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Nick Dunning

@nickdnng

Originals Editor @gbnews

London, England Katılım Eylül 2009
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James Holland
James Holland@James7Holland·
This election interference is becoming the norm in EU, and press has ignored the story like obedient little servants. Europe’s descent into authoritarianism isn’t being achieved with soldiers this time. It’s authoritarianism by a thousand cuts, and a press turning a blind eye.
Thomas Fazi@battleforeurope

So, as expected, the European Commission has finally activated the Digital Services Act’s (DSA) “rapid response system” in the context of the upcoming Hungarian elections, which gives EU-funded “fact-checkers” and “NGOs” a veto over online speech in Hungary. This is a serious escalation in the EU’s interference in the Hungarian elections. The official explanation is that this is needed to combat “Russian interference”. But as I noted in a recent article for @compactmag, no evidence whatsoever has been produced to support this claim. The narrative almost exclusively relies on an “investigation” by journalists at the Warsaw-based nonprofit VSquare, which claims that Putin has instructed a group of political strategists and Russian military intelligence to interfere in the parliamentary elections in Hungary in April in order to ensure that Orbán wins. And what is the evidentiary basis for this extraordinary claim? It boils down to this (literally): “Multiple European national security sources have told me.” In other words, no evidence whatsoever is provided. We are simply asked to trust the “investigative journalists” in question. One might be inclined to extend that trust if the outlet in question were genuinely independent. Regrettably, it is not. A glance at VSquare’s donor list reveals it to be less an independent journalistic outfit than a textbook example of artificial civil society, funded by entities like the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), USAID, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and various EU-funded consortia. In other words, VSquare is part and parcel of the “color revolution” infrastructure that, for decades, has sought to bring Central and Eastern Europe in line with the agenda of Brussels and Washington. It’s clear what is happening: they’re applying the Russiagate script that was previously used to subvert the elections in Romania just over a year ago. The aim is twofold. Ideally, tilt the elections in favour of the pro-EU, pro-war opposition candidate Péter Magyar by using the DSA to influence the pre-election online narrative. It’s well-known that the the EU’s “rapid response system” enables approved third parties — the aforementioned EU-funded “fact-checkers” and “NGOs” — to submit priority content moderation requests that disproportionately affect “populist” or EU/NATO-critical actors. If this doesn’t work — and it’s unlikely to work in the Hungarian context — then the allegations of Russian interference serve the purpose of laying the groundwork to delegitimise the result if Orbán wins, by seeding seeding a story of “stolen” or “unfair” elections. This is incredibly dangerous, and is yet another confirmation that the very institutions invoking the threat of foreign interference to justify their intervention are themselves the most consequential foreign actors in Hungary’s election. Read the full article here: compactmag.com/article/russia…

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GB News
GB News@GBNEWS·
'Anyone saying that who does serve within government, I would take a look at yourself, to be honest' @HoTPOfficial explains a new tool exposing the 'Democratic Gap' between the votes of MPs and the views of the British people, which has received support, but also some pushback.
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Lars Christensen
Lars Christensen@MaMoMVPY·
That post from Ursula von der Leyen is getting quite a bit of attention on social media. It's mostly people poking fun at Europeans for not wanting to work at weekends (often from self-loathing Europeans). But seriously – what are Europeans supposed to say? The US and Israel have launched an attack on Iran. An attack that in no way adheres to international rules. And the Europeans were not consulted in the slightest. In Europe, we have a war – Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine. That should be our focus. The US has demonstrated time and again that it has no respect for Europe. So why should we even have any opinion on this whatsoever? Europe's view of the Iranian regime is crystal clear and always has been. That hasn't changed – and everyone ought to know it. Foreign policy is not conducted on social media – and it is exceedingly rare that a decades-long problem can be fixed with missiles over a weekend. It has never happened. It is therefore completely irrelevant what the Europeans might have to say in the middle of an attack whose outcome nobody can predict. So yes, it is perfectly reasonable to announce that we in the EU will meet on Monday – and yes, there has undoubtedly been a great deal of inter-European communication in the run-up to this attack and over the weekend, but political decisions are simply best taken when proper procedures are followed and a strategy is put in place. Trump may well believe that problems are solved with bombs and idiotic pronouncements on social media, but day by day the long-term costs of this behaviour are mounting – geopolitically and economically. And yes, when the time comes to clean up after Trump's mess, I rather suspect the Americans will come expecting the Europeans to muck in with the clean-up. That'll be a no from us.
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen

Following the ongoing situation in Iran, I am convening a special Security College on Monday. For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region.

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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
Here’s the Monster Raving Loony Party policy on immigration.
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Nick Dunning
Nick Dunning@nickdnng·
@HeidiBachram Britain needs to ask itself why a foreigner feels comfortable trashing one of our nation’s most beloved heroes in the centre of our capital.
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Heidi Bachram
Heidi Bachram@HeidiBachram·
The Churchill defacer is a Dutch Palestine Action supporter. He came to the UK to do this in the name of our own domestic terrorists. How DARE he.
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Ash Sarkar
Ash Sarkar@AyoCaesar·
Gorton and Denton is majority white, and interestingly, majority Christian!
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Sanny@sanny9025

@AyoCaesar If it is not sectarian, let's see if Greens are able to replicate this elsewhere in white majority areas

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Javier Milei Quotes (Fan)
Javier Milei Quotes (Fan)@MileiSays·
.@JMilei: “What is the region of the world that is growing the least by far? Europe, because they are full of regulations.” “There is no incentive for investment, there is no innovation, so they have no economic growth.”
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Nick Dunning
Nick Dunning@nickdnng·
Soon he’ll be handing the EU the eastern English counties in his desperation to join the European Defence Fund which the French will never allow to benefit Britain. Has our establishment learned nothing from Ted Heath’s disastrous capitulation? I wish Westminster would wake up to the EU’s worthlessness and see there’s a whole world out there willing to trade with us on fair and mutually beneficial terms.
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Nick Dunning@nickdnng·
Soon he’ll be handing the EU the eastern English counties in his desperation to join the European Defence Fund which the French will never allow to benefit Britain. Has our establishment learned nothing from Ted Heath’s disastrous capitulation? I wish Westminster would wake up to the EU’s worthlessness and see there’s a whole world out there willing to trade with us on fair and mutually beneficial terms.
Guido Fawkes@GuidoFawkes

IN FULL: All the Worst Parts of Labour’s Gibraltar Sellout order-order.com/2026/02/26/in-…

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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil@afneil·
I don’t think this was a Farage promise. This was part of the BoJo Brexit campaign which was separate from Farage. Anyway hardly matters. Far from an extra £350m a week we now spend a billion more per week on the NHS compared with the time of the 2016 Brexit referendum and nobody can see any improvement.
The Labour Party@UKLabour

You can’t trust Nigel Farage. He’s got a track record of selling the British people false promises.

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Evelina Hahne
Evelina Hahne@EvelinaHahne·
In the upcoming Swedish election this year, Stockholm city is requesting election workers who can speak Arabic, Dari, Kurdish, Persian, Somali, and Tigrinya. This means that people who don’t even understand Swedish will determine Sweden’s future.
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Brandon Straka #WalkAway
Brandon Straka #WalkAway@BrandonStraka·
Javier Milei’s movement explodes in Argentina—lower house seats jump 172% (37 to 101) and senators soar 233% (6 to 20). A landslide that crushed media forecasts. Massive win for Milei.
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Nick Dunning
Nick Dunning@nickdnng·
Open, shameless fly tipping in a built up area of London is what happens when you reduce policing to CCTV cameras and postal fines. If someone changes their plates, they become effectively immune to prosecution. And the rest of get fined to the hilt for the tiniest infraction. Anyone caught fly tipping should have all vehicles they own, or associated with their business seized and crushed. Disgraceful.
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Melissa Chen
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen·
Every measure of a good, decent life in Canada is plummeting. But euthanasia is booming. This isn't compassion. This is darkness. This is a society that's given up. Something is terribly, unforgivably wrong with a country that can't house its people or grow its economy but excels at helping them die.
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Adam Cailler
Adam Cailler@acailler·
Has there ever been a question as wild as this during #PMQs?!
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ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL@campbellclaret·
Hello from Krakow airport. Pic 3 the most important. On the right EU EEA CH - you may see no queue. On the left pix1-3 🇬🇧 and 🇺🇦. Very happy to be standing with Ukraine but pic 4 really would make more sense if we were all in the same queue. Brexit has been a total disaster on so many levels. Practically, economically, diplomatically… still looking for a single upside. Still Johnson is backing Ukraine entry into EU so maybe he has seen the light.
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