This is incredible. Rishi Sunak 'forgot' to consult health chiefs about Eat-Out-to-Help-Out-The-Virus which sparked 2nd wave but spent weeks & £2M (of our money) on focus groups to try to make £850M splurge acceptable to voters. Great work Pippa Crerar
theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The remarkable Hannah Barnes did more than anyone else to raise Qs over NHS' treatment for young people questioning their gender

Brave and dogged reporting over many years for Newsnight & wrote the book while on maternity leave - always focused on welfare of those being treated

Another woman murdered in Bradford by someone who had previously been arrested for threatening her: echoes of the Katie Higton case I covered a few weeks ago. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-684135…

Garrick votes for women
Committee accepts legal opinion that women have always been eligible to join
New post, free to read:
rozenberg.substack.com/p/garrick-vote…

“We must always remember taxes fund children’s social care” Children’s Home Association excludes organisations involving tax havens - LaingBuisson News (that’s 20% of revenues) ⁦Katie Inman⁩ HT ⁦Martin Barrow⁩ laingbuissonnews.com/care-markets-c…

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ Extraordinary story about a man who checked into a New York Hotel and stayed free for years…thanks to an obscure piece of local housing law nytimes.com/2024/03/24/nyr…

So, today is a bit of a day . . . thread ahead . . .
After three remarkable, wonderful and uplifting years as Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief The News Movement it is time for me to hand over the baton to the next generation of leaders at such a brilliant organisation . . .

This fact-finding came about after a successful appeal in which I represented the mother. Cafcass applied for a psychological assessment to assess the family for ‘parental alienation’ among other issues. The judge allowed the mother’s appeal opposing the assessment.

The…

I represented the mother in a case where the father accused her of ‘parental alienation’ & false allegations. The judge found the father used ‘parental alienation’ to distress, confuse and frighten her; and he had raped and abused her.

It’s the first judgment referring to DARVO.…

RIP Hella Pick, a great journalist. Always curious, never cynical, intensely competitive, she was a trailblazer who came to the UK on the Kindertransport. Incredible life theguardian.com/media/2024/apr…

Tonight Garrick Club committee decided to adopt the Pannick opinion subject to ratification by members
(1) by a simple majority and 2) with voting permitted remotely. Which will -ultimately -open its doors to women members. Full story ⁦The Telegraph⁩ telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/0…

Inquest opens into death of mother after baby put into foster care bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/24229356.…

I'm quitting the Pilot. Today's my last full day

I'll still be writing + I start a new job Thursday. Will share more soon

Meantime, I'm at 757-447-4097, [email protected]

Thankful to NFK residents, Andrea Noble, Brian Root + the other reporters, photogs, web + copy editors

I wrote about what the Tories have done to the place
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

This is such good news. Bravo The Bureau of Investigative Journalism . So important to have a dedicated family court reporter now that so many courts are open to journalists.

A classic…..

We’ve been nominated for the Radio Oscars #Aria 2024 for my documentary which explored why 2 innocent people died at The Brixton 02 Academy Crush. A powerful documentary BBC Radio 4 listen back below 👇

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Amazing Tristan Kirk - what a result for your reporting, which has been harrowing.

My Tortoise story today on private companies providing children’s social care - just *one* co’s accounts show £136 million of taxpayers’ money funnelled to private equity lenders instead of into caring for children. Thanks to Martin Barrow for alert. tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/27/chi…

Court papers show how killer parents won back their baby - just retweeting this as Finley Boden in news again today bbc.co.uk/news/uk-656341…