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Jim Bates

Who blinked first?

June 17, 2009
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The answer is that Colin Port did.
It is one thing grandstanding to the tabloid readers and assorted bigots, quite another to face up to the wrath of three High Court judges.
Hours before Colin Port was due to appear before the Lord Justice Stanley Burnton, Justice Wilkie and Justice Calvert Smith – a trio to strike [...]

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Death rattles from the ongoing Colin Port saga…..

June 11, 2009
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John Ozimek in The Register has an exclusive interview today with Jim Bates, the man firmly in the sights of  Operation Ore Ire. I am reproducing it in full here for the benefit of those who won’t be reading the ‘other side’ of the story in their daily newspapers.
There are those who say (generally from [...]

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There be ‘Ore’ in them thar Irish Hills.

May 21, 2009
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They say if you stand still in Piccadilly Circus for long enough, eventually everyone in the world will pass by. Rummaging in the murky depths of ‘Operation Ore’ is beginning to acquire the same quality.
I wrote on Tuesday of the Chief Constable who was preparing to defy the writ of the High Court in the [...]

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