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November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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As Farage leads in the polls, this piece from last year sets out five big questions about his network’s links to a hostile foreign power – going beyond friendly words about Putin into meetings, money and data operations that most interviewers never touch. 2/10 bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Q1: Why did Farage falsely claim in 2018 that he had “never met the Russian ambassador” when the Russian embassy itself had published a photo of him with Alexander Yakovenko in 2013 – just as Moscow pivoted to disrupting the EU? 3/10
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Yakovenko’s team cultivated Tory and UKIP figures while Farage was a paid regular guest on state outlet RT, and he was offered his own show after the Brexit vote. So why was that embassy meeting so sensitive that he later denied it happened? 4/10 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Nigel Farage offered own show on Russian television
Kremlin-backed station have also approached Katie Hopkins and Russell Brand
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Q3: What did Farage know about Russia’s hack-and-leak operation against Hillary Clinton? In 2016 he attended the Republican convention, dined secretly with Roger Stone and Alex Jones, then turned up at the Ecuadorian embassy to see Julian Assange months later 7/10 www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Who is the real Nigel Farage... and why won't he answer my questions?
Carole Cadwalladr has spent months trying to speak to ‘Mr Brexit’. About his links to Donald Trump. About how Russia Today made him a YouTube star. About his notorious meeting with Julian Assange. So ...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Q4 & Q5: Farage’s ally Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica’s data machine alongside Russian troll farms to weaponise Brexit and Trump, while journalist Isabel Oakeshott privately warned editors that Banks appeared to be an “agent of influence” for Russia. 9/10 pdjukes.substack.com/p/how-online...
How Online Radicalisation Works: What the New X Study Reveals About Cambridge Analytica, the IRA, and the Dark Triad Machine
The debate is over. A major new experiment shows how effective Cambridge Analytica and Russian troll farms were in shifting political emotions with hostile, anti-democratic content online
pdjukes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Farage’s circle sat on those warnings until others forced them into the open – and he has never answered what he knew and when. With Russia’s war in Ukraine and a jailed aide already exposed, these five questions can’t be dodged. Full piece: bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM