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Jo Maugham

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Aug 3

@thequentinletts

The only 'journalistic freedom' engaged by Nick Cohen's engagement at the Observer is his freedom to leverage his status to improve his prospects of sexual relations with young female journalists. Perhaps @thequentinletts thinks that's to be applauded. I don't.

https://twitter.com/thequentinletts/status/1554797439894392839

@CGreenUK

I would be surprised if @CGreenUK thought this freedom a thing to be celebrated. Perhaps he might clarify.

Too many conversations in my life have I had with women whose lives have been damaged or destroyed by men who have used their power over a woman, physical or social, to advance their sexual desire.

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

Aug 3

@GoodLawProject

At @GoodLawProject we are receiving increasing numbers of distressing accounts from women of how their lives and careers were harmed by the combination of bullying or sexual misconduct within the media organisations that employed them and then cover-ups by their management.

We will gather that evidence and then place it in the public domain, anonymously where necessary to protect victims from further harm. We are also working with lawyers, and I expect to succeed, to unshackle the women from the NDAs imposed upon them, so that the truth can be told.

The shameful, if mutually convenient, mutual omerta on the reporting of sexual misconduct within the media sacrifices the careers and dignity of young women to the convenience of predatory older men. It must not continue.

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

Aug 2

We've been getting a lot of messages about The Place Group and the tender it won to administer the £70bn framework contract. 🧵cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-…

I've spoken to Simon Rule, its Chief Executive, who assures me that there is nothing here to see. But we do still have a lot of questions.

How did the relatively obscure E2BN come to let a £70bn framework agreement? Whose money is it spending? How did the modestly sized Place Group come to bid for and win the contract? Even if its fee was 1% of £70bn that would still be a staggering £700m.

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

Aug 1

So I have obtained a copy of Suella Braverman's guidance on legal risk which you can read here.

Some of the key points that leap out at me.🧵

This is not, I am afraid, how the law works.

'Respectable' legal arguments in favour of a course of action can often be found - lawyers are very creative. But that does not mean the course of action is lawful.

This is how Braverman defines "respectable" legal arguments - she says it's one a lawyer can't properly advance (which I read as an ethical test). That's an incredibly low bar to 'respectability'. And, again, it's not the test for whether an action is lawful.

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

Jul 30

A Government that does not want to be told its actions are unlawful is a Government that believes itself above our Parliament, is anti-democratic.

At least in constitutional theory, the laws remain the laws, whatever advice Government gets about them.

This is, of course, because the laws that the Government is asking its lawyers to be free to ignore are laws made or authorised, by and large, by Parliament.

I say 'in constitutional theory' because the law is only meaningfully the law if a Government chooses or is forced to adhere to it.

The whole point about Braverman's advice is that Government is giving itself greater space to choose not to adhere to it.

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Jo Maugham

@JolyonMaugham

Jul 28

After tweeting about Nick Cohen and Guardian News and Media (GNM’s) attempts to discourage complaints from W1 and W2, I received a number of messages from other women wanting to talk about how life is at GNM. 🧵

I had never previously met any of the women who contacted me. They were motivated to get in touch by their experience that GNM cannot be trusted to investigate complaints and/or has actively sought to discourage them. And they want things to be better.

A few preliminary points.

(1) We made an offer to GNM which would have avoided the need for this thread and met our concerns. You can read it below. But it wasn’t accepted.

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