Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agoNATO chief faces scrutiny from Europe over endless support for ‘Daddy’ Trumpwww.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkNATO chief faces scrutiny from Europe over endless support for ‘Daddy’ Trumpwww.independent.co.ukLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareAlex_Mihalchuk@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoIndependent’s owners: Evgeny Lebedev (41%), Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%)
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoWhat’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
minus-squareMelchior@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago 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.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 months agoUnless 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/
minus-squareMelchior@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoEvgeny Lebedev is the son of a Russian oligarch former KGB spy and Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a member of the Saudi royal family.
Independent’s owners: Evgeny Lebedev (41%), Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel (30%)
What’s happening there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Lebedev
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
The Tories can be bought and the crown basicaly does what the government says.
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/
Evgeny Lebedev is the son of a Russian oligarch former KGB spy and Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel is a member of the Saudi royal family.