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NHS BUILT A SECRET OPERATION AGAINST ITS OWN CEO FOR REPORTING BULLYING
Dr Susan Gilby spent 32 years in the NHS. She became CEO of the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2018, a month after Lucy Letby was arrested, and steered it through a pandemic. She then reported the board chair for bullying. That was her mistake, apparently.
Chair Ian Haythornthwaite and three other senior figures quietly launched what they called Project Countess. Its goal was to remove her.
They purged hundreds of messages and documents to cover their tracks.
One of the Trust's directors took her to the pub and told her it was time for her to go.
He added that if she didn't agree to leave, they would start a process against her. Nobody told her what that process would be.
A tribunal judge found the Trust had built a sham case against Dr Gilby, manufacturing the appearance of performance and misconduct allegations, aimed at engineering her dismissal.
Staff at the Trust then accessed her work accounts while she was suspended and deleted tranches of emails.
Some of those emails were relevant to the Thirlwall Inquiry into Lucy Letby's crimes.
She was also offered a payout in return for silence. She called it utterly shocking and refused.
She was eventually awarded £1.4 million in damages, one of the largest payments the NHS has ever made to a former employee.
The total bill to the taxpayer, including court costs, is estimated at around £3 million. The Trust had refused multiple offers to settle the case earlier.
The Trust still refused to issue an apology.
The @thebma called it a landmark case and said whistleblower protections are woefully inadequate and not fit for purpose.
Dr Gilby said she feels sad, not triumphant. Sad for her career. Sad for her colleagues. Sad that it took this long for the truth to be told.
She went on record warning that sham investigations are routinely used to silence NHS whistleblowers. The Countess of Chester case just put a £3 million price tag on that fact. And nobody in charge has said sorry.
Sources: @thebma@BBCNews@ITV
Federal prosecutors went looking for the names, addresses, and IPs of everyone subscribed to three YouTube channels. A judge said no.
But notice the government was brazen enough to treat a subscriber list as something a platform should just hand over.
The age verification/digital ID push that's now happening would raise the stakes considerably.
Pro-Palestine prisoner Umer Khalid, a 22-year-old with muscular dystrophy, has been dragging himself across his prison cell floor because he has been denied a wheelchair.
He hasn't had access to a shower for over 20 weeks.
He has been waiting for a neurology appointment for over 12 weeks while experiencing chest pain and breathlessness.
This is happening in a British prison right now.
I've written to David Lammy to demand answers:
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Following harrowing testimony from French nationals detained by Israel, France has now referred reports of sexual violence, beatings and humiliation against Global Sumud Flotilla activists to prosecutors.
On 21 May, I wrote to the Foreign Secretary demanding urgent action over the interception of the flotilla in international waters, and the detention and degrading treatment of humanitarian volunteers, including British citizens.
France is acting. Spain is showing leadership. Where is the UK government? Nothing but a simp for Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.
🚨 California's State Assembly approved a Stop Killing Games bill targeting games that need a server connection to play. Before shutting those servers down, developers would have to give 60 days' notice, then either release a patch that makes the game playable offline or refund players. Only applies to games released after Jan 1, 2027. The Senate still has to approve it.
Stop Killing Games is an international consumer campaign (started in 2024 by YouTuber Ross Scott) pushing to stop publishers from making purchased games unplayable. It's pursued an EU Citizens' Initiative and backs related bills like California's AB 1921.