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Sep 5

@JPAOwen

Johnny, @JPAOwen and unnamable others have had their shoulder to the wheel on this for weeks as Boris' time in office ticked down, working against the clock.

These men were brutally mistreated, for decades, while keeping us safe. Story here: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

https://twitter.com/JohnnyMercerUK/status/1566738379873607683

Should be said, one jarring point in the letter - these servicemen kept 100s of millions of people safe. But they were following grossly negligent orders.

And no-one kept indigenous people in Australia, Nevada, or Kiritimati safe. They don't get medals. They just get radiation.

Servicemen were knowingly and intentionally exposed. Records were never kept, or 'lost'. Brown people were treated even worse, whether Commonwealth soldiers or locals. And all so the British PM could take tea with the US president and not have to worry about the Russian one.

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fleetstreetfox

@fleetstreetfox

Jul 14

I’ve been quiet because I’ve spent the past two days on a paediatric ward with possibly-appendicitic (?) #Foxcub. We’re home now, she seems to have had a weird infection which is slowly improving, but couple of things of to say…

(Everyone leaves a hospital either so relieved and happy they’re evangelical about the NHS, or in pain of some sort which can make them rage at it. I am in first camp. But will *try* to limit this to facts.)

1. In the space of 48 hours we saw 7 doctors. GP, paediatrician, surgeon, junior doc, registrar, another jr and surgeon registrar. A dozen nurses. Sonographers. And there is no way on EARTH an insurance policy, or my income, would otherwise have got us more than 2 or 3 of them.

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fleetstreetfox

@fleetstreetfox

Apr 17

EXCLUSIVE: Successive UK govts ordered 22,000 servicemen into "serious biological risks" from nuclear weapons testing.

They did not tell the troops.

#medalforheroes

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

This is a cache of 1,000 classified documents that were opened but mostly unseen, gathering dust in an archive of their own within the National Archives, and resistant to all my efforts to find them.

I was passed a list of file numbers and titles, and pulled 20 of the ones that looked most interesting, a total of 522 pages. It's taken months to comb through them, but the overall picture they paint is horrifying.

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fleetstreetfox

@fleetstreetfox

Mar 22

EXCLUSIVE: UK government spent 34 years suppressing its own study which found servicemen at nuclear weapons tests were 3.5x more likely to die from leukaemia.

mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/s…

It took 20 years for the govt to admit *some* of it, and another 14 for nuclear veterans to be told that 140 pages of data on their risks of cancer, suicide and heart disease even existed.

In 2008, government lawyers told the High Court that 159 men on high-risk missions 'may' have been exposed.

In fact, the real number was 2,314. And by this point, the government had known that fact for 20 years.

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fleetstreetfox

@fleetstreetfox

Mar 8

On #InternationalWomensDay I'd like to celebrate all the men who've done their bit to help me in my career... 1/

I'd like to thank the news editor who told me, after someone he'd sent me after had spoken to another newspaper: "You've been raped over this story. RAPED." 2/

I'd like to applaud the 35-yr-old copper who, after a local newspaper day-in-the-life trip out in his squad car, asked the 18yr-old out, and when she said that wouldn't be ethical hassled her for a bit then pretended she didn't exist even though she was the hack on his patch 3/

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