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[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

POST OFFICE LAWYER WHO REFUSED TO TESTIFY NOW FACES HER OWN TRIBUNAL

Jane MacLeod ran the Post Office legal department from 2015 to 2019. That is the exact window when the organisation was busy defending itself against the subpostmasters it had already destroyed.

In 2024 the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry asked her to come and explain herself. She said no. She offered a written statement instead and argued too much time had passed for her memory to matter.

Inquiry chair Sir Wyn Williams offered to pay her flights and hotel from Australia where she now lives. She still refused, in person or by video link. He admitted publicly that forcing her back would need a criminal conviction and possibly extradition. That process would outlast most subpostmasters patience for justice. So she walked.

Now the Solicitors Regulation Authority @sra_solicitors has referred her to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. The allegation covers April to July 2024, when she failed to cooperate fully with the Inquiry. She is also named as a significant individual in the Metropolitan Police investigation Operation Olympos.

When @BBC cameras doorstepped her about documents suggesting the Post Office lied about knowing Horizon was faulty, her answer was no comment. A strong move from someone who used to run a legal team built on telling the public the opposite.

Over 900 subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted between 1999 and 2009 because of broken Fujitsu software. Lives and marriages were wrecked while people in her position drafted the legal advice that kept the lie standing.

A second solicitor, Nick Gould, has also been referred, over how he charged exonerated subpostmistresses for help after their convictions were quashed.

dodging a public inquiry from the other side of the planet while your victims are still waiting for compensation says plenty on its own.

Sources:
@computerweekly
@lawsocgazette
@PostOffInquiry
@sra_solicitors
@nickwallis

[kryptonavenger @kryptonavenger]

@implausibleblog The man’s a gobshite. What did he think would happen? The concept of British Empire domination is an anachronism at this moment.

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@Ripple is that Jamie Dimon's pet rock in there?

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@AxelLebour52418 @InvestWithD I've an XF which I love but I'd swap for the 75 AWD version of the P450.

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@Hiraweb3 @JohnEDeaton1 There's peoples growth that can create some change to a centrist position and then there's a full 180 with sprinkles.

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

A stunning reminder of why we cannot give up on our rivers yesterday, as I stumbled across an adult eel on the Roding for the first time, lounging in the shallows in the shade of a council tower block & within earshot of the North Circular.

This now rare & magical sight used to be common, until eel populations crashed on the Roding in the 1980’s & have not recovered. Seeking to understand & reverse this population crash should surely be a key role for the governments environmental regulator, but as usual they have done nothing to improve water quality or remove barriers to eel migration. Worse, they are actively blocking my efforts to help the eel population recover.

Ordinarily, baby eels (elvers) for restocking are expensive to buy. However, I managed to secure a kind donation of elvers from fishermen on the River Severn (where the elvers often get stuck behind barriers on the river). I applied for my @EnvAgency restocking permit like a good boy & all they had to do to help recover eel populations on the Roding was to say yes. Perhaps predictably, my application was rejected, because there was no positive evidence that reintroducing eels to the Roding would be a good thing. Perhaps most annoyingly, my application to restock eels on the Roding was rejected because reintroducing them would interfere with the EA’s monitoring of their continued decline.

I asked what would happen if I went ahead & released the elvers anyway & was told that the EA would fine me up to £50,000. Yet another example of the malevolent uselessness of the EA: obsessed with procedure, but will do absolutely sod all to actually reverse the decline in our rivers.

[kryptonavenger @kryptonavenger]

Great to see people power holding government to account. 🤞

[Whale Scan @WhaleScan]

ALBANIAN PROTESTERS JUST PUBLISHED EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS THEIR COASTLINE FOREVER

Not vague threats. Not "we oppose occupation." NAMED PROJECTS. SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. Site by site.

🇦🇱 Sazan Island — former Albanian military base → $4,000,000,000 Kushner-linked luxury resort approved on protected land
🇦🇱 Pishë Poro-Narta wetlands — protected coastal zone → flamingo habitats, sea turtle nesting, migratory bird corridors slated for development
🇦🇱 Southern Albanian coastline — UNESCO-adjacent protected areas → "strategic investor" framework overrides environmental law
🇦🇱 Prime Minister Edi Rama — 13 years in power → approved resort plans despite active legal challenges from environmental groups
🇦🇱 Albanian parliament — passed laws weakening protected-area status → cleared the path for foreign investor projects
🇦🇱 Kushner/Ivanka Trump development group — linked to the resort project → Guardian, CBS, Reuters all confirmed June 2026
🇦🇱 Albanian hospital system — suffering blackouts → protesters cite domestic neglect while billions flow to foreign resort deals
🇦🇱 Foreign worker contracts — government accused of hiring abroad → while Albanian workers are unemployed
🇦🇱 Bosnian football fan footage — circulating as Albanian protest clips → misidentified video spreading the "occupation" narrative
🇦🇱 Celebrity amplification campaign — protesters asking global voices to speak out → about the resort and corruption, not military occupation

💀 20+ consecutive days of protests
💀 Protests expanded from one resort to full anti-corruption movement
💀 ZERO evidence of US or Israeli military occupation of Albanian territory
💀 100% domestic political crisis — a government, a billionaire project, and protected land

Every target on this list keeps something alive. Not soldiers. FLAMINGOS. SEA TURTLES. WETLANDS. And a democracy trying not to be sold to the highest bidder.

Albania has been in the streets for 20+ days. The resort approvals are still standing. These are the targets the protesters are fighting to protect RIGHT NOW.

I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Dear @EnvAgency.

In February this year, after 4 years of asking you to look after the Aldersbrook, I led a team of volunteers to do your job for you & clean out tonnes of silt & leaves, as well as hundreds of bags of rubbish. Through the effort of community volunteers & donations, & at zero cost to the taxpayer, we turned a forgotten silted up ditch back into a river again.

Last nights intense rain storm showed why our actions are the very definition of “strengthening water resilience”. A huge amount of rain fell in a short time, but the restored section of the Aldersbrook has been able to hold 100’s of thousands of litres more water, stopping this water running into the Roding, & thereby *reducing* local flood risk. The first photograph below is of the Aldersbrook after the rains this morning- a big contrast to the area before we did the work.

Perhaps more importantly, this water, instead of running straight off into the Roding & hence the sea is now being held in the Aldersbrook & gradually released so it can be used by nature. It is feeding marshes, trees & wildlife, topping up groundwater & helping to reduce our flood/drought cycle. If you want to strengthen water resilience, we need thousands more projects like the Aldersbrook around the country.

So the question I ask you, Environment Agency, is why you are threatening me with two years imprisonment, rather than offering to meet & discuss how we can work together to restore the Roding & its tributaries, which could become a blueprint for you cooperating with local river guardians nationwide?

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@unlimited_ls Chuck them in the pool and be done with it.

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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧 UK lawyer Paul Powlesland cleaned 200 bags of waste from a polluted river.

Fish and dragonflies have returned.

Now he faces up to 2 years in prison for doing it without a permit.

This is modern Britain: punishing people who actually clean up the environment while the bureaucracy strangles common sense.

Absolutely insane.

Source: @Coinvo / Writer: Oliver

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@paddycosgrave Brew your own, fuck ‘em!

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@MarioNawfal We were doing that in the 80’s in Ireland. Loads of van owners used to drive around with three piece suite or carpets on the roof!!

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@NominalFinance @JohnEDeaton1 You’re right, I’m in Ireland; Epstein is an international issue.

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@DocPriyamMD Would this be the same for a member of the public who is not a family friend?

[Handre @Handre]

Two small island economies blew up in 2008. Iceland and Ireland. Their names differ by one letter, and their handling of the crisis differed by everything that matters.

Iceland's three big banks, Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir, had grown assets to roughly ten times the country's GDP by 2008. Pure credit-fueled madness. When the music stopped, the Icelandic government did the unthinkable: it let them fail. Bondholders ate the losses. The state refused to socialize private bank debt onto 320,000 citizens who never signed up for it. Capital controls went up, the króna collapsed, and the politicians actually prosecuted bankers. Twenty-six of them went to prison. Sigurður Einarsson and Hreiðar Már Sigurðsson, the men who ran Kaupthing, served real sentences.

Ireland took the opposite road. In September 2008, the Irish government issued a blanket guarantee covering the liabilities of its major banks, including Anglo Irish Bank, a property-lending casino that should have been allowed to die in peace. The taxpayer absorbed the bill. By the time the rescue ended, Ireland had poured around 64 billion euros into its banks, roughly 40 percent of GDP. The state took on private gambling debts, then went to the Troika in 2010 hat in hand for an 85 billion euro bailout, and accepted years of austerity to pay for losses it had no business owning.

Both economies recovered. Both eventually grew again. The difference is who paid and who learned. Iceland made creditors and reckless bankers bear the consequences of their own decisions, which is the entire point of capitalism: profit and loss, not profit and bailout. Ireland protected the people who made the bad bets and handed the invoice to schoolteachers and shopkeepers.

You will hear economists call Ireland's GDP rebound a triumph (much of that "growth" is multinational accounting fiction, Leprechaun economics, but that's another lesson). What they skip is the moral architecture. When you guarantee bank liabilities, you abolish the discipline that makes markets work. You tell every banker in the country that downside is optional.

Iceland jailed its bankers. Ireland reimbursed theirs.

[Monsieur Cholet @stugoo17]

#PostOfficeScandal #Fujitsu
FUJITSU CHAIR RESIGNS OVER "INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT." COMPANY STILL HASN'T RESIGNED ITSELF TO PAYING VICTIMS.
£1.5bn Redress bill still sits with Taxpayers. "Conversations ongoing" — as they have been for years. Words are cheap.
https://t.co/Gm2JcQuKPz

[kryptonavenger @kryptonavenger]

@MLorrM No change in decades.

[John Deaton @DeatonforSenate]

28 mentions of Trump in 60 minutes.

That’s once every 2 minutes.

If talking about Trump fixed roads, lowered taxes, and made housing affordable, Massachusetts would be thriving.

Instead, Moulton spent an hour proving that the only thing he and Ed Markey are running on is talking about Donald Trump.

Massachusetts deserves better.