Charles Thomson
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@mikesmallcombe1
Poor old Dan. He’s been filming for weeks & all he’s got is Finaldi losing all motions, racking up huge sanctions for improper conduct, being told off for his treatment of a female lawyer, and this case being ruled legally invalid on all counts. Not quite the narrative he wanted.
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My investigation into the cover-up of the Shoebury paedophile ring has been shortlisted for the News Media Association's 'Making A Difference' Award. An honour to be listed alongside some excellent campaigns by brilliant newspapers.
Voting link here:
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@paygie2
@mike_salter
@tajjackson3
@Zigmanfreud
One of the only truths Leaving Neverland has actually revealed is exactly who among us would have been burning the crosses and tying the nooses 70 years ago.
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Because the racist media has wanted Jackson’s scalp for 35 years. It now has a perfect storm of an unethical documentary about two proven liars being aired after Jackson’s death, meaning no defamation laws, and in the middle of a brainless MeToo lynch mob. They’re in Disneyland.
Stil don’t understand why this stuff doesn’t get more attention.
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One juror told me she was disowned by family members and abused by colleagues. Another had an attempt made on her life.
THESE are the principled jurors. Despite all this, they stand by their verdicts, with no financial motive whatsoever.
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The incredible thing about the original is that almost everyone in it was already a legend & they remain legends today. Whereas the last misguided remake (2010) was populated by artists of dubious talent, half of whom nobody recognises 10yrs on (or even recognised at the time).
Coronavirus Relief: Lionel Richie proposes 'We Are the World' remake for COVID-19 aid
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@RAZ0RFIST
It’s idiocy. To claim someone who’s studied original court documents from a case for five years has less right to comment on that case than someone who’s simply watched a four-hour video of people talking about it - it’s almost painful, how thick you’d have to be to say that.
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The media has been lying abkut Michael Jackson for over 30 years and it’s still lying today.
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BBC apologizes for using fake bank statements to land famous Princess Diana interview
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@Hammertonhal
@mikesmallcombe1
This is Safechuck's sworn statement from May 2, 2014, signed under penalty of perjury.
Never mentions visiting Neverland after 1991, and explicitly alleges that abuse lasted from 1988 until 1992.
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Trump must be immediately arrested and prosecuted for incitement.
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@ZoroastersChild
@guardian
@DaveChappelle
Very typical of the supposedly liberal Guardian, when it comes to reporting on Michael Jackson and on MeToo matters generally. Quote the accusers verbatim, then stick a single line on the end, saying, 'By the way, someone else disagreed.'
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An incredible window on how depleted the media is today & the sort of massive stories that can get missed: Yesterday the Californian Govt issued a press release saying it is joining a fraud suit against the world’s biggest celebrity estate. Not a single outlet has picked it up.
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Here’s Safechuck stating, ‘under penalty of perjury’, in two different sworn declarations, that Michael Jackson stopped abusing him in 1992 - two years before construction of the Neverland train station in which he new claims to have been abused.
Declaration 1:
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Elvis and the Beatles but no Little Richard or Chuck Berry? Eminem but no Public Enemy? And where is James Brown?
80% of this list are white copycats who just cashed in on black culture.
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@TheMJAP
Got a phone call from a BBC station earlier, asking me to go on air and discuss Bashir 😄 Who could have imagined that, when I was a teenager watching the show go out on ITV?!
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Have just concluded a live interview of roughly 15mins with Chris Lynch on NewsTalk ZB in New Zealand, which I am told will be available on catch-up.
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Over the moon that Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys is shortlisted at the British Journalism Awards.
I first met
@TomSBristow
at the BJAs 2018 when we were both up for the same award (he beat me). Now we're nominated together!
Listen to the series here:
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@JaneByfield
@pamelaegeonu
@shlharris
@MeirionTweets
@Sanchia7
@phillips_owen
After storming off the ranch over being 'separated' from Jackson, she had a (recorded) phone call with Frank Cascio in which she said over & over that Jackson was her family, she loved him & wanted to go away with him, but complained members of his team were keeping them apart.
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@jin_chohan
He successfully sued over this. An independent doctor studied his face & found the alleged disfigurements did not exist. It was just a bad photo. I believe fans organised for a lorry load of horse manure to be dumped on the photographer’s driveway, or something like that.
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@TheMJAP
Dan Reed himself has said James Safechuck not only identified that specific train station, but supplied photos of it to illustrate which building he was referring to.
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@JaneByfield
@pamelaegeonu
@shlharris
@MeirionTweets
@Sanchia7
@phillips_owen
She then returned to the ranch twice, voluntarily, where she excitedly talked about going on holiday to Brazil & asked Tucker's girlfriend to come with her and celebrate Carnival. But Jackson was largely not there, nothing came of it, they went home & never heard from him again.
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@MarkFlear
There is an organised, top-down effort by media to destroy Michael Jackson, and there has been for at least 30 years. Experienced journos will discuss it behind closed doors. Orders were routinely given at UK red-tops to fabricate damaging stories about him.
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@NeverlandFacts
@zolly_b
Defending freedom of expression by suppressing interviews. That’s a new one. We’re not talking about protecting anonymous whistleblowers. If they’re confident in the veracity of the TV show, they have nothing to fear from turning over their raw material.
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6% of UK has diabetes. 12% has asthma. 22% is over 60.
There are scum tweeting tonight that none of them are worth protecting.
The scum are, and will continue to be, paid & promoted by huge media outlets.
What a disgusting little country we have become in five short years.
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1,121 racists have formally complained because ITV broadcast a dance routine promoting anti-racism.
Welcome to Britain in 2020.
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As did ITV.
Martin Bashir’s dirty tricks were an open secret – yet the BBC tolerated them
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The vaccine news is really exciting. The terrifyingly bad news is that if you check out many Facebook community groups, you’ll find what I just found in my local group - about 80% of posters sharing demented conspiracy theories and threatening violence if asked to get vaccinated.
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Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr pays tribute to
@nickwallis
at the
@EditorsUK
25th anniversary conference, saying his work exposing the Post Office scandal “makes us all appreciate the truly important role that journalism and the media at its best plays in society.”
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@Bright19Rainbow
@EMMAyg
@IFGarciaC
@JusticeTrublu
The prosecution case in 2005, which these imbeciles endorse, was that Jackson had no money and no power, so organised a criminal conspiracy out of desperation at his withered career. Yet the imbeciles simultaneously claim he was acquitted due to his money and power. 😂🤦♂️
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The look on the little boy’s face has brought tears to my eyes.
It’s 5mins long but it’s worth every second to see the reaction of people when Chadwick Boseman surprises Black Panther fans.
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@asap__rickey
@TheMJCast
The Beatles were a Motown covers band who got famous because of their haircuts.
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Thousands of imbeciles protesting in London again today, apparently furious that only 500+ people are dying of covid per day and demanding the right to kill all of their elderly/diabetic/asthmatic acquaintances.
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@MJJRepository
Robson told the court he could never be involved in the entertainment industry again.
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@TheMJAP
@TherealNihal
Then ask him point blank whether 1) Channel 4, HBO or Amos Pictures has made any donation to Wade Robson’s new ‘charity’ fund, or 2) he has entered into any agreements - verbal or written - with Wade & Jimmy’s lawyers, regarding who or what he could/couldn’t talk to or say.
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Jeremy Corbyn expresses sympathy for ‘the poorest people in the poorest countries’.
Some thugs in the audience start yelling, ‘Oh, here we go!’
Jesus fucking wept. What has this country become?
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And by the Mirror. Although that’s hardly surprising, since the Mirror has a long history of running partially or entirely fabricated Jackson stories on its front pages. The fake FBI files were among the most notable.
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@RetroArcadeMan
@ObserverReport
@mikesmallcombe1
@Hammertonhal
I never expect anything even faintly resembling professionalism, ethics or integrity when it comes to media reporting on Michael Jackson.
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Doctors and scientists have already completely and repeatedly debunked any suggestion that wearing a mask restricts oxygen intake.
Got a message from a friend who said they wore a mask for 10 mins yesterday & nearly passed out. I fear that mandatory mask wearing will kill people. Many with breathing probs who should not be wearing masks will feel compelled to wear due to
#masksnitch
pressure. It’s all wrong.
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@TheMJAP
@CaseyRain
@1958TO4EVER
I thought I’d have mellowed a bit today but I’m actually even more repulsed than I was yesterday. It is contemptuous, evil behaviour. I know people who’ve booked holidays to London from abroad, just to attend that very unique concert. It’s cost them thousands. Utterly despicable.
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The truth is coming. The full story. People have been investigating this for eight years. They already know EXACTLY what happened. They're just letting the court case play out. If 'journalists' are too cowardly & depleted to do their jobs, others are ready to do it, soon enough.
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Wu replied: "But ultimately, you are looking for money, which is not irreparable harm when it has been delayed."
Wu then invited Daniel Petrocelli to speak for HBO. He argued the 'irreparable harm' was that 'first amendment interests are threatened in multiple ways'.
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@EveAinsworth
Yes! Have had it for three weeks. Severity fluctuates. You think you’re improving and then it gets worse again. Touch wood, it now seems to be clearing up. Hoping it’s not another false dawn.
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Awful news.
Charlie Salvagio was a close friend of Tom Mesereau.
In 03, they worked pro bono to save Wesley Quick from death row, overturning his wrongful double murder conviction.
Tom has worked a pro bono death penalty case with Charlie almost every year since the early 00s.
‘There will never be anyone like him’: Well-known lawyer Charles Salvagio dies unexpectedly at Vestavia Hills home -
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Delighted that Unfinished: Shoebury's Lost Boys has been chosen as one of
@pressgazette
's top journalism podcasts of 2020 - alongside
@TipOffPodcast
, New York Times, & shows by
@amolrajan
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@AnushkaAsthana
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@krishgm
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@robertscammell
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Absolutely gutted to wake up to this news about Chadwick Boseman. An actor of great integrity, whose work was guided by his social conscience. Apparently one of the nicest guys in showbusiness, too.
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@lookatmyopinion
@ILoveIc90960330
@djbaby2009
@_AndeKarim
The 1st went to a civil lawyer, sued for $30m, got $15m after Jackson nearly died. 2nd went to a civil lawyer and extorted $2m. 3rd went to civil lawyers, expressed intention to sue, but lost criminal case so couldn't. 4th and 5th are jointly suing right now for approx $100m.
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Why didn’t you ask journalists, instead of critics?
Then you might have got some facts, instead of some bullshit.
Today
@Slate
is publishing a series about our impending reckoning with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Since I watched Leaving Neverland, I’ve struggled to sleep, so instead I asked a bunch of critics to think through how we should all process. (Thread.)
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Over the moon that Unfinished: Shoebury’s Lost Boys has been shortlisted for Best Limited Series at the
@pubpodawards
.
Tune in at
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@MJJRepository
He then told the court he was seeking compensatory damages because he was now incapable of working in the entertainment industry, where he had been bound to achieve ‘major notoriety’.
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Why does
@Twitter
STILL not have any function to report accounts which exist solely to amplify coronavirus disinformation and conspiracy theories to hundreds/thousands of followers?
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I was privileged last week to collect the
@ukaop
Local Hero Award for winning a three-year legal battle against the police over access to information.
I wrote for
@behindlocalnews
about the arguments the police put forward and how I overcame them.
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@TheMJAP
This forgery story was reported (I think by the Guardian) after the Michael Jackson fiasco in ‘03, when the outtakes showed Bashir had mangled & misrepresented the interviews. Mesereau cross-examined him about alleged forgery in ‘05. Amazing how it’s all just blowing up in 2020.
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@DespicableDrew
@FallAgainMJ
It is an unavoidable fact that those who insist upon Jackson’s guilt turn out, with alarming regularity, to have their own sexual interest in children. It happens over and over and over again.
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@nickiesmind
The moment anybody says ‘he fit the profile’, it’s time to ignore. It’s a lie. He categorically did not fit the profile. It’s just a blatant, whopping lie.
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@rubberevolver
It’s preferable to just parrot the story that Jackson sexually abused Jimmy Safechuck on a daily basis in his train station in 1988/9, than to fact-check, learn the station wasn’t built until 1994 & Safechuck couldn’t have visited until 1995 - and thus kill a lucrative story.
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Today we've launched two new episodes of Unfinished!
Our precedent-setting victory in a years-long Freedom of Information battle with police has unlocked over 1,000 pages of files.
Here's a taste of what we uncovered, and a link to hear the new shows.
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@andjustice4some
I’m counting the hours til Hadley’s column finding some reason to call him ‘problematic’.
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@LAsnapperPAP
@AnnieRuokay4
@JodieMarsh
An erotic child abuse novel by a pro-paedophile activist, whose acknowledgements page expresses his admiration for NAMBLA? And who was found by a court to have maliciously defamed Jackson? And whose own supposed sources testified he had filled the book with ‘a lot of lies’?
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@LesF80
Californian Attorney General issued a press release yesterday announcing it has filed a brief supporting plaintiff in a lawsuit against Sony/Michael Jackson estate, over alleged sale of fake songs. Called the corporations’ defence an ‘absurd’ attempt at ‘shirking responsibility’.
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@oughut
It’s really hard to discern what the angle is with him. His line on Safechuck makes zero sense. In order to defend one part of his show, he labels his own star witness a perjurer, which in turn discredits his *entire* show.
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When somebody criticises the Daily Express’s Brexit coverage, for example, what they are criticising is not journalism. It is deliberately dishonest propaganda. But the Express will nonetheless insist it is journalism.
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Not only dissed MJ, but did so using imagery so racist (mimicking slavery) that when Stevie Wonder - a life-long prophet of peace - heard about it, he went absolutely apeshit and waged a public campaign against it. When you've pissed off Stevie, you *know* you're in the wrong.
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I really hate doing video interviews - but made a rare exception recently to talk to
@jamesenglish0
’s
@anythingoesshow
about showbiz journalism, ‘fake news’, investigative reporting and my podcast series ‘Unfinished: Shoebury’s Lost Boys’.
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@FallAgainMJ
@JamieBergen1
@DespicableDrew
@djbaby2009
@tralarlarlarlar
@MjBeliever1
@Dayzeechains
@DayySun
@trayon14
@lookatmyopinion
@EJChristian7
@KingLeahMay
@JacksonMarcel5
@SkepticOnSite
@redrobintree3
@JisWhy
@_AndeKarim
@jermjackson5
@latoyajackson
@RayMartin
@AndrewGreene864
One of them sent me a tweet about a week ago where they said that 'only' 8% of abuse allegations are false - which is thousands and thousands of allegations per year - but then said, in the same tweet, that we have to believe all allegations 🤣
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Channel 4’s recent war against honest journalism continues.
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Incredible that today’s Mail on Sunday front page is enthusiastically announcing plans set up a Government propaganda TV station and nobody bats an eyelid. What dystopian future are we sleepwalking into?
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@alexmorrison81
At Yellow Ad in Essex, the retired head of the Southend NHS psychology service walked into reception and said he had a story. By 2020, we’d unmasked a paedophile ring leader as a police informant and been shortlisted for the Paul Foot Award.
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Sources have confirmed to
@HamandHigh
that insurance firm Acasta, which provided the warranty for ‘catastrophically damaged’ new-build flats sold to
@dannybster
and other Camden buyers, has been placed under official investigation.
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I was invited to 10 Downing Street on Monday.
No sign of Rishi Sunak, but we did spot Larry the Cat.
I hope all MPs and parties will heed the culture secretary’s words and lead by example in the battle against rising abuse of/attacks on UK journalists.
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@TheRealMJJtruth
@JuliaBerkowitz1
@Robert20039469
@DespicableDrew
@JaneByfield
@roboemjay
@Cyborganna
Of course, she claims nobody has - but contrasting her original interview with her complete rewrite by the time she testified, it was extremely obvious a message had come from somewhere that she needed to dump everything on David and erase all criticism of Janet and the kids.
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Many, many thanks to
@leafarbuthnot
for picking Unfinished: Shoebury’s Lost Boys as one of this week’s MoS podcasts to listen to.
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@TheMJAP
The emails proved he lied about the nature of the TV show, made a series of outlandish claims & promises (such as that he knew Kofi Annan & would help Jackson work with the UN on charity projects), and he personally engineered incidents for which he then condemned MJ on screen.
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Numbers have dropped *because of* work from home, social distancing & masks. Yet as soon as they start working, people start demanding they’re withdrawn.
Guess what’ll happen then.
How do they not comprehend this? Or are they just cynically performing to a gallery of imbeciles?
Just two people died of coronavirus yesterday - out of a population of 66.6m. At what point do we declare the pandemic over?
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@SkepticOnSite
So perhaps this is his way of saying the doc could/should have been fairer.
Or perhaps he’s just being a disingenuous prick.
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@GartshoreLesley
@DespicableDrew
@RAZ0RFIST
@Zigmanfreud
Yet Jackson haters *still* shill for Gutierez and deny that he is a NAMBLA supporter 😂
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@LesF80
Without passing comment on the case - for any major news outlet, the Californian government joining a fraud suit against Michael Jackson’s estate over ‘fake’ songs should be a huge showbiz story. Something is seriously wrong when a story of that magnitude is universally missed.
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I mean, a rich, white man can’t even glue his eyes & paint himself brown anymore to play a mail-order bride called ‘Ting Tong’ from ‘Pong Pong’ who can’t pronounce Ls or Rs & is forced to give blowjobs for shelter.
BBC ceasing repeats of this is DEFINITELY akin to book burning.
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@wingheart
Would be great if you could explain this from your POV. I remember it being known days in advance that he was winning that award - but then on the day, after the fact, they claimed it had never existed.
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@ellie1981
@julesbuckley
@QuincyDJones
@TheO2
@TicketmasterUK
@AXS_UK
@mikesmallcombe1
@TheMJAP
@CaseyRain
@1958TO4EVER
Missed last year specifically because tickets were outrageously expense. ONLY reason I & thousands others paid that much this year was for the once in a lifetime chance to hear OTW/Thriller/Bad played in full. To renege on that after people bought tickets is just so disgusting.
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@TheMJAP
White crew & white network enlist 2 white families to smear & racially abuse a dead black man, cover up the white families’ proven lies, errors & financial motives, deny the black family a voice & then smear the black family as financially motivated savages if they dare complain.
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@Hammertonhal
@MJJRepository
Reed & Peretti both parroted this argument. It is mendacious and ludicrous. Just watch the press conference he’s talking about. He & the media are having a riot, trading one spiteful joke after another at Jackson’s expense. It is utterly shocking behaviour in an alleged CSA case.
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First-time buyers whose new-build flats in Camden are falling apart made national headlines this summer, sparking a visit from Michael Gove.
But months on, says
@dannybster
, nothing has changed.
They’ve now hung a huge banner, demanding government help.
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Under the archaic & irrelevant Espionage Act, designed to prosecute wartime spies, it is irrelevant whether the activity a journalist exposes is illegal or whether exposing that activity is in the public interest. In other words – they cannot mount any legal defence.
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@pennymellor
Sounds just like the Arvizos. They went from celeb to celeb with a sob story that they couldn’t pay the son’s medical bills. Even had fundraisers where celebs performed, and a newspaper campaign. It was all bullshit. There were no medical bills. Already covered by insurance.
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😂 Gutted.
People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.
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Of course Donald Trump, hospitalised with Covid-19, has just released a video statement listing all the people he’s been meeting while infected, and announcing that he’s about to go and meet some more people.
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Not quite snowman weather in Essex today, but still pretty.
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For 25 years, whistleblowers raised concerns about a paedophile ring cover-up in Essex. In the end, the only newspaper that could help was a free, weekly, local title.
Then, like 250 others since 2005, it closed down.
#JournalismMatters
@behindlocalnews
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Chuffed to have picked this up for my three-year legal battle with the cops and the resulting final two episodes of Unfinished: Shoebury’s Lost Boys. Many thanks to the judges!
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Imbecile.
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