This is the fourth week in a row that @allthecitizens newsletter has majored in herd immunity.
This week the realisation of what the govt is doing finally broke through. And yet there's no way to stop it. Despite the collective horror of the international scientific community.
What we are seeing tomorrow is not Freedom Day. It's #UnFreedomDay. It's a day on which the powers of unreason & untruth will triumph. A triumph that will kill people you know. And leave 10s of 10000s with a debilitating, long-term condition.
It's what happens when a government has a reckless disregard for truth, facts, expertise. When it rides roughshod over norms & institutions. When there is no way of holding it to account.
This is not a separate problem from the 152k dead. It *is* the problem.
We've worked with @dgurdasani for 2 months to investigate the spread of the Delta variant in schools & the govt's cover-up.
A herd immunity by mass infection strategy in all but name.
This week, we literally staged an intervention. Britain, the addict destroying not only its own health, but that of everyone around the world. We brought together an amazing panel of international scientists who told us our govt's strategy is 'murderous'
It made headlines in Britain & around the world. The world is watching us with horror. But what now?
Even Prof Whitty says it's 'scary'. Scarier still when people who should speak up, don't.
We are entering the unknown. We're doing what we can. It's not enough. But if you're able to support our work, we can & will do more 🙏 crowdfunder.co.uk/the-citizens
NEW: I'm seeking permission to appeal in the Supreme Court. There's no meaningful free expression in this country if after proving your speech is lawful, you're hit with £££ costs: a devastating ruling that will chill public interest journalism
by @_EmmaGH theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
This was filed today in the Court of Appeal. If the Supreme Court rejects it, we believe there’s a strong case to take it to the European Court of Human Rights.
Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights puts an obligation on states to ensure freedom of expression. According to the ruling in this case, it's very far from free: even if you can prove your speech is lawful, it'll still cost you hundreds of thousands of pounds...
It's been a long time but v happy to be back in @ObserverUK today with 2 pieces, both close to my heart. And to launch a new project with @allthecitizens.
1/ An astonishing new claim that MI5 refused to investigate Russian spy's infiltration of Tory party theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
2/ Delighted to profile the fierce & brilliant @pevchikh for @ObsNewReview. If you've seen the Navalny doc, she's the woman sitting by Navalny's side as he calls one of his FSB poisoners & gets him to confess to Novichoking his underpants. theguardian.com/world/2023/jan…
3/ Finally, the story of how the Kremlin captured Britain. And how the UK government covered it up. If you've wondered why no British broadcaster has told the real story behind the Russia Report, please watch this & consider contributing.
My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting with an ex-KGB spy.
In July 2019, Johnson had just been made PM. And @nickhopkinsnews published 2 extraordinary stories about Foreign Secretary Johnson flying from a NATO meeting to a party in Italy at the height of the Skripal crisis.
The party was at Evgeny Lebedev’s villa. The owner of Independent & Evening Standard.
Hopkins’s first story suggested he’d given his security detail the slip to fly to Italy. Then a Guardian reader supplied photos of him leaving: hungover & dishevelled 3/
Thank you to the judge, my stellar legal team & the 29,000 people who contributed to my legal defence fund. I literally couldn’t have done it without you 🙏🙏🙏
I haven't read the judgment yet but what I can say that the last 3 years have been extraordinarily difficult. Fighting this has been a crushing, debilitating, all-consuming experience that I sincerely hope no other journalist ever has to go through. 2/ judiciary.uk/judgments/bank…
The fact that his case was brought clearly shows how our libel laws favour the rich & powerful. I was only able to defend myself because of the incredibly generous support of the public. But this judgment is a huge victory for public interest journalism.
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