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Oliver Bullough
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Oliver Bullough
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Joined August 2011
- There must be 20 police officers outside the Belgrave Square property occupied by anarchists, which is I reckon approximately 20 more than ever checked the provenance of the money that bought it.
- Dmitry Rybolovlev, the Russian oligarch who bought a Florida mansion from Trump for $95 million, and a New York condo for $88 million, has been arrested in Monaco on corruption charges.
- Perhaps in response to Western sanctions against Putin's daughters, the Kremlin will sanction Boris Johnson's children and we'll find out how many of them there are?
- I just called up by someone who's worked on previous UK cases against oligarchs, who is looking in horror at what's (not) happening. "The issue is that we have a whole service industry that constructs complexity. They are people who exist to make sure assets are impenetrable."
- Modest Proposal: if Jersey wants to be protected by the UK's Royal Navy, it should join the UK and pay UK taxes. if it doesn't, it should build its own navy.
- Britain is a money-laundering kleptocracy-enabling disgrace and the government is shamefully complicit. Shall I send Prevent my address? Or does this only apply to ethnic minorities?People who vilify Britain will be treated as extremists and referred to the Government’s deradicalisation Prevent programme under plans by Rishi Sunak. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
- He may have fought communism as a student, worked for illegal pro-democracy newspapers, and been arrested after martial law was declared, but what does this foreigner know about democracy?Is it any wonder that the EU is so despised with men like Tusk as a President He just doesn’t get democracy @labourleave
- This isn't true. Russian oligarchs don't keep/wash their money in Berlin, Paris or Washington; or educate their kids there; or own property there. London has an important role to play so, please, don't get your excuses in early for its failure to do so.Prime minister will soon make an address to the nation on the crisis in Ukraine. But the grim reality is that the important decisions will be taken by Washington and the Berlin/Paris axis
- In 2019, parliament's Intelligence/Security Committee looked into Russian interference in the UK. @BorisJohnson delayed the report, tried to suppress it, then dismissed it as an attempt to delegitimise Brexit. It's worth reading. Here's a paragraph. isc.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/upl…
- I'm bored of Boris Johnson being prime minister now.
- Replying to @OliverBullough“So, did you manage to sell it once the war was over?” I asked (a bit worried he’d maybe been targeted by looters). “No, didn’t make a penny. With my neighbours we drank the lot. I’ve never been so drunk for so long, it was brilliant. I barely remember the war at all. 7/7
- I remember well how Seumas Milne, Corbyn's head of communications, shook Putin's hand on stage in Sochi in 2014, six months after Putin first invaded Ukraine. I don't remember any warnings though. Must be my memory that's going.The truth about Jeremy Corbyn and Putin. He warned against him and his oligarchs for years. And was ignored.
- Credit to the USSR. It's far-sighted indeed to invade Poland, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States in 1939-40 as insurance against a weapon that hadn't been invented yet.Replying to @blunty1999They occupied E Europe as insurance against US nuclear capability. It was a Mexican standoff - which fortunately ended with little blood being shed.
