‘Scottish’ pro-independence social media accounts have gone dark since the internet was turned off in Iran. Is anyone surprised…
UK Defence Journal has been tracking a suite of accounts which post rabid anti-UK content for a long time. Accounts which spend the entire time tweeting fake news like “Scotland received 20% fewer flu vaccines per capita than England this winter” ramped up their activity last week then suddenly stopped after Thursday night. When the internet switched off…
A similar pattern was observed last June after US and Israeli strikes hit internet access in Iran. Numerous accounts “stopped posting during the blackout, resuming only once connectivity returned. Subsequent transparency data released by X later confirmed that the same cluster of accounts was connected via the Iranian App Store while routing traffic through European VPN infrastructure.” Is the Ayatollah responsible for giving us Nicola Sturgeon – he may be more sadistic than anyone thought possible…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”