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Articles predominantly based on historical research, official reports, court documents and open source intelligence.
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Blagged to Death? How Scotland Yard Missed Crucial Clues in the Tabloid Targeting of Jill Dando
The Metropolitan Police suspected a Daily Mirror journalist of illegally ‘blagging’ the TV presenter three months before her murder, but didn’t see the phone hacking connection.
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Russia Seeks Info on Alleged Football “Hack” Mastermind
Moscow contacts Portugal amid claims Rui Pinto illegally obtained documents from major football club and investors
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Mueller’s Report is Done — Here’s What to Expect Now
Caroline Orr explains how special counsel Mueller’s report represents the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.
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One Week to Go: News from the Brexit Cliff Edge
A comprehensive round-up of what other media around the world are reporting about the looming exit of the UK from the European Union.
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The Great Brexit Trade Takeover: Unilateral Powers Assigned to Liam Fox
This month DIT Minister George Hollingbery quietly assigned its entire ambit to Fox himself, on a ‘temporary’ basis, as part of Brexit ‘contingency’ measures, but with zero Parliamentary oversight.
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Spykids: Government to probe Whistleblower’s Claim of Police Targets to Increase use of Child Spies
Home Office Minister agrees to probe claim of recruitment targets for more child spies against ‘County Lines’ drug gangs
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 2 – Sir Paul Marshall and Michael Gove
He’s head of one of the biggest hedge funds in Europe, a major contributor to the official Vote Leave campaign, and – along with Crispin Odey – one of the largest beneficiaries of the post-Brexit chaos: but Sir Paul Marshall is more than that.
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Weaponising history: the graffitied rifle of the Christchurch terrorist is a tool to radicalise
The Christchurch terrorist created a misleading historical narrative of how Christians and Muslims have interacted over time. Mike Stuchbery explains why this is so dangerous.
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Christchurch: Where Does this Terror Come From? Former Chief Prosecutor on Child Sexual Abuse Speaks Out on Islamophobia
Nazir Afzal, OBE, decries the Far Fight exploitation of the victims of child sexual abuse in ‘street grooming’ cases in Britain’s northern towns, and explains how ‘endless Islamophobia’ and propaganda provokes violence
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Michael Gove Challenged on Brexit Falsehood that Britain Can’t Revoke Article 50
One of the key players in Britain’s vote to leave the EU referred to the Scottish National Party as a “series of circus acts” when challenged over Brexit law.
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New York Prosecutors Just Threw A Wrench In Trump’s Potential Plans to Pardon Paul Manafort
Trump’s former campaign chairman could face up to 25 years in state prison on the new charges. And Trump can’t pardon these crimes.
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IN CONTEMPT: Brexit Secretary admits UK is Not Ready for ‘No Deal’
Six safeguarding bills are not passed and the Government continues to stall on anti-corruption law in Financial Services Bill
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The Disaster Capitalism Club: Part 1 – Vote Leave Backers who Made Billions from Brexit
While this elite group have profited from the last three years of economic uncertainty real household incomes have dropped almost £1,000 and the average household will lose between £2,519 to £5,573 over the next 15 years.
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Tory Benefit Cap Condemned as Wasteful, Unproductive and ‘Cruel’ by Parliament
As Brexit continues to dominate all of British political life, what about the families up and down the country going hungry, cold and getting further in debt because of the benefit cap?
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Paul Manafort’s Sentencing Isn’t The End of His Troubles
Caroline Orr explains how Trump’s campaign manager’s apparently lenient prison sentence is only the first chapter of this saga
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‘We are at War’ with Putin MPs told: his Aim is to Divide Europe
Counter-misinformation group director tells parliamentary session how his Institute of Statecraft was a casualty of 21st Century ‘Hybrid War’
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Trump’s Digital Operation Comes Under Scrutiny By House Judiciary Committee: THE FACTS
The expanded inquiry puts Cambridge Analytica, WikiLeaks, and the Trump campaign’s digital operation squarely in the cross-hairs of congressional investigators
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It’s not just Chlorinated Chickens: the Hidden Hand of Brexit Deregulation
In the rush to meet 29 March Brexit deadline, Charities warn Ministers crucial safeguards are being removed without the scrutiny of Parliament
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Putin Pushing on an Open Door
By ignoring Law-Breaking and Social Media Monopolies British and American Politicians are doing Putin’s work for him, argues Tamsin Shaw
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Contempt Inquiry challenges Government bid to stop MPs releasing ‘sensitive’ Brexit documents
The Government would like its own legal advice and Cabinet papers to be off-limits to Opposition MPs Parliament’s Procedure Committee has held its final hearing on how Theresa May’s minority Government was found In Contempt of Parliament last December. The MPs’ inquiry – known officially as the “Powers of the House of Commons to Call…
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Cohen’s Explosive Testimony on Trump and Wikileaks puts Farage back in the Spotlight
Roger Stone’s speakerphone conversation with Trump about Wikileaks and hacked emails coincides with a secretive meeting between Stone and Nigel Farage at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland that year.
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Contempt threat by Breakaway Independent Group MPs forces Cabinet to release £13bn cost of No Deal Brexit
The revelations in the Government’s ‘Implications for Business and Trade of a No Deal Brexit’ report are an Alarming Wake-Up Call. But can the public hear it?
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Online Endgame for ‘Tommy Robinson’ – but What Next for the British Hard Right?
Mike Stuchbery wonders whether British populists will ever rally round a strongman figure and whether something worse could replace it
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Correction of the Week – 25th February
While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent – and ours.
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How to Steal a Trillion Dollars
True kleptocracy is a creation of globalisation; its hybrid vigour born of the intermarriage between autocracy and a globalised financial system.
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How Russian Bots Amplify Britain’s Jacob Rees-Mogg
As his online influence has grown, so have revelations of other relationships between Rees-Mogg and entities with strong Russian connections.
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‘Tommy’ & Facebook: Kicking the Habit
Mike Stuchbery challenges Mark Zuckerberg to stop enabling Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s hate and asks you to help him
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The Deadly Anti-Vaxxer Movement: Started in Britain, Co-opted by Trump, Boosted by Putin
As Washington State declares a state of emergency over measles, populist misinformation over vaccination is putting children’s lives at risk
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Rolled Over: Liam Fox Keeps MPs in the Dark about 750 Brexit Trade Deals
MPs today pressuring Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox to explain hundreds of trade agreements had to ‘play detective’ on the web to discover the facts.
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What is Nigel Farage’s New Brexit Party?
The former UKIP leader has promised to wipe out the Conservatives if they don’t deliver Brexit, but what else do we know about his new political venture?
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Special Counsel Mueller’s Team just dropped a Huge Clue about the Russia Probe during a Closed-door Hearing
The revelation that the special counsel’s office is still unraveling mysteries at “the heart” of the Russia investigation seems to contradict the recent suggestion by acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker that the inquiry is “close to being completed.”
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Kremlin Social Media Backing Jacob Rees-Mogg (2018)
Social Media research shows British MP Jacob Ree-Mogg’s #Moggmentum campaign is being pushed by accounts linked to a powerful Kremlin disinformation operation.
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KILLER FACTS: Islamophobia and Brexit
To accompany Faisal Khan’s exploration of the reasons behind the spike in Islamophobic hate crimes after the Brexit referendum, here are some key statistics compiled from official sources:
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Islamophobia is Real – and Russia is Promoting It
Faisal Khan examines the rise of hate crimes against British Muslims and what is causing it.
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What is Behind the Rise of the ‘WHITE RIGHT’?
In the past decade, 71% of the 387 murders committed by extremists in the US had been perpetrated by the far right, while Muslims were responsible for 26%
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The BBC on the Edge of the Abyss 1: The Facts
2018 has been a troubling year for those who support public service broadcasting and the national broadcaster’s remit to inform, not just to entertain.
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Danger in the Gulf: Expats in Legal Jeopardy
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office report (2014) found a 30 per cent rise in the number of Britons arrested in the UAE since 2012
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Who are the ‘YELLOW VESTS’ behind the Biggest Protests in France for 50 Years? Are the FAR RIGHT and PUTIN Co-Opting?
Who are the ‘Gilets Jaunes’? What are their aims? And is anyone sponsoring or organising them?
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Correction of the Week
While other newspapers hide their errors, we promise to make their corrections prominent – and ours.
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1 in 5 People Targeted in IMMIGRATION Checks are BRITISH, new figures show
Home Office ‘racial profiling’ British citizens, new figures suggest
