Jonathan West

Child protection campaigner. Brought to public attention the abuse scandal at Ealing Abbey & St Benedict's School

[Jonathan West @JonathanWest_]

@brigitfilm @ejhchess @beansandstuff @PulaRJS @up_again @DoubleDownNews @MichaelRosenYes You might need to realise that posts like the one above tell the reader far more about their author than about their subject.

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@MColl_UK @BladeoftheS Not true. If you take into account indirect taxes it’s about 34%. And they have just over 35% of all earnings which means that they pay a bit less of their earnings in tax than the average.

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@RealCounties @MartynPercy I remember as a small kid having a jigsaw puzzle of England & Wales where each piece was one of the historic counties.

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@AndyByfield_22 @carlmchambers @AnglicanFutures That is a very brave thing to say. It is very common to be in this kind of situation, very rare voluntarily to come forward and say so.

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@AnglicanFutures Almost every clerical abuse scandal has a common feature.

Others knew.

Because they didn’t report the first case they dare not report subsequent ones.

As time passes they end up protecting the abuser and keeping the enemy (ie victims) at bay

Does Emmanuel fit this pattern?

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox @MichaelRosenYes @jomanka100 @K4rmaRules This is a map of Jaffa-Tel Aviv in 1948. Clearly the area was significantly urbanised even then, and was not the malarial swamp you claim it consisted of. https://t.co/bw19WzWVjv

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@jonsopel @mehdirhasan Do you remember Sir Philip Rutnam? Or Sir Tom Scholar? Or Sir Mark Sedwill? Or several others forced out by the last government? Rutnam sued for constructive dismissal and settled for £340k. Scholar didn’t need to sue, he got a settlement of over £300k.

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@soniasodha Unfair dismissal cases rarely come to tribunal. Like almost all other civil cases they are settled out of court. Under the last govt there were sackings of senior civil servants who subsequently brought an unfair dismissal case. They were all settled.

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@MichaelRosenYes @shitterly There's an even greater irregularity with the French "hautbois", where we have largely kept the pronounciation but completely changed the spelling to "oboe".

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@MichaelRosenYes @lingdiscovery I one heard that in the British army, when describing terrain you never refer to a “hedge”. It’s always something like “a row of bushes”. This is because some accents drop the h and so you can’t tell the difference between an edge and an ‘edge.

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@justinandkimsma @MichaelRosenYes In the view of many, abusive posts provide far more information about their author than about their subject. You might like to reflect on that.

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@gallowshumours @f_a_infinityy Ah yes PICNIC! Problem In Chair, Not In Computer.

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@f_a_infinityy @AllanForsyth The thing is, you can never tell whether their silence is because the problem is fixed, or because they have given up hope that it will ever be fixed.

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This might explain why the government has chosen to implement a completely ineffective version of Mandatory Reporting, which looks designed not to produce any increase in reports of abused children.

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@JohnSimpsonNews @MichaelRosenYes I’ve always taken the view that abusive posts tell me more about the author than about the subject.

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@MichaelRosenYes No prizes for guessing which approach Netanyahu is taking.

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@MichaelRosenYes If you reach the first conclusion, then you look to make a Jewish state invulnerable, and any action is justified in pursuit of making it so.

If you reach the second conclusion, you look for a world in which we talk to and co-operate with each other and not kill each other.

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@AllanForsyth Are you going to repeat that tweet in half an hour?

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@MaggieOliverUK @thetimes @TMOFCharity The simple fact is that most charities are very lean, don’t spend much on management & admin. So in effect you can buy a charity’s public policy for about 10% of its turnover, because to lose that 10% would mean services have to be cut.