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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Unsung heroes time. This is Gill Phillips. Aka @ladywell23. You don’t know her but she is @observerUK & @guardian’s head lawyer & the backstop behind #ParadisePapers & #CambridgeAnalyticaFiles & much more. Tonight she won us this award for press freedom. THANK YOU GILL 👏👏👏
She’ll hate the photo but tough. The day after Robert Mercer first threatened to sue us,I discovered his lawyers also represented Rosneft & Gazprom. ‘How does that feel?’ I asked her. ‘To take on Putin’s lawyers?’ She rubbed her hands together, ‘LOVE a battle.’
She’ll probably try & make me delete that tweet on legal grounds, FYI. But - yoo hoo millionaires! - I’m freelance & these tweets represent my views only. Plus I live in a council estate. So. There is literally no point in coming after me. Do your worst. (Hi Jim Mellon! *waves*)
Who’s Jim Mellon, you say? GOOD QUESTION. Jim Mellon, offshore exile, Brexit donor, Arron Banks’ business partner. And investor in Russian diamonds.
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Thank you @RSF_inter for reminding us UK is only 40th in world for press freedom. If you value a free press, PLEASE pay for it, somehow. The below is currently the other half of @ObserverUK’s investigations team. And she’s smart. But not *that* smart.

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Nice try, Tony, but that's bollocks
And @MattGarrahan, Tony Hall has now put @ft into an embarrassing position because you accepted his word and repeated it as fact which it's not so you'll need to add a clarification to this.
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