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November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
17/ all on our membership page - thenerve.news/membership Our newsletter is the best way to stay up to date.
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And please share this thread and follow us to help spread the word...🙏
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16/ As you can probably tell this all requires funds! We are determined not to paywall our journalism, so we have a membership funding model. For £6.95/month/ £68/year you can help us do more journalism and build the Nerve. Or you can sign up to our free twice-weekly newsletter..
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
16/ As you can probably tell this all requires funds! We are determined not to paywall our journalism, so we have a membership funding model. For £6.95/month/ £68/year you can help us do more journalism and build the Nerve. Or you can sign up to our free twice-weekly newsletter..
15/ ...including a report from the Monmouth floods, Stewart Lee's weekly column and all our culture content. Somehow we fitted in a members event on Tuesday with digital sage
Cory Doctorow (he said he's coming to Bluesky soon!). was good timing to have Ana - second left below - interning this week)
Cory Doctorow (he said he's coming to Bluesky soon!). was good timing to have Ana - second left below - interning this week)
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
15/ ...including a report from the Monmouth floods, Stewart Lee's weekly column and all our culture content. Somehow we fitted in a members event on Tuesday with digital sage
Cory Doctorow (he said he's coming to Bluesky soon!). was good timing to have Ana - second left below - interning this week)
Cory Doctorow (he said he's coming to Bluesky soon!). was good timing to have Ana - second left below - interning this week)
14/ Meanwhile our other co-founders have been working flat out. @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social and creative director Lynsey Irvine did evening shifts editing the timeline and designing our first print edition, and Jane Ferguson and @imogencarter.bsky.social produced all the rest of our journalism..
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
14/ Meanwhile our other co-founders have been working flat out. @sarahdonaldson.bsky.social and creative director Lynsey Irvine did evening shifts editing the timeline and designing our first print edition, and Jane Ferguson and @imogencarter.bsky.social produced all the rest of our journalism..
13/ Our co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social first reported on this on 12 October. Our researcher Charlie Young has a built a 50 page document,& our Reform correspondent @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social swam in the channel filming one of our video reports! 🥶www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5OwzvIOFEM
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
13/ Our co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social first reported on this on 12 October. Our researcher Charlie Young has a built a 50 page document,& our Reform correspondent @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social swam in the channel filming one of our video reports! 🥶www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5OwzvIOFEM
12/ Link in final post but before that a quick plea. The Nerve is just 8 weeks old. We're a fierce, female-founded news org covering culture politics & tech. Public service research journalism is expensive & time-consuming. To date, this project alone has taken 100s of man hours
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
12/ Link in final post but before that a quick plea. The Nerve is just 8 weeks old. We're a fierce, female-founded news org covering culture politics & tech. Public service research journalism is expensive & time-consuming. To date, this project alone has taken 100s of man hours
12/ See our full timeline for all the detail and more evidence, including an extraordinary clip from Gill's comment-lite police interview in March 2022, 6 months after his arrest.
“Who is Oleg Voloshyn?” No comment.
“How long have you known Oleg Volshyn?” No comment.
“Who is Oleg Voloshyn?” No comment.
“How long have you known Oleg Volshyn?” No comment.
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
12/ See our full timeline for all the detail and more evidence, including an extraordinary clip from Gill's comment-lite police interview in March 2022, 6 months after his arrest.
“Who is Oleg Voloshyn?” No comment.
“How long have you known Oleg Volshyn?” No comment.
“Who is Oleg Voloshyn?” No comment.
“How long have you known Oleg Volshyn?” No comment.
11/ Gill was close to Nigel Farage, a trusted colleague and a senior figure both in Ukip/Brexit party and Reform. The Met police says Farage was not interviewed and there's no suggestion he took bribes / is linked to Gill's case. They say investigations into other unspecified politicians are ongoing
November 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
11/ Gill was close to Nigel Farage, a trusted colleague and a senior figure both in Ukip/Brexit party and Reform. The Met police says Farage was not interviewed and there's no suggestion he took bribes / is linked to Gill's case. They say investigations into other unspecified politicians are ongoing
![11 Dec 2018 At the same session, Coburn and Arnott give similar speeches. Coburn says: “... No government can stand by and do nothing while its journalists are being attacked and murdered. This is thoroughly unacceptable …. The president of the Ukraine and the Rada parliament are, uh, plotting to close TV channels 112 and Channel One [sic]. Can this chamber truthfully say that Ukraine, which behaves this way, is ready for EU entry?”
Arnott says: “Against the backdrop of violence against journalists, the proposed closure of TV channels, I say this to the president and government of Ukraine. Please defend freedom… please ensure freedom of the press.” Speaking to the Guardian this month, Arnott rejected any suggestion that he had links to Russia or was acting in its interests and pointed to another part of his speech in which he said “the best response to a loss of freedom is increased freedom”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/bafkreihpwlob2q7hn6xcenanigpbu2fd4yprtthsvds4v5oyxgbwpqtgkq@jpeg)
9/ Arnott and Coburn did however travel to Ukraine with Gill on a media "fact-finding" trip and two months later made similar statements to the European parliament that Gill did in relation to this charge:
![Bribery count 2 6-12 Dec 2018
(All quotations relating to bribes are from the CPS court case summary. Count 1 – a summary – is not included here)
“This charge relates to the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement Debate … Messages from Mr Gill’s mobile device evidence an agreement made via WhatsApp for Mr Gill to receive a scripted contribution to the debate from Mr Voloshyn after which he would receive ‘xmas gifts’ and ‘post cards’, which are alleged to be coded references to money.”
11 Dec 2018: Following a vote in October by the Ukrainian parliament to close Channel 112 and NewsOne as “aggressive influence[s] of destructive propaganda”, Gill gives a speech in the European parliament: “We've seen activists and journalists alike being violently attacked by radicals … How can this be, that the president of Ukraine can potentially close down independent media just before an election?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/bafkreiaatovvwwtjv4xnj7iv5nqcqcmydzopkqtrtuhbeb3l22ncelj36a@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
9/ Arnott and Coburn did however travel to Ukraine with Gill on a media "fact-finding" trip and two months later made similar statements to the European parliament that Gill did in relation to this charge:
8/ In these messages Voloshyn asks Gill to arrange for three MEPs to make "comments on camera". He mentions ex-Ukip/Brexit party MEPs Jonathan Arnott and David Coburn. There's no suggestion Arnott & Coburn took bribes, knew about Voloshyn, or agreed to this particular proposal
![Voloshyn: "I've aksed V [Medvedchuk] Get xxx please and Coburn as well. I will get 5 for you if you get these three comments on camera". "Or Arnott". "We need three" Gill: "OK" "What time and where" V: "They are to come to EP in roughly an hour" Gill: "OK" "All three here"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/bafkreibn6emgy23ccdnomrkp6mztork3os3binghwpb3qpgkotphpcf3yq@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 AM
8/ In these messages Voloshyn asks Gill to arrange for three MEPs to make "comments on camera". He mentions ex-Ukip/Brexit party MEPs Jonathan Arnott and David Coburn. There's no suggestion Arnott & Coburn took bribes, knew about Voloshyn, or agreed to this particular proposal
7/ And the related video from the police evidence file, the Channel 112 interview in which Gill speaks in defence of Medvedchuk
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
7/ And the related video from the police evidence file, the Channel 112 interview in which Gill speaks in defence of Medvedchuk
6/ Also included is this bribery count...
![Bribery count 3 5 Feb 2019
“This charge relates to Mr Gill’s appearance on the television channel 112 Ukraine where he is critical of the Ukrainian decision to open criminal proceedings against Viktor Medvedchuk for high treason … Mr Voloshyn asks Mr Gill to make a ‘short pointed comment … expressing that it was ‘unacceptable to persecute [a] person for political convictions let alone for offering new ways to bring peace to war in Donbass’.”
5 Feb 2019: Gill speaks to Channel 112 Ukraine. He gives an opinion piece to camera in defence of Victor Medvedchuk which “closely followed the line given to him by Mr Voloshyn”. Gill is paid “‘5k” for doing so.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/bafkreib5glw5ngr4ldjqsxdeocvktuoav67ofze2uptmibyqrjc372nmfa@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
6/ Also included is this bribery count...
5/ We're also publishing a large portion of the evidence file, which includes WhatsApp messages with his handler/bribe funnel Oleh Voloshyn, clips from Gill's pro-Russian media statetments and from his police interviews. Here's one WhatsApp message- 'gifts' is a reference to cash
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
5/ We're also publishing a large portion of the evidence file, which includes WhatsApp messages with his handler/bribe funnel Oleh Voloshyn, clips from Gill's pro-Russian media statetments and from his police interviews. Here's one WhatsApp message- 'gifts' is a reference to cash
4/ As a fiercely independent news platform, we believe it's important that the public can access the detail of the case. And now we are publishing our timeline online. It details all of Gill's charges and related activity, including this one:
![Bribery count 2 6-12 Dec 2018
(All quotations relating to bribes are from the CPS court case summary. Count 1 – a summary – is not included here)
“This charge relates to the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement Debate … Messages from Mr Gill’s mobile device evidence an agreement made via WhatsApp for Mr Gill to receive a scripted contribution to the debate from Mr Voloshyn after which he would receive ‘xmas gifts’ and ‘post cards’, which are alleged to be coded references to money.”
11 Dec 2018: Following a vote in October by the Ukrainian parliament to close Channel 112 and NewsOne as “aggressive influence[s] of destructive propaganda”, Gill gives a speech in the European parliament: “We've seen activists and journalists alike being violently attacked by radicals … How can this be, that the president of Ukraine can potentially close down independent media just before an election?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lkvrabjcnztzl3nsbzj53tal/bafkreidokff6o5xdsvzavyrs6jwnrp6rzh6xf5lm72ammbxbysftijfut4@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
4/ As a fiercely independent news platform, we believe it's important that the public can access the detail of the case. And now we are publishing our timeline online. It details all of Gill's charges and related activity, including this one:
3/ We gave this timeline of evidence, the charges and context out outside court. No one had heard of Gill. Of course, it's hard for stories to cut through. But it's made harder when only 2 papers - Guardian & Mirror - mention the conviction/story on their front page & only one prints Gill's picture🙄
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
3/ We gave this timeline of evidence, the charges and context out outside court. No one had heard of Gill. Of course, it's hard for stories to cut through. But it's made harder when only 2 papers - Guardian & Mirror - mention the conviction/story on their front page & only one prints Gill's picture🙄
WhatsApps reveal Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements and that Gill’s handler took orders from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close Putin ally. It's a complex, detail-heavy story. So we went back to journalism's roots and made a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey.
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
WhatsApps reveal Gill sought to recruit other Brexit/Reform MEPs to make pro-Kremlin statements and that Gill’s handler took orders from Viktor Medvedchuk, a close Putin ally. It's a complex, detail-heavy story. So we went back to journalism's roots and made a pamphlet to hand out at the Old Bailey.
fixed thank you kindly!
November 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
fixed thank you kindly!