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Peter Jukes
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Dramatist wrenched out of fiction 10 years ago by the fierce urgency of fact (& Murdoch crimes). Co founder @Byline_Media @BylineFest @BylineTimes - myself here
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Dec 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Don’t let Mone distract you from the much much bigger scandal

Quick thread - but for dozens more articles on this check out @BylineTimes back catalogue on Covid Contracts

+ bylinetimes.com/?s=Covid+Contr…
For example, just one Tory donor getting a massive return
Nov 1, 2023 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
I thought this might be worth a tweet thread with some examples thrown in

The Media, Johnson and Covid: ‘An Orgy of Narcissism’ that Killed Thousands 1/23

bylinetimes.com/2023/11/01/the… I was still ill from an early dose of COVID-19, vitiated by a fever, strange dreams and a constant popping sound in my head when I was interviewed by @PoliticsJOE_UK in mid-April 2020 about a speech Boris Johnson had made two months earlier. 2/23
Jun 27, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It's actually worse. Lebedev was part of Russian Govt's “Open Crimea: By Own Eyes” International Media Forum in 2017.

Working for occupying govt. Hiding in plain sight

https://t.co/1ZhXb4SU2m https://t.co/eQz3wfDgtW

Lebedev was more than just a hotel owner after the annexation of Crimea - he was initiated this event and is described as chair of the Board of Directors of the National Reserve Corporation, aswell as publisher of The Independent and The London Evening Standard Alexander Lebedev.
Mar 1, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Brief thread on the scandal the other papers won't tell you - Hancock, Osborne and the hundreds of millions in subsidies to the British Press bylinetimes.com/2023/03/01/fro… Leaked WhatsApp messages between Matt Hancock and George Osborne have revealed he asked the then Editor of the Evening Standard to run a favourable front page story on COVID testing as the lack of uptake was “hard for my target” as Health Secretary.
Feb 17, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Quick 🧵 on Taking Sides in Journalism as the anniversary of Putin's full invasion of Ukraine looms
bylinetimes.com/2023/02/17/tak… ‘You’re taking sides,’ they say. ‘You’ve swallowed Nato propaganda’ or you’re like ‘the journalists ­hugging Zelensky’. These are some of the negative comments Byline Times has received over our year of covering the full Russian ­invasion of Ukraine.
Nov 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Wow. A bestseller two days after launch! Thanks to our fantastic supporters and stellar Byline Supplement team - @Hardeep_Matharu @AdamBienkov @Heidi_Cuda @MattBernardini7 Rachel Kerr.

Below I'll explain how Byline Supplement differs from newssite and print edition While bylinetimes.com is a daily news site,and the print edition is a monthly newspaper, we felt we needed something more like a weekly magazine for a more reflective and cultural take.
Aug 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
1/10 Thread. Time for me to tell you about @kennardmatt @declassifiedUK and their journalistic standards. Ever since we took a position on Ukraine, he has wanted me to talk about the British American Project. theguardian.com/world/2004/nov… 2/ Several of @BylineTimes writers work for @declassifiedUK and @NafeezAhmed is on their advisory board. So I have no problem with them. They do excellent work on the hidden secrets of the British security state. But when Matt wanted to talk about BAP, it made sense
Jun 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Spectator has still not correct this arrant misinformation by Douglas Murray. Of course the Russian Embassy offered Banks money - gold and diamond deals - this was never in question, and a lazy, fact-free, ignorant hit job on their site *corrected. But a typo isn’t an outright lie
Jun 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Great conversations here in the EU Parliament. @RoFreudenstein pointing out how Central Europeans are in the justice camp over Ukraine, while people who got Russia wrong for 15 years are in the ‘peace camp’ He says that “27 Blood, Swear and Tears” speeches are needed to explain to EU citizens the costs of withstanding Russian aggression.
Mar 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Thought it bizarre Aaron Bastani marching in to defend Farage. But then again he appears along with George Galloway in the Farage campaign’s Lexit movie, funded by Arron Banks and organised by his press officer Montgomerie Apologies for poor spelling. The Montgomery is Jack Montgomery
Mar 8, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Thread:

Given [Putin’s campaign of espionage and infiltration, designed to cause destruction to Britain’s prestige and international effectiveness, why did the security services or the UK Government fail to counter it? And what was the role of Brexit?

bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/whi… A useful starting point for Putin’s attack on the weak spots of British democracy is the appointment of Alexander Yakovenko to the role of Ambassador to the United Kingdom in January 2011.
Jan 18, 2022 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
New thread. McCormick turns to the email cache.*

*Full disclosure. I was involved in this. McCormick mentions a researcher. Cadwalladr says she obtained them indirectly. The emails were given to Isabel Oakeshott.
Jan 18, 2022 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
New thread. Now onto the violent Leave EU Airplane tweet targeting Cadwalladr. “It felt like a long time to see my face being hit,” she tells the court. She does not recall Banks making an apology for it. Witness statement below Another debate about references in the witness statement and Cadwalladr’s citation of @openDemocracy and another article about Banks’ diamond mines. Witness statement below
Jan 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Back for the final session today of Banks v Cadwalladr. McCormick is resuming his cross examination of Cadwalladr about Banks contact with the Russian embassy betwee Nov 2016, and November 2017 *Between. Now we’re looking at an article Cadwalladr wrote in the Observer about Electoral Commission’s inquiry in November 2017.
Jan 18, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
New thread from Banks v Cadwalladr. Banks’ QC is questioning the Observer journalist about this section of her witness statement. Did she join Banks’ call for a judge led inquiry “I don’t see where you’re going with this, Mr McCormick” says Cadwalladr. “You don’t need to. You need to answer my questions” he retorts.
Jan 18, 2022 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
Back after lunch in the case of Banks v Cadwalladr. The Observer Journalist is being cross examined by Banks’ counsel, William McCormick QC — I’ll 🧵from here 🔽 Cadwalladr is being quizzed over an interview with banks in March 2017 about references to his Russian wife, and her embroilment as a peripheral figure in a spy scandal around an MP
Jan 18, 2022 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Back after a break at Court 13 of the Royal Courts of Justice in the case of Banks v Cadwalladr. William McCormick QC is cross questioning the Observer journalist for Banks “The subject of Russian influence was obviously on my mind” but Cadwalladr but “there was no suggestion of direct Russian money into Brexit, so it was an odd thing to say. The question was answered without me raising it”
Jan 17, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
Gavin Millar asks for more evidence from Arron Banks that he stopped receiving funding from corporate financing because of the TED talk. He says it was a phone call. “It would be wrong for me to say this was the sole reason” clarifies over stopping receiving funding after the TED talk. “It was said the litigation had been flagged” in the due diligence. “They might have taken exception to something else” he concedes
Jan 17, 2022 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
Back to more emails from Cadwalladr to Banks on 23 June 2018 and him using private investigators to target journalists. Cadwalladr also sent an email whether Banks had exchanged text messages from the Russian Ambassador. Millar says Banks didn’t respond to any of these queries but “deflected attention with more allegations”.
Jan 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Back at Banks v Cadwalladr after break. Gavin Millar QC is cross examining Arron Banks over his witness statement. “We had a relatively friendly relationship with Carole (Cadwalladr) but I guess things soured. Arron Banks concedes he approved a notorious Leave EU tweet with Carole being battered based on the Airplane movie. He said “we were only trying to pull her leg”
Jan 17, 2022 • 21 tweets • 3 min read
Now coming to June 2018 in Banks’ evidence in his defamation trial against Carole Cadwalladr. Full disclosure here. I worked with Carole on these stories about undisclosed meetings with the Russian Embassy June 8, 2018, lunchtime: Cadwalladr puts the story to Arron Banks. He forwards it to Andy Wigmore. He forwards it to political journalist at the Sunday Times. Banks never responded substantively to our story