Now Andy Burnham has confirmed Russian interference in the EU referendum, we need to find out why this was allowed to happen and who instructed the NCA to make a decision that effectively drove a coach and horses through legislation allegedly designed to protect our democracy…

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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said the UK is "clear" there was Russian interference in the Brexit referendum

Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote as he reveals UK authorities told him it was ‘clear’ that Moscow influenced the vote… apple.news/A7b3AXKxHRjO...

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote — The Observer

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him it was ‘clear’ that Moscow influenced the vote

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Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote as he reveals UK authorities told him it was ‘clear’ that Moscow influenced the vote… apple.news/A7b3AXKxHRjO...

From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote — The Observer

The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him it was ‘clear’ that Moscow influenced the vote

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Goebbels set up a propaganda operation in which journalists were recruited/employed to produce, coordinate and influence news…

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 5d ago

Reform UK is hiring at least 12 journalists to build a "national publishing operation" including a digital newsroom and expanded video output via Reform TV on Youtube pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...

BREAKING: Brexiters and their press still as thick as a submarine door as they wonder why Britain is cut out of European diesel crisis talks as EU countries meet to discuss a proposal drawn up by Macron to release 50 million barrels of diesel and 50 million of crude oil. apple.news/AgnNqtZ2dTaC...

Britain cut out of European diesel crisis talks — The Telegraph

UK’s exclusion from a potential Trump-EU deal risks leaving it reliant on its own meagre fuel stockpile

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“Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years”

Workers party Reform UK thinktank calls for the state pension to be scrapped and £75bn of tax cuts for wealthy Britons including the abolition of stamp duty, inheritance and capital gains tax alongside public spending cuts and relaxation of bank rules. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thinktank linked to Reform UK calls for abolition of state pension

‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxes

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Trump’s administration sowing doubt in the integrity of US elections stoking expectations he could move to exert greater control over November’s midterm elections and could declare a state of emergency on national security grounds to “protect” elections. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust

President’s speech, declassification of documents and heightened claims of noncitizen voting have experts concerned

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A new BMJ Analysis finds a UK-US trade deal could cost the NHS a potential £45bn in drug spending and nearly 300 000 excess deaths in 10 years. The deal sacrifices UK health and wealth, contrary to the rhetoric of government ministers, says @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

£45bn and 300 000 deaths: the UK’s anniversary gift to the US

Two hundred and fifty years after liberation from British colonialism, the United States is co-hosting the football World Cup. The US might even win it for the first time—although France, its former a...

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10 years on from Brexit, there are still no rules to stop lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to prevent ads like the Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. 37 MPs have so far! It takes 30 seconds 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...

With nitrogen-based fertiliser prices still around 70% above their 2024 average, the EU is considering stockpiling supplies and ramping up production, as conflict in the Middle East drives up pressure on farmers and threatens higher food prices across. www.ft.com/content/6414...

EU explores fertiliser stockpiling as food crisis looms

Supplies of crop nutrients have been disrupted by Middle East war

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As British farmers look with envy at the terms of the EU's deal unveiled on Tuesday, a former minister admits that Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. www.politico.eu/article/ange...

Brexit Britain’s farmers eye EU-Australia trade deal with envy

The U.K. beef industry is still furious that London didn’t take a harder line in its talks with Canberra.

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In a blow to Farage’s Reform UK, a government review recommends political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked and also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked in blow to Reform UK

Government review also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year

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11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump." This is epic really

Same old same old, Reform using third party to turn opaque crypto transactions into cash and hide donors, Electoral Commission confirm that they are limited in the information they can obtain from crypto providers that are based overseas. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited, his gamble has failed and America's allies will pay for it. apple.news/AhXhSCfIrQRa...

Trump's Iran gamble has failed - and America's allies will pay for it — The i Paper

Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited

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Telegraph Journalist, “Mr President, are you disappointed with Keir Starmer?” President, who has no legal justification or legal authority to wage what he has described as a war, “Yeah” Telegraph “Exclusive: Trump – I’m ‘very disappointed’ in Starmer over Iran” See how it works?

Weird Reform’s post-match analysis of Gorton & Denton was that they lost due to an “Islamo-communist alliance in which hardline Muslim patriarchs supposedly forced wives to back a female atheist and a gay Jew.” That works on Twitter, not in the real world. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Reform UK is too weird to win

From Matthew Goodwin to Restore Britain, the online right isn’t radical – it’s cringe

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Iran’s peace was within reach, but, rather than allowing diplomacy to conclude, the US and Israel attacked Iran when, as revealed by Oman’s foreign minister, a principles agreement could have been signed within days. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

US and Israel attacked Iran when peace was within reach

What might have remained a contained nuclear dispute now risks expanding into a wider geopolitical confrontation, Bamo Nouri writes

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After 15 years hard work, and initial funding from the European Development Fund - when the UK had access to when it was part of the EU - the UK's first geothermal power plant has been turned on to meet the electricity needs of up to 10,000 homes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Earth's heat to produce electricity for homes in UK clean energy first

Water super-heated by rocks will also provide the UK's first domestic supply of the critical mineral lithium.

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Farage’s stupid stunts fit a familiar pattern. His allies in Germany’s AfD — courting disaffected working-class voters — are rallying at a notorious Nazi site and their leader fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany.” Ring any bells? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The AfD is flirting with Nazi history – but moral outrage alone won’t stop the far right | Katja Hoyer

Coincidence or not, the party has timed its congress for the centenary of an infamous Nazi rally. But condemnation didn’t stop Hitler, and it’s not enough now, says historian and journalist Katja Hoye...

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On this sixth anniversary of Brexit, take a moment to reflect on how much better off Britain is — as explained here by Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, ennobled for his role in delivering what has been described as “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done”

Slovakia’s prime minister and Trump ally, Robert Fico, is worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president and has privately told European leaders that he fears the US president is ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Trump ally worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president

Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, said to have expressed fears US president ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit

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Listening to head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli’s words makes you realise just how asleep at the wheel British politicians have been over Brexit, exploitable right-wing populists and all their ‘friends of’ groups…

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 10mo ago

Blaise Metreweli’s remarks follow a series of sabotage incidents in the UK and across Europe that have been attributed to Russia or Russia-linked actors on.ft.com/4iUxWuW

Classy as ever, Trump launches attack on film director, Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife… news.sky.com/story/donald...

Donald Trump launches attack on film director Rob Reiner, found stabbed to death alongside his wife

Donald Trump has launched an extraordinary attack on film director Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death with his wife on Sunday.

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Russia - along with other states - are ‘exporting chaos’. Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information mean that “the frontline is everywhere” in this “age of uncertainty” the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday. 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

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Critics warned the UK–US trade deal was built on loose terms and vague commitments. Now the cost of that ambiguity is emerging, with Washington telling London it is pausing a $40bn technology-related agreement in Trump’s latest shake down. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

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The Times - There are no serious economic papers arguing Brexit has benefited Britain. The ongoing cost for each of us is £3,000. But, as ministers hunt for growth, the evidence suggests restoring frictionless trade with the EU would deliver major gains. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Brexit made us poorer and it’s getting worse

Economists disagree on the detail but it’s clear that barrier-free trade would be a big boost

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Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are "profoundly distressing" and "entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today". news.sky.com/story/politi...

Nigel Farage's former school responds to claims he made racist comments as student

Dulwich College says the allegations are "profoundly distressing". Reform UK say the claims are a "witch hunt".

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All the bastards were there at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mad hatter’s tea party, IDS, Bill Cash, John Redwood and the Bruges lunatics celebrating 75 Brexit benefits including more expensive food and borrowing costs, lower GDP and a £90bn annual loss to the Treasury. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee

Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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