Andrew Wallis OBE
@andrewwallis.bsky.social
CEO of Multi-Award Winning Charity Unseen. Support Liverpool Football Club & Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Varied & multiple views my own. World Citizen.
$684m profit. 42 employees. A workforce that they take no legal responsibility for. The "we're just a platform" defence is legally untenable now. Contributed to BBC's OnlyFans: Inside the Machine this week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OnlyFans 'agents' exploit creators while taking half their earnings, BBC finds
Dozens of women on OnlyFans describe being exploited by managers who promised to help maximise profits.
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Powerful powerful speech by Alex Davies-Jones MP on transparency and hearing the voice of victims of Epstein, at TheyWorkForYou www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=...
I think what has struck me most...
Part of Lebanon: Israel Defence Forces Operations – in the House of Commons at 4:03 pm 3 June 2026
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Czech police charged four individuals and a legal entity for coercing young women into creating explicit content for OnlyFans and other platforms. www.reuters.com/world/czech-...
Czech police charge four in OnlyFans human trafficking case
Czech police said on Tuesday they had charged four people and an unnamed legal entity for coercing young women to provide erotic content for accounts on OnlyFans and other social networks.
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When you think about the profile of a human trafficker, what do you think of? I bet pensioner wasn’t in your top 10? #modernslavery www.itv.com/news/granada...
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The consequences of deliberately conflating smuggling and #humantrafficking rumble on with real life consequences for victims. Read this. www.dpglaw.co.uk/news/home-se... @dpglaw.co.uk
Good to hear Lord Alton calling for MHRDD in the House of Lords’ Debate on the King’s Speech: “we called for radical change to the Modern Slavery Act to prevent slavery in global supply chains. Will those recommendations feature in forthcoming legislation? www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20...
My Lords, it is always a pleasure...
Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 1:02 pm 21 May 2026
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77% of trafficking victims are in forced labour, not sex work. Most people in the USA picture the other 23%. Neighbourhood kids called Djena "the slave." A neighbour saw a TV show about trafficking, looked at Djena's situation, and talked herself out of it. Couldn't happen here.
Q. When is a law not a law? A. When it is politically inconvenient? #modernslavery www.politico.eu/article/uk-f... @labouruk.bsky.social @sarahchampionmp.bsky.social
UK retreats from forced labor pledge
Labour said its clean energy company would not give cash to firms exposed to slave labor risks. Now it is backtracking.
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“Slavery and the most harrowing forms of exploitation are becoming more widespread in this country and evolving faster than we can respond,” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Modern slavery at record levels in UK and expected to worsen, report warns
Government’s anti-slavery commissioner says traffickers are exploiting a growing pipeline of vulnerability
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The Home Office published a one-year modern slavery action plan and stopped there. Today, a coalition of leading anti-slavery organisations publishes the Decade of Dignity — a ten-year vision to fill the void. unseenuk.org/major-report-calls-for-sweeping-overhaul-of-uks-modern-slavery-response
Major report calls for sweeping overhaul of UK's modern slavery response - Unseen
A consortium of leading anti-slavery organisations including Unseen has warned that the UK is enabling a ‘low risk, high reward’ environment for traffickers and exploiters, and has set out a detailed ...
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Hi @alexjjnorris.bsky.social, just wondering if you meant smuggler when you used the term migrant trafficker, and we’re not conflating human trafficking and smuggling as seems to be the want at present? They’re not the same thing! www.theyworkforyou.com/wms/?id=2026... Perhaps correct the record?
Illegal Migration: Small Boat Crossings
Home Office written statement – made at 23 April 2026
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The tangled web of Epstein’s sex trafficking network spent been uncovered but raises huge questions about the British policing response. Epstein housed abuse victims in London flats, BBC reveals www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #modernslavery
Epstein housed abuse victims in London flats, BBC reveals
The revelations intensify concerns about repeated police decisions not to investigate 2015 trafficking claims.
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A Lancet @thelancet.com correspondence just landed that deserves attention. Human trafficking isn't just a crime. It's a structural determinant of health. 6.3 million people trafficked for sexual exploitation. PTSD, chronic pain, & developmental harm in children. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The public health response to the Epstein files
In 2019, revelations that American financier Jeffrey Epstein had orchestrated a powerful international network for human trafficking and sexual exploitation shocked the conscience of global society. A...
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10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division. A total waste of our time, resources and patience. But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.
This is not a good look for the government and further adds to the perception that victims of trafficking are not to be believed. Appalling that they have been told ‘the usefulness of a trafficking investigation where the conviction rate is very low’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #modernslavery
Al Fayed survivors say government has been 'sceptical' over public inquiry
Survivors say the Met and government need to expand their investigation to include human trafficking.
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The Foreign Office funded Xinjiang carbon capture during the Uyghur detentions. Now GB Energy has a legal obligation to ensure its supply chains are free from forced labour. The government wrote that clause itself. Full argument on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew... @aliciakearns.bsky.social
#modernslavery #forcedlabour #greatbritishenergy #china #xinjiang #uyghurs | Andrew Wallis OBE
The Foreign Office funded carbon capture development in Xinjiang between 2016 and 2018. At least four payments from the UK aid budget went to the Xinjiang regional government. At the time, the governm...
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We close the national modern slavery investigations unit this April. Mid-investigation. Because immigration polls better. The full argument, including the Al Fayed angle, is on my LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...
#modernslavery #msoicu | Andrew Wallis OBE
Criminal gangs are making billions from modern slavery in the UK. They are paying almost nothing back. In 2024, £854,000 was recovered from modern slavery cases under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Total...
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The UK has 130,000 #modernslavery victims and a £60bn annual cost. From April, the government is closing the national unit that coordinates police investigations into it. The reason, per insiders: immigration wins more votes. That is a policy decision with a body count observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Outcry as modern slavery unit is closed | The Observer
Funding is being cut from the task force, despite an ongoing investigation into a trafficking ring allegedly run by the late Harrod’s owner Al Fayed
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If you can, but you’ll have to be quick, do go and see this production at the Bristol Old Vic bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on/a-m...
The instinct is to frame this as a monstrous outlier. But outliers do not survive 25 years of captivity in a residential neighbourhood. That requires systemic permission. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #modernslavery
Woman kept in ‘Dickensian’ servitude for 25 years speaks out as abuser jailed
Amanda Wixon, 56, sentenced to 13 years for keeping victim imprisoned at home in Gloucestershire since 1990s
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The Dyson/ATA Malaysia settlement is a landmark. British courts can now hear forced labour claims against UK firms for what happens in overseas supply chains, not just subsidiaries. Outsourcing no longer equals legal protection.
Behind the stuccoed façades of Chelsea. 18-hour days. No bedroom. Passport gone. Sent across London for "massages." The Overseas Domestic Worker ODW visa was changed in 2012. Workers lost the right to change employers or renew, a legal exit route, gone. www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The hidden scandal of modern slavery in London
Unpaid wages, 20-hour days, screaming abuse — Hannah Wallace investigates the grim reality for migrant domestic workers, helpless inside the city’s grandest addresses
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I love this city. It doesn't need London's permission for anything. Except apparently a tram, or a metro or a bus that turns up. 23 smaller French cities have metro networks. #Bristol has a document explaining why it might commission a rprt about exploring options www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
How does Bristol's public transport compare to European cities?
Less than half of residents can get to the city centre in 30 minutes by public transport
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The French are investigating Al Fayed as #sextrafficking. The Met is investigating him for sexual abuse. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Al Fayed abuse should be investigated as human trafficking, says former senior Met officer
Investigation into claims of sex abuse by the late Harrods owner should include trafficking, says former head of Met's Anti-Trafficking Unit.
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