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It would have been cake and eat it for Hain to wait.

The courts would have considered the full case and may have made an important principled judgments about NDAs in favour of public interest reporting.

If judgment against Telegraph, Hain could still have revealed after that.
If case had gone to a full hearing, the Telegraph could have mobilised public support against NDAs in #metoo type cases, improving public understanding and putting pressure on courts to change approach.

If that failed, it might have succeeded next time as public opinion moved
And in amongst all that, Hain could still have revealed Philip Green's identity if he/Telegraph didn't get result they wanted.

Cake and eat it.

As things stand, it's cake (we know alleged perpetrator in this one case) but no eating (#metoo NDAs still a problem legally)
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Thatcher’s resignation
No wait it was Mandella’s release - that was earlier in the same year

No wait, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall

I’m not very good at this. It was stuff that happened in about 1989/90

I wasn’t very interested in politics
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Have dusted off my Nintendo Wii and playing through Super Mario Galaxy with my 8-year-old. Extreme fun and pleasure!
Such an amazingly imaginative and charming game and surprisingly good with two players
Watching a child play a classic Nintendo game for the first time is an amazing pleasure. These games are magical. Takes me back to playing Super Mario World on my friend's imported Super Famicom in 1991 #nerd
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What a shame. I was heartened to see the Golders Green mosque, which got a lot of nasty criticism from within the Jewish community when it took over the building, was organising an outreach event commemorating Muslims who helped Jews during the Holocaust. Now cancelled.
Here is the story. Another example of the damaging hostility shown to Muslim-Jewish interfaith events by @RmSalih (see also his idiotic response to the @MitzvahDay chicken soup making event) journal.quilliaminternational.com/2019/01/04/the…
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1. I've had a chance to read the new @StopWatchUK report by @PatrickWillia17 on the MPS #gangsmatrix. Some early reflections here, hope to write something more considered in due course.

Key Q for me: if the matrix was scrapped tomorrow, what would actually change?

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Yesterday late afternoon #Russia/n forces took 3 positions in Qusseyr and Juseh and established checkpoints. #Hezbollah, not informed of the Russian presence, came close to these forces and asked their immediate pull out+
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As I reported (accurately) the EU subjected the UK's two positions to a "forensic annihilation" - not quite the same as "killing them off" - more pulling them apart. Let's look at each in turn, and where they are now /2

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As a former cubicle-mate of @amychozick and an author or co-author on some of the @nytimes coverage of the hacked Podesta and DNC e-mails, I have a different view of our paper's decision to publish stories based on those e-mails.
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