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Jan 17,, 4 tweets, 3 min read
End of day 2. Thank you so much to @rebecca_vincent for monitoring this case on behalf of 16 freedom of expression orgs. And so much love to my lovely friends & colleagues for having my back. 💕💕💕 ImageImageImageImage
I can’t talk about the case because I’m in purdah but never been happier to see my elderly support collie-cross, Meg, with 2 of my support humans 💕 Image
“‘Arron Banks may have been used & exploited by Russia,’ court hears.” Report by @Haroon_Siddique

theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
‘Arron Banks versus Carole Cadwalladr: the first two days’ by @johnsweeneyroar for @BylineTimes

bylinetimes.com/2022/01/17/arr…

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Jan 18,
End of Day 3. 2nd day in stand. Survived. Today’s special shout-out goes to stalwart @ObserverUK editor @paulfwebster, @sarah_donaldson the editor who shepherded me through entire investigation. And the wonderful @_EmmaGH who co-reported Cambridge Analytica alongside me💕 Image
Webbo (aka @paulfwebster) is at the back top right & here’s @sarah_donaldson & @_EmmaGH having - I imagine - important discussions about the trials, tribulations & traumas of deciding to do public interest journalism for a living Image
Oh! And I accidentally missed out ‘amazing’ from my descriptor of @sarah_donaldson. Journalism: a team sport. Editors: the unsung heroes behind every journalist. Memories of the overwhelming exhaustion of that day very very close to the surface 💕 ImageImage
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Jan 14,
The weirdest day. I cannot tell you how much I did not want to fight this case. How much I did not want to be in court today. All I can say is that when the chips are down, people come through. Thank you to everyone who’s been with me through this darkest time 💕
Being a defendant in a libel trial is like being the guest of honour at the shittiest party you never wanted to go to. Thank you to @jesssearch for organising this behind my back. *The nicest surprise*. And to every single person who chipped into the crowdfunder 💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏
This is @RSF_en @IndexCensorship @pen_int & a total of 16 freedom of expression orgs. They issued a statement today calling this case a SLAPP - ‘strategic litigation against public participation’.

rsf.org/en/news/sixtee…
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Dec 23, 2021
This is a really important article by @PeterKGeoghegan that encapsulates what many of us fear. That we are in a slide toward a ‘managed’ democracy. This is how it happens. This is what it looks like.

opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
Far too few people shouting about this. This was excellent by @Freedland but this collection of bills individually diminish our democracy & collectively take a blunderbuss to it & are happening now in plain sight. And once passed, there’s no coming back
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
And watch this @allthecitizens interview with @DPuttnam. Actually listen to what he’s saying.

“Elements of the Nazi playbook" are unfolding now.

"Slowly, slowly, slowly, we are drifting into accepting a diminished democracy"

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Dec 16, 2021
Extraordinary interview with @davidnabarro of @who. A stark stark warning about what’s ahead.

‘I’ve been watching & working on this pandemic since January 2020 & I’ve never been more concerned than I am tonight, not just about the UK but about the world.’
‘I want to talk directly to those who accuse us of scaremongering. I’ve spent 45 years doing this kind of work & my whole approach is to enable life to go on..this is serious. I don’t like comparing it to last year. To me this is unprecedented.’

@who’s special envoy on Covid-19
‘That suggests you’re calling for social gatherings to be limited?’

‘..it’s doubling every 2 days. Do you know what that means? It means it will be 8 times more serious in 1 week, 40 times more serious in 2 weeks, 3-400 times in 3 weeks. Over 1000 times more serious in 4 weeks’
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Dec 11, 2021
Can I point out something bizarre & troubling? @ft has scoop today. An interview with head of @gchq. A week after @BBCRadio4 has head of MI6.

There’s a common thread: data.

Specifically: national security implications of it in hands of enemy states
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on.ft.com/3IEsp9g
This is an important positioning piece. It’s result of a meeting between head of GCHQ & editor of FT, ahead of new cyber warfare strategy.

And the headline is China.

China’s accelerationist command of technology is a threat to national security. This is undoubtedly true.

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China was also one of the headline threats the head of MI6 spoke about last week.

But he also said this:

“If you allow another country to gain access to critical data about your society, over time that will erode you sovereignty.”
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Dec 4, 2021
NEW: A journalist last won a Nobel prize in 1935 & he couldn’t pick it up because he was in a Nazi camp.

We’re again at “a sliding doors moment” says @mariaressa.

My interview with both her & Dmitry Muratov for @ObserverUK & their warning for the world.
theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…
It’s a hair-on-the-back-of your neck moment. Listen to @mariaressa & Dmitry Muratov. They are the canaries in the coal mine.

If freedom of the press is in trouble, democracy is in trouble, we are all in trouble.

And that’s exactly what this Nobel is signalling.
And if you want to look at the specific historic parallels, then this is even more chilling. Carl Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935 for exposing Germany’s secret re-armament.

And as Muratov points out here Russia’s aggressive military & expansionist plans are in plain sight
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