Howard Aiken #FBPE
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Blogger, writer, proud dad, pro-EU, admirer of joined-up thinking. Views are my own.
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Joined November 2008
Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty & this tweet has been doing rounds today. Now imagine my investigation into Russian interference hadn’t been crushed by lawfare, my news org had doubled down & carried on & govt had opened an inquiry as MPs demanded. 😢
Former Brexit Party MEP, Nathan Gill has been arrested for taking ‘Russian-linked bribes’ from Oleg Voloshyn. Here’s Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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So the world isn’t completely nuts yet.
In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to
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This is a brilliant rebuttal to @ZiaYusufUK's pathetic attempts to cover up Reform and @Nigel_Farage's fascist ideology and policies. Thank you @ZackPolanski 👏🏼 #bbcqt
Zack Polanski, "I'm Jewish, and the reason why that's relevant is because I'm one of five Jewish people to lead a political party in the last 100 years" "So I take antisemitism really seriously" "In the same way, I take Islamophobia really seriously" "Because I recognise when
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Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people" "Inequality in our society is absolutely huge" "There will be people who go to sleep tonight who can make more money than any of us can earn in an entire year" "We need to be
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Polanski is on a jet propelled rocket to the very top. He's a rock star of a politician and he's giving people hope at a time when we've long been starved of it He's making us remember what it is to be hopeful. It's been way too long Cometh the hour, cometh the man 💚
Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people" "Inequality in our society is absolutely huge" "There will be people who go to sleep tonight who can make more money than any of us can earn in an entire year" "We need to be
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When will #gmb #BBCBreakfast #r4today #jeremyvine #lbc #bbcqt #bbclaurak @bbcpolitics #gbnews be discussing this? @Ofcom @lisanandy
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“How do you expect people to integrate if you’ve taken away their services?” The Green Party’s Zack Polanski says people are “angry”, blaming austerity and calling for politicians to make “different political choices” & speak in a “positive” way about migration #bbcqt
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What a breath of fresh air @ZackPolanski is Thousands are joining @TheGreenParty I can see why.
Zack Polanski, "The four wealthiest people in this country have more wealth than 20 million people" "Inequality in our society is absolutely huge" "There will be people who go to sleep tonight who can make more money than any of us can earn in an entire year" "We need to be
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“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?” Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
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Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight! You heard it several times (including even from Reform!): @TheGreenParty are surging. Join us: https://t.co/Q27Jy5fuX7
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Three bits of extra reading for anyone who watched Zack ask Reform about their Russia ties on Question Time: 1) Last summer, an investigation by ABC and AI Forensics uncovered a coordinated network of fake Facebook pages run out of Nigeria. These pages were tied back to the
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Zack’s clip calling out anti immigration rhetoric vs Zia moaning about immigrants has 370k views vs 55k Are people getting bored of reforms migrant shtick? @bbcquestiontime
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Has Labour woken up? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analysing how Starmer’s Labour seems to be taking a firmer line with Reform and Brexitism, rattling Farage, but many ambiguities and contradictions remain: https://t.co/xnUdoOvbyq
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EXCL: The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by HMRC amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities @Annaisaac reports https://t.co/3UO1id1K6c
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Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth
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And so it begins…
NEW: Allies of Robert Jenrick are collecting no confidence letters from Conservative MPs calling for party leader Kemi Badenoch to quit, The i Paper has been told. https://t.co/mNBCYDRFTQ
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Two companies of the same name? Unsurprisingly, Cambridge Analytica did the same thing, a UK company and another in Delaware with Steve Bannon acting as VP. We never did find out how they managed to send more money back to the UK than they turned over or what for???
Douglas Barrowman and Michelle Mone's company, PPE Medpro, has just been ordered to refund the Government £122m from a PPE contract. There are two very odd things about PPE Medpro that may affect the odds of the Government ever getting that £122m... Thread:
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Thanks @pressgazette for this report on @thenerve_news first week. We’ve blasted past through our targets. New newsletter out today so please do sign up https://t.co/rLGCufIjwu & a huge thank you to everyone who’s supported us so far! 🙏🙏 🙏
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NEW: The Nerve @thenerve_news, the new publication launched by former Observer journalists including @carolecadwalla, has attracted more than 900 paying subscribers in its first week https://t.co/upNFthEVlH
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🔴NEW🔴 We reveal that during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12 https://t.co/vExmBdcF5c
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Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the...
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