Palantir hire the grandson of the leader of the British Union of Fascists and send him out to combat the widespread perception that the company is pure evil

Organising the riots from Moscow, where he'd just been hanging out with a guy who is accused of sexually abusing five of his own children and step-children!

the US fucked up so bad you got footy fans on here defending a referee

Another excellent thread from one of the best lie detectors on this toxic misinformation hellsite

An uncharacteristically non-sensational headline from the Daily Mail. How about: "Have Raise The Flag racked up their first murder?"

Are these pervs and weirdos really the best Farage can come up with?

Good work exposing absurd extreme-right lies. Spoiler: They've been outsourcing creation of their lies to AI!

I am just a voter looking for the truth. Nigel told Beth Rigby the £5 million was for security, then when asked why he did not declare it he said it was a gift. Beth then said the rules say even if it is a gift, if in doubt declare it anyway. Nigel replied he knew that and he was not in doubt so he did not declare it. But then in the Harry Cole interview he said it was not a gift, it was a reward for 27 years of Brexit campaigning and delivering. So my question is simple, if you are changing what the money was for, from security, to gift, to reward, then surely that shows doubt. And if there is doubt, the rules say declare it. I am not the Commissioner, but even a child could work that one out. This is not hard to investigate because the evidence is coming from the person under investigation. What you say matters, and I really cannot see how the Commissioner can come to any other conclusion.

Far-right content from a Sri Lanka AI slop farm designed to promote the far-right Faragists, almost entirely bankrolled by a crypto billionaire out of Thailand, and supported by GB News (Reform TV) operated by a UAE based investment fund. And Reform claim to be British patriots!

A lot of online “patriots” seem to hate: * London * young people * universities * artists * immigrants * journalists * modern culture At some point you have to ask what part of Britain they actually like.

Starmer promised to abolish the unelected House of Lords and replace it with a democratic upper legislature Here he is stuffing 26 unelected hereditary peers back into the Lords as peers for life Possibly one of his final acts as PM, and it's another stinging betrayal

This is an extraordinary allegation, and the guy making it (Ben Habib) has openly goaded Farage and Harborne to sue him if it's not true. open.substack.com/pub/anothe…

Brown's 331 losses were a drop in the ocean compared to what Starmer is delivering here. Plus, of the just three of these ailing PMs who managed to staggered on to face a general election ... how did those general elections turn out for them?

Stone cold facts

RT @HackneyAbbott: There is a myth, very widely held in Labour, that we achieved an huge popular victory in 2024 under Starmer. In fact we…

Labour losing 80% of the seats they're defending! 40% to 50% of their voters doing what Starmer told them to, and leaving if they don't like it All time historic pummelling Starmtroopers already insisting that one more push towards the far-right will fix it! Total insanity

I love this guy I love the way he doorsteps people with Power. And they never answer because they know what he’s asking is uncomfortable for them. x.com/declassifiedUK/status/…

PAUL HOLDEN STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO INTERVIEW WITH JOSH SIMONS ON BBC NEWSCAST Yesterday, BBC Newscast published a lengthy, forty-minute interview with former Cabinet Minister Josh Simons MP. The interview addressed how Simons, as a director of @LabourTogether, had appointed a firm called APCO Worldwide to investigate me and my colleagues. I was not told by the BBC ahead of the broadcast that the episode was being recorded or aired. I was not approached to respond to the lengthy comments made about me or the small anti-corruption organisation, @ShadowWorldInv1 , that I run with my colleague @andrewfeinstein. Andrew, who is also repeatedly mentioned, was also not approached for comment. I only found out last night, when a friend texted me, that the person who hired a major multinational reputation management firm that produced a despicable and defamatory report on me and my colleagues, and who reported me on the basis of these false and defamatory reports to the UK’s security services, was being given forty minutes to give his version of events on a major podcast published by our national broadcaster. To be clear, the BBC has NEVER - not once - approached me to comment on a story that is, ultimately, about me, my investigations, my family and my colleagues. They did not approach me when the story first broke, and they did not approach me for this episode. If the BBC had done so, I would have raised several issues with the way in which matters related to me were discussed. For example, Simons repeatedly stated in the interview that he instructed APCO to investigate whether my reporting or sourcing derived from a ‘hack’ of the Electoral Commission. The word ‘hack’ is used eight times in the interview. At no time was it acknowledged in this discussion that this allegation – that I might have received hacked materials – is entirely false, and I have repeatedly proven it to be false. Following the broadcast, I contacted the BBC to complain and to raise serious issues with the broadcast. I was contacted by the Newscast editor, Sam Bonham, to say the BBC would update the Newscast episode and further reporting to reflect some of my concerns. This has not yet happened with regards to the podcast, although I note some online reporting finally reflects a very small and limited sampling of my comments. I will wait to see if amendments and updates will follow. If they do not, I will be escalating this matter to OFCOM. In the interim, I have decided to share the full statement I provided to the BBC, which is produced below: I would like to put certain things on the record. First, my reporting on Labour Together and Morgan McSweeney was entirely factually accurate and based on impeccable, legal sourcing. My sourcing has been reviewed by multiple media outlets, who confirmed the authenticity and legal provenance of my sources. Revelations based on my book, The Fraud, has subsequently been covered widely across the mainstream media, including in multiple front-page scoops, in outlets such as The Times, Daily Mail, The Guardian, The National and ITV. The stories I produced in 2023 and 2024, and which prompted Labour Together's investigation into me, were subject to extensive editorial and legal checks. They were, I believe, entirely accurate reporting on matters of profound public interest, which included raising concerns about the character of powerful individuals like Morgan McSweeney. Considering the recent Mandelson affair, I believe I have been entirely vindicated in attempting to alert the public about McSweeney's past, including how McSweeney made use of £700,000 in funding that he unlawfully failed to declare to the Electoral Commission to procure power and influence for himself and Sir Keir Starmer. Second, Josh Simons states that he never intended for APCO Worldwide to investigate me or my journalistic colleagues. However, a copy of the contract between APCO Worldwide and Labour Together, addressed to Simons, has now been published. The contract sets out a scope of work written in plain English. It states that APCO will 'investigate the sourcing, funding, origins of a Sunday Times article as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi.' The contract then states that the aim of the APCO investigation will be to 'provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together.' The contract then sets out a range of potentially invasive investigative methods that will be used to generate this 'package', including 'financial investigations' and 'human intelligence investigations.' I provide the full text of this contract below. This contract is clear. APCO were hired to investigate me to produce materials that would 'proactively undermine' my factually accurate, public interest reporting. They would use a range of investigative techniques to do so. APCO then did exactly as was suggested in the contract, using these investigative methods to "investigate" me. This investigation has caused me and my family significant anxiety and distress. Third, Josh Simons was provided with a report called Operation Cannon. It is the result of a lengthy investigation into me and my colleagues by APCO Worldwide. I have seen a copy of this report. It makes a series of extremely defamatory and utterly false allegations against me. It identifies my home address and sets out private information about my family. I cannot express how profoundly shocking, outrageous and defamatory this report truly is. Simons may claim he never intended for APCO to investigate me, but on receipt of this despicable report, he then chose to use it. He submitted sections of the report to the National Cyber Security Centre to convince them to investigate me. The Guardian has published the email correspondence in which Simons repeated some of the substance of the allegations in the APCO reports. Fourth, multiple media freedom advocacy organisations, including the NUJ, have strongly criticised the APCO investigation and these related matters. They have all, to my mind correctly, strongly criticised Labour Together and APCO for investigating journalists producing factually accurate reporting in the public interest. Finally, I am still reviewing the Newscast interview. I will be responding in due course and I hope that the BBC will, this time, give me the platform to set out what really happened and why. Text of Contract Between Labour Together and APCO Worldwide, addressed to Josh Simons Dear Mr Simons We are pleased that you have selected APCO Worldwide Limited (“APCO”) to provide the following scope of work (“services”) during Term: APCO will devise a concise strategy to aid Labour Together. APCO will investigate the sourcing, funding and origins of a Sunday Times article about Labour Together, as well as upcoming works by authors Paul Holden and Matt Taibbi – to establish who and what are behind the coordinated attacks on Labour Together. The approach should provide a body of evidence that could be packaged up for use in the media in order to create narratives that would proactively undermine any future attacks on Labour Together. The material can also inform any future legal strategy that Labour Together might wish to pursue against any of these parties. The work will include: • Open Source Investigations (OSINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence • Human Intelligence Investigation (HUMINT): Recovery and Preservation of Evidence • Financial Investigation: Forensic Accounting Focus • Digital Forensics Investigation: Recovery and Preservation of Evidence • Stakeholder Outreach • Media Packaging and Dissemination

This aged well