• plyth@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      What’s happening there?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev

      His full title is Baron Lebedev, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.

      Is there a shadow Russian imperial court?

      His father was KGB. Would the British crown give a title to a Russian agent?

      The third owner runs the food rescue organisation for London. How does that make enough money to buy a newspaper?

      https://www.moneymazepodcast.com/podcast/justin-byam-shaw

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        His father was KGB. Would the British crown give a title to a Russian agent?

        The Tories can be bought and the crown basicaly does what the government says.

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      2 months ago

      Unless you can substantiate that there is some kind of editorial line being pushed, this comment is just FUD playing on xenophobia (foreign sounding names scaaaaaary). Is there a Bari Weiss kind of character running the Independent?

      More interesting would be to link to the MBFC page: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-independent/

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        2 months ago

        Evgeny Lebedev is the son of a Russian oligarch former KGB spy and Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a member of the Saudi royal family.