Alias or no, you emailed our official address, received a truthful reply, and nevertheless published false representations about our organisation. We could have signed it “The CCR Team” and it would’ve made no difference to you. We will be escalating this to your regulator.

We’ve repeatedly stated in both private and public communications that we get no funding. Everyone who has written for us has done so on a voluntary basis, free of charge, using publicly available data and FOIs. We replied to your reporter’s email in good faith and told the truth. Meanwhile you have refused to actually engage with any of the arguments we’ve put forward in any of our papers. You’ve preferred to attack us on the basis that our authors and staff (insofar as they can be called that) are volunteers who give up their free time to help a cause they deem worthy. You have no arguments other than that you don’t like what we say or the manner in which we publish. You even take umbrage at those who have kindly put their real names to their work! The only objective here is to obtain the legal names of our contributors so you can publish them in full and initiate a campaign of harassment against them. It is our duty to protect them from this. They are all normal people who wish to keep their policy work separate from their daily lives. You have been incapable of judging our work on its own merits, so have resorted to printing things that are false. How are we supposed to “prove” we have no money? We have no bank account, no registered organisation, and no permanent staff. You would not believe us even if we did tell you everything about us. You’ve not engaged in good faith. Why should anyone listen to you or believe you? Finally, we ask Who funds you?