Nick Wallis - absolutely fascinating interview

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Nick Wallis is the award-winning investigative journalist who exposed the Post Office scandal. He's recently turned his attention to gender issues, including live tweeting Glinner's recent court appearances.

Here he's interviewed by SEEN in Journalism and it's riveting stuff.
https://seeninjournalism.substack.com/p/no-fear-no-favour-episode-two-nick?r=bc1jk&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

Not usually a podcast fan but this should be good. I have a huge crush on Nick Wallis and I’ve met him!! Just as lovely in real life.

It really is good!
So pleased he's on the side of reality.

I loved the last podcast and can’t wait to hear this one

My bedtime listening. I love Nick Wallis and I'm so pleased Seen in Journalism have started a podcast. The first one which focused on the BBC was great too.

Thanks for the link @BoreOfWhabylon
Bloody love Nick Wallis and his dogged work on the Post Office Scandal - he's a great investigative journalist, who follows stories even when there's no obvious money in it. (Purchased 3 copies of the PO book as a) amazing work & b) he deserved the remuneration). l was very excited when he decided to come out on the GC side as he has great journalistic nose & is great at evidence gathering.

Thanks I’ll have a listen.

Really excellent podcast, worth listening to twice

Nick Wallis is a great journalist who did a hugely important job bringing the post office scandal to public attention, but he didn’t expose it, as he would be the first to say.

That was the team at Computer Weekly of Tony Collins, Rebecca Thomson and later Karl Flinders. CW worked for five years to stand up the story from 2004. Extraordinarily after Computer Weekly broke the story in 2009, and even as CW continued to investigate finding ever more compelling and alarming evidence, it got almost no mainstream coverage until Nick Wallis ran with it. Without Nick Wallis the story might still be known only to a few IT experts - and to the victims.

Wallis’ crucial role in the Post Office scandal was to notice that an issue which others had dismissed as technical and boring was actually a huge injustice which was destroying lives - and then not to stop until everyone else understood too.

Oh I love him too, thank you for the recommendation.

I'm not familiar with him, but thanks for the heads up. Will definitely listen

Hmm - as another journalist who has also come across Nick professionally I would say that his lack of ego (which is certainly the case) does him a huge disservice here.

Usually when you say someone wasn’t first with the story you mean they picked it up from somewhere else. But Nick didn’t read it in Computer Weekly and run with it. He found out the story independently when he got into conversation with one of the victims’ husbands over Twitter.

“We got a tweet from a company called Surrey Cars, asking us if it could bid for the BBC Surrey taxi account. I said something like, “Oh, that depends whether your drivers are prepared to come on air and tell us some of the great stories they must have.” And the tweet that came back was, “Oh - I’ve got a story to tell you all right. Give me a call after the show.”

He is very generous with Computer Weekly, but having got the story they didn’t do what Nick did, which was refuse to let it go. Nick was also the person who took the story to Private Eye. In my view he did get the story.

Brilliant interview, and obviously top bloke.

It's so nice to hear someone, who's just considering facts and coming at it from his investigative way, say how mad it all is. Im sure his investigation into the capture of organisations will lead him to stonewall. But I also think there'll be some surprising influencial people behind the scenes.
I'm astounded and shocked (not) that trans supporting orgs wouldn't speak to him. Again showing that if they engage it all falls apart.

So by trans logic, if they oppose him they are aligning themselves with Paula Vennells

Thanks for the post, the podcast came up in another thread, but when I tried to find it on Spotify (other podcast provider are available) it didn't come up. I've now been back on to the app and it's there, so I've followed and will listen later in the day. 👍

Now it's known he's looking in to this I think a lot of people will be running scared.
I also agree with him that even though there is more reporting about this, the pronoun linked to GI renders it almost nul and void. For example the interview with GL the BBC did after his arrest, the interviewer referred to Tarquin as she. If you aren't that aware yet, and most of the population aren't, you'll.just think she was referring to a she and because GL is tall you'd think worse of his actions than you would when you've seen that Tarquin in a male whose around 6foot.
I also agree that there needs to be more of a focus on the kids and what sort of biological trauma they will end up with whether or not they decide to deliver trans or continue with drugs and surgery for the rest of their lives.

Thanks for this, I’ll listen later. He’s brilliant on Twitter and has been doing shows on Times radio where he often interviews people about gender issues and is fabulously sensible. I’m a huge fan.

This is great, thank you OP. I'm a few mins in and they're saying 'why has this lie captured so much of western society'.

I have an answer for that. Misogyny.

The fundamental belief of a hell of a lot of people (including some rich women) that women - particularly poor women and poor children - aren't really human and shouldn't really have human rights and are in fact an acceptable sacrifice to whatever a few men want to do to them.

The same reason as why the grooming gangs happened.

That's why, and it's evil.

Clearly JKR is the exception as a rich woman who can insulate herself from many of the negative consequences who is willing to stand up for poorer women and children and name evil for what it is. Thereby turning the same evil (death and rape threats) upon herself. For this she is truly remarkable and there are never going to be enough thanks in the world.

I’m also mystified by the question as to 'why has this lie captured so much of western society'. and think it’s a particular form of misogyny of wanting to simultaneously erase and colonise women.

The ultimate control over women and also over everyone. The giddying, all encompassing surge of power of changing language and eradicating words, of seeing institutions and intelligent professionals taking up your cause regardless of the open harms being done.

Cunningly, all being done on the back of being progressive by piggybacking on the LGB and targeting vulnerable and susceptible children and young people. My own DC are very TWAW and it scares me that they cannot see the damage being done. But I don’t blame them either as the news is often suppressed.

Yes, but it's the same evil, at heart, in a different package, as drives the Taliban. It's not seeing women and girls (particularly poorer women and girls) as human.

It's not complicated. I find it mystifying that otherwise intelligent people think it is.

I'm now at the point where Nick realises it's all about misogyny. 😁

He's a very good man and it's great to hear his experience.

Interesting - now talking about how the Union was part of the problem in the PO scandal and also with the misogyny of TRAs - Unions abandoning their members.

Thank you, OP. I'm listening now and it's well worth it.

I'm just listening now - agree the first episode was great as well. So refreshing to hear these discussions taking place and the bewilderment (that I share) as to how this nonsense was accepted so widely by people and institutions that you would, frankly, expect better of. As a doctor I spend a lot of my time being fundamentally disappointed by and ashamed of the institutions that apparently represent and moderate me and my career.

"The biggest story of this generation" - go Nick

Thanks for the link, OP.

While I found the Nick Wallis interview interesting, I went back to listen to the first podcast, which I found absolutely fascinating in how the BBC works, all the ins and outs of why and how the reporting is so skewed.

I am looking forward to hearing more from the podcast.

I’ve often thought that the TRAs and their supporters have done a brilliant strategic job of colonising and corrupting the institutions worldwide on such a ridiculous premise. It has been quite something to see - quietly in the background at first then militantly.

If only they had used those skills and energy on something of benefit to the world.