Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

God. Since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social left it, even the @theguardian.com gets it wrong. There weren’t just four meetings between Banks/Leave EU and Kremlin officials during Brexit: the judge in the libel case concluded at least a dozen

Since UKIP & the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage has relied on Russian bots to amplify social media support, but, oh dear ... "Reform UK supporting accounts have almost gone silent after Ukraine hit a few of Russia’s big data centres" via Karen Maunder

Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.

Peter Stefanovic@peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9h ago

"I think the majority of people in Britain know that leaving the EU was a mistake" Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Comittee, Dame Emily Thornberry MP, says she wants the next Labour manifesto to include rejoining the EU, but "we need to discuss" if it should also call for freedom of movement

Much of the coverage today is absolutely nuts. The facts are on Wikipedia. The full Intelligence and Security Committee (Russia) Report is online. Tory media & politicians once again banking on their average consumer/voter being too daft/busy/blinkered to notice...

Arthur Snell@snellarthur.bsky.social · yesterday

British Conservatives: "Russia has disgracefully interfered in politics in France, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Moldova, Romania and invaded Ukraine. They even meddled in the US elections." Also British Conservatives: "What? Russia! Interfere in Brexit? Ridiculous! Just a tired old conspiracy theory."

Andy Burnham has confirmed what @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warned about for years: Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. She was right to keep asking questions while governments looked away.

The BBC is already giving Nigel Farage coverage for a speech he hasn’t even delivered. Report on what he says tomorrow, by all means. But previewing it now gives him free publicity and lets him set the agenda before anyone can scrutinise his words.

🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...

UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues

Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’

ft.com

Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...

Just catching up with @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social from 8th October. Such serious topics, but genuinely laugh-out-loud delivery. Great work, lads!

@americanfric.bsky.social Just needed to say, I totally got the "tie up and hit someone" analogy.👍 I'm, very much, looking forward to the next episode, after this week... Keep up the great work (and the swearing)! @jacobjarvis.bsky.social @nikkimcr.bsky.social @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

bbc.com

@nndroid.bsky.social Seen this? youtu.be/-iNq1vLIEdo?...

Craig Charles debuts his brand new poem, Liverpool Rocks

YouTube video by BBC Radio 6 Music

youtu.be

Hmm 🤔

Seriously. What is there to "consider"? Just fucking do it! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Bosses of three firms that supply trains to UK railways made £3.5m last year

Rolling stock companies, which also paid out nearly £400m to shareholders, accused of profiting at passengers’ expense

theguardian.com

Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊

Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

bestforbritain.org

I checked my flipping phone so many flipping times waiting for the latest @americanfric.bsky.social to drop. It was flipping good - especially @nikkimcr.bsky.social , who was fucking brilliant, as usual! @jacobjarvis.bsky.social @chrisjonesprod.bsky.social

Headline writers saying Putin "warned the West against escalation" should stop helping the russian dictator manipulate the narrative. He started the war. If he attacks more European countries, he'll be escalating. The West hasn't matched his escalation, let alone ever escalated.

This is what a confident Government does - engages with civil society in a meaningful way www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

No 10 gathering evidence on public support for rejoining the EU

Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit

theguardian.com

Opinion | "Things which were once thought impossible now feel entirely plausible," writes Ian Dunt #RejoinEU #JoinEU

People are saying Pedro Sanchez might drive all the Landlords out of Spain with his rent freezes. Oh no! What will they do then? Live in affordable houses without being ripped off. So terrible.

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.

Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.

So true !!! 💻 Check out this great Norwegian video about how shitty the internet has become 😅

France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK

France says EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ law should not include the UK

‘If you’re not in the internal market, you don’t get the same protection,’ says French minister of policy designed to curb Chinese competition France is leading a push to exclude the UK from the EU’s “Made in Europe” policy that could result in British companies losing out in the race to supply European countries with low-carbon technologies and electric cars. The plans were raised by Andy Burnham when he met the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly earlier this week. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Basingstoke police station.

⚠️ Brexit has left us poorer and more isolated on the world stage. 💪 Burnham must go for EU membership. Not only will it deliver £92bn to our economy but will restore our standing in the world.

Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband

Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage

independent.co.uk

Goodness me! It's a wonder she can breath at all, after tying herself in knots to this extent...