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Brexit should clearly be part of the Russian interference enquiry. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Brexit should clearly be part of the Russian interference enquiry. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
They need to get all the taxpayers money back - someone still has it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
PPE company linked to ex-Tory peer Michelle Mone goes into liquidation
PPE Medpro owes government £148m for supplying unusable personal protective equipment during Covid-19 pandemic
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
They need to get all the taxpayers money back - someone still has it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Russia threatening legal action and ‘damages’ for sequestration of their assets is all part of their asymmetric hybrid war.
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
They use Western legal systems, when they have no rule of law, just as they call for free speech while killing journalists and imprisoning protestors
"[Dictators] cannot cope with the most powerful truth of democracy – that it outlives every tyrant who tries to prove it is a lie." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Putin thinks democracy is the west’s weakness. We have to prove him wrong | Rafael Behr
The Russian strategy of exporting chaos to provoke extremism only works if liberals succumb to cynicism and despair, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"[Dictators] cannot cope with the most powerful truth of democracy – that it outlives every tyrant who tries to prove it is a lie." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer needs to move towards undoing Brexit or let someone else show leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A warning for Keir Starmer: Brexit is falling apart, but if you are not bold on Europe, your Labour rivals will be | Tom Baldwin
Leave support is falling. That’s an opportunity the PM should seize before pro-Europe challengers for the Labour leadership do, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer, The Biography
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Starmer needs to move towards undoing Brexit or let someone else show leadership. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Magas treat liberal democracy allies as their enemy, rather than Russia which is conducting hybrid warfare against the West. The consistency with which everything they do weakens the USA and the West, suggests it's planned. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Magas treat liberal democracy allies as their enemy, rather than Russia which is conducting hybrid warfare against the West. The consistency with which everything they do weakens the USA and the West, suggests it's planned. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Keir Starmer's Labour now also refusing to investigate Russian interference in Brexit
And also spinning the lie that there was no foreign interference, even though the Russia Report showed that the government didn't look for foreign interference
Labour just as disgusting as the Conservatives
And also spinning the lie that there was no foreign interference, even though the Russia Report showed that the government didn't look for foreign interference
Labour just as disgusting as the Conservatives
December 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Keir Starmer's Labour now also refusing to investigate Russian interference in Brexit
And also spinning the lie that there was no foreign interference, even though the Russia Report showed that the government didn't look for foreign interference
Labour just as disgusting as the Conservatives
And also spinning the lie that there was no foreign interference, even though the Russia Report showed that the government didn't look for foreign interference
Labour just as disgusting as the Conservatives
So "free speech" for Trumpists means attacking those exposing fascist disinformation (i.e. lies) ? Exposing lies without being attacked is true free speech - unlike what exists in Russia, China, and now the USA. www.fastcompany.com/91459921/vis...
www.fastcompany.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So "free speech" for Trumpists means attacking those exposing fascist disinformation (i.e. lies) ? Exposing lies without being attacked is true free speech - unlike what exists in Russia, China, and now the USA. www.fastcompany.com/91459921/vis...
About time, but conveniently avoids "the impact of Russian disinformation on the 2016 referendum ". As the previous Russia report is still redacted, the only conclusion must be that Russia DID interfere in Brexit and our governments are covering it up. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to hold inquiry into foreign financial interference in domestic politics
Review, which will focus on effectiveness of political finance laws, follows conviction of former Reform politician for accepting bribes
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
About time, but conveniently avoids "the impact of Russian disinformation on the 2016 referendum ". As the previous Russia report is still redacted, the only conclusion must be that Russia DID interfere in Brexit and our governments are covering it up. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Trump doubles down on disgusting Rob Reiner attacks: "I wasn't a fan of his at all, he was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. The Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it, a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome, he was very bad for our country."
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Trump doubles down on disgusting Rob Reiner attacks: "I wasn't a fan of his at all, he was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned. The Russia hoax, he was one of the people behind it, a deranged person, Trump Derangement Syndrome, he was very bad for our country."
Trump can't be trusted to stick to any deals. The UK must stop appeasing him and move back closer to Europe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump can't be trusted to stick to any deals. The UK must stop appeasing him and move back closer to Europe. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowledge...
www.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
None of this is new. Has MI5 / MI6 been taking Russian hybrid warfare seriously enough for the last 10 years, including interference in UK politics ? If they have, it seems to have been largely ineffective. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘The frontline is everywhere’: new MI6 head to warn of growing Russian threat
Blaise Metreweli expected to say UK faces new ‘age of uncertainty’ in speech identifying Kremlin as key threat
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
None of this is new. Has MI5 / MI6 been taking Russian hybrid warfare seriously enough for the last 10 years, including interference in UK politics ? If they have, it seems to have been largely ineffective. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
