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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 2d

Why did the CPS think it was reasonable to charge Cash and Berry with spying in April 2024 but said it had to drop them in Sep 2025 b/c of a ruling in another spy case

On any reasonable reading that judgment is lowering or widening the definition of enemy...

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 6d

Manchester synagogue terrorist was bail for alleged rape at time of the attack

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester synagogue terrorist was on bail for alleged rape

Exclusive: Jihad al-Shamie had been under investigation over alleged sexual attack earlier this year, sources say

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 10d

UK has deployed counter drone systems to Denmark ahead of this week's EU and EPC summits in Copenhagen, defence sec John Healey says at a Labour conference fringe

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 21d

Do you have information of interest to MI6? Now they are advertising that you can contact them securely online (what used to happen before?)
Instructions at the end + let's hope they have a good spam filter...

youtu.be/xkOUH8d8UQY?...

MI6 - SecurelyContactingMI6 - Introducing SILENT COURIER

YouTube video by MI6 - Secret Intelligence Service

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28d

Met police operating live facial recognition outside Brixton tube. Three people picked up since 11.30 a sergeant tells me

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 28d

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · 28d

You'd have thought this would have happened earlier...

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 29d

If nato’s interception ratio is 4 out of 19, can you imagine how they would handle an average night in Ukraine with 700 air targets in the span of 5 hours

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 10

Nineteen Russian drones cross the border into Poland says PM Donald Tusk as Warsaw asks for consultation with Nato allies. Meanwhile a Russian diplomat tells the RIA accusations of an incursion "groundless". No doubt Donald Trump will know who to believe...

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Tusk warns prospect of military conflict ‘closer than at any time since second world war’ amid Russian drone incursion – follow live

Tusk says the first signals from Nato members show the understanding of how serious the situation is

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 9

War is not abstract. There are killers and victims. They all have names. They all have lives. This story cites two IDF snipers and the four Palestinians shot dead on one day, some trying to retrieve the bodies of other victims. Not easy reading --->

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich

Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

www.theguardian.com

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Secret Squirrel @secretsquidgle.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is correct. UK, Qatar and US Marine core + most of EU use probe. USAF (mostly) and IDF use flying broom.

It’s physically impossible for the UK to refuel an Israeli Aircraft

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_...

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 9

No RAF involvement in refuelling Israeli jets that bombed Qatar. The RAF Voyager nearby was engaged in exercises with the Qataris. Brit sources say that UK refueling method (probe and drogue) is incompatible with Israeli fighters

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Obviously that's £5.1m....

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Boris Johnson earned £5.1 in speech fees after leaving govt yet claimed £182k of taxpayer cash for staff, leaked files suggest. Nice work if you can get it. Extraordinary from Guardian Investigations --->

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 6

Why is Instagram constantly showing me this....?

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · Sep 5

As a veteran of charting these things, that felt pretty swift and drama-free as Cabinet reshuffles go

Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Deadline day latest: changes to Starmer's squad into tonight

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Deadline day latest: changes to Starmer's squad into tonight

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 28

Rescue workers searching for survivors after a Russian strike on a residential block in eastern Kyiv where at least 12 were killed overnight

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 20

'It would be a terrible loss’: Ukrainian frontline troops sceptical of ceding land --->

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘It would be a terrible loss’: Ukrainian frontline troops sceptical of ceding land

Near Dobropillia new trenches are visible, drone attacks continue and there is no sign of the fighting easing

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 15

that went well

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 15

More pre-Alaska build up - aka world domination, then and now

Tilsit 1807

Napoleon - Alexander I

Arguing over another country's city. Something things never change

Source - The Great Game, Peter Hopkirk

Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 14

The pianist and the air raid alarm. Kyiv.

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Kyiv. Now

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Now Trump promises there will be "very serious consequences" if Putin does not agree to a ceasefire, without spelling them out - most likely secondary sanctions on oil exports to China etc.

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Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social · Aug 13

Trump suggests there could be a second, tri-lateral meeting with himself Putin and Zelenskyy "almost immediately" if Alaska goes well - though he concedes "there may be no second meeting" if "I didn't get the answers that we have to have". Would be stunned if Putin agrees to that...

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