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Filmmaker & journalist Tweets / views my own The Fourth Estate flourishes outside MSM Did Covid Leak From A Lab in China? https://t.co/vLPZIDt0xo

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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
@ShepherdWales As a lawyer, Starmer knows the First Rule of "Follow the Process" is: Never create an audit trail that, if revealed, will incriminate you. I note all the boxes in the Mandelson Decision note were left blank. x.com/alexburghart/s…
Alex Burghart@alexburghart

The Government has not released the *actual* box returns on Mandelson Why? I’ve worked in No10 - Spads and Private Secretary provide comments AND we’d expect the PM to write in his view All that has been left out - why?

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The media need to consider the possibility that Starmer didn’t fail to ask the questions himself because he was incompetent. I believe that he failed to ask the questions because his lawyer head knew he needed to be able to claim ‘it didn’t cross my desk’ I believe that’s Starmer’s method of action. Don’t write anything down. Don’t have a record. Plausible deniability. It is my belief that he is fundamentally shifty to the core and has spent his life’s career hiding behind others for bad decisions due to ‘no record’ of his own culpability.
Tony Diver@Tony_Diver

Exclusive: Britain's civil service ethics chief twice offered to officially question Lord Mandelson over his links to Jeffrey Epstein but was rebuffed by No10. Darren Tierney approached senior No10 staff in late 2024 and offered to conduct formal interviews before the decision.

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Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
“I can see that good intentions have led to absolutely appalling outcomes,” Professor Swaran Singh told The Times. “Many years from when I first spoke out, we are hyperaware about race and the same bad outcomes happen.”
Dr Sanjoy Kumar@drsanjoykumar

Shared with you by a Times subscriber. Fiona Hamilton @thetimes and Prof Swaran Singh…. BULLSEYE. Royal College of Psychiatrists….shame on you. Don’t suppress epidemiology. In our case Psychiatrists are there to *direct* the court NOT *determine* the outcome. Judges take note. @rcpsych @ShabanaMahmood @cps @JudiciaryUK @attorneygeneral @hmcpsi @wesstreeting Enjoy this article for free. thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…

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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
@joanithejourno @amscanlon @LucyGoBag Perhaps they "considered" giving you a response and decided "Nah, too sensitive." From the Charter's conclusion: "We need to change the perception from chief constable to PC level that it is the media who are the problem." No shit Sherlock. But how will this be achieved?
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joanithejourno@joanithejourno·
@JanKlimkowski @amscanlon @LucyGoBag I recently tried to find out why so many officers ‘need’ to be present at minor incidents - 7 at the arrest of a woman for tweets, 9 to get a couple of lesbians out of an event, 5 to arrest Graham Linehan - but couldn’t get anywhere. Not policy, no reason, just happens.
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Professor Lucy Easthope
I have struggled to find my words on this.IME almost every month journalists have been absolutely right on their rumour network and police have done EVERYTHING they can to frustrate this being revealed. This feels 1989esque in its shittyness and deceit bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
@joanithejourno @amscanlon @LucyGoBag Dominic Adler charts the ebbs and flows of the relationship between police and media here, providing important background to the latest in a long line of attempts to "reset" the rozzer - hack relationship. x.com/DomAdlerUK/sta…
Dominic Adler@DomAdlerUK

The police have new rules for media engagement. I worked on the News International case back in the day, and three years ago I wrote this: dominicadler.substack.com/p/off-the-reco…

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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
The NPCC press release states that the Policing and Media Charter is "the result of over two years of collaborative work between senior leaders from policing, the criminal justice sector and the media". So, yes, journalist organisations such as the Crime Reporters Assn were involved, but some would say they are analogous to political lobby correspondents, often already given privileged access to police investigations. I've read the full document. It contains lots of worthy statements, eg from page 5: "Police should consider providing guidance in major incidents (on a reportable and non-reportable basis) to prevent panic caused by social media speculation, misinformation and rumour." Yes, of course. But the phrasing, "consider", could hardly be weaker. I've worked both sides of the fence, as journalist and press officer. These worthy principles are unlikely to survive contact with a major incident where Chief Officers suspect mistakes or policing failings may have taken place, and they're facing an IOPC investigation. Observing a Duty of Candour would in principle provide accurate and timely information. In practice, with "sensitive" incidents, there will ALWAYS be pressures to avoid transparency & openness. Those pressures, those attempts to "control the narrative", usually make the situation worse. societyofeditors.org/wp-content/upl…
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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
Dominic - your piece is an insightful (& amusing) overview of police - media relations, as they lurch drunkenly from one extreme to the other. Observing a Duty of Candour would in principle provide accurate and timely information. In practice, with "sensitive" incidents, there will ALWAYS be pressures to subvert transparency & openness. Those pressures, those attempts to "control the narrative", usually make the situation worse. They harm public understanding of the incident itself, and damage confidence in policing. Meanwhile, I note the "best" Home Sec Shabana can find to oversee the complete restructuring of policing is Hogan-Howe. What could possibly go wrong? archive.is/olgzv
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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
The Notts Police SIO writes in his decision log of contacting the force Comms head to "ascertain what covenants can be imposed on the press". I've worked inside policing as a press officer and Comms head. This mindset is entirely commonplace. In my experience, if information is likely to expose police failings, pressure to gatekeep and "control the narrative" rapidly builds. The College of Policing & NPCC seem to know the "media handling" elements of the Calocane case will cause public outrage, and have pre-emptively launched a "reset" of relations. This is cynical stuff. In reality, NO "lessons will be learned" precisely because the same instincts to "prevent reputational damage" will kick in whenever the next catastrophic failure occurs. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
Joe Kent, former Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center, explains how the "conspiracy theory" charge is created and weaponised to gatekeep and suppress legitimate investigations. NB this technique is used with almost all sensitive subjects.
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox

Tucker Carlson asked Joe Kent why the Thomas Crooks surveillance tapes haven’t been released. Kent’s answer blew him away. He explained the government deliberately withholds information to create noise with conspiracy theories, so the “actual question never gets answered.” TUCKER: “The current president was the subject of a near-successful assassination attempt.” “And we’re just not going to look into very obviously or divulge information that everyone knows they have.” “For example, the surveillance tape from the shooting range at which Thomas Crooks trained, because it would answer the question, was he training with somebody?” “And if so, who? They have that footage, and they won’t release it. What could possibly be the explanation for that?” KENT: “I know what the result is. The result is people come to their own conclusions. And this is where crazy conspiracy theories come from.” “And then those conspiracy theories usually are easy to ‘debunk’ or make the people saying them sound crazy. So then the actual question never gets answered.” [Tucker laughs in awe] TUCKER: “Sorry. Can you say that for people who haven’t lived in Washington?” “I try to explain this to people all the time because this has been ongoing since at least the Kennedy assassination.” “But this is a very serious and recurring thing. It’s a tactic. And you just explained it better than anyone I’ve ever heard. Can you just do that again?” KENT: “So basically, you give no information whatsoever on something that’s obvious, that there should be information.” “You outlined there’s potentially footage of Crooks at the shooting range. Again, police, 101, go get the tapes. Let’s figure it out.” “If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent. You say, ‘you can’t ask that question,’ which then creates people who come out of kind of nowhere, and they start drawing their own conclusions.” “Knowing the way the internet works, half of them, if not more, are probably going to be so far off in left field... that then you can just be like, Oh, these people asking these questions about that tape at the video range. Crazy conspiracy theorists.’” “And so then you’ve just diverted all attention away from the thing that you’re trying to conceal. And now everyone’s focused on the crazies.” TUCKER: “Man.” KENT: “And then the second someone asks a legitimate question, they’re ‘crazy.’”

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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677·
@bphillipsonMP, with respect, you are the last person in Britain who should be demanding anyone's sacking for saying what millions of people can see with their own eyes. You are the Education Secretary who issued guidance allowing schools to socially transition children on a case by case basis, without parental consent, in direct contradiction of the Cass Review which your own government commissioned. The Cass Review did not treat social transition as a harmless first step. It warned against premature affirmation. You ignored it. You are the Education Secretary on whose watch Kirklees Council issued guidance to schools warning that children's drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. That same guidance flagged dance lessons as a potential concern over physical contact between males and females. It was framed as sensitivity training. It was the institutionalisation of everything the Batley mob demanded. You are the Education Secretary on whose watch a teacher remains in hiding, living under a new identity somewhere in the United Kingdom, five years after showing an image of the Prophet Mohammed in a religious studies lesson at Batley Grammar School. The Khan Review, published in 2024, found he was totally and utterly failed by the school, the police and the council. He has committed no crime. He has broken no law. You have not stood at a despatch box and demanded he be brought home safely. Not once. You are the Education Secretary who has overseen the rollout of a definition of anti-Muslim hostility through every school, council, university and NHS trust in the country, a definition your own former anti-extremism adviser Lord Walney warned extremists would use to deflect scrutiny, and which the Equality and Human Rights Commission said risks a chilling effect on free speech. Now to your actual point. Christians, Jews, Sikhs and Hindus have indeed gathered in Trafalgar Square. Nobody disputes that. But the Chanukah menorah does not declare there is no god but the god of the Jews. The Diwali celebration does not call out across the square that all other faiths are false. The Adhan does. It declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. In a shared civic space that declaration is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a theological assertion of exclusive truth. Nick Timothy identified that distinction precisely. You have not answered it. You have simply called for his sacking, which is what this government does when it cannot answer the argument. You govern schools in which nativity plays are cancelled for fear of causing offence while children are taken on immersive trips to mosques, dressed in Islamic garments, and taught to write Quranic verses. You govern schools in which a teacher's career can be ended for showing a historical image in a history lesson while the mob that threatened his life faces no consequence. You govern schools in which the guidance flowing from your department tells teachers that hesitation is harm and caution is suspicion. Nick Timothy said what millions of people think and cannot say without risk of exactly the treatment you are demanding for him. That is not going into the gutter. That is doing the job you have conspicuously failed to do. The teacher in hiding is your record. Own it. "You govern schools in which nativity plays are cancelled for fear of causing offence while children are taken on immersive trips to mosques, dressed in Islamic garments, and taught to write Quranic verses."
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Patricia Marins
Patricia Marins@pati_marins64·
The U.S. and Israel have begun bombing Iran's gas infrastructure. The strike on the Bushehr facility today represents an intensification of existing coalition tactics, pursuing two main goals: First, to cripple the power grid. Since the South Pars fields, which were hit, account for 70–75% of Iran’s natural gas production, and nearly 80% of the country's electrical grid is gas-fired, these strikes directly threaten national energy security. Second, the U.S. and Israel anticipate that Iranian retaliation will target infrastructure in Gulf countries. This is a calculated move to further strain relations between Iran and the GCC, effectively dismantling any remaining hopes of regional neutrality as these countries are drawn into the conflict.
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Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
Philip K Dick was a modern day Cassandra, blessed with a certain gift of prophecy, cursed not to be taken seriously. Like key characters in his work, the speedfreak spiritualist Dick was channelling something. Or perhaps, like a replicant, Dick was being channelled. I suspect Dick believed he was the plaything of some demiurge, as he time slipped between what he called "multiverses". memes.yarn.co/yarn-clip/6d17…
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Moneypenny
Moneypenny@nic_moneypenny·
REMEMBER THE BLADE RUNNER AUTHOR AND SCI-FI ACADEMIC WHO DIED DAYS BEFORE THE FILM AIRED?! When you look at the history of great scientists and academics disappearing or having sudden death incidents, the number is frightening But I took some time out to look at one of my favourites, Philip K Dick. The introduction below will give you much more of an insight into him and his background but check my next post if you want to be really blown away by some of his incredible scientific theories that clearly got a little bit too close...
Moneypenny@nic_moneypenny

🚨 THREE US MILITARY SCIENTISTS 'GONE' IN THREE MONTHS - WHY?🚨 In the past 3 months, two leading US scientists working on sensitive military critical projects were murdered in their own homes. And now another great scientific and military mind, Major General Neil McCasland, has been missing for over 3 weeks. Many have asked questions about what might be behind this @darkjournalist pointed out a fascinating connection with the work on Neutron Stars - something DARPA is currently heavily invested in. This little video is a tribute to those men and hopefully an uplifting fantasy style short movie - with inclusive educational additions - which will tell you more about what these guys were potentially studying in recent months @UAPJames @theblackvault @AlchemyAmerican

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Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
RIP Len Deighton. The Ipcress File is an outstanding 1960s exploration of what was then known as "brainwashing". IPCRESS. "Induction of Psycho-neuroses by Conditioned REflex with StresS" It's almost as if Deighton knew of a British MKUltra... youtube.com/watch?v=EHbvZ1…
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Bryce Nickels
Bryce Nickels@Bryce_Nickels·
🥂Happy 6-Year Anniversary to the Big Lie!🥂 6 yrs ago today, Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin, Eddie Holmes, and Robert Garry published the fraudulent “Proximal Origin” paper, which claimed to “clearly show” that SARS-CoV-2 was not a product of intentional manipulation. The now-notorious paper played a central role in spreading the false -- and pervasive -- narrative that the weight of scientific evidence ruled out a lab origin for COVID-19—a claim that Andersen and his colleagues continue to promote today. In the years since, the misconduct surrounding its creation has been publicly exposed. A taxpayer-funded congressional investigation even concluded that Proximal Origin was the product of scientific misconduct. And yet, the paper—and its authors—remain largely unaccountable. If the scientific community cannot muster enough courage to retract such an egregious fraud, they are clearly not worthy of public trust.
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Philip Pilkington
Philip Pilkington@philippilk·
It looks like people are waking up to the actual reality of why governments were so obsessed with AI. Social media made censorship impossible. So how do you regain control of the information space? Only one way: ensure that nothing online can be trusted anymore. 🤖
Snicklink@snicklink

what's even real anymore?😅

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Jan Klimkowski
Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
@BethRigby Starmer asserted: "The process was followed. But was the process strong enough? No it wasn’t." In the jargon, this is known as "crisis comms". Starmer's line has zero chance of holding. It's already nonsense and will unravel further with each new release of evidence. Idiotic.
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Beth Rigby
Beth Rigby@BethRigby·
NEW: I asked PM directly on whether he had misled the House when he said due process had been followed regarding Mandelson’s appointment. ‘No’ He says it’s clear the process isn’t robust enough & says again it was ‘my mistake’ and I apologise for that
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Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
@kelvmackenzie So this has nothing to do with transparency and integrity. It's just more grubby games as mediocrities desperately jostle for power. Last I checked, there's a war going on....
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Kelvin MacKenzie
Kelvin MacKenzie@kelvmackenzie·
The Times says Labour paid for specialist tax lawyer Jonathan Peacock KC (costing around £20K) to give legal advice to Angela Rayner on whether she should have paid stamp duty on her £700K home in Hove. Why didn’t she pay for her own tax advice? It’s her home, nothing to do with the party. In any event I suspect HMRC might view that payment as a “ benefit”. Rayner loves benefits. Apparently Mr Peacock spent “ up to 5 days” on draft and final advice. Currently HMRC is deciding how much of a fine she will have to pay now that Rayner has accepted she should have paid the £40K stamp duty. Rayner’s people are claiming the KC being hired was leaked by her enemies to kill her chances of getting into No10 when Starmer is forced out after the May elections. Get real Rayner. You never had a chance anyway.
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Jan Klimkowski@JanKlimkowski·
In an article proving Starmer is another in the depressingly long line of "hollow men" inhabiting No 10 Downing Street, we are given a blow-by-blow account of Chancellor Reeves and Home Secretary Cooper discussing how to fund the extra police officers promised in Labour's manifesto. Rachel From Accounts can't find the money, panics, and tells Cooper to GTFO out of her "boardroom". A government of mediocrities, without any moral compass, floundering towards inevitable collapse. ------------------ In June, tense negotiations over the spending review that preceded the budget had ended in bitter recrimination. Yvette Cooper asked for more money to fund the new police officers promised in Labour’s manifesto, and to fulfil pledges to halve knife crime and violence against women and girls. The home secretary came to the Treasury to set out her position to Reeves and Darren Jones, then chief secretary to the Treasury. The discussion was scratchy and fractious. “The truth is, Yvette,” Jones said, “you should have never promised to increase police numbers in the manifesto when we didn’t know how things would look in government.” Cooper had not come for a dressing down. “I’m sure everyone made promises in the manifesto that look a bit more difficult to stick to in government,” she replied, archly. “But we are where we are.” Reeves exploded. She gathered her papers. “This meeting is over,” she said, storming out of her own boardroom. As she left, those present heard her complain that Cooper was “trying to lecture me on economic strategy”. Jones, rising to leave, declared: “Well, that’s it.” Cooper persisted, continuing to explain her position to a Treasury official frozen in their seat by second-hand embarrassment. Jones ordered the official to get up. He turned to the home secretary: “That’s it, the chancellor has asked you to leave, you need to leave.” thetimes.com/article/2cb4be…
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