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Feb 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
In case you were wondering, this is about as meaningless a statement as its possible to imagine. What does handing over "stewardship and care" mean? Image
If "stewardship and care" has no meaning then neither does Abramovich handing it over have any meaning.

And who is he handing it over to?
Well we know the answer to that question, because the Sunday Oligarch tells us: Bruce Buck. Image
Buck is, indeed, the Chair of the Chelsea Foundation.

But, although the Telegraph's huge piece doesn't mention this, he also used to be... Image
... Roman Abramovich's lawyer (globallegalpost.com/news/chelsea-l…). Image
Happy to be corrected, but this looks like a completely meaningless piece of PR puffery designed to take the heat off Abramovich which our media has faithfully swallowed and regurgitated.

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Awful to watch those brave people getting arrested in Russia for protesting against their Government. Here, our Government has just pushed through laws which allow them to arrest us for protesting against ours.
Here's some advice we commissioned on that Bill. goodlawproject.org/news/return-of…
A leading case on the right to protest concerns Russia's criminalisation of protests by Navalnyy, the then leader of the Opposition. Russia said his protests caused noise and disruption (1). Protests causing noise and nuisance are exactly what our new laws target (2). ImageImage
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Feb 27
So the Mail is running a puff piece for a Priti Patel crackdown on Russian oligarchs (don't hold your breath waiting for a crackdown against Russian oligarchs who are also Tory donors)... Image
The highlight of the crackdown seems to be this: properties owned by complex ownership structures will be within the scope of unexplained wealth orders... Image
All sounds wonderful. Except that the first ever unexplained Wealth Order was obtained against... a property owned by a complex ownership structure (commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…). Image
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Feb 22
Earlier this month we published leaked data showing that Ministers had misled Parliament, the High Court and the National Audit Office over the size of the VIP lane. goodlawproject.org/news/ministers…
When, in October 2020, we published details of the existence of the VIP lane the story was not picked up by the media who could not believe it was true.

But it was. goodlawproject.org/news/special-p…
Our February 2022 story has had a similar reception. Save for small pieces in The Independent and The Times, this incredibly important story has gone largely unreported.
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Feb 21
So, we've had some questions in from The Times and so I thought I'd share our responses here.🧵
The first suite of questions is about standing. And the effect of the Divisional Court's decision on how we work.

To that first suite of questions we have said:
Sometimes, as with the Runnymede case, we’ve worked with partners who clearly have standing. Sometimes we have standing ourselves, as the Courts have repeatedly confirmed. Sometimes we have achieved the outcomes we want by backing cases brought by others.
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Feb 20
What Boris Johnson's premiership has shown is how those who rule us - VIP Tory donors, politicians, newspaper proprietors, and the rest of the entitled Establishment - hate being held to the same rules as normal people.
And if you seek to disrupt their ugly status quo they really, really don't like it. Several days after, yes, that Boxing Day I was messaged by a sympathetic Tory insider thus:
This was after I had been monstered for killing a single fox which was caught in netting attacking my chickens on the front page of the Mail. Yes, the Mail whose proprietor's wife boasts in the society pages about her love of hunting - the routine killing animals for fun.
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Feb 19
So frustrating to have to read perhaps the leading Anglophone intellectual refracted through such such a thick lens.
No doubt the Guardian had its reasons.
Inadvertently revealing of how reduced some have become, that they could consider taking a mind as majestic as Atwood's and try to fix it into a box of their making. Doesn't she deserve better?
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