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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We note the Charity Commission has opened an investigation into the charity Downside up whose patrons include Boris Johnson... charitytimes.com/ct/Regulator-t…
Another patron of Downside Up is, or was, a man called Alexander Voloshin, described by @latimes as "the iron man at the heart of President Vladimir V. Putin’s administration." latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
On 30 December of last year, you could see that they were both patrons from the Downside Up website (web.archive.org/web/2021022718…). But, for reasons one can only speculate about, that link has now conveniently been removed from the Downside Up website (downsideupcharity.org/node/64).
Before and after.

I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation for a Johnson/Putin link being removed from the Charity's website.

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Do you remember when Boris Johnson tried and failed to get Owen Paterson off the hook? And then the media released the political pressure on him over Tory sleaze by reporting the Government planned to curb second jobs?
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Funny how there's no end of police resource when it comes to peaceful protestors. And bugger all when it comes to investigating criminality at Number 10.
How does this deliberately intimidating show of force differ from Russia's treatment of peaceful protestors?
Would they turn up dozens deep if you had squatters? Or are the Met, under the Tories, a private security force for wealth and power.
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Paul Staines aka Guido Fawkes in his own words...

He meets a man from the Russian Embassy who he thinks is a spy. They go for a burger - which is absolutely a normal response to meeting someone you think is a Russian spy.
The Russian, Sergey Nalobin, pumps Guido for information. And they become friends.

Exactly what anyone would do confronted by an agent of Putin, isn't it?
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More tales from the sleazy and illegal PPE horror show. committees.parliament.uk/publications/9…
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I guess, reflecting on this some more, for me, two things seep through the (largely) careful prose in Dr Cass' report. One is a conspicuously genuine desire to make things better for trans children and young people but the other is...
a deep scepticism, which reflects where so many who hold institutional power in the UK are, about the reality of trans existence.
If you can't shake the feeling in your bones that being trans is an illness, your instinct is always going to be to 'cure' it. So much of England still thinks, in contrast to learning elsewhere like at the WHO, of being trans as a pathology.
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So Hilary Cass' interim review into gender identity services for children and young people is just out... some initial thoughts. 🧵
First, you will read lots of views about whether Dr Cass' report neutrally captures the evidence base. One of the big problems in this space is that what is fundamentally a medical issue for specialists and patients has become a political battleground.
I'm not going to add to that problem by talking about her evidence base and I'd suggest you scrutinise the expertise of those who do. This isn't an ideological assessment. Like not needing to hold views on the proper treatment of bowel cancer you don't need to hold views on this.
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