David Leigh
@davidleighx
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Author of "Investigative Journalism: a survival guide" ( Palgrave) https://t.co/GzqL7JP9ga. ex-Guardian Investigations Editor. Appalled by Musk, gone to Bluesky
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Joined June 2009
New Emails Reveal Epstein Says Trump Spent Hours at His House, Knew of Conduct
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Jeffrey Epstein said in an email that Trump "knew about the girls." That's not a smoking gun it's a bonfire. And of course he did! Epstein recruited women from Mar-a-Lago. All of this is why Ghislaine Maxwell got a moved to a low-security prison.
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BOMBSHELL: Emails released by @OversightDems show Epstein told Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house,” “knew about the girls,” and that Trump was “that dog that hasn’t barked.” To which Maxwell says “I have been thinking about that.”
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What has happened...what is happening at the BBC? In normal times you might be forgiven for dismissing that question as naval gazing by journalists who can't resist talking about themselves. In normal times I'd be inclined to agree with you. These, though, are not normal times.
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Journalist Robin Lustig reflects on his father, Fritz Lustig - a WWII Secret Listener at Trent Park. Silenced by the Official Secrets Act, Fritz waited 30+ years to share his story. 📷 Watch: https://t.co/fT066BT1sY
#WWII #SecretListeners #HeritageFund #NationalLottery
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@CharlotteLeslie @DavidDavisMP But the problem is that few people would publish a report on Amersi, or anyone like him, when it means years of expensive litigation - even if sure of eventual victory. We should change the law. And we should reign in rogue firms like Carter-Ruck.
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Bosses from the BBC, ITN, Sky News and News Media Association representing print/online newsbrands have issued a joint call to the PM "to take urgent steps to prevent the digital ecosystem from becoming overwhelmed by misinformation and disinformation"
newsmediauk.org
The Prime Minister must back trusted journalism in the UK by standing up to the tech platforms and creating the right conditions for trusted news and information to flourish, leaders representing the...
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The richest man in the world is an ignorant, demented racist provocateur. Who would have thought
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This is why the police don’t immediately release names of suspects to appease the baying online mob…. The life of the 35 year old, who has now been freed, would have absolutely been destroyed if his name had been released
British Transport Police full statement: Detectives investigating a multiple stabbing on a train in Cambridgeshire can this evening confirm a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect. A 35-year-old man from London who was also arrested at the
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When we started the @lmhoxford Foundation Year for under-represented students in 2016 there were quite a few sceptics around @UniofOxford “They won’t fit it…we can’t teach them..they’ll lower standards” and so on. Well, the latest data shows that 41 have graduated from LMH
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Ex-officer accused of racism takes legal action to avoid facing spycops inquiry
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Whistleblower testified that man known as HN86 gathered information to undermine Lawrence family campaign
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I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.
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A quick note on the government saying it will grant "new" power to the police to take into account the cumulative impact of protests when deciding whether to restrict them. These are not new powers. They were part of our law from 2022 (passed by the Johnson government in
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Neutral citation number: [2025] EWCA Civ 571 Case number: CA-2024-001242 In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)on appeal from the King’s Bench DivisionAdministrative CourtLord Justice Green and Mr...
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Ofcom now taking the IPSO approach to shrugging off failed media standards: yes GB News breached the Code, but Ofcom won't hold them accountable because they broadcast a non-apology nearly 3 weeks later
A GB News broadcast in which a presenter said that “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code on offensive material The complaint has been resolved without sanction due to steps taken by GB News https://t.co/yBavCFGRKu
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Haven’t ever retweeted Melanie Phillips before but I agree with her about this.
For Israeli ministers — Israeli ministers! — to link the defence of Jews, Britain and the west to a man who has a record of neo-Nazi extremism, thuggery, violence, incitement, intimidation and contempt for the rule of law is utterly shocking. It’s hard to exaggerate these
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Reminder - week Monday (Oct 13) I'm showing how Freedom of Information has been undermined (by all governments) in 20 years since it started. 7.30pm Plume of Feathers SE10 9LZ @GreenwichSitP. 5 mins from Maze Hill station (direct trains London Bridge, Farringdon, St Pancras)
When FOI started in 2005 I could get Top Secret MoD files released to me showing - for instance - how UK helped Israel get nuclear weapons. Now? You're joking. Mon Oct 13 @GreenwichSitP 7.30 Plume of Feathers SE10 9LZ just 5 mins from Maze Hill station. All welcome #Skeptics #FOI
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In the client journalism of modern times, allied to the right wing bias of our press and its influence on the broadcast media, the papers whip themselves into a conference season hysteria - main story Farage to be PM - and given they know he is Trumpian in media matters, they
Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.
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So much political reporting - personified by the BBC’s Messrs Mason and Kuennsberg - and even infecting the great pollster John Curtice is now locked in a morass of day to day hysteria. Jenkins is right. Farage has close to zero chance of being PM - ever.
theguardian.com
They wrote off Margaret Thatcher in 1981 when the SDP – like Reform today – was ascendant. They were wrong about her; they could also be about Starmer, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
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An expanded version of this thread, with links to references and further background, is here:
taxpolicy.org.uk
PPE Medpro is the company which provided £200m of PPE to the Government in dubious circumstances, of which £122m was faulty. Reports suggest it made £65m profit – but we can’t know for sure.
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