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@ZackPolanski Unsurprisingly when you learn the ownership of The Telegraph is now in the hands of an extreme right wing billionaire. Angela is writing what she is being paid to write.

A lot of words to say Angela supports the Genocide. And the Telegraph publishes this pretty disgraceful attempted policing of my Jewish-ness. Unsurprising when the Green Party have come top of a poll - they just attack relentlessly rather than offer anything positive.

MPs: Make public any DfE guidance about framing SEND feedback. Publish outcomes of SEND events in full. Be honest in representing views. One is democracy. The other is choreography. measurewhatmatters.co.uk/2026/04/04/scr…

@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour Morally speaking, Reform have no place to hide here Will Farage do his usual thing under scrutiny and disappear from social media for a few days? Inaction here is the sign of a weak leader, a weak man

Shameful. Nigel Farage should do the decent thing and sack him.

Given how much the broadcasters love covering Farage UK party, and as we are in the middle of an election campaign he says they will win, I look forward to the huge coverage of this.

@StarmertheFraud Remember this? #ItWasAScam

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

@ZackPolanski Nigel Farage & Reform UK pushed baseless "family voting" smears via Democracy Volunteers after Hannah Spencer's Green win. GMP found zero evidence, CCTV cleared it. Sky's Sam Coates amplified the Islamophobic hit job. Establishment panic.

This is the latest group of paedophiles jailed in the UK, in Somerset. What do you notice different about these people? Yes. You guessed it. The case was not given 24/7 coverage by the media.

I wish some establishment media types would comment on this exchange. That they haven’t is maybe the biggest tell of all about how the media works.

@johnmcdonnellMP Information Commissioner’s Office complaint John. This is unlawful.

Labour Together paid US Agency to investigate journalists who exposed its late report of donations fuelling Keir Starmer’s bid to be leader. So I did Subject Access Request to see if they had collected info on me.They had but this is what I received: page after page of redactions

@LizWebsterSBF 💯

🥰 Yes 👏 please! “If the UK wants to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union with all rights and obligations, it will be welcomed with open arms.” Jean-Noël Barrot Britain wants to rejoin the EU and France wants us back!

Trump begs for help from other countries with Iran: 'This should be a team effort' rawstory.com/trump-iran-267… He doesn't understand that to have a "team effort," you have to build a TEAM. Not alienate every ally we've had for 80 years...

It is starting to come apart at the seams. Academisation, the behaviour cult, the terrible curriculum, the metrics, Ofsted…. and yet I still see institutionalised parental blame, children treated like delinquents. Sorry, teachers, this is on you. Fight the right people.

@LizWebsterSBF @FarmersWeekly @PhilipCaseFW When politicians wants to take away the rights of citizens, they have no good will towards the people they purport to represent. What a pile of 💩 from Farage AGAIN! He really is lower than vermin.

🚨 🔥 Remarkable exchange in @FarmersWeekly interview. When @PhilipCaseFW asked about misogyny in farming, Nigel Farage replies: “Does it?” Then he says scrapping the Equality Act 2010 is needed because it makes white working-class men “inferior citizens”. Female farmers raise concerns about workplace protections. His response? The problem isn’t discrimination, it’s the law protecting people from it. For a sector already struggling to attract women into agriculture, that’s a pretty extraordinary answer.

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@Nermeenalswaisi .

There is no good in this world if we continue to die of hunger, cold, and pain in Gaza 💔 If you see me... If you hear my voice... Please don't let it go to waste. Share this. Leave a single dot. chuffed.org/project/nermeen

Let’s talk about vested interests @bphillipsonMP The #SEND reforms are opposed by organizations run by volunteer parents and carers and supported by organisations and individuals funded by @educationgovuk schoolsweek.co.uk/little-surpris…

Technology is politics. You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics. So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS. newrepublic.com/post/207693/pa…