Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?

This is what Farage and Johnson’s xenophobic Reform and Conservative Brexit campaigns actually did to UK migration. At every point they use their failures as an excuse for the next disaster

The old ‘hacking’ excuse from Banks, which he tried to use on me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social when we obtained emails of his many visits to the Russian embassy to talk gold and diamond deals with Kremlin officials. He knew it wasn’t true then, and isn’t now

Don’t know if this is a real Banksy - but I hope it is

Being good at pool or snooker used to be dismissed as the sign of misspent youth. I don’t know what this is a sign of… but every morning I can tell if I’ve misspent the night before by how quickly I finish Spelling Bee

Great story from the Sunday Times, but credit where credit it due. It’s worth adding to this section, “whom Cottrell first meet as a teenager” as @bylinetimes.bsky.social first revealed. More here on Cottrell’s early years from @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...

Just so you know how key Cottrell was to the formation of Reform UK

While journalism is often hard and challenging, it’s much less so with these guys @bylinetimes.bsky.social #Womad

Conspiracy? 🤔 Worth adding to the record that we discovered later, through the emails of another CA exec Brittany Kaiser, that Andrew Neil’s bosses, the Barclay Brothers, were invited to a briefing in November 2015 about what Cambridge Analytica could do for Farage’s Leave EU

Lovely funeral for the great late lamented David Hencke - so loved and admired and generous to a fault

Long, long time ago, I cautioned my gender critical feminist friends that using biology as a backstop would misfire, and engender all kinds of reactionary absolutism… And lo and behold

I thought Dan Hannan’s analysis of Count Binface’s manifesto was another spoof by @ottoenglish.bsky.social But it’s genuine. Genuine comedy. Pure gold

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

Just to remind ourselves, here are our initial @bylinetimes.bsky.social's investigations into Cottrell's role in helping Farage become a true 'Man of the Paypal' er.... checks notes... 7 years ago

Both the Thiel/Palantir scandal, and the Mandelson/Deripaska scandal lead back to one figure — Jeffery Epstein

When Zelenskyy said Putin had 40 days to come to the table and discuss a peace deal, he had a stacked deck of many cards. People were impressed by Operation Spiderweb, but the coming onslaught is clearly a massive upscaling of that with a D-Day style strategic manoeuvre

The absolute humility and generosity of Zelenskyy. What does he say to Caolan Robertson when giving him his much deserved award? “Don’t forget us” Whoever could!

Here was David Hencke only four weeks ago at an event I spoke at. Hard to believe he is gone

I don’t understand how Farage can think “everyone cares” about EU bureacrats (he made a mint of that), and “everyone cares” about migrants earning a meagre living to survive, and yet “no one cares” about a £5m bung and £1m a year from GBNews to him. Does he think we’re that stupid?

Stunning Brexit anniversary piece by the wife of Dominic Cummings, whose Vote Leave campaign was found to have unlawfully spent 100s of thousands of pounds on billions of online impressions in the last days of the EU ref (Laura Kuenssberg described this as ‘rule breaking)

We delayed printing our @bylinetimes.bsky.social front page for the first time to cover the #Makerfield result. Looks like this the front page and editorial which will go to the presses in a few hours. @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social and talked intensely with the voters there to understand this result

More trouble for Tommy Robinson. He’s been working with Russia propagandists to incite violence in the UK well before fuelling pogroms in Belfast last week, from his well heeled perched in Moscow with agents like Malofeev BBC report t.co/xTQuLCVNDa

I don’t think most people understand how unique and beautiful Kyiv is. And while Ukraine targets Russian supply lines and munitions, Putin targets Ukraine’s culture and people - from my visit there 6 months ago

That report was prior to the testimony of Brittany Kaiser, and subsequent revelations of Steve Bannon and Konstantin Rykov (which I document). As for Banks, the allegations I and Carole actually made Banks’ concealed meetings with Kremlin officials were amplified by the judge‘s findings

Updated teaser for the scenes depicted in Trojan Horses - Brexit, Trump, Russia - on the 10th anniversary of the EU Referendum Amazing cast. Terrifying true story. 23 June 👉 www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/trojan_...

Trojan Horses now fully cast with an amazing ensemble for its first outing with Finbar Lynch joining to play Alexander Dugin and others www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/trojan_... And if you want an idea of the story… here’s a draft of a slideshow setting each scene

There’s so much disturbing detail @heidiblake.bsky.social’s Tate brothers investigation. Their MAGA connections shows that, like Epstein, money and sexual violence are key to Trump world. Just like Bannon and Epstein in 2018 they were planning a European movement funded by crypto

To mark the 10th anniversary of the EU referendum - the first reading of my epic poem Trojan Horses, about the first great information war. A stellar cast playing characters like Surkov, Dugin, Putin, Bannon, Trump, Farage - and Jeffrey Epstein. www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/trojan_...

The working class Welsh mining ancestors of my children loved knowledge, wisdom, manners, compassion, education When did working class begin to mean sexist, boorish, racist, rude That’s an upper middle class Farageist construction