Christopher Weatherhead

@ispreview don’t know if you saw this: yourharlow.com/2025/02/10/fru… Seems to also be affecting Hertfordshire too.

@Telegraph The Telegraph doesn’t have experts, it has fantasy opinion writers.

@Sasspurrella @SkySportsF1 What on earth was that all about, clearly prod forgot what day it was

Time for qualifying, eh @SkySportsF1? #AbuDhabiGP

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

@willallis @BBCNewsnight A few less Coffee Shop Latte's and Avocado Toasts, and he will be fine

‘I’ve got seven properties I’m losing money on month by month’ This landlord tells Newsnight that the upcoming abolition of no fault evictions has caused some landlords to issue them now amid rising mortgage rates bbc.in/2Ps915G

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 Just because a defence exists, doesn't mean the statement wasn't defamatory (if that was so, no defamation case would ever go to court), its for a court to decide whether an opinion is honestly held (belief). Arguably Coutts may even have an absolute defence in 'truth'.

@CJFWeatherhead @WritesBright @epidemic27 Have a coffee and read the report again. Also have a look at what 'honest opinion' means in a case of defamation.

Farage forced the disclosure of internal documents through a Subject Access Request and is now threatening to sue on the basis of what they said. Chilling. An incredibly dangerous precedent to set.

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 Coutts staff stating that NF is a racist is defamatory. Coutts stating that NF account was closed due to funds, when that wasn’t the reason is potentially libellous (defamatory) How it was reported is irrelevant

@CJFWeatherhead @WritesBright @epidemic27 The underlying information is mostly published material about NF and a commentary on the potential view of people who read that and how that may affect their view on Coutts. No cause for defamation.

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 I think you misunderstood that the report that NF put together was on the basis of a DSAR under GDPR, the comments in the report are pulled from Coutts’ own internal information on Farage. The report isn’t defamatory, the underlying information is.

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 Both are arguably defamatory. (Coutts’ staff alleging he is a racist, Coutts claiming that his account was suspended solely on not meeting a financial requirement and then briefing media, a statement which may not be true). The question is was NF materially harmed?

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 Explain it to me

@CJFWeatherhead @WritesBright @epidemic27 Think you need to understand the meaning of defamation.

@mallocblock @WritesBright @epidemic27 It’s not a case of who published, it’s a matter of what was said and by whom. NatWest/Coutts staff said x and NF alleges that what they said was defamatory.

@CJFWeatherhead @WritesBright @epidemic27 NF has not been defamed. NF published the information not Coutts.

@WritesBright @epidemic27 Ultimately this sounds like poor data protection practices on NatWests part. Best way to avoid defamation… don’t defame someone, and definitely don’t write it down. Surprised Pikachu face when company (employees) find out that their Slack chats can be DSARed (if related to DS)

@epidemic27 Of course he’s entitled to the information - he just shouldn’t go around threatening to sue on the basis of it. Especially when he was the one who released the material into the public domain!

I realise that literally no one can see this post on twitter nowadays so I’m expecting very little crossover

Yeap, the biggest joke being @elonmusk

21 days since Nadine Dorries vowed to resign as an MP 'with immediate effect'. Nadine Dorries is still an MP. #DorriesWatch

Virgin Media looking like they have quite the outage right now. North West all the way through East Anglia and the East Midlands. Lucky I was heading to bed. Virgin’s status page says next update at 0605… Guess my overnight backups are going to fail tonight though 👀

Whoever at @LBC chose an advert for Eton mess after the @LBCNews at the beginning of @mrjamesob show *chefs kiss* 👌#partygate Genius!

“We are delivering…the fastest wage growth in years” says Rishi Sunak in #PMQs. It is an extraordinary boast, for a few reasons. 1) that wage growth is a big reason why interest rates are still rising, why the Bank of England will next week increase interest rates again, and why there will be mortgage pain, much of it acute, for well over a million people over the next year (and the government too is having to pay significantly more to borrow) 2) the “fastest wage growth” is mainly in the private sector, over which the government has no control except in respect of setting the minimum wage; 3) Downing St and the Treasury have been furiously trying to suppress wage increases in schools, hospitals and the rest of the private sector, because they regard inflation as THE problem; 4) even with this “fastest wage growth in years”, most people on average are poorer, because inflation is even faster.

@AlecMuffett Wait till they hear about chip and pin machines and other point of sale paraphernalia 🫠

* eSIMs * banks of 4-SIM USB devices * platform unit-testing farms declared illegal * ...

What could possibly go wrong?