After 7 days of live-streaming people's prepared statements, the rest of the #SpyCopsInquiry won't be live streamed, apart from to a room in London without power sockets, that hosts 60 people who had to apply weeks in advance, who get their confirmations at 10pm the night before.
Other Inquires have secure systems (eg time delayed streaming) to allow public access but still protect private info when needs be. The #SpyCopsInquiry's refusal to do the same is a conscious choice, in the teeth of our protestations, to exclude victims & the public.
The #SpyCopsInquiry will be providing a time-delayed live transcription. They intend to upload audio files & awkwardly formatted PDFs of transcripts after a hearing ends. 
We booked our seats for the hearing venue in London (had to be done weeks ago, going through the whole booking process for each day individually), as did @tombfowler. We will be live tweeting the hearings, attempting to provide the coverage we all deserve of this secret inquiry.
@tombfowler The Inquiry only confirmed our registration late last night (after 10pm).
NB: This Inquiry has already cost over £30m.
NB: This Inquiry has already cost over £30m.
The room has no natural light & no ventilation. We've brought long extension cables so our devices can stay charged. Is this deliberate? Of do they just not even consider the victims & public - whose expensive inquiry this is - as worthy of consideration?
The #SpyCopsInquiry's London venue for live streaming is a Covid measure, but the original plan was for hearings in a room that wouldn't even hold half the people designated as core participants, let alone any of the public - & with no streaming.
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