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Greg Barradale
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reporter @bigissue covering activism and protest / used to be Head of News @TheTab / bits in @thesundaytimes+@thetimes/ DMs open for stories 🗞
Jan 17, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 Exclusive 🚨

Home Office staff 'mingled and drank prosecco' during lockdown

Priti Patel has said she'd call the police if her neighbours were breaking rules

But in March 2021 around a dozen staff mingled and drank to celebrate leading the news at 6

bigissue.com/news/politics/… 🥂The gathering, of around a dozen staff, took place on March 24, while the country was still under lockdown rules

It happened days after a man was fined £100 for sitting in his garden with three friends
bigissue.com/news/politics/…
Jan 11, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨At nearly half past midnight, the House of Lords voted to reject a move to give the inquiry into Sarah Everard's death greater powers

"We must assume that the government want an inquiry that drags on for years and does not answer the fundamental questions" @brianpaddick The timing of the vote meant just 129 peers voted - three times less than voted on the first division of the day

The votes of Conservative peers, who'd stayed late at night, also rejected a move to have this amendment voted on at a later date, put forward by @natalieben
Jan 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🏦The Lords is due to vote on this amendment to the #PCSCBill today, to give the inquiry into Sarah Everard's death statutory powers

Without this, campaigners say it can't address systemic police violence. It can't compel witnesses to testify either

bills.parliament.uk/bills/2839/sta… Priti Patel was threatened with legal action by @centreWJ over this last year

“There are fears that without the powers a statutory inquiry would have any findings will come late, will be inadequate, and ultimately will not fix the systemic issues”

bigissue.com/news/activism/…
Jan 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Outside the House of Lords, where a growing crowd is protesting against the Nationality and Borders Bill

A speaker says it's "part of the global crackdown on activists and marginalised people" Another speaker says the bill is being used to silence dissent
Jan 4, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD: Two months ago, 50 people were detained to be deported to Jamaica. Yet only four were on board as the plane left

Since then, I've spoken to detainees, lawyers and activists - and uncovered the human cost of the flights

Here's what I learned👇

bigissue.com/news/activism/… "It’s like you’ve got some kind of illness and you’re just waiting to die"

That's how Mark Burkett, who served time in prison and was released, describes life battling the Home Office

He arrived in the UK, has two children, and has been detained for deportation twice since 2019
Dec 31, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Ah why not, it's been a weird year but here's some stuff I'm proud of: Did some work I'm really proud of in my last months at The Tab. This story on unis hiring investigators to deal with students accused of sexual assault made the nationals:
thetab.com/uk/2021/06/14/…
Dec 31, 2021 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
🧵 THREAD: Another year on normal island over. Here’s a thread of British political moments from 2021 which prove just how ridiculous this country is: 1/ In a clip which sums everything up, Boris Johnson had to be asked 'is everything OK' by a reporter