At the time, my trial felt extreme & brutal & terrifying. My career, reputation, livelihood on line. One day on from Russia invading Ukraine, it feels like mad surreal dream. Did a pro-Putin apologist really get to put me on trial at high court for reporting on his Russian links?
https://twitter.com/jamieklingler/status/1497120454326292480
It’s a test case for the public interest defence & it’ll (further) fuck journalism in this country & what we can safely report. But it’s so utterly utterly absurd that it came to this, that I can’t bring myself to care any more what happens to me. 
Amazing & honestly fascinating that not a single mainstream outlet other than @guardian covered it. Fresh evidence of Banks’s links to Russia & UK govt’s complicity in covering them up came out in trial & went entirely unreported.
Particularly shameful that @Channel4News ignored given how important their reporting on Banks was & how much it featured in my witness statement. @esmewren you might want to ask your investigations team why that was.
The point is that this was never about me. And end point of allowing story of Russian interference & Kremlin power in UK to be deflected by players involved is a tactic that has helped lead us to the obscenity we are currently witnessing in Ukraine
The death of independent media is the death of democracy. They know this in Ukraine. If you have pennies to spare, send them to these journalists battling not just for their country but for truth 💕🙏🇺🇦
https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1497214250644824067
You can also write to any of the moral pygmies in govt & ask them why we are not doing more for Ukraine. Why they’ve refused to act on recommendations of Russia Report. Why even Abramovich hasn’t been sanctioned yet.
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