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FOX: I'm here at the newly renovated reflecting pool. It's painted American flag blue. The Democrats will tell you there's green algae. There's pool guys cleaning it up. No other president would do that.

Several outlets ran the same story the past weekend. They used the same source. None of them, on the published record, appears to have checked it. @TheSun on Sunday led with "Taking the Shish", under a byline from reporter @thomasgodfreyuk. @GBNEWS picked it up within hours, and GB News presenter @Alexarmstrong fronted a video on the street, asking on camera: "What skills do you need to work in a kebab shop that requires you to import people into Britain?". So far, so familiar. Here is what the published coverage does not surface. The source: Behind all three pieces sits the Centre for Migration Control. It calls itself a think tank. Companies House lists it as Athelney Campaigns Ltd, a for-profit private company with one director: Robert Bates, who volunteered for Reform UK at the 2024 general election, as @GoodLawProject has reported. There is no published donor list. No academic staff. No peer-reviewed research. @bylinetimes places the operation within the Tufton Street-adjacent pressure-group network. @GoodLawProject and @bylinetimes have both documented a recurring pattern: CMC supplies anti-migrant statistical claims, right-wing outlets carry them, Reform politicians cite the resulting articles back as independent research. On the visible record this weekend, that pattern looks to me to have produced this story. The missing denominator: The figure being recycled is 159 kebab shops with sponsor licences. Home Office data, analysed by the Work Rights Centre in March 2026, put the Register of Licensed Sponsors at 123,911 active sponsors at the end of December 2025, climbing past 125,600 by early 2026. 159 out of 125,600. That is 0.13%. One in roughly 790. None of the three pieces, on their published versions, places the headline figure against the denominator. The missing rule: The "chain migration" framing carries most of the political weight. It also collapses the moment you read the visa conditions. Skilled worker visas are issued with a no recourse to public funds condition. The worker, the spouse and any children cannot claim Universal Credit, housing benefit, social housing or homelessness assistance. They pay the Immigration Health Surcharge at £1,035 per person per year for NHS access. They pay full income tax and National Insurance. Their sponsoring employer pays an Immigration Skills Charge of up to £1,000 per worker per year. These are net fiscal contributors to a welfare system they are legally barred from using. None of the three pieces, on their published versions, appears to mention any of this. What journalism would have done: On the supposed standards these outlets profess to hold, three things at minimum. 1) Placed 159 against 125,600. 2) Noted the NRPF condition before invoking "chain migration". 3) Asked who funds Athelney Campaigns Ltd, and on what cadence its FOI-driven outputs reach friendly papers. The published coverage does not appear to do any of these three. People, in my view, can draw their own conclusions about why, as it is apparent, isn't it?

Three people were injured last night in Sumy by a russian terrorist attack on a residential building 😡! @IntlCrimCourt #RussiaTerroristState

Yesterday, in broad daylight in Poland, the artist Semyon Skrepetsky was killed. According to journalists, the suspect attempted to hide on the premises of the Belarusian consulate. Even though Skrepetsky had certain disagreements with (many) people online, me included, his art was mostly targeting the right people and the right issues. He was an eccentric person who did not care much about the opinion of others on his views. Do you remember the 2015 terrorist attack – the massacre at the offices of Charlie Hebdo? Back then, 12 people were murdered in broad daylight over cartoons. In my view, the Charlie Hebdo cartoons were hardly worthy of praise. Many of them were quite vile, at times mocking things that should never be mocked (and I’m not talking about religion). But contrary to what particularly sensitive individuals may think, that is absolutely no reason to gun down their authors. I’ll go further: even if you dislike someone, you should not be particularly pleased – or even calmly indifferent – when that person is murdered in broad daylight on the streets of a European city. If that is your reaction, perhaps a splash of cold water on your head might help prompt some reflection. Either we are dealing with state-sponsored terrorism on the territory of the European Union, or we are not. And if we are – and if some especially thin-skinned FSB official or some other government functionary decided that a certain witty fellow needed to be taken out, which for now is very much what it looks like – then this is yet another alarm bell that cannot be ignored under any circumstances.

Following revelations reported by the BBC that Russia was likely behind the arson attacks linked to Prime Minister Starmer, it comes as little surprise that the UK has responded with fresh sanctions and is now actively intercepting and apprehending vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet. If Moscow is willing to sponsor sabotage and destabilisation on British soil, those who aid in that, better watch out 🇬🇧🇺🇦

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

🟨 Print Edition — Reform UK Repeatedly Refuses to Explain Why Nigel… subscribe.bylinetimes.com/ed…

If Anna Paulina Kremlin says the deal is good, rest assured it is bad.

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🇷🇺L'influenceuse Alexandra Jost (Sasha Meets Russia) placée sous sanctions européennes. Une excellente chose pour une propagandiste clairement identifiée qui ne pourra désormais plus placer un pied en territoire européen. L'utilisation d'influenceurs rémunérés par la Russie entre dans le cadre de la guerre hybride qu'ils nous livrent sur nos réseaux. Alors même que X est interdit en Russie, cette jeune femme est autorisée à poster -en anglais- pour toucher les audiences occidentales. Il y a clairement une stratégie de manipulation derrière. Ce procédé va se multiplier dans les années à venir, il faut s'y attendre. Par exemple, la Chine rémunère des influenceurs taïwanais pour diffuser du contenu anti-PCC pendant plusieurs mois afin de gagner la confiance de leur public avant de lentement commencer à changer de narratif et finir par soutenir Pékin. Il existe de nombreuses manières d'influencer les masses. Une fois qu'un canal de diffusion a été identifié et qu'un émetteur solide a été ciblé, il n'y a plus qu'à laisser faire le temps à travers un rythme de publication soutenu et un certain nombre de relais, beaucoup étant des bots. C'est comme cela que ces dictatures obtiennent autant de visibilité sur nos réseaux. Ne soyons pas naïfs et sanctionnons-les 👏🏻🇪🇺

🚨 Republican candidate Ryan Dewayne Jenks has been sentenced to 20 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl.

Why did the President *and* VP need to sign?

Moscow at the moment

Under the constitutional amendment submitted by the Tisza government and passed yesterday, Orbán can never again become prime minister. The amendment counts time served as prime minister from the regime change in 1990 and caps the office at eight years in total. Orbán now claims the Tisza government made itself look ridiculous by voting to make sure he can never return as prime minister. First, this was literally part of Tisza’s programme from the start, so voters knew exactly what they were voting for. Second, thank you for your opinion, Orbán, the permanently retired former ruler. Now shove it.

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