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John Stanners retweeted
FULLY LOADED TARGET AT PRESTWICK :
We need to know if @scotgov was consulted before stationing a US Mil 'fully loaded' refuelling tanker at PIK.
This moves a target north, aye, even further north than defined by English PM.
Prestwick Airport is owned by @ScotGov on our behalf.
@ScotNational Read here: thenational.scot/news/267140ā¦
John Stanners retweeted
Apparantly anal sex is a common occurance in the UK
Prince Andrew was obsessed with anal sex
nypost.com/2022/02/11/princeā¦
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A British banker who threatened to expose further explosive allegations involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in Thailand, just weeks after sharing a haunting final message.
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John Stanners retweeted
THE RETIRED LAWYER WHO DID PARLIAMENT'S JOB AND WON A JOURNALISM AWARD FOR IT
Dan Neidle (@DanNeidle) retired at 49 from Clifford Chance, one of the world's most powerful law firms, where he spent nearly 25 years as head of tax. Most people in that position go quiet and enjoy the garden.
Neidle started a non-profit think tank and spent his retirement doing what journalists, regulators, and parliament couldn't be bothered to do.
In July 2022, he published detailed analysis showing that Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) had used an offshore structure to avoid approximately Ā£3.7 million in capital gains tax on his YouGov stake. Then he showed Zahawi had lied about it.
Zahawi's lawyers at Osborne Clarke sent him threatening letters marked "confidential" and "not for publication," demanding he retract the allegations within 24 hours or face defamation action. They told him it would be "improper" and a "serious matter" to publish the letters.
Neidle published the letters.
He also published more detailed analysis. Then he referred the lawyers to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
@TheSun then revealed Zahawi had secretly settled with HMRC for the exact amount Neidle estimated, plus a 30% penalty. Total: nearly Ā£5 million. Rishi Sunak sacked Zahawi in January 2023 after an investigation found he had breached the Ministerial Code by failing to disclose he was being investigated by HMRC while serving as Chancellor.
Neidle won Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2023. He is not a journalist.
The SRA referred Osborne Clarke partner Ashley Hurst to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, marking the first time a solicitor had been referred to the SDT for abusive tactics in libel litigation. In December 2024, the Tribunal found Hurst guilty of misconduct and fined him Ā£50,000.
A retired tax lawyer spotted what a sitting Chancellor was hiding, refused to be silenced by his legal team, was proved right in every detail, won a journalism award, and then got the silencing lawyer sanctioned.
Zahawi got a pension. Neidle got a prize. The lawyer got a fine. The public got to watch.
This is what accountability looks like when institutions won't do it themselves.
Sources: @guardian @BBCNews @FT @TheSun @PressGazette |
John Stanners retweeted
On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.
I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
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John Stanners retweeted
JUST IN: It has been revealed that Jared Kushner bought the land in Albania from a drug trafficker linked to money laundering and a criminal network accused of human trafficking.
@grok, start with true false
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Now Russell Brand's been convicted of rape, we need to talk about Sylvie Berki. Because she can't speak for herself.
In 2014, Ms Berki said she'd been assaulted by Russell Brand.
But if she talks about it, even now, she risks jail.
John Stanners retweeted
Hey @grok, concise no spin.
Right after Dianaās 1997 death, former MI5 officer Annie Machon reported that Diana planned a global humanitarian campaign supporting a specific country and feared a plot against her life because of it.
@grok: 1 Which country?
2 What exact method did she fear would be used against her?
Country and method only.
John Stanners retweeted
NEW: The SNP have accused Scottish Labour MPs of putting Westminster's interests ahead of Scotland's whisky industry after they backed a controversial increase in alcohol duty
The party have demanded that Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra 'finds his voice on Scotch whisky' after Labour MPs voted in favour of the UK Government's Budget resolution on alcohol duty on Tuesday evening
John Stanners retweeted
šØ NEW: The leader of Reform UK in Hampshire has been charged with 35 offences, including 12 counts of rape and making indecent images of a child
And the police will do nothing. The court should order the police to investigate and report back
bbc.com/news/articles/cq5yn6ā¦
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John Stanners retweeted
I suspect that the 50 investors who lost Ā£5million in a betting syndicate run by Rory Campbell ( son of Socialist gobshite Alastair Campbell) will be none to pleased to learn has has started a new venture.
After all Campbell,38, is still on bail having been arrested back in September last year on suspicion of fraud by false representation relating to the syndicate.
Campbell owns 60% of the new business.
He gives his address as near Taunton, Somerset. There are two other directors owning 20% each.
One is Aaron Edgeworth who is said to have broken the bad news to the investors that their money ( some had put in between Ā£25,000 to Ā£500,000) was unlikely to paid.
Campbellās people ( surprised he could afford comms) described these accounts as ā incomplete and inaccurateā.
Not positive what the business will do but itās called 6th Man Data Intelligence which may give a clue.
Campbell hasnāt said a word since the scandal broke.
Perhaps the next time his father is on a podcast or Question Time he might lift the lid on the murky goings on.
And explain what his boy is doing now living in the rural hamlet of Wrantsge - 7 miles from Taunton- whereas his previous hangout was East London.
All very odd.
John Stanners retweeted
HUGE: Democracy for Sale have obtained a comprehensive list of the ministers who referred companies to the āVIP laneā after a five-year freedom-of-information tug of war:
democracyforsale.substack.coā¦
ALT Raab recommended a Cambridgeshire toy maker who had only a single employee at the start of the pandemic. Jenrick, now Reform UK treasury spokesman, is listed as āpossiblyā referring an export packing firm. Graham Brady, then chair of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, referred an interior design company near his Altrincham and Sale West seat. Brady told Democracy for Sale that he had āno recollection of this but given the location, I assume I was passing on an approach from a constituent. I have no involvement with the company and never have had.ā Owen Paterson, who later left parliament after a lobbying scandal, referred a Birmingham biotech firm working on pregnancy complications. None of these firms were given contracts. Then health secretary Matt Hancock is named against 27 companies, three of them marked āpossibleā. Former Conservative party chairman Lord Feldman is recorded against 21 (three āpossibleā) and Cabinet Office minister Lord Agnew against 14 (four āpossibleā).
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Allegations of pedophilia against Mountbatten include a 1944 FBI file citing a source who described him as having a "perversion for young boys," plus claims by multiple men (including Arthur Smyth) that he abused them as children, often linked to Kincora Boys' Home and his Sligo estate. These appear in books by Andrew Lownie and Chris Moore. He faced no charges before his 1979 death. The NI Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry found no evidence of VIP involvement. The claims remain unproven.
John Stanners retweeted
Why has the pro-UK Government MSM in Scotland allowed Labour MP Joani Reid's shenanigans to go completely under the radar? Are Scots not supposed to know what's going on, & knowing Paul Hutcheon's+Daily Record 'links' to the Labour Party, why ISN'T their affair all over the news?
John Stanners retweeted
- Eight members of Boris Johnsonās cabinet referred firms to VIP lane, four of these ministers haven't been named before - Dominic Raab, Robert Buckland, Simon Hart, and Robert Jenrick
Firms in the VIP lane were 10 times more likely to win contracts
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š“ EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE āVIP laneā for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more š§µ
democracyforsale.substack.coā¦
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šØ NEW: Keir Starmer moved into Lord Alliās luxury London penthouse after resigning as Prime Minister
It's more than likely that the entire royal family new exactly what was going on back then
bbc.com/news/articles/cqglwpā¦
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