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NEW - UPDATE POST
Did the CPS make a fundamental mistake with the charging decision in the Chinese spying case?
How the CPS may have asked the wrong legal question and so made a wrong charging decision
By me
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Non-Substack version now at davidallengreen.com/2025/10/what...
16.10.2025 10:37 — 👍 56 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 4One interesting spot is that the CPS seems to have got the law wrong for the first witness statement and asked the witness to give evidence to the non-applicable National Security Act rather than the applicable Official Secrets Act.
Whoopsie.
Yesterday this blog sought to make sense of the decision to drop the Chinese Spying prosecutions on the information then available, and averred that both the positions of the government and the Crown Prosecution Service did not make sense. Now the government has published three witness statements, the picture now changes. The government’s position now makes sense, and the CPS looks as if it made at least one serious mistake and possibly another.
NEW
What the Chinese spying case witness statements reveal
The Crown Prosecution Service appears to have made at least one serious error, while the government's position now makes sense
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-c...
It’s a terrible book. Gold had no understanding of petroleum geology.
27.07.2025 17:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Plankton, not dinosaurs.
15.05.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Plankton
15.05.2025 10:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the USA, many people believe crude oil comes from dinosaurs, while others dismiss this as another government lie, like faked moon landings or hidden history rtc.
Both are, of course, wrong.
The whole dino myth started with a marketing campaign by Sinclair Oil, as shown in this TV commercial.
In the USA, many people believe crude oil comes from dinosaurs, while others dismiss this as another government lie, like faked moon landings or hidden history rtc.
Both are, of course, wrong.
The whole dino myth started with a marketing campaign by Sinclair Oil, as shown in this TV commercial.
I rushed this website out on April 9, and rushing to get it done led to a number of shortcomings in the design of the front-end that I've spent the last couple of weeks working on, at the cost of not delivering content. I've now finished that work, and will add new content soon.
21.04.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If you know, you know
21.04.2025 08:19 — 👍 12950 🔁 2976 💬 488 📌 277I rushed this website out on April 9, and rushing to get it done led to a number of shortcomings in the design of the front-end that I've spent the last couple of weeks working on, at the cost of not delivering content. I've now finished that work, and will add new content soon.
21.04.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just back from my first holiday to China. Quiet time to visit.
1) EVs everywhere, Tesla visibly swamped
2) Influencers rule all, even rural farmers do direct sales online
3) Facial recognition is ubiquitous, feels like it could spread to West
4) Parallel internet really limits understanding of China
US chocolate prices surge amid soaring cocoa costs and tariffs
19.04.2025 16:36 — 👍 275 🔁 79 💬 48 📌 48I’m currently reworking the front-end of this website as it was kind of hacked together to get the site out quickly. So sorry for no content updates.
12.04.2025 13:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Where’s @richtreynolds.bsky.social? 2nd home game absent?
12.04.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Where’s @richtreynolds.bsky.social? 2nd home game absent?
12.04.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
10.04.2025 21:55 — 👍 26415 🔁 6229 💬 1484 📌 574Just cited in a paper we’re writing (although now rewriting final para given Trump’s climb down, at least for a few hours). 🙏
09.04.2025 18:49 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
"There's nothing that you've said in your answers or non-answers to me today that would give Americans any assurance..." Rep. Lloyd Doggett pressed Trump's trade Rep. Jamieson Greer on the implementation and justification of the administration's sweeping global tariffs.
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At the same moment that US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer was defending Trump’s stiff tariffs during a House hearing, Trump said on his social media platform that the administration will delay the additional tariff hike on dozens of countries by 90 days —
Hot damn, Steven Horsford just set fire to Trump's U.S. Trade Representative Jameison Greer over Trump's idiotic and costly tariff play.
09.04.2025 18:25 — 👍 1190 🔁 235 💬 20 📌 13WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well?
GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available
WARNER: We have a trade surplus!
Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior.
But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this:
The psychology of dominance.
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The US has now the least qualified economic policy making in the developed world.
An ignorant and seemingly dement leader has not evolved beyond the 1890s.
He accepts no facts or economic realities & nobody can impose any truth on him.
The US is in a terrible disaster.
That guy is such a wanker.
09.04.2025 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You have clearly invited me to share with you one of the finest ambassadorial despatches in the British Foreign Office's capacious archives, after sharing that image and particularly its caption. I'm sure you know this famous message already, but if not, enjoy. Perfectly formed joke between friends.
09.04.2025 21:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Timeline updated.
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May I ask who it's for?
09.04.2025 21:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you.
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