The first arrest has been made in relation to Patriot Platform protests - for a 42-year-old man accused of violent disorder and assaulting a police officer in Portsmouth Hampshire Constabulary says detectives are still reviewing footage and "cross-referencing to identify offences committed"

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Police say they are "ready to use every power at our disposal" against further Patriot Platform protests, following a meeting with the home secretary But complex human rights balancing exercises are still needed to use them - even for those with "obvious malign intent" inews.co.uk/news/no-mask...

Police say they are "ready to use every power at our disposal" against further Patriot Platform protests, following a meeting with the home secretary But complex human rights balancing exercises are still needed to use them - even for those with "obvious malign intent" inews.co.uk/news/no-mask...

No-mask zones and face scanning: Inside the operation to derail small-boats demos

Police have been told they are expected to make full use of their powers to stop protesters wearing face coverings following disturbances in Dover and Portsmouth

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A British man acting on behalf of a Russian proxy allegedly plotted with a contact in Swindon to sabotage a drone manufacturer Joshua Cammidge is accused of acting on instructions from Aiden Minnis, who has been fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine inews.co.uk/news/british...

British 'spy for Russia asked Swindon man to sabotage UK drone factory'

Prosecutors allege that Joshua Cammidge received instructions from Aiden Minnis, a British man fighting for Russia against Ukraine and believed to be linked to the GRU

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The Metropolitan Police is investigating whether Reform UK broke electoral law on foreign donations following a Channel 4 sting Read more: trib.al/IyavjsF

Incidents like this have happened with increasing regularity over the past couple of years, with many triggered by local misinformation about the arrival of non-white people at hotels But it has also happened elsewhere, including a church gathering in a park and a Scout trip to an activity centre

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 3d ago

Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...

Legal eagles on Bluesky - it's been a while since I fully nerded out on public order and I would love your help! I covered Ziegler at the time but is it still the case that protest provides a lawful excuse defence for highway obstruction, and have the police continued arresting for that offence?

I received quite an unusual right of reply response for this story inews.co.uk/news/british...

Bradley Townsend, a 33-year-old joiner from Barnsley, arrived in Moscow in April wanting to volunteer himself for Vladimir Putin's army Within just 10 weeks, he was dead on the Ukrainian battlefield The question is, why did he want to go in the first place? inews.co.uk/news/british...

The two British men luring fighters from England to Putin’s ‘meat-grinder’ war

Ben Stimson and Aiden Minnis helped Bradley Townsend settle in Russia before he became the first Briton to die fighting for Russia's military

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Oil tankers in Russia's 'shadow fleet' are trying to throw off tracking attempts using a variety of tactics to manipulate publicly-available location data That includes swapping identity with other vessels and creating false voyage tracks to avoid the prospect of seizure inews.co.uk/news/imitati...

The imitation game: How Putin's shadow fleet tankers hide in plain sight

Russian vessels transporting sanctioned oil are taking advantage of a decades-old navigation system to evade seizure

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Not that many years since a popular position in right-wing British politics was calling for the police to use significant force to remove protesters blocking roads Of course, that was when environmentalists were doing it

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · last wk.

Masked men dressed uniformly in black blocking a seaport, very normal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I kind of hate myself for asking this but is putting champagne in Guinness actually a thing? Sounds disgusting to me, but then I don't like oysters either, so maybe it's a tax bracket issue

Incredible stuff - on 10 July, Hampshire Police arrested a man at Heathrow Airport who was wanted for violent disorder in the riots after the murder of Henry Nowak When they checked his suitcase, it was packed with £600,000 of cannabis smuggled from Thailand nca-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/southam...

With the imprisonment of Adeel Khan for helping Iranian spy Daniel Khalife sneak out of HMP Wandsworth under a food delivery lorry in 2023, the story of Khalife's espionage and unlikely escape has finally ended Sharing this recap of the original case just for fun www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Daniel Khalife: the spy who blew his own cover – and exposed gaping holes in UK security

When the ex-British army soldier was found guilty last week of passing secrets to Iran, it set off alarm bells over the military’s vulnerability to the threat of infiltration

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Amazing organic combinations of Reform news happening on my X timeline

If tonight's incredible Channel 4 exposé is the first time you've heard of James Orr, let me introduce you It is impossible to overstate how great his influence has been on the right of British politics, for years He chaired this conference in 2023 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The ultra-conservative American radicals infiltrating the Tory party

The National Conservatism Conference, which starred Suella Braverman and Michael Gove this week, was disowned by the Tories only three years ago, Lizzie Dearden writes

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Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been ordered to pay a court almost £22,600 he received in pro-Russian bribes He was jailed for 10.5 years in November for taking payments for speeches in the European Parliament and appearances on pro-Russian media outlets in 2018 and 2019

The threat of a new Russian hybrid attack on the UK is rising, officials and experts fear The use of an explosive drone to target a German airport is a further escalation in tactics against countries supporting Ukraine, and Russia has been openly threatening Britain inews.co.uk/news/explodi...

Exploding pillows and airport chaos - how a Russian attack on the UK could unfold

The threat of an attack on the UK is rising, experts say, as Putin threatens revenge on countries who have supported Ukraine

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Another great day for the Single Justice Procedure, which has seen the Mayor of London wrongly convicted - without a hearing - for not taxing a car he doesn't own The car seems to have been linked to him maliciously - potentially as part of an anti-Ulez campaign www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?

Sir Sadiq Khan convicted for not taxing car he denies owning

City Hall officials say the Nissan Micra does not belong to the mayor or Transport for London.

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EXC: Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion 10 more Labour MPs put their name to a parliamentary motion as Commons returns from summer break inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Mahmood's 'hardline' immigration reforms hit by growing rebellion

More Labour MPs to publicly oppose Home Secretary's changes to indefinite leave to remain

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The people who carried out the arson attacks on the Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green, and the Kenton United Synagogue, have now pleaded guilty But it is far from the end of either case. Prosecutors allege that both attacks have a terrorist connection because they targeted Jews, but 🧵

I'll be taking some time off work from October onwards for a very exciting new personal project The i Paper is hiring a security reporter for maternity cover while I'm away and I can't recommend the role more - details here www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Any coverage of the US designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist group should bear in mind the US Treasury's framing of it as part of "Action Against Violent Far-Left Terrorist Networks" This is a crusade that has been happening for a long time under the current Trump administration

The Conservative abdications to Reform have certainly generated some insight into 2022-2024 decision-making we might not otherwise have had

Exclusive: Police have mounted a national operation to “get ahead” of violence targeting asylum accommodation following riots and attacks It sees the Home Office notify police about new hotels, large sites or HMOs, and enhanced social media monitoring is also underway inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

Inside the operation to stop vigilantes attacking asylum seekers' homes

Police have launched a national operation amid warnings that far-right groups are increasingly able to spark unrest

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Exclusive: Police have mounted a national operation to “get ahead” of violence targeting asylum accommodation following riots and attacks It sees the Home Office notify police about new hotels, large sites or HMOs, and enhanced social media monitoring is also underway inews.co.uk/news/inside-...

Inside the operation to stop vigilantes attacking asylum seekers' homes

Police have launched a national operation amid warnings that far-right groups are increasingly able to spark unrest

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As Russia ramps up threats of revenge towards Britain for its support for Ukraine, a company manufacturing drones that have been used in strikes on Russian territory is planning a major expansion in Salisbury Locals are concerned that the proposed site is not secure inews.co.uk/news/cathedr...

The cathedral city that could be on Putin's radar...again

Located in Wiltshire, a county home to numerous cutting-edge drone firms, lies a medieval city once targeted by Russia

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EXC: UK on brink of migration deal with Belgium to cut small boat crossings inews.co.uk/news/politic...

UK on brink of migration deal with Belgium to cut small boat crossings

The expected deal comes after a spate of smugglers launching so-called “taxi boats” from the country earlier this year

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Interesting ruling on "terrorist connection" - the mechanism used by judges to increase sentences for non-terror offences - in a case over Palestine Action vandalism to a Barclays Bank branch in Burnley A judge found the £200,000 cost of the damage wasn't sufficient to make it "serious" in law

29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!

An employee of the government contractor Serco has been charged with sharing the addresses of asylum HMOs that were targeted by mobs in Thetford Several had their windows smashed and fences broken down as groups of people tried to force their way inside at different locations