Yeah, nuclear war? climate catastrophe? unprecedented extinctions of wildlife? rampant corporatism and neoimperialism destroying peoples' lives? actual genocide? Nah, people being mean to a politician on twitter, that's the biggest threat. I'd say it was clinically insane if I thought she actually believed what she was saying.

Also, this passage trying to link her heroic struggle to the cackling sociopaths in the US was particularly rich:

'If that sounds vaguely familiar, you may recognise those exact words from the attacks that Brexiteers directed at me. In my case, it was an assault that went on for years and created the permission for the same man who seeded the narrative to sue me in court. I was gagged, the necessities of the court case silenced me. Sticks and stones will break my bones etc. But this was never about me. I was just the access point, a way to shut the story down, a viable target. And this was an attack that achieved its goal. Overnight, all reporting on the subject stopped dead.'

This refers to statements she made about Aaron Banks implying political connections to Russia which even the UK justice system had to agree were defamatory with 'no defence of truth' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_Cadwalladr#Banks_v_Cadwalladr_libel_case - so in reality it didn't 'shut the story down', it imposed a consequence for making public accusations with no basis in fact. If she was a real journalist working for a serious newspaper the story would have never passed muster in the first place.

Also hard to take this whining seriously from someone who joined the pile-on against Julian Assange, making allegations about a meeting with Farage that never happened, based on a single unnamed US intelligence source (https://nitter.poast.org/kennardmatt/status/1536294883933278208#m) and tying it all into the deranged Trump-Russiagate conspiracy. Hard to imagine a more damaging libel against a man in an incredibly precarious situation, dependent on the court of public opinion to give him even a fighting chance of justice. And of course he too was thoroughly gagged by the legal system from the start, never permitted to respond to his accusers from the rape allegations onwards.

Anyway, I've spent too long on this, so I'll leave it there. Must be latent misogyny on my part that I get so triggered by this woman...

cheers,
I