Thread by @allthecitizens

NEW 🔴🧨
Our highlights for 2021

Tough year.
Covid has exacerbated the cracks in the system.
The Uk gov has increasingly shown its authoritarian tendencies while trying to avoid scrutiny
So, 🙏 for being there: with your growing support, we have kept holding power to account.

1. JANUARY
We discovered Cronysm at the highest level and how the Covid pandemic has been a bonanza for some, while the country was on its knees.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1351943500523311105?s=20

2. FEBRUARY
We found a new government Covid19 contract linked to a friend of #MattHancock, whose husband donated £5,000 to the Health Secretary.

The first of a long series of investigations exposing a Covid Vip lane of lucrative contracts to Tory donors.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1359271981342932992?s=20

3. Among them, spotted by a citizen, a further link to the then Health Minister #MattHancock.
(Pubs are indeed at the heart of the country…)

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1359841190498205705?s=20

4. We also started our extensive coverage of the reach of Us firm Palantir into UK institutions.

Our investigations on the controversial company became a regular feature throughout the year.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1346883448326258690?s=20

5. MARCH
In partnership with @BylineTimes, we continued digging into the links between Covid firms and Conservative donors (and got retweeted by Hugh Grant on this one!)

Hi @HackedOffHugh!

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1374052211127386114?s=20

6. With legal firm @Foxglove, we launched a challenge to the Uk government for their use of disappearing messages in handling the pandemic, a practice that we consider unlawful, as it prevents public scrutiny on public matters.

foxglove.org.uk/2021/04/01/new…

7. APRIL

We were the first to report that #LordBrownlow, who paid £58,000 towards the cost of makeover of the #PM's Downing Street flat, had also benefited from government contracts…

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1387099826781933571?s=20

8. Also, we were able to reveal the astounding amount of money awarded by the government to lobby companies: £1.53 bn in 7 years

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1387785696065249284

9. MAY was busier than ever.
With the law firm @A__W______O , we issued a legal challenge against the suppression of crucial data on the spread of COVID new variant in schools by PM's office.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

10.
🧨🔥We then launched our newsletter as an additional tool to hold power to account…

Sign up here!
⬇️🙏
keepingthereceipts.substack.com/welcome

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1398957358475264000?s=20

11. AND... wait for it… we had yours truly Dominic Cummings publicly condemn the secrecy and lack of transparency in the government handling of the pandemic that we had already denounced in this short film…

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1397444647761362945?s=20

12. That's not all!

We ended the month with a bang by publishing the #CronyRichList, our real-life response to the Sunday Times #RichList

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1396393894229815296

13. And then came JUNE.

For @allthecitizens, it began with a shocking finding: further evidence of the dynamic between Tory donations and Covid public contracts

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1400790500924346374?s=20

14. Following that same line of investigation and working with @BylineTimes, we discovered how PPE items prices were inflated at a disturbing rate.

A sickening case of profiteering from a tragedy

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1406967092340039681?s=20

15. We were excited to host this live event with Line Of Duty’s Jared Mercurio, who enlightened us on the darkest aspects of institutional corruption.
Charged topic, after the publication of the damning #DanielMorganReport on cover ups in the police force

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1409535490840268800?s=20

16. Oh, we also caught former Health Minister @MattHancock having a convenient memory blip and omitting some well-established facts that we had dutifully kept the receipts of… which is why @receiptkeepers is so important!

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1403044625384984580

17. And we scored a huge victory ✌️✌️when the government paused the #NHSDataGrab

In order to stop it, we had joined forces with @Foxglovelegal @TheDA_UK @DavidDavisMP @openDemocracy @justtreatment @NPCUK
👇👇
crowdjustice.com/case/stop-the-…

(Thanks for your generous support!) 🙏💕

18. Another big hit in June was our thread on the many times Conservative MPs got away with breaking the law since 2019.

(OK, it's definitely outdated. There's been a few more more since... Can't keep up really).

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1402648925279076352?s=20

19. With @Foxglovelegal and a number of brave MPS we challenged the government for its failure to investigate potential Russian interference in Uk politics, as denounced by parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee in their #RussiaReport.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1407013499499429904?s=20

20. The High Court denied permission.

But we exist to hold power to account, and, with your support, we are appealing.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1440246840687923200?s=20

21. JULY
After the complete lifting of Covid measures pompously named #FreedomDay, we organised an emergency international summit on the threat the UK government's Covid-19 plan posed to the world.
It was covered worldwide

Recording is available here

pscp.tv/w/1rmxPzgqepyGN

22. AUGUST
Holiday season. Covid Travel Testing companies with political affiliations. The government-approved list for travel testing.

We connected the dots🔎🔎🔎

Hint: profiteering knows no decency.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1424676171397140481?s=20

23. SEPTEMBER
Another intense month.

It kicked off with a much needed fact-checking weekly appointment: brillliant @Femi_Sorry dissecting #PMQs.

And it kicked hard.

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1435713179812876294?s=20