to first explain the difficulties we face reporting on public interest subjects in the UK.

Jim Mellon is a case in point.

In 2018, Mr Mellon sent legal letters to @ObserverUK, @nytimes, @thesundaytimes @nymag & me
The background is the stash of emails between Arron Banks & the Russian ambassador that @peterjukes & I reported on in June 2018.

It is this reporting that led to £1m+ libel suit Arron Banks has brought against me & for which I’m awaiting judgment.

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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Mar 18
Britain has a Russia problem. And his name is Nigel Farage.

Today, Ofcom finally banned RT. 8 long years after Russia illegally invaded Crimea.

But this is their man. RT - whose editor described it as a "weapon" of the Russian state - is what made Farage into who is today.
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RT is not just a TV channel. It's at centre of a whole ecosystem of Kremlin propaganda. Clips uploaded to YouTube were laced between mesmerising videos of tsunamis & tornadoes.

It was clickbait wizardry.

As ex-YouTuber @gchaslot told me no-one milked YouTube's algo like RT.
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And who was RT's favourite man in the West?

This man. It's not just that Farage was paid by RT - the Russian state - for appearances over years. Though he was.

It's that RT - the biggest news channel on YouTube - made him a star.
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