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MI5 might have failed to find the smoking gun, but no one really believes that money and/or payment in kind hasn't changed hands - via a chain of intermediaries - with certain UK politicians and media figures.

Or perhaps, rather than a dearth of evidence, a poor call was made on the relative risks of letting such treason slide versus prosecuting the cheerleaders of a popular cause.

People have imaginations, you can just use words.

And yet Johnson said this before

How are we measuring success here?

Russia got the result it wanted. How is that not successful?

We should also add that 10 years ago the Guardian was full of Corbynistas blaming NATO for the invasion of Ukraine. It's amazing how pervasive Russian propaganda is.

The way to fight russian misinformation and bots is not to invent your own history of what happened. The left which, had we been listened to, might have stopped this war before it started. Nato obviously has russia 'surrounded'. Putin used this as an excuse to start the war... where do you disagree?

@darthputinkgb.bsky.social has got this handy tankie guide: threadreaderapp.com/thread/17918... So I guess you are that one? :) The “Russia was provoked tankie”. NATO caused this war.

Where you are wrong: 1) The Left, if it were listened to, would have made zero difference to Putin's plans in Ukraine. 2) Russia isn't surrounded by NATO, it has extensive borders with non-NATO countries (although Finland & Sweden joined NATO after Russia's aggression).

Thanks to Ukraine blowing up Russian data centres, now is an excellent time to fight the "russian bots" narrative.

And how 'Fear of Farage' sees Burnham downgrade 'interference' as soon as Farage yells 'liar'

Yes. If Burnham can't stand strong on Brexit, he has no chance. All of the brexiters know to go hard, to go outraged. It worked perfectly 2016-2021. Burnham needs to prepare to fight back hard.

He needs to play harder. He should have gone straight for Farage (perhaps using Ed Davey's 'Putin's Patsy' jibe as a starting point?)