It's good attention is turning to how powerful men use defamation law to silence critics. @GoodLawProject is supporting Nina Cresswell who, when the police wouldn't act, spoke out about the man who sexually assaulted her - and is now being sued. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/she-said-metoo-now-shes-being/?utm_campaign=GLP%20website%20case%20page%20081122
Hey, @RishiSunak. Where's your tax return? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/16/rishi-sunak-says-he-hopes-to-publish-tax-return-by-christmas
Figleaf Britain, in which we perform fake processes to disguise the truth of our corruption. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9a0a1f46-a002-11ed-be83-0b182bac2124?shareToken=506be64c6a69920578cc2ee7c14ba6fc
Douglas Murray on the AFD
"The public can see that these people often called racists and Nazis are – whatever else you might think of them – clearly not Nazis or racists" https://twitter.com/PinchasRabbi/status/1619776175978725376
Fifty three members of the AFD far right party in the German Parliament left the plenary, when a Holocaust survivor spoke during International Holocaust Day. Sixteen of them, on the 24th of January, introduced a law to ban Shechita in Germany. Achtung Antisemitismus!!!
Sunak appointed Braverman
He appointed Raab
He appointed Zahawi https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1619711729222688768
NEW: Former chancellor George Osborne warns Rishi Sunak is being "pulled down by a series of scandals" which are hangover of the Johnson era. "But he needs to do something pretty quickly," he tells @afneil #AndrewNeillShow
Dunno about you, but I'm not in favour of forgetting Andrew Tate.
I wonder if the law has a remedy for anyone who incurred legal costs, or paid compensation, following a letter from Zahawi's lawyers making a false claim there was no HMRC investigation? There certainly should be.
This is quite a scalp for @DanNeidle without whom we can safely say none of this would have come out. Great, and brave, work.
@peterjukes @fascinatorfun See also Johnson’s attempts to get Jennifer Arcuri and Carrie Symonds into lucrative jobs, whilst in extra marital relationships with both
@alexhallhall The UK electorate were admired around the world for their common sense and pragmatic approach to government. That illusion was broken with Brexit because of the lies and deceptions that the voters believed. This loss of respect will take decades to recover.
@alexhallhall Yes.
If your entire Government's 'Foundational Myth' is based on a Lie (Brexit) and every single MP of your Government was specifically chosen because of their willingness to repeat that Lie, then that lie needs a host of other Lies to support it, until 'everything' is a Lie.
💣💥 💥⚡ #Trump's Early Russian Connections: 30 years of the #KGB surveillance. Facts, links, interviews. #Helsinki2018 @WendySiegelman @dcpoll @peterjukes @lukeharding1968 @ushadrons @AlexandraChalup @Vladdich @grantstern @patrickLSimpson @brexit_sham https://medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisky/trumps-early-contacts-with-russia-d92eea2f5c3c
If Sunak replaces EU REACH rules, which requires that Pharma companies prove drugs are safe & work, with US rules that allow them to withhold evidence then Sunak’s hedge fund Theleme will make even more money @carolvorders https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1619709849226592257
MODERNA WITHHELD TRIAL DATA on booster shot to win $5bn USA contract
RISHI SUNAK Signed UK gov deal with Moderna before Xmas of £1 billion while refusing to say how much profit he has personally made from shares in Moderna via his hedge fund Theleme
https://mol.im/a/11624959
Zahawi’s behaviour in taking a #SLAPP case against @DanNeidle does not seem to have formed part of this investigation. Ministers using such tactics to evade scrutiny should surely be investigated for breaching the Seven Principles of public life and for abuse of position? https://twitter.com/drhannahwhite/status/1619640747787161600
Sir Laurie Magnus finds that Nadim Zahawi has committed a “serious failure to meet the standards set out in the ministerial code” breaching requirements for openness, honesty and leadership (full findings here https://bit.ly/3kQMkKW)
This is a really interesting and concerning post re an FBI higher up accused of taking bribes from a Russian oligarch and the implications of that indictment. https://twitter.com/timothydsnyder/status/1619359250853294081
In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why. 0/20
No 10 refuse to say if Rishi Sunak overruled advice when he reappointed Suella Braverman
🔴 EXCLUSIVE from @janemerrick23
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/braverman-zahawi-scandals-public-transparency-cabinet-appointments-opposition-2113241?ito=social_itw_theipaper&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1675008553
MODERNA WITHHELD TRIAL DATA on booster shot to win $5bn USA contract
RISHI SUNAK Signed UK gov deal with Moderna before Xmas of £1 billion while refusing to say how much profit he has personally made from shares in Moderna via his hedge fund Theleme
https://mol.im/a/11624959
If Sunak replaces EU REACH rules, which requires that Pharma companies prove drugs are safe & work, with US rules that allow them to withhold evidence then Sunak’s hedge fund Theleme will make even more money @carolvorders https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1619709849226592257
MODERNA WITHHELD TRIAL DATA on booster shot to win $5bn USA contract
RISHI SUNAK Signed UK gov deal with Moderna before Xmas of £1 billion while refusing to say how much profit he has personally made from shares in Moderna via his hedge fund Theleme
https://mol.im/a/11624959
"The real problem here is libel law, and how it can be used by the powerful to silence people who criticise them"
To me that’s the most important lesson from the Zahawi affair. Tax law worked fine. HMRC did it’s job. Libel law is broken. https://twitter.com/timesradio/status/1619715745881161728
"I had no idea that a senior politician could say things that were just not true and take legal action or threaten to take legal action on that basis."
Nadhim Zahawi used libel law to stop journalists from exposing his taxes, says @DanNeidle on #TimesRadio.
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We are truly through the looking glass whem #MusksMinions start classify one of the few remaining groups of real journalists in the UK are ckassed as "harmful". https://twitter.com/electoralreform/status/1589597532539191296
🔴 Leaping Over the Lords
Labour’s announcement that it would abolish the UK’s unelected second chamber is a headline-grabbing idea with little thought of the problems involved, writes @acgrayling https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/25/leaping-over-the-lords/
🔴The Rise of Fringe Science, Contrarian Doctors, & the Threat to Public Health
@drg1985 looks at the partisan polarisation and obsession with scientists rather than science that makes us prone to medical misinformation and anti-vaccine propaganda
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/24/the-rise-of-fringe-science-contrarian-doctors-and-the-threat-to-public-health/
Energy Debt Soars to Record High as People Struggle with Pre-Payment Meters and Poverty https://tinyurl.com/2quw7q6n [@BylineTimes]
Death of Rwandan Journalist – Another Red Flag for UK’s Flagship Deportation Scheme – Byline Times
Brian Latham
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https://bylinetimes.com/2023/01/25/death-of-rwandan-journalist-another-red-flag-for-uks-flagship-deportation-scheme/
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