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Gabrielle O'Donovan
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Author of Gino's Contraband: Guilty Until Proven Innocent (The Change Press,1 Jan 2025). Loves animals and nature. Bullying and injustice by the state is the worst kind. Fighting for a UK Taxpayers Bill of Rights. #HMRCmetoo
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Gabrielle O'Donovan @gabrielleod.bsky.social · Sep 29
🔥🎧 LISTEN NOW — Gino’s Contraband is a must-listen for anyone who cares about #justice or #HumanRights
🎙️→ [https://thechangepress.com/coming-soon-02]
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Attacking facts and science is a threat to free speech - it has to stop.

"The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth."

https://bit.ly/47aDMTx

Trump’s anti-truth crusade is not just an attack on facts – it’s an unravelling of the Enlightenment | Polly Toynbee
The US president, JD Vance and Nigel Farage seem to believe that checking facts is a form of censorship. Nonsense: speech is only free when it is anchored in truth, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynb...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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They're going to put an enormous lawsuit magnet in the sky.
mastodon.social/@sundogplane...
Prof. Sam Lawler (@[email protected])
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disas...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.
johnprichmond.bsky.social John Richmond @johnprichmond.bsky.social · Oct 5
Vote them out. Replace them with something better. Or stay home and order pizza and scroll cats on Insta while demanding universal basic income and complaining about politics. But you can't have both #Democracy
October 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I'll be on Any Questions on Radio 4 tomorrow. I don't yet know who the other panellists are, but given the way things are shaking out, I'm bound to disagree with them.
October 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Methinks this USA book reviewer has gotten the measure of HMRC. #HMRCmetoo
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Gino's Contraband | IndieReader
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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tdproadrunner.bsky.social
The article highlights similarities between the #LoanCharge & #PostOffice scandals, profound institutional failures. Injustice, devastating personal consequences, resistance by official bodies to admit wrongdoing.
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Loan Charge Scandal: Comparative Analysis with the Post Office Horizon Scandal
This article highlights critical similarities between the Loan Charge scandal and the Post Office Horizon scandal, two of the most profound institutional failures in recent UK history. Both involved p...
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August 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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What Does the Loan Charge Action Group Do. Its a grassroots, non-profit organization established in UK March 2018, with the mission of advocating for those facing devastating financial and personal consequences due to the controversial #LoanCharge legislation
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What Does the Loan Charge Action Group Do
The Loan Charge Action Group (LCAG) is a grassroots, non-profit organization established in March 2018 in the United Kingdom, with the mission of advocating for those facing devastating financial and ...
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September 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Here is my latest #LinkedIn article: HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer.

#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal

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HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer
In March 2020, the Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) released a report that exposes a lengthy and deeply troubling pattern: HMRC and the Treasury have orchestrated a campaign of mislead...
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September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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😊😍🙏What fantastic recognition for #ginoscontraband to be accepted for the #booklifeelite curated selection for USA libraries. Thank you #booklife.
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#HMRCmetoo #taxpayerbillofrights #memoir #loancharge
October 1, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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🔥🎧 LISTEN NOW — Gino’s Contraband is a must-listen for anyone who cares about #justice or #HumanRights
🎙️→ [https://thechangepress.com/coming-soon-02]
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September 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🔥🔥🔥No #1 Ranking Kindle eBook, FREE TODAY ONLY. Get your free copy at this Amazon uk link now! www.amazon.co.uk/Ginos-Contra... #freebie #booksky #bookclub #amreading #readingcommunity #nonfiction #memoir #newbook #humanrights
September 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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🔥⚖️🔥Are you a UK #BookLover seeking your next #Giveaway? Grab your #freebie #Kindle #memoir to read an astonishing book with themes of #injustice, #humanrights and #mentalhealth that you can devour over a lazy weekend. The reviews say it all - amazon.co.uk/Ginos-Contra.... 🔥⚖️
September 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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🔥🎙 New Audiobook Out Now!
What happens when the UK government falsely accuses an innocent woman of smuggling contraband and debts of £132,711.25?
🔊To learn more, visit b2l.bz/azndTY
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September 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.
bestforbritain.org Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Sep 22
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Gino's Contraband is out now on your favourite audio platform. Get your copy now and hear the astonishing tale that should have us all very concerned.
September 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
gabrielleod.bsky.social
Thinking of all the falsely accused today. 💛
September 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
gabrielleod.bsky.social
One of these days - when I have five minutes spare - I will sit down and try to figure out how to use BlueSky. 😂🙃
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🔥I'm delighted to announce the audiobook launch of memoir Gino's Contraband across all major retailers worldwide. 🔥
September 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
gabrielleod.bsky.social
I'm delighted to wake up to another excellent 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟review of #ginoacontraband today, this one from Carl Wood. 🥳🙏🙏🙏 Remember - the Audible edition released this week, and #ginoscontraband is coming to your favourite audio platform soon.
August 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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What happens when the UK government tax authority wrongfully accused an innocent woman of massive tax fraud related to contraband smuggling?
In Gino’s Contraband, Gabrielle O’Donovan fights to prove her innocence — and exposes a system rigged against the citizen.
August 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Rise in suicide attempts linked to #HMRC tax crackdown as MPs criticise 'sham' review into #LoanCharge schemes ⁠
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Sky's Amanda Akass investigates the #LoanChargeScandal 'cover-up'
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April 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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tdproadrunner.bsky.social
Here is my latest article

#HMRC Standing instructions critique

#LoanChargeScandal

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HMRC Standing instructions critique
The United Kingdom's taxing authority suffers bad attitudes and actions that flow from the following standing instruction: What is the Loan Charge 67,000 people are being pursued by HMRC under a piece...
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July 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM