One detail in this fascinating BBC investigation into the Russia-instigated attack on Keir Starmer's home is the way it shows, in passing but very clearly, that Tommy Robinson is to all intents and purposes a Russian asset.
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Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
Evidence shows Russians directing the plot and stoking tensions with fake far-right and Muslim groups.www.bbc.co.uk
13 Farage rioters in Southampton sentenced to jail so far
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I wish the BBC would adopt a consistent assessment of the damage that Brexit has done. On BBC Radio 4’s Any Questions on Friday presenter Alex Forsyth said that the effect was “contested” but it was generally accepted to have caused some harm. As this article shows, it’s much much worse than that.
Mark Chadbourn
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Oh my lord! I want to curate such an exhibition! I probably already have more jerseys.
I wish - and that goes out to every single #media outlet - that when you report about Trump announcing a peace deal, you would mention this is the 39th time he does so, and what's being agreed to (or not even that) is a memorandum of understanding to start peace talks, not peace talks themselves.
Joni Mitchell and David Hockney at the L.A. Louver gallery in Los Angeles, Photo Credit Jacob Sousa, via L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, February 13, 2019.
What could a nazi-quoting, fascist, racist, misogyinist, anti-immigrant, anti-rights, anti-American purveyor of hate and lies possibly say to upset so many of Trump's loyalist puppets? Frigtening to imagine.
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The latest revelations about the scale & audacity of Russian attacks and covert interference in British politics, underline once again that their various forms of support for Brexit (money, bots, agents) may have tipped the balance in the 2016 referendum
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Peter Walker
For the record, the 2 men convicted were not sex workers. One was a construction worker and the other was a student working part-time in a hotel, and sometimes for his dad's construction firm
The fires were tasked by an anonymous Russian-speaking Telegram account working to stoke division in the UK
