I’ve reached the end of the line with twitter as it was when I started here, when it was a much nicer place. I’ve gone to BlueSky and my ID is @colinpineview please follow me there. See what I’ve done here with the blue tweet theme

US and Iran declare an “immediate and permanent” end to the war, although experience tells us a more appropriate term is “hydration break”

So appears I'm not liked by at least 1 senior govt adviser. That's a badge I'll happily pick up off the floor and wear with dignity and honour. Here's a hint. Sort out the water industry, fix our rivers and you need never speak my name ever again. Massive thank you once again to Patrick Galbraith @PaddyGalbraith and all at the @Telegraph for the coverage and support. instagram.com/reel/DZkxUeMgu…

And #BorisJohnson stopped further investigation into the delayed #RussianReport

Boris Johnson: the only man in history to pop round to a KGB man's Italian castle straight after a NATO summit on Russia, get his baby baptised there (allegedly), give the host's son a peerage over MI6 objections, and then act surprised when it turns out the Kremlin has been running arson operations in Britain. At this rate, the only question left is whether Boris knew Nalobin personally, or whether he was just chasing Evgeny Lebedev's wolf🤦‍♂️ through the vineyards at the time." The wolf detail is real, by the way. A witness reported seeing a dishevelled Johnson chasing Evgeny Lebedev's pet wolf, named Boris, who had eaten the dongle for his computer. You genuinely could not make it up!

What the BBC doesn’t say in its story is that Nalobin’s purported involvement adds a whole other layer of complacency/incompetence/cover-up by UK govt. Read this piece to understand the backdrop to this whole story & ask yourself why UK govt *still* refuses to investigate Kremlin interference in UK politics theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…

The stakes couldn’t be any higher. And I was already gripped by the incredible detail of what BBC uncovered - & which apparently Met police had missed - when Sergei Nalobin suddenly enters the chat..as a tutor to the guy who directed entire UK sabotage operation.

It’s an amazing report which nails how Russia’s hybrid warfare programme actually works & how Russia is explicitly & directly inciting racialised violence in UK - & working with Tommy Robinson to do so - as well as directing acts of violence against PM. 2/

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved. B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

I'm old enough to remember when Nigel Farage would hold a press conference at the drop of a hat. So why is he now launching his divisive policies in a blog post from the safety of his keyboard? I can think of 5 million reasons why…

That Harborne

Yes but what is going to come of this? Will to lead to the downfall of farage and reform? Farages lack of media appearances Is certainly an indicator that this is more serious.

It’s funny how the media didn’t door step Farage, chase him up and down the country like they did with Nicola Sturgeon even though police said she had no questions to answer, is it a case of two tier journalism 😉

NEW: Why did Nigel Farage throw the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election for Boris Johnson? What does it have to do with Harborne’s £5m gift? And why is it tearing apart Britain’s far-right parties? A @thenerve_news investigation by me & @LuciaOC_ (Link below) 1/ #TheHarborneReceipts

O'BRIEN: Trump believed Ukraine had no cards, that he could bully Ukrainians into giving Putin very good deal. He didn't understand that Ukraine was developing their own capabilities and their willingness to fight. So, Trump failed for two reasons. First, Ukrainians adapted, and that wasn't expected by him. You can see there have been some changes in his rhetoric lately, where he has to grudgingly admit that Ukraine has actually done better. The United States completely underestimated Ukrainian resilience. Secondly, Trump thought Europeans would bully Ukraine along with him because they would be afraid of United States leaving NATO. He thought he could use NATO to push Europeans to force Ukraine to take a bad deal. Europeans eventually helped Ukraine more than he thought. They seem to understand that it's actually better for them to have Ukraine fight the war the way Ukraine wants. Trump didn't understand what Ukraine was capable of and he misjudged what Europeans would do.

Dear @KemiBadenoch £100 Bn general waste by the Tories. £148 Mn owed by Michelle Mone. £1.6 Bn stop the boats barge £21 Bn handed to covid fraudsters £471 Mn in total paid to destroy PPE not needed/in storage too long. = £123,219,000,000 What have you to say about that?

I wouldn’t be where I am today without the love and support that @MichelleObama has poured into me over the years. Her story — from her South Side roots to the White House and beyond — is a central part of the Obama Presidential Center.

This is SO incredibly important! Imagine the world of pain we could have avoided if this had been in place before Please do this now - takes seconds and could change everything! Thank you x

The government says nationalising water would cost £100 billion. @Feargal_Sharkey dug into where that number came from and found it came from a think tank report that was paid for by the water companies themselves, including @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater , and @unitedutilities . So the water industry essentially funded a report to inflate the cost of taking them back into public ownership, and the government then used that number to argue against nationalisation. Sharkey is saying the number is nonsense because the source is the industry that benefits from staying private. He also points out that these same companies have racked up £64 billion in debt and paid out £78 billion in dividends to shareholders since privatisation in 1989, while bills went up 40% and rivers filled with sewage.