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Apr 26 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
The Post Office Scandal: @BBCPanorama digs deep into the moral turpitude of the Post Office under CEO Paula Vennells, shining new light on the largest miscarriage of justice in UK history. Congrats @dianamartinbbc @MattBardo @TimRobinsonTV @nickwallis+team bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…
NO JUSTICE:“Thus far, no one has been held to account or accepted responsibility. That’s truly astonishing”. @PaulMar72224296 concludes powerful @BBCPanorama on the Post Office Scandal
Ex Post Office CEO Paula Vennells was repeatedly warned the Horizon accounting system was faulty, but she preferred to cover this up and send innocent subpostmasters to jail. @nickwallis’ #TheGreatPostOfficeScandal dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
For me, the two heroines of the Post Office Scandal film are former Computer Weekly journalist @Rebeccathomson_ — the first journalist to break the story — and former Hampshire subpostmistress Jo Hamilton.
Last night’s @BBCPanorama film also revealed how Gina, widow of Martin Griffiths, a postmaster who committed suicide after being hounded by the Post Office for £60,000 he didn’t owe, signed a gagging order described as “a pistol to the head”. cheshire-live.co.uk/whats-on/whats…

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Shocking scenes of devastation including the destruction of the world’s largest plane, the Antonov AN-225, affectionately known as “Mriya”. #UkraineRussiaWar
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LBC should have sacked @maajidnawaz over a year ago. Instead, they let him continue to spread deranged conspiracy theories, bogus science, factual inaccuracies and disinformation about Covid for another 12 months. He blocked me when I called him out over this in December 2020.
By Feb 2021 there was already concern about Maajid Nawaz's state-of-mind, given he seemed to have fallen for dozens of conspiracy theories, including that Covid-19 lockdowns were a “global fraud” orchestrated by China’s CCP in order to impoverish the West theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Also in February 2021, producers and fellow presenters at @LBC were urging @Global management to “get a grip” as a result of Maajid Nawaz’s incessant endorsements of pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
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Just how close is Baroness Michelle Mone to PPE Medpro, a company awarded £203m in PPE contracts via the government’s “VIP lane” just a month-and-a-half after the firm was set up in May 2020.

@jemimajoanna @AnnaSophieGross on the case two months ago. ft.com/content/a48727…
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Ed Balls was economic secretary to the Treasury, working alongside chancellor Gordon Brown, in 2006-7. In that role he was responsible for banking regulation. He was economic adviser to shadow chancellor Brown in 1994-7 and chief economic adviser to H.M.Treasury in 1997-2004.
As economic secretary to the Treasury in 2006-7 Ed Balls’ priorities were (1) champion the right of bankers to do whatever they wanted (he didn't seem to care about potential economic destruction or fraud) (2) ensure that the government and regulators kept off the bankers’ backs
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This guy used to be news editor of the Daily Express.
I mean it... Mike Parry was news editor of @Daily_Express, before becoming @PA news editor, and then @FAspokesperson. He has also co-presented a show on TalkSPORT with Mike Graham.
Mike “Porky” Parry’s other main claim to fame was that he nearly killed himself by trying to eat a tablespoonful of cinnamon.
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