Thread by @allthecitizens

The Byline Intelligence Team Highlights 2021:

12 Tweets of @BylineBITE/@allthecitizens at Christmas ❄️

This year we've uncovered crony contracts, Whitehall parties, police misbehaviour, gender inequality, dug into asylum data and much more. Here are 12 of our winter BITEs…

1. First up - our agenda-setting investigations into Covid-19 contracts revealed how the UK's outsourcing of Covid response has cost more than the GDP of 140 countries.
bylinetimes.com/2021/07/12/uk-…

2. We exposed how £121.7 million increase in profits for Covid contract winners with Conservative links.
bylinetimes.com/2021/10/12/121…

3. And crunched the numbers to show a £100 million profit boost for firms given government contracts through ‘VIP’ lane.
bylinetimes.com/2021/11/24/100…

4. When the Taliban took Kabul and the UK promised to offer refuge to 25,000 people seeking asylum (the scheme will open in Jan), we reported how only 13% of Afghan Children Granted Asylum since 2009 were girls.
bylinetimes.com/2021/08/17/onl…

5. Our work on Military Might exposed how UK Universities received at least £190 million from major arms manufacturers in the past eight years.
bylinetimes.com/2021/08/18/uk-…

6. And we examined where wealth resides, finding England’s elite Private Schools having increased their assets by more than Half a Billion Pounds in Six Years.
bylinetimes.com/2021/11/25/eli…

7. Our major investigation into Conservative donors pipped other exclusives to the post… Tory Entitlement: Quarter of Top Conservative donors have received honours or peerages.
bylinetimes.com/2021/09/09/tor…

8. And our agenda setting investigations into the police found more than half of Met Police Officers guilty of sexual misconduct kept their jobs, while 3/4 of police officers guilty of gross negligence in sex crimes kept their jobs
bylinetimes.com/2021/09/20/mor…

bylinetimes.com/2021/09/21/thr…

9. Inequality has been a focus throughout our year. We reported how healthy life expectancy has fallen in 80% of Red Wall areas since the Conservatives took over.
bylinetimes.com/2021/10/15/hea…

10. Not forgetting our investigations into gender inequality - including how women MPs earn less than half as male colleagues from second jobs.
bylinetimes.com/2021/11/26/job…

11. COP26 meant climate issues have been on the agenda. Read how water companies have paid nearly half a billion in fines for a decade of violations.
bylinetimes.com/2021/10/26/wat…

12. Finally, we exposed the 8th Whitehall Party. And with that, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Please help spread the word by RT this thread or following us, for we promise much, much more in 2022.
bylinetimes.com/2021/12/10/the…