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Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

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Green party membership in UK passes 200,000 after byelection victory Party leader Zack Polanski says surge in numbers ‘proves that the future of progressive politics belongs to the Greens’ The Green party said its membership has passed 200,000 this weekend in the wake of its victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection overturning a huge Labour majority. The party’s membership has tripled since September last year, when it was about 68,000, after the announcement of Zack Polanski as its new leader. Continue reading...

Green party membership in UK passes 200,000 after byelection victory

authors@bookmarks: Alison | The Undercover Police Scandal The story of state-sponsored deception, by the women who uncovered the shocking truth

Tuesday March 3rd - after seeing #spycops gang member Carlo Soracchi next week, what better way to spend the evening than hear 'Alison' at @bookmarksbookshop.bsky.social talking about ‘The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed’?

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Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice

Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claimsAn undercover police officer is facing allegations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay for a...

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice

Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

An undercover police officer is facing allegations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay for...

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

But the woman he was deceiving into a year-long intimate relationship told the #spycops inquiry he went with her on a “classic romantic break in a city associated with romance”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

Internal documents show that the Metropolitan police paid for the flights and accommodation for the trip on the basis that he was going with a group of UK campaigners to “consolidate and extend” relations with Italian socialists. #spycops www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims

An undercover police officer is facing allegations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay for a romantic break in Venice with a woman he was deceiving into a long-term relationship, the #spycops public inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Labour minister Josh Simons resigns after falsely linking journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network Makerfield MP has been under pressure over thinktank’s commissioning of PR firm to investigate reporters

Few developments:
- In a statement this evening, Labour Together's new management describes the scope of APCO's report as "indefensible"
- Simons said he "acted too hastily" in appointing firm
- Simons's resignation letter did not address outstanding questions about earlier statements

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Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice Woman deceived into relationship tells spycops inquiry the trip was not to meet Italian socialists, as Carlo Soracchi claims An undercover police officer is facing allegations that he used taxpayers’ money to pay for a romantic break in Venice with a woman he was deceiving into a long-term relationship, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Carlo Soracchi pretended to be an activist for six years while he infiltrated socialist and anti-fascist campaign groups. Continue reading...

Undercover officer allegedly used public money for romantic break in Venice

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core Exclusive: Research suggests official statistics could track as few as 10% of the true number of cases The number of women who are driven to suicide by domestic abusers is being under-reported, and their cases overlooked by police, in what has been described by experts as a “national scandal”. Domestic violence suicides are already growing at such a rate that a woman in an abusive relationship is now more likely to take her own life than be killed by a partner. Continue reading...

Revealed: The true toll of female suicides in UK with domestic abuse at their core

Senior police praised undercover officer who lied to court about identity, papers at spycops inquiry show Jim Boyling gave evidence under his fake identity during prosecution of activists he had infiltrated

The #spycops inquiry has heard that over decades, senior officers had a deliberate policy of not disclosing the true identities of undercover officers to courts when they were prosecuted. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Senior police praised undercover officer who lied to court about identity, papers at spycops inquiry show Jim Boyling gave evidence under his fake identity during prosecution of activists he had infiltrated

Jim Boyling, #spycops undercover officer, gave evidence under his fake identity when he was prosecuted while masquerading as an activist. He was prosecuted alongside campaigners, but senior officers decided not to tell the court that he was actually a police spy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Senior police praised undercover officer who lied to court about identity, papers at spycops inquiry show Jim Boyling gave evidence under his fake identity during prosecution of activists he had infiltrated

Senior police officers praised an #spycops undercover officer who had lied to a court about his real identity during a prosecution of environmental activists, secret documents aired at the spycops public inquiry have revealed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships Jim Boyling tells public inquiry senior managers turned blind eye to long-term relationships with three women

The Metropolitan Police had a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy on undercover officers tricking women into sexual relationships, says a spycop who received letters praising his intelligence gathering on protesters from former Labour Home secretary Jack Straw www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships Jim Boyling tells public inquiry senior managers turned blind eye to long-term relationships with three women An undercover officer who deceived three women into sexual relationships said his superiors did nothing to prevent him from doing so, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships, often lasting years, with women. His managers adopted an attitude of “don’t ask, don’t tell”, he said. Continue reading...

Met had ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy, says spycop who tricked women into sexual relationships

Taoiseach’s naming of Stakeknife puts pressure on British government to do the same NI Secretary Hilary Benn urged to drop ‘neither confirm nor deny’ policy and formally identify agent in House of Commons

Taoiseach’s naming of Stakeknife puts pressure on British government to do the same

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)

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US private investigator did ‘unlawful stuff’ for the Daily Mail, court hears In case brought by Prince Harry and others, Daniel Portley-Hanks says he received about $1m for work for Associated Newspapers Ltd

US private investigator did ‘unlawful stuff’ for the Daily Mail, court hears

In case brought by Prince Harry and others, Daniel Portley-Hanks says he received about $1m for work for Associated Newspapers Ltd

A US-based private detective bought a large house in California and had $150,000 in...

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

"activist, Steve Hedley, has testified ..."the police wanted to entrap the activists in serious criminality as they had spent years infiltrating the activists and he’d got absolutely nothing because we weren’t doing anything”. "

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Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears. Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’. #Spycops

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Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears

Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Three anti-fascist activists have accused an undercover police officer of attempting to incite them to...

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears. Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

The spycops inquiry is examining the conduct of about 139 undercover police officers who spied on tens of thousands of mainly leftwing campaigners between 1968 and at least 2010

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

The accusation has been levelled against Carlo Soracchi, #spycops officer who spent six years infiltrating anti-fascist and leftwing groups. He has denied the claim. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Police spy tried to incite activists to firebomb shop, UK inquiry hears Carlo Soracchi, who infiltrated anti-fascist group in early 2000s, accused of suggesting crime as he had ‘got nothing’

Three anti-fascist activists have accused an undercover police officer of attempting to incite them to firebomb a shop that was said to be a front for the far right, the #spycops inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Why The Mill will be republishing ‘MEN Premium journalism’ How a publicly-funded scheme is being misused

Brilliant, provocative move by @manchestermill.bsky.social

This was one of the concerns that those of us unhappy about #LDRS had from the beginning

How a publicly-funded scheme is being misused

#journalism #local #news #press #media

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Thanks to @charlottetobitt.bsky.social for covering the case in @pressgazette.co.uk.

"The nagging spectre of financial ruin haunted the back of my mind for a few months" @coramazov.bsky.social tells her.

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The Londoner is being sued by a holiday let grifter. We’re going to fight him in court Mysterious emails, incessant demands and a fake lawyer — an editor’s note about a serious threat we’re facing

We're being sued for libel by a London businessman who thinks he can bully us into taking down a @londonermag.bsky.social story about him. He's wrong!

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