Yes, I argued cases for would be tax avoiders - and I have written about that here: waitingfortax.com/2015/05/01/tax…. But the hypocrisy is all the Mail's.
Yes, I killed a fox to save my chickens. But, again, the hypocrisy is all the Mail's (magzter.com/stories/Fashio…).
This was a nasty, bullying attack, targeted at a Government critic, the sort of attack a United Kingdom Government would once have condemned but now shamefully indulges in.
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BREAKIING: The High Court has ruled Michael Gove broke the law in awarding a contract to his associates at Public First. The Court ruled a reasonable observer would think there was a real risk Public First won the contract because of favouritism.
The decision vindicates what @GoodLawProject has been saying now for a year: that the Government's pandemic procurement favoured friends of the Conservative Party. Full blog here: glplive.org/judgment
We have now two concluded judicial reviews of pandemic procurement. Each established that a Cabinet Minister - respectively, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove - acted unlawfully. We have a slate of approximately a dozen further judicial reviews to come.
Just imagine an ongoing national debate about the 'reasonable limits of black existence' conducted exclusively by white people. That's what trans people face - and it is *abysmal*.
Spoken about, over, through but never to and never heard.
In practice, the way Government is briefing makes this look like a very specific legislative attack on @GoodLawProject and the work we do.
We at @GoodLawProject have *repeatedly* been commended in judgments by High Court judges for the ethical and responsible way in which we have conducted ourselves. We also have an extraordinary record of success in exposing a Government that is contemptuous of the law.
"Lord Peter Cruddas donated £500,000 to the Conservative Party's central office on 5 February 2021, only three days after he was introduced into the House of Lords where he now sits as a Conservative peer." businessinsider.com/disgraced-tory…
I mean, Cruddas' peerage couldn't possibly have been sold, could it, because that would be a criminal offence by both sides.
For the avoidance of any doubt I'm not saying Cruddas or the Prime Minister committed a criminal offence. But it's one helluva ugly fact pattern.
Having tried to destroy the leading charitable voice in the country arguing black lives are worth the same as white lives The Times is now trying to destroy the leading charitable voice in the country arguing that queer lives are worth the same as straight ones.
No one who calls themselves progressive should pay for Murdoch's attempts to roll back gains won for minority communities over time. Please, if you care about your BAME neighbours, your gay friends, your trans colleagues, cancel your subscription to The Times.
No anology is perfect, of course, but it is hard not to be struck by how The Times attacked Labour under Corbyn for only listening to marginal voices in Judaism whilst it only listens to (even more) marginal voices in the LGBT+ community now.
Months of work. Multiple leakers. Johnson's inner circle. Falsehoods from civil servants. Vast sums of public cash. WTF facts. And, when all is said and done, a smell amply bad enough, I think, to spark a criminal investigation. goodlawproject.org/patel-mirza-an…
There is so much dirt in this story that it's hard to arrange it in tidy little narrative piles. So what I'm going to do over the course of the next few hours and days is just highlight some remarkable elements of in a tweet thread.
Why did Ms Mirza, Johnson's political adviser, who had nothing to do with procurement, push the case of Samir Jassal a man with no obvious ability to supply PPE but with close connections to three Tory PMs? Why did she speak repeatedly to his associates and go "above and beyond"?