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  NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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  NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com@bsky.brid.gy over this 2023 article 👇 1/

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  NEW: The Abramovich connection. How convicted money launderer George Cottrell - & close aide to Nigel Farage - ‘signed documents’ for one of Putin’s closest allies. My latest for @thenerve.news@bsky.brid.gy 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot... Farage, George Cottrell and Pu...

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  Big new story from @annaisaac.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother before she made Reform & Tice donations. The even bigger question now is where did Cottrell’s money come from? And this is where I think a very big problem lies.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Revealed: George Cottrell tran...

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  NEW: Why would Nigel Farage & George Cottrell share the same lawyer? In @thenerve_news we revealed that the Reform donor under investigation by the NCA & the Reform leader under investigation by Parliamentary Standards share the same Carter Ruck lawyers. Why? 1/l

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  If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/post/3mqydi7yohc2n

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  Here’s a funny thing. I’ve just found a tweet from Jan 2020 asking what quid pro quo was for these peerages? In Part 2 of our series #HarborneReceipts Rupert Lowe alleges Tories offered them to Farage as part of a deal. Farage said he turned the deal down. But did he? RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b7kamuwqipovlbz2l5vhe2tb/post/3mo646ynbz22p

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  NEW: The story behind a silencing. Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn Williams is trapped in a parallel private justice system. I've written about what it tells us about the "post-state" future, a cryptolibertarian dream that's close than we realise. open.substack.com/pub/broligar... Silenced

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  NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news@bsky.brid.gy. 🔗 below 1/

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  This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.

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  Well this was fun. Did the BBC’s ‘Strong Message Here’ with Stewart Lee & Armando Ianucci & got to slag off incoming BBC Director General/tech bro, Matt Brittin 😂 Oh & snuck in an Andrew Neil drive-by too just for the hell of it 🎯 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Strong Message Here - Technolo...

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  The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran. RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k5nskatzhyxersjilvtnz4lh/post/3mgbsl73uum2k

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  The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/ RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b7kamuwqipovlbz2l5vhe2tb/post/3mkf3bl6eys2v

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  NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar... Journalists of the world, unit...

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  NEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news@bsky.brid.gy has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️

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  Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/