Diary
Carole Cadwalladr
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I thought I had dealt with everything investigative journalism could throw at me: death threats, surveillance, social media abuse, a High Court libel trial (judgment pending). But a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and I experience a new low: one of my arch-nemeses, Andrew Neil, has made a shock discovery— the existence of Russian oligarchs.
I can take many things. But late-period Andrew “Woke” Neil, in which the chairman of the Spectator and ex-BBC presenter turns himself into the avenging scourge of the Kremlin and its influence on British politics, might be what finally breaks me.
The Sunday Times has published a story about how the security services had warned against the appointment of Evgeny Lebedev, the owner of the Evening Standard and the Independent, to the House of Lords. And Neil is tweeting in shock at this revelation.