From the discharge of the injunction judgment: "It appears unlikely that merely being on the dataset would be grounds for targeting” and it is “therefore also unlikely that family members—immediate or more distant—will be targeted simply because the ‘Principal’ appears in the…

To put the £7bn of secret Afghan costs into perspective: -Total social care overspend that’s bankrupting councils: £564m -Money raised from inheritance tax on farms £520m -Cuts to the Met this year £450m -Cuts to the armed forces £500m We can’t keep doing this.

The entire Afghan withdrawal has been a non stop campaign of lies by the British state to get you to continue their overseas humanitarian work at home without telling you that you are paying for it.

I don’t even understand how they’re so expensive, that’s £280,000 to move each one of them to the UK and this just what they ‘need’ for 5 years. Paid as a salary this would put them on the higher rate.

Two things that aren’t getting picked up on: 1) The risk to the people in the dataset was exaggerated, and it is unlikely they would’ve faced reprisals. The whole thing was unnecessary. 2) Our Brave Allies are identified by the review as a future threat to public safety

Extraordinary.

V logical for BBC to lead on ... Masterchef, can't have the plebs seeing the way Wallace & Whitehall spent billions secretly importing thousands of Afghans & families, & hiding it with a superinjunction, or the plebs might do some "far right" rioting! Remember: the real

The story the Beeb have chosen to lead with is reporting on themselves sacking the lesser known Masterchef host, as opposed to the literally unprecedented use by government of a super-injunction to gag press from reporting on incompetent mistakes that cost billions of pounds

Scott Goetz by January this year, retired civil servant Paul Rimmer, the former deputy head of Defence Intelligence, had been commissioned to review the risks. By April, The Telegraph understands, ministers were aware that he was likely to find that if the data breach became public

Wonder how much Pen Farthing’s dogs claimed. Oh right nothing.

“You need to be nice to Tory MPs because I want to be employed by them.”

There’s a lot wrong with this, but let me pick out just one element. Even if breaching OSA wasn’t protected under privilege (it is), they’d never prosecute. This wasn’t revealing warplans, this was exposing a corrupt misuse of public funds and handing out visas to sex offenders.

What do you get when the editor brings more baggage than a Heathrow carousel? One of the reasons it’s wiser to appoint them before they start Ministerial careers (Lawson, Johnson) than after.