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Reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ( @TBIJ ) investigating London's ties to oligarchs and autocrats | Prev: Dispatches, Guardian, Panorama

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Ed Siddons

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NEW: Ex-cops, soldiers & special forces operatives are spying for oligarchs & autocrats, planting trackers on victims’ cars, rifling through bins, following them across the world & holding fake job interviews to solicit information. By @TBIJ & @thetimes

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How our elite troops became corporate spies for hire

Private detective firms use military surveillance tactics to get evidence for ‘lawfare’ court cases

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6 years

the day I can use my sexuality to pay for a ginger chicken udon is the day the struggle is over

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I’m not sure Wagamama completely understands currency.

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If you’re angry at Alabama’s repugnant abortion legislation, be furious at Northern Ireland’s. If you’re angry at US border policy, be furious at UK immigration detention. Always wild to me how US state legislatures can command more UK column inches than some domestic issues.

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AIDS was—and remains—a political crisis. Today, and every day. #WAD2017

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"Fuck it!" cried the brave young hero, proudly wading into territories unknown, "I stand with the TERFs!" He exhaled, heart palpitating, knowing that his name would be passed down the generations for this tremendous blow against the very heart of darkness: trans children.

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On 25th September, someone at a Mashrou' Leila concert in Egypt flew a rainbow flag. Since, 33 LGBT people have been arrested.

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I mean, Carol Ann Duffy's poem for Orlando is one of the worst things written this century.

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NEW: HMRC invalidated a proposed £14m fine against a notorious architect of tax avoidance schemes because it missed deadlines. “This is screwing it up 101,” said a former HMRC investigator. “I’m completely mystified as to why [HMRC] did what they did"

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‘Screwing it up’: HMRC’s £14m error lets tax avoidance specialist off…

Basic mistake was made in pursuit of fine against man thought to have cost the exchequer £1bn in lost revenue

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I gave my two cents to the brilliant @VVFriedman for this @nytimes exposé on abuse in the fashion industry. Bruce Weber and Mario Testino are not the first and certainly won't be the last. Unionise. Unionise. Unionise.

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@nickconfessore @RichardFausset Draw out the "ideology" and knife it. Draw out the psychology and expose how hollow it is. Draw out historical parallels and make clear where they end up. Don't write a half-baked take lightly infused with bougie disdain and claim it's of any political worth.

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Here it is. A story that took me a year to write. How a group of LGBTQ refugees are fighting for dignity in the midst of geopolitical catastrophe. My first for the Observer Magazine. In print, today.

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‘We’re brothers, sisters and activists’: the Greek collective of gay and trans refugees

For persecuted gay and trans refugees, getting together has given them a safe space as well as vital support. Edward Siddons hears how the group became family they never had

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I've spent the last two years being sued for my reporting. It has been – and I cannot stress this enough – an abject waste of my time. Now, the claim has been dropped, so I wrote something (in the dreaded first-person) about it all via @TBIJ

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Stressful, infuriating – and intensely boring: my two years defending…

London is one of the last places you want to be sued, and many journalists face financial ruin if they lose

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@Okwonga @nickconfessore @RichardFausset Just baffled at how this was pitched, written, edited and published and nobody thought it was repulsive. Then to see it vaunted as "great" and commenters get these blithe little responses as though this is Just Another Day On Twitter. Speechless.

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"Chat shit get banged." - Voltaire

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Seemingly, the "incident" is now a pretext for LGBT crackdown by what increasingly resembles a police state. For what? For flying a flag.

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Buzzfeed News UK was one of the few places that took LGBT reporting seriously: it made space for rigorous reporting and investigations, not just opinion and first-person confessionals, and it gave those stories the length they needed to sing when almost nowhere else does.

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Lewis Hamilton wrote a poem about Princess Diana and I am comprehensively dead

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🚨New job:🚨 I'm now a Reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @TBIJ , where I'll be investigating how UK executives, lawyers and advisors are enabling oligarchs, dictators and criminals around the world. It's a dream job and I'm thrilled.

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@nickconfessore @RichardFausset When people are constantly screaming "fuck you" it gets hard to separate legitimate criticism from rabid outrage. The responses to this might sound like the latter, but they're actually the former. This is extraordinarily irresponsible reporting. 1/?

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@nickconfessore @RichardFausset All it really offers is "Nazis can seem like the rest of us, can you fucking believe it?" It doesn't interrupt the normalisation of fascist discourse across the US, it furthers it. If you *must* write this, every single sentence should be a scalpel. 4/?

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Sexual abuse, shoddy labour laws & culture of silence - 'The Dangers of Male Modeling' - my exposé for @Newsweek .

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I am never not thinking about the date I went on with someone who described himself as a "human rights lawyer" when, in fact, he secured golden visas and substantial London property portfolios for oligarchs who started beefing the dictators who enriched them.

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Special shout out to the three different men in Sainsbury’s who spent whole minutes staring at the last bunch of wilting roses speculating on whether buying them would do more harm than good. In testing times we need to pull together and salute everyone doing the least.

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NEW: I went long on Carter-Ruck, the UK's "most feared" libel lawyers for @TheEconomist with @matthewvalencia . It’s a firm (and a man) that have been perhaps more influential than any other in shaping London’s notoriously fierce libel industry. Read here:

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Britain’s scariest libel firm can pursue anyone, anywhere

The government is trying to rein in firms like Carter-Ruck. It isn’t easy

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Which obviously isn’t to say that we should only care about domestic issues, but on certain issues there’s a sense of “god, look at the barbarians! that wouldn’t happen here!” when it is literally happening up and down the country.

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“Imprisoning people for wanting a better life is crazy to me” The UK is the only EU country to have no time limit on immigration detention: people rot for years in publicly funded facilities run by opaque private corporations, but sure, gawk at the yanks.

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what’s the german word for when it’s above ten degrees and there’s a bit of sun but your smooth pandemic brain is so overstimulated after months of sensory and social deprivation that you feel so playful that you might pass out and die

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@nickconfessore @RichardFausset The Greek press profiled Golden Dawn members like this over and over. They gave a platform to a group that's avowedly violent and effectively collaborated in their huge increase in vote share in 2015. The odd jab here and there doesn't constitute "critical" reporting. 2/?

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“I can’t believe what’s happening to families at the US border.” Wait until you hear about an industrial park in Bedford where women are being indefinitely detained, abused by guards, denied medication and deported.

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@aljwhite "Lviv at first sight"

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New: Companies under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office are spending up to ten times more than Britain’s anti-corruption agency on legal and investigation fees, outgunning and outnumbering the agency at every turn. Me and @slockster94 for The Times:

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Serious Fraud Office outgunned by UK firms

Some companies under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office are spending up to ten times more than Britain’s anti-fraud and bribery organisation on leg

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Imagine living in a nation so backwards and openly racist that half its front pages were covered in bile at letting 14 refugees in. Imagine!

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I don’t really do Political Tweeting much anymore but feel like it’s important that people pin their colours to the mast: The media’s ongoing assault on trans people has been utterly repugnant from start to finish.

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Chelsea Manning is facing charges for attempting suicide. I wrote this on LGBT incarceration for @i_D #FreeChelsea

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Question: why does Celine Dion look like Sarah Jessica Parker trying to break into Solange's wedding?

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Anyway, I don’t blame people for not knowing this stuff — it’s a systemic issue. (Try getting an FOI response out of the Home Office, lads, it’s a ride!) But surely something’s slightly amiss when we’re better informed about US policy than the country where we live and vote?

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6 years

This is 1,000 words of Bret Easton Ellis repeatedly punching himself square in the face and, reader, it is an exquisite peach:

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EXCLUSIVE: For the last year, @tbij and @thetimes have been on the trail of an international hacking ring which targeted senior British politicians, multi-million dollar businesses and critics of World Cup hosts Qatar. Read here:

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Exposed: the global hacking network that targets VIPs

An Indian gang accessed the files of journalists, politicians and critics of the Qatar World Cup

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7 years

And the Tory MP railing against “forcing children to question their gender”—hun, no kid will pay this any attention—is probably the same one calling students snowflakes when they aren’t happy with Nazis coming to campus. What a time to be alive.

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"Money's tight," appears to be the standard Treasury response to any question put to it. But the SFO has brought in £1.3bn in the last five years, far outstripping the funding received. The fight against white collar crime is a net gain for the Treasury, so why won't it fund it?

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3 years

NEW: Kazakhstan's brutal former dictator used a UK company to preside over $7.8bn in assets with the help of British lawyers and accountants, @TBIJ & @Telegraph can reveal.

Expert guides and analysis for UK and global business. News, tips, updates and advice.

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"Well, actually," he demurred, like so many men before him, wondering if it weren't better to hedge his terrible opinion in more acceptable garb, "I've talked to some really nice trans people." Then, a vision — the final coup de grâce: "they have my solidarity if they want it."

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Him: "My sexuality doesn't define me." Me:

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Your headline splash is that one NHS trust included a question about gender on a survey for young people. A few weeks ago it was a hatchet job on a black student which you later had to apologise for. Don’t you ever get tired?

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"Sodomise": because anal sex is an affront to the normal & its primary use is to embarrass and shame. Fuck off.

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Donald Trump could offer to personally sodomise every one of his supporters and they'd still vote for him

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Is the gay leather scene dying? My piece in today's @guardian

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Why is the gay leather scene dying?

Not long ago, many clubs catered to enthusiastic leathermen. But predatory property developers, changing attitudes to gender and the rise of rubber threaten the scene’s existence

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2 years

Multi-billion dollar Kazakh entities are trying to sue @TBIJ & @openDemocracy into silence. We need your help to fight back. Please share, retweet and - if you can - give. The time we spend fighting off lawsuits is time we don't spend reporting.

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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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🔴 BREAKING We are facing an unprecedented legal fight just for doing our job – and we need your help. @TBIJ and @openDemocracy are the latest victims of a wave of lawsuits brought in UK courts by the rich and powerful to silence the free press (🧵)

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I interviewed one of the country's most outspoken gay priests on sexuality, faith, institutional homophobia and the future of the Church of England. It's thorny and unapologetic. In print today, online here:

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The rebel priest: ‘Gay people in the church are not going to go away’

The Rev Andrew Foreshew-Cain says his same-sex marriage cost him his ministry. Now he is launching a campaign for the rights of LGBTQ Christians

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I think the fact that Stormzy called someone a fag SIX YEARS AGO tops the list of "precious bullshit I couldn't care less about today." Congratulations! You've found someone who navigates a hypermasculine world and who used a slur back in the day. This is NOT journalism.

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Rapper Stormzy labelled a little boy a "f**king fag" and made other homophobic remarks in offensive tweets:

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Ashley turned to the slack-jawed child sitting nearby and said: "I solidarity you." With those three little words, all of the systemic injustice, structural violence, employment discrimination and familial rejection in the world dissipated. "I solidarity you too."

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I’m in today’s Observer Magazine talking algorithms, surveillance, tech unions, Facebook, Covid contracts, racial profiling, Palantir and power with the co-founder of one of the UK’s most exciting tech justice groups, @cori_crider of @Foxglovelegal .

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Taking on the tech giants: the lawyer fighting the power of algorithmic systems

Whether it’s the CIA or Facebook, lawyer and activist Cori Crider is never one to shy away from a fight

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Reminder that Macron's centrist (neo)liberalism is incomparably better than Le Pen's smiling fascism. Claiming otherwise is idiocy.

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@GrantTucker Never forget, Lewis Hamilton, poet laureate:

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The trans children — blissfully unaware of this brave defender of the realm before he waddled into their lives unbidden — erupt in applause. Ashley, aged nine, had learned something important that day: solidarity just means feeling able to support the rights of people you like.

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Proving that sometimes, art isn't entirely subjective, it can just be shite.

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Tom Crewe’s piece on the AIDS years is breathtaking.

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Or maybe it was campaigning for a racist, misogynist President & VP who diverted AIDS money to electro-shock gay cure therapy? WHO KNOWS

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Caitlyn Jenner says Ellen “alienated” her from LGBT+ community

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Just such an impressive, eloquent and courageous body of work: - -

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Richard Hammond's a bell end and I love cornettos. Me for @Independent

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Big shout out to the north London gays behind me in Tesco whose shop consisted of 30 bottles of red wine and NOTHING else

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LIFE NEWS: So I just got a scholarship to spend summer in Europe researching antifascist resistance movements. The best news.

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EXCLUSIVE w/ @Gabriel_Pogrund Sugar tried to become a "non-resident" to avoid a £186m tax bill. The advice he received was wrong, and now he's going after the advisers. He allegedly said he would've quit the Lords to avoid it. @TBIJ & @thetimes

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6 years

Really shitty stuff from @politico — the decadent-homo-cast-down-by-the-gay-plague trope is as gross as it is irresponsible. A generation of dead queers isn't a shot of colour for your clapped character sketches.

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This lockdown must end

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@ImogenWK nothing bar nothing will ever be worse than Carol-Ann Duffy's poem after 49 people were murdered in a gay club in Orlando it haunts me to this day

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I mean I could show you rates of self-harm, depression, anxiety and suicide among LGBTQ kids, or you could just stop being so eye-wateringly ignorant.

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Quote of the day on @BBCr4today - "It's harder to come out as being a Conservative than being gay" (from Tory student)

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This pathologising, armchair psychology bullshit was clapped in the 90s. It was boring after Omar Mateen. It's boring now. Displacing responsibility for being a Nazi onto struggles around sexuality helps nobody worth helping.

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If you are homophobic, there is a good chance you are suppressing gay impulses and it is poisoning you. This young man is a heart-breaking example, as was the Orlando shooter

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I wrote about HIV cure strategies 50 years after one of the first suspected AIDS-related deaths in the US and in light of the "London patient" with @Tajg92 . My first cover story for @guardiang2 --

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Fifty years of HIV: how close are we to a cure?

It’s half a century since the first known HIV-related death and two patients appear to have been cured of the virus. What does this mean for the 37 million still living with it?

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Home Office staff have been sitting in on child poverty assessments and gathering data on migrant families. This took months of work, thrilled to see it out. My investigation for the @guardian with the brilliant @niamh_mcintyre

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Home Office staff sit in on council interviews with migrant families

Critics say practice risks deterring destitute families from accessing support

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You'd think in a country obsessed with framing every Twitter beef as an "assault on free speech", dragging journalists through the courts for speaking ill of the super rich might make waves. Unless the culture war isn't actually about free speech at all?

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Ah yes! The commonwealth! A consensual political union based on liberty for all. That's definitely what happened in history. Thanks, Danny!

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Happy Commonwealth Day to 2.5 billion people bound together by a dream of liberty. 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇳🇬🇧🇩🇿🇦🇹🇿🇰🇪🇨🇦🇺🇬🇲🇾🇬🇭🇲🇿🇦🇺🇨🇲🇱🇰🇲🇼🇿🇲🇷🇼🇵🇬🇸🇱🇸🇬🇳🇿🇯🇲🇳🇦🇧🇼🇱🇸🇹🇹🇲🇺

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This polarisation whereby cis women and trans women are pitted against each other in a media cage fight does nothing for any cause other than patriarchy and it’s painful to watch.

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Literally @-ing in a political opponent while wishing well to the Jewish community is as transparently insincere as it is grotesque. Coming from a man overseeing an office of the state that uses taxpayers money to terrorise minorities is a fucking parody. Shame on you.

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Wishing all Jews in UK & abroad a very happy #RoshHashanah . At a time when British Jews understandably (and sadly) feeling under threat from @jeremycorbyn , more important than ever for all decent people to stand together and celebrate our Jewish community. #ShanahTova

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For years, columnists have obsessed over the limits to speech posed by ‘cancel culture’ while remaining largely silent on the legal and financial risk posed by strict libel laws and eye-wateringly expensive libel lawyers.

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Britain’s fiercest libel firm can pursue anyone, anywhere

The government is trying to rein in firms like Carter-Ruck. It’s not easy

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This was a pleasure to commission and edit. Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for 35 years, reflecting on her time campaigning for penal reform, and the abject futility of the prison system:

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The reform of prisons has been my life’s work, but they are still utterly broken | Frances Crook

A small, ethical and compassionate prison system would transform lives, says Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform

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Among my worst performances was going home with a (very nice) lad before getting anxious in the night, drawing for the emergency snickers in my coat pocket, then waking him up with the chomping. He’s allergic to peanuts.

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Also, a cover has never made me think quite so much:

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Good afternoon to everyone except Clare Foges, author of the most intellectually and morally bankrupt piece of the year:

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Section 28 was an abomination. Remember who imposed it, and remember the kids whose lives were ruined by a government that tried to legislate them into invisibility. But also realise the parallels: TERF fearmongering about trans-inclusive education is no different. Goodnight.

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That’s because we have to pay £150 for a same day single to Birmingham.

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British millennials have some of the poorest mental wellbeing in the world – it’s time to start talking about it:

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I wrote about how #men not #migrants are to blame in #Cologne . Read it here cc: @IndyVoices :

We should look to the gender of the Cologne attackers - not their race

Those who have never fought for women’s rights will opportunistically use women’s sexual trauma as the vehicle for their xenophobia, another brick for their much-loved border

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Them: "So when did you come out?" Me: "Most days since I turned 14." Them: *heterosexual brain implodes; ashes remain* #NationalComingOutDay

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3 years

For a sense of scale, the SFO gets around £52m a year from Treasury. That's less than some companies spend defending individual investigations. A job ad for its Chief Investigator role started at £80k a year — £20k less than a third year solicitor at big City law firms.

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6 years

Ah yes — I miss the good old days before the NYT piece, when the “nuanced evolution” of the “debate” definitely wasn’t just purported feminists speculating on trans women’s genitalia and trying to shame them from the public arena using pre-transition photos. Paradise lost, mate.

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Jo Maugham

6 years

This - I'm not going to link to it - reads almost as a deliberate attempt to stop in its tracks the nuanced evolution of how we understand and protect the rights and dignities of trans women and those born women. A real pity the NYT chose to publish it.

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Ed Siddons

4 years

A couple of months ago I knocked on my neighbour's door to explain that a parcel for me had been left at hers and she without so much as a blink stared me dead in the eye and announced in thick french accent "i find that highly improbable" and closed the door. Still shook

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Ed Siddons

8 years

Things I would vaguely like to have: - a PhD Things I do not want to do: - a PhD

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Ed Siddons

7 years

Sincerely hope Diane Abbott's at home cracking open a cold one and keeping herself warm by burning every copy of the Mail & Express around.

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Ed Siddons

7 years

dating tip #1 - never date a man who's too prestige for a Gregg's there i said it because nobody else would

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Ed Siddons

4 years

Just found the to-do list I wrote myself at 5:37 yesterday and it is the worst thing I have ever done

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Ed Siddons

8 years

Stop fucking praying. Start fucking acting. Thoughts with all those traumatised, injured and murdered in Orlando. Rest in peace.

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Ed Siddons

3 years

This piece on how financialisation undermines the care sector is excellent. More funding won't work if the money flows straight into the coffers — often offshore — of the private investment firms that own 1 in 8 care beds in England.

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Predatory financial tactics are putting the very survival of the UK care system at risk | Christine...

Investor returns have become more important than quality care and worker pay in the UK, says researcher Christine Corlet Walker

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Ed Siddons

7 years

So, if apparently we now have to decide whether we want to repress, counsel or “convert” trans people to a life that can kill them, or we make space for them to live with dignity, I know where tf I stand.

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Ed Siddons

8 years

Take a moment, stop, and think: Paris Hilton is 35.

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Ed Siddons

4 years

I investigated private equity's role in the collapse of the high street with @alasdairglennie . We found thousands of jobs lost, c.£50m owed to HMRC when brands went under, and hundreds of millions of profits shared by members of the PE firms. Watch here:

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Channel 4 Dispatches

4 years

Private equity firms are taking home billions of pounds as high streets die and thousands are unemployed. #Dispatches studied the accounts of 10 well known brands including HMV, Cath Kidston, Debenhams, and Toys ‘R’ Us, that entered administration in the past three years. 1/

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Ed Siddons

4 years

@michaeljswalker cut to left bottoms furiously adding your name to the google sheet of london tops. it currently contains only six confirmed names.

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Ed Siddons

6 years

Agree. It is a “different political scale”. Because one party has presided over illegal deportations, stripped the citizenship of a groomed child, sent “go home” vans into Muslim neighbourhoods, and dragged us out of the EU through islamophobic tropes of a Turkish “invasion”.

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Laura Kuenssberg

6 years

This is on different political scale but tories also have a problem here 👇🏼

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Ed Siddons

6 years

This is pretty astonishing: not only is Cynthia Nixon demanding the abolition of ICE, but pledging to provide drivers' licences to undocumented people to protect them from being deported following traffic stops.

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ABC News

6 years

Cynthia Nixon to @theView : "I think we need to abolish ICE." "They have strayed so far from the interests of the American people and the interests of humanity—we need to abolish it."

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Ed Siddons

8 years

Me: "Me & that 6'4 lad in Co-op had a real moment" Narrator: "With a Twix multipack in hand, Edward stared at a heterosexual until he fled."

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Ed Siddons

6 years

Anywhere gay showing the match on Saturday? Access requirements include: - close to the march - not full of shit men who think Tommy Robinson's a free speech activist - that is all

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Ed Siddons

7 years

THREAD. [NB: It explicitly repudiates Hitler/Trump parallels. Those parallels are farcical and leftists should stop.]

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@iyad_elbaghdadi

8 years

I just read an early Hitler speech (1933). Then I read a transcript of Trump's inauguration speech. Hitler comes off as moderate.

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