Booooom !

Ruth Davidson Jim Spence The SNP ‘Sense of entitlement’? You’re an unelected Baroness with a job in our legislature for life…….

Support Women workers !!!!!!
From a party that only recently spent millions fighting women’s equal rights claims in Birmingham and Glasgow
Left one council bankrupt and the other paying millions in compensation
That Labour Party
Son yer a two faced disgrace

Hugh Grant I keep saying it .

the work and sacrifices of Graham Johnson in the face of unfair attacks from those on the other side who are seeking to stop the truth coming out. End of 🧵

Dan Evans, Emma Jones, Steve Whittamore, Danno Hanks and Glenn Mulcaire.  I particularly want to acknowledge

I’d also like to thank the courageous whistle-blowers who came over from the other side, and other brave witnesses who are providing much of the evidence, including

I’d like to thank my legal team, Anjlee Sangani, David Sherborne, Evan Harris and Dan Waddell.

So this money will repurposed via groups like Hacked Off into the general campaign to expose the worst excesses of our oligarch-owned press.

abuse ordinary members of the public or hold elected MPs to ransom in pursuit of newspaper barons’ personal profit and political power.

Murdoch’s settlement money has a stink and I refuse to let this be hush money.  I have spent the best part of 12 years fighting for a free press that does not distort the truth,

Rupert Murdoch has spent over £1billon in damages to claimants and in lawyers’ fees, settling over 1500 claims in this way. He seems remarkably determined that there shouldn’t be a trial of the facts.

My lawyers tell me that that is exactly what would most likely happen here.  Rupert Murdoch’s lawyers are very expensive. So even if every allegation is proven in court, I would still be liable for something approaching £10 million in costs. I’m afraid I am shying at that fence.

But the rules around civil litigation mean that if I proceed to trial and the court  awards me damages that are even a penny less than the settlement offer, I would have to pay the legal costs of both sides.

I don’t want to accept this money or settle. I would love to see all the allegations that they deny tested in court.

As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.

News Group are claiming they are entirely innocent of the things I had accused the Sun of doing - phone hacking, unlawful information gathering, landline tapping, the burglary of my flat and office, the bugging of my car, the illegal blagging of medical records, lies, perjury and…

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

If someone attacks another person primarily because they believe that person to be a woman, should they be prosecuted under anti-misogyny law even if the victim was a trans-woman?

Please circulate widely. Many thanks.

Tory deputy chair James Daly claims Scotland is run by an 'SNP dictatorship' ... directly after saying he did not have 'time to talk about Scotland' 👀