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What connects Tommy Robinson, Bonnie Blue, Leicester City FC, the tiny African island of Anjouan and an apparently respectable family of property investors from Mill Hill?
It's a strange tale...
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I'm delighted my debut book, The Secret State, is coming out on May 20th
The Secret State will expose the shocking playbook used by the UK government to keep crucial information hidden
It is being published by @iconbooks and you can pre-order it here 👇
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'We'll deport the illegals!'
'To where?'
'They will be leaving the UK...'
Reform's Jaymey McIvor 'can't tell' @TomSwarbrick1 where his party plans to send the illegal migrants they deport.
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Watching the watchers: How the police are tracking who is asking them for information.
Police forces are referring requests made about MPs and royals to a special screening unit at the NPCC, sharing who is making the request.
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Older people are now reading "a lot of chatbot rubbish" and that's "dangerous."
After four decades at Private Eye, Ian Hislop tells #Newsnight it's not just young people falling for disinformation and why it "is always worth correcting."
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Media law lesson: it is against the law to report reasons for bail being refused in case it interferes with the right to a fair trial. Journalists are not allowed to report everything from preliminary hearings heard in both Crown or Magistrates court.
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Very good @MattFoot2 article on the Court of Appeal's grudging reluctance to rectify miscarriages of justice. Malkinson, Plummer, Sullivan ..... Will Letby be added to that list? lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n17/…
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A little thread about jumping the gun on police investigations - which might or might not be relevant to goings-on today. Buckle up.
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Den utmärkta modiga @robevansgdn (på The Guardian) skriver om de infiltrerande polismännen som förföljde bl. a djurrättsaktivister och utnyttjade kvinnor. En #spycops skyddades av Polisen som betalade miljoner av skattemedel för att han inte skulle hittas.
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What happens when the Court of Appeal corrects a miscarriage of justice — but refuses to examine how it happened?
Read @MattFoot2's article in the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n17/…
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What is the nature of the task that confronts the CCRC in considering Lucy Letby’s case?
@KenMacdonaldKC and @TimOwenKC discuss this and other UK Law and Politics issues on this week’s episode of Double Jeopardy.
Listen here: link.podtrac.com/p6ezxl7r
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Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
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Undercover police officer lied to #spycops inquiry about sexual relationship theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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#Spycops scandal:
Undercover police officer lied to #SpycopsInquiry about sexual relationship.
Officer forced to admit to long term relationship with woman while he spying on the SWP and animal rights campaigners under fake name Dave Evans.
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Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
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Evans was asked by Don Ramble, a barrister at the inquiry, if he had lied in his first statement. He replied:”I accept that it was not completely truthful with hindsight.”
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Undercover police officer lied to spycops inquiry about sexual relationship
Officer forced to admit relationship with woman lasting at least six months while working under fake name Dave Evans
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An undercover police officer who infiltrated leftwing and animal rights campaign groups appears to have lied to the #spycops inquiry when he claimed he did not have a sexual relationship as part of his deployment. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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The #spycops officer who used the fake name Dave Evans had originally testified that he did not have any relationships while using his fake identity. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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But this week, he was forced to admit to the #spycops inquiry that he did have a relationship with a woman that lasted at least six months. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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