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6 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New and exciting:
We're planning what we believe is the world's first live investigative documentary, @rivercide_live
It will investigate a massive and neglected issue: river pollution.
It's low-budget and entirely crowdfunded.
Please help:
kickstarter.com/projects/frann…
Thank you!
Mainstream broadcasters have terribly neglected these issues, with the result that neither the polluters nor the UK's 4 governments are feeling any pressure to stop the death of our beautiful rivers. Bypassing the broadcasters, we'll use a new technique to focus public attention.
We have a great team of experienced film makers and investigators: @frannyarmstrong @nicolacutcher @nicky_nicholls, Peter Armstrong.
We're going to shake things up.
But we need your help.
💚
Here's a short video explaining the concept, and what we hope to achieve:

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I understand the arguments for keeping schools open.
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The latest shocking coronavirus scandal:
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My column.
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This is the kind of misinformation that can kill people.

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If you can bear it, please read these four articles, published across 5 months, in sequence. They show how and why the total fiasco of the government's Covid-19 response unfolded.
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I hope you’re sitting down, because this week’s column should make you very, very angry.
It shows how professional clinicians employed by the NHS in crucial test and trace jobs have been secretly replaced by teenaged call centre workers employed by Serco
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This is such an extraordinary story, and so outrageous when you draw all the threads together, that the Guardian let me have almost twice the usual word count.

I defy you to read to the end of it without gasping with rage and grief.
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