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Just received notification from the Mail on Sunday that, in a week in which I have received death threats, they are tomorrow going to publish my private address.
I have instructed lawyers and we will be writing to the Mail on Sunday very shortly.
Let me pre-empt what the Mail on Sunday seems to say is the public interest. Yes, I own an expensive house which I spent a very considerable sum renovating. I have never pretended not to be, by any ordinary standard, wealthy.
Yes, to answer a question put to me by the Mail on Sunday, since becoming a public figure I have sought to keep my connection with my private residence out of the public domain. Although the Mail suggests some bad motive, you might think there is a more obvious reason.
I have three young children, all at state school, and currently spend at least 75% of my life working for free. The money I have, I have made for myself. I have also experienced poverty but am proud of what I have achieved as this piece explains. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I earn nothing from the work done by the Good Law Project, not one penny. Indeed, since it started, in addition to the bulk of my working life I have contributed many thousands of pounds of my own money to support its activities.
The Mail on Sunday having categorically stated that they were going to publish now say "the item about your client has not made the final draft of [X]" (I do not intend to name X). They have asked me to delete my tweets, but I will not.
Abysmal though X's actions were I do not propose to identify X. It seems to me that we should all be entitled to pursue our daily lives, and our work, without harrassment or the risk of our lives or those of our families being endangered by extremists.
