I didn't feel great after I gave Hamza a hard time for going off on Richie Thompson, the

British humanist.

And truth is, it wasn't the first time I'd done something like that, where I called him

out for crossing lines I thought he shouldn't be crossing as a journalist.

The first time was early on in our working together.

Hey, Hamza, how's it going?

It was my last week of journalism school, as I was cramming to get my final project

done. One Brian got in touch, saying we needed to talk.

I'm good, what's good, I'm good and I'm good.

Well, it's not great, honestly.

Oh, good.

So I just got this email.

This was when we were looking into early primary school, trying to find information about

the head teacher, Rizwan O'Dar, and the four teaching assistants who said their resignation

letters had been faked.

One Brian requested records from the employment tribunal about the case.

The tribunal contacted the people involved to ask whether they wanted the records released.

Turns out, some of them did not.

Brian started reading a letter to me that just been sent to the tribunal by the three Muslim

TAs in response to his request.

The main responsibility of a journalist is to report the news in a truthful, unbiased,

and apolitical way, and to educate the public about events and issues and how they affect

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