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@docrussjackson Question: Regarding ofcom rule 5.4, who would be regarded as the person providing the service? Presumably it couldn't be the holding company as that's not a person and would be a massive loophole if it is.

@DanielJHannan General Pinochet did.

If the predictions are borne out and Viktor Orbán is out, can we agree that he was not a dictator? Dictators do not step aside after free elections.

@realBenBloch And also to some of the hard/far right here who received funding and support from Orbán's organisations.

🚨 NEW: Viktor Orbán has conceded the Hungarian election, ending his 16-year rule. It’s a blow to Donald Trump and JD Vance, who strongly campaigned for him - and also to Vladimir Putin. Latest here: #liveblog-body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.sky.com/story/hungary-…

Ramming a UN peacekeepers vehicle with an Israeli tank - not once but twice - shows a staggering level of disregard for int laws and the body which is in the area as an independent monitor; to support the Lebanese Army; ensure humanitarian access to civilians, and prevent escalation

Extraordinarily, Reform position today is Tice made an “admin error” — but it does not matter that his company didn’t pay £91k because he and his trust later paid unspecified sum of tax. The law makes no such allowance — the company was, and is, liable for any tax it didn’t pay.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV’s close ally Cardinal Robert McElroy received a standing ovation at the end of his homily, where he called on Catholics to take up civic action to help end the “immoral” war against Iran. “When we leave this church tonight, we must move beyond prayer. As citizens and believers in this democracy that we cherish so deeply, we must advocate for peace with our representatives and leaders. “It is not enough to say we have prayed. We must also act. For it is very possible that the negotiations will fail because of recalcitrance on both sides, and the president will move to re-enter this immoral war. “At that critical juncture, as disciples of Jesus Christ called to be peacemakers in the world, we must answer vocally and in unison: “No. Not in our name. Not at this moment. Not with our country.”

No fan of Starmer but he continues to hold his nerve and carry out the supreme duty as PM - to keep his citizens safe from harm. @bbclaurak @vicderbyshire

@PaulNuki I guess he's trying to starve Iran of oil revenues. But as this will push up the oil price even higher for longer, this will help Putin, so might he use some of that extra cash to prop up Iran?

Counterintuitive ...

@LNallalingham “Personal account”. You don’t understand any of this. You also missed the part where most of the money went to an offshore trust. Tice is pointedly not saying the trust paid the correct tax.

This story sums up the state of the nation tbh. A pub called the Rat Inn, charging £14 for a starter and £42 for steak, where the landlady spies on what you're doing on your phone and goes to the tabloids if you don't tip.

Hungary’s medieval kings hired well-paid Western European jesters, artists, and scholars. Their modern counterparts working for Orbán’s illiberal and pro-Kremlin propaganda think tanks play a similar role—just likely for even more money. Taxpayer money. thetimes.com/comment/column…

@DAaronovitch @FraserNelson @spectator Hmm. Well @GBNews is running this - away from @ofcom, on its website - a softball interview with someone from a think tank it neglects to mention is funded by the Hungarian state as an instrument of soft power, with the most extraordinary pro-Orban framing.

Reform UK donor Dan Delo is threatening people for tweeting about his spent convictions, claiming it breaches privacy law and is not in the public interest.

@Councillorsuzie @benonwine For the replies saying they'd like to go back to the 1950s, may I suggest some of you might not be alive now if we had 1950s mortality rates.

@Councillorsuzie @benonwine So what? This is a multi religious society and as Islam is the second most popular religion, it would be odd not to include a question about it on the religion section. Would You rather go back to the 1950s?

Ben please tell me this is a joke, it can’t possibly be true! @benonwine

The strategy being used by Ben Delo's legal team is well known: target one weaker (financially) journo to see if there is a knock-on effect on the rest of the media. @GoodLawProject should get to work on this to protect public interest.

After a Russian strike on a veterinary clinic in Ukraine, people are rescuing Cats and Dogs. Chabany, Kyiv region

Very honoured that the forthright independent online title The Nerve, run by Sarah Donaldson, Jane Ferguson, Imogen Carter, Lynsey Irvine & Carole Cadwalladr, is running an article by me this Friday about ‘journacide’ — the deliberate killing of journalists in Gaza and Lebanon.

@KemiBadenoch @JamesCleverly This is flatly untrue. You even whipped your MPs to abstain on my amendment to grant Chagossians a referendum to self-determine their own future. That whipping operation directly led to the defection of @AndrewRosindell - a doughty advocate for Chagossians - to Reform.

Trump urges people in Hungary to “get out and vote” for Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Orbán. It’s Trump, Putin, and Orbán vs. the free world.

I hope the FT gets indemnity costs. They must have spent a fortune on this. But even then, it wouldn’t be enough to deter Odey and others like him from trying to silence critics with libel actions. Failed libel actions should carry a painful cost.