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John Sweeney: ‘For the First Time I’m Watching My Step as an Investigative Journalist’
The former BBC reporter speaks to Nicola Driscoll-Davies about his new book exploring the assassination of Malta’s Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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When will we Return to the Hope we had when the Berlin Wall Fell 30 Years Ago?
Otto English recalls what it was like growing up in a world where the threat of the Cold War loomed large – and the surprise and optimism when, one day, this came to an end.
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Inside the BBC Disinformation Group: The Fake News Hunters
Stephen Colegrave meets the BBC Disinformation Group, dedicated to monitoring fake news and disinformation around the world.
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‘Democratic Institutions Captured by Politicians Places All Investigative Journalists Under Threat’
Nicola Driscoll-Davies speaks to David Casa, a senior Maltese MEP, about the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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Brexit: The Great British Con
After Thatcherism and austerity, Brexit is the third part of a heist designed to wreck the social fabric of Britain
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How the Brexiteers Warped Margaret Thatcher’s Idea of Europe
Paddy Briggs looks at the career and restoration of Thatcher’s legacy by Tory Brexiteers and asks whether she would agree with them if she was alive today.
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Christmas is Coming with the Unholy Trinity in Power
The dark arts channelled by Johnson, Gove and Cummings are still infiltrating our politics – but we can change this if we act quickly
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What Next for Post-Brexit Britain? A Lost Decade of Division
Gareth Roberts examines what could lie ahead for the UK if Boris Johnson’s deal is passed and the country leaves the EU early next year.
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FIRTASH: How the Trump Impeachment Scandal Leads back to British Brexiters
The oligarch at the centre of the Trump-Ukraine scandal is linked to the Vote Leave campaign and the Conservative Party. Steve Komarnyckyj unravels the background of Dmytro Firtash.
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Giuliani is Lining Up to be the Next Trump Associate to be Thrown Under the Bus
Rudy Giulani is currently the target of multiple investigations, his business associates have been taken into federal custody, and Donald Trump has already shown he’s ready to get rid of him if – or more likely, when – it becomes necessary.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: ‘Malta is Not a Normal Country Right Now’
Nicola Driscoll-Davies reports from Malta on a vigil to mark two years since the assassination of the country’s most famous journalist.
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The Shady ‘Shadow’ Trade Authority: A Costly Example of Government’s Hollow Brexit Posturing
Sarah Hurst on her afkaesque experience of waste and confusion at the new Trade Remedies Authority.
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Brexit Chaos has Already Cost UK Science ‘€0.5 Billion a Year’
The Royal Society has highlighted the toll already taken by Brexit on the science sector as the “brightest and best” minds opt to stay away from Britain.
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The Price of a Progressive Society is Constant Vigilance – Germany Must Face Up to its Rising Fascism Now
Following the murder of two people in a kebab shop and outside a synagogue in Halle last week, Musa Okwonga examines why a country which has done well to hold a mirror up to its past horrors is turning away from this when it is most necessary.
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Will Brexit Lead to Separate Time Zones in Ireland?
A new European Union directive aims to abolish daylight saving time, which could result in a one hour time difference between the north and south of Ireland following the UK’s exit from the EU.
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IMPEACHMENT SCANDAL: Will Trump’s Phone Call Lead to Ukraine’s Surrender and Putin’s Victory?
Stephen Komarnyckj on the resignation of the US Special Representative and what the mounting scandal actually means on the ground in Ukraine.
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Germany Calling: at the Crossroads of Europe
Mike Stuchbery reflects on leaving the UK behind after a tumultuous three years.
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‘He Must Comply’: Court Assured that Boris Johnson Will Ask EU for Brexit Extension if No Deal Reached
“It would be destructive of one of the core principles of constitutional propriety… for the Prime Minister or the Government to renege on what they have assured the court,” Lord Pentland ruled.
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Government Refuses to Make EU Brexit Extension into Legal Pledge
Boris Johnson’s Government found itself back in court today – this time refusing a request to make its Brexit extension plan into a legal order.
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Family of Daphne Caruana Galizia ‘Hopeless’ Following Launch of Public Inquiry into her Assassination
Concerns have been raised about the independence and impartiality of those tasked with conducting the inquiry into the investigative reporter’s murder in Malta in 2017.
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Will President Zelensky comply with Donald Trump’s Demand to Investigate Joe Biden?
Stephen Komarnyckyj digs deeper into Hunter Biden’s connection with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma and the shark tank of Ukrainian politics under Viktor Yanukovych.
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Found in Translation: The ‘Close Strangers’ of Europe Speak to Us All
Emma Burnell discovers many wider echoes in the dramatisation of tensions between Ukrainians and Poles.
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A Visit to Eugeniy Dubitsky: A Victim of the War in Ukraine
Iain Overton reports from eastern Ukraine on the toll taken by five years of war on its citizens – individuals whose lives have been devastated, but who do not dwell on the pain of the present.
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A Hospital on the Edge of Civilisation
Iain Overton reports on a medical centre in eastern Ukraine which was caught in an unexpected war – a war which transformed everything.
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: ‘Maltese Authorities Still Won’t Tell Us Who Wanted her Silenced’
Updates on the lasting legacy of the murdered Maltese journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia.
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The Warning of an Empty Lectern: Why Boris Johnson’s Brexit Humiliation is Dangerous for All Europeans
Dutch writer Chris Keulemans reflects on the battering Britain’s standing has taken with the rest of Europe – but warns there is no room for complacency anywhere.
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Putin’s Funding of Italy’s Far-Right: The Pivotal Role of Aleksandr Dugin
Zarina Zabrisky provides a timeline of Aleksandr Dugin’s career and his connections to Russian Intelligence.
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‘Brexiters Used Empire in the Mind to Weaponise People’s Prejudices and Fantasies’
A sense of British exceptionalism based on our colonial past is “alive and kicking” in hearts and minds – and we must make ourselves aware of it, warns Lord Victor Adebowale
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Joseph Mifsud’s Lawyer Incorporated Delaware Company Days After Mifsud Met Papadopoulous
Forensic News has obtained corporate documents are shedding new light on Stephan Claus Roh, a Swiss-born international lawyer and the “money behind” Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud.
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White Nationalism Is a Global Crisis – It’s Time for Gun Laws Across the West to be Re-Examined
CJ Werleman argues that mass shootings in the US to further a white nationalist agenda could spread to other parts of the Western democratic world – for which it must be prepared.
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Brits Seeking to Live and Work in Europe after No Deal’Brexit will be Left in ‘Purgatory’ as Member States Plan to Tighten Up Laws
David Hencke’s analysis of the restrictive measures being drawn up by European countries and EU member states on the post-Brexit fate of British nationals seeking to make their lives there.
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Three Men to Stand Trial for Murder of Malta’s Most Prominent Journalist
Nicola Driscoll-Davies on new developments in the investigation of the murder of Malta’s most prominent journalist.
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New Analysis of Hacked Documents from ‘Putin’s Rasputin’ Takes Us Into the Heart of Russia’s War Machine
A new report, co-authored by a Conservative MP, sheds more light on Vladimir Putin’s sinister hybrid war, which – tested in Ukraine in 2014 – was then brought to Britain, the EU and the US.
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How the Shooting Down of a Malaysian Jet Reveals Corbyn’s Putin Problem
Paul Canning reveals the Labour Leadership’s alarming tendency to mitigate the crimes of the Kremlin.
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How Russia Sowed Confusion Over Its Responsibility for Destroying Flight MH17
It is almost five years since flight MH17 was destroyed by a BUK missile fired by Russian soldiers, yet many people still think Putin’s regime did not shoot down the plane.
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German Foreign Minister Recognises Far Right “Terrorism Problem” while British Politicians Normalise it
CJ Werleman on how the UK is “sleepwalking” into a domestic right-wing terrorism crisis despite warnings from the police.
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The Transatlantic Triumph of Trumpism: Boris Johnson – A Plan Years in the Making
Though most people assume Steve Bannon-style populism arrived with Brexit in 2016, the planning, the people, and the project first came together three years earlier.
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‘DIE MAUER IM KOPF’: Why Bannon Told Trump to “Build the Wall”
Hardeep Matharu explores the 30th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Wall and how and why the building of walls is making a worrying comeback – in the US and elsewhere.
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London Shell Companies at the Centre of Ukrainian Influence Operations
A cache of hacked documents which allegedly expose an FSB agent has been released by the Distributed Denial of Secrets, but the truth reveals the importance of UK shell companies
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Brexit Party Candidates Elected to the European Parliament
Brexit Party MEPs will now sit in Europe’s highest law-making body as the elected representatives of the people of Britain. Who are they and why does it matter?
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JUSTICE FOR DAPHNE: “It is an Assassination” – Special Rapporteur Hits Back at Maltese Government’s Claims about Murdered Journalist
A new report by Pieter Omtzigt urges the Maltese Government to set up an independent public inquiry into Daphne Caruana Galizia’s death immediately.
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Your Vote this Thursday will be a Message to the Far Right. No Further
Mike Stuchbery draws strength from history and argues that anyone who cares about stopping the Far Right, now fighting in a Europe-wide alliance, needs to vote in the Euro Elections this Thursday
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A New Crusade for White Christian Europe? Not a Good Look
When Far Right and populist figures such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban talk about a ‘crusade’ to defend ‘Christendom’ – this should ring some very shrill alarm bells.
