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Congratulations to us! This is Boris Johnson’s new culture minister who has close financial ties to the Ukrainian oligarch at centre of Trump scandal..

dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/tory-…
Bonus! He also stands up for big tech & hates the BBC after they dumped on his dominatrix girlfriend.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/1…
..not to be confused his Belarusian girlfriend. The one who prompted the intelligence services ‘probe’, allegedly

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
If you’re not up to speed on Dmytro Firtash, he’s the oligarch wanted by FBI at heart of Trump’s Ukraine scandal & linked to the Russian mob. Whittingdale has benefitted from 1000s of £ of his largesse promoting interests of Ukraine in UK

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Oh yes. Then there’s this non sequitur. Did you know Dom Cummings’ brother in law was a joint business director with Mrs Firtash? No-one knows what that one was about..
Always good to keep things close though. Don’t forget to note that Boris Johnson’s girlfriend Carrie Symonds was Whittingdale’s SPAD last time around & presumably therefore helped orchestrate this

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Oops, apparently that was the reprint. @peterjukes messaging me furiously saying this was original story. Confess I paid zero attention at time. Press cover-ups? Honeytrap lady friends? Ukrainian oligarchs? All a bit Le Carre, I thought. Not my beat..

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Sporting bodies made their own decisions & called off events. And the govt was forced to follow. The idea that we have to take as read their high-risk untested strategy based on unknown data followed by no other country is nuts. We must keep questioning

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The WHO says test, test, test. Watch the video below to learn how China managed the crisis. It tested, tested, tested. UK government policy is not to test. No other country on earth is managing this like ours. Why? Based on what data? What assumptions?
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Oh look. Dominic Cummings secretly working with Vote Leave data firm on coronavirus project, acc to @wired. Excuse me while I go & dust off legal letter @faculty_ai (formerly ASI) sent me when I asked qs about working with Cummings before the election
wired.co.uk/article/domini…
The point is we voted Vote Leave into power knowing they’d broken law, lied & refused to answer qs on their conduct. And now the fate of our nation rests on trusting that they are making critical decisions in accountable & transparent ways based on best possible info. You?
Can you ‘cheat’ Coronavirus? Is that the strategy? Can it be rigged? Like, say, an election? Should we be reassured that Vote Leave data bros are back in town? Or would we be better served knowing - & trusting - govt will heed & follow best advice of our best public servants?
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Unbelievable. Johnson appoints worst minister in recent history to chair of Intelligence committee. Even the Sun can’t stomach it. His ‘first task will be to publish a report on Russia’s influence..which Boris suppressed in run-up to the general election’

thesun.co.uk/news/11144337/…
I mean when you’ve got the Sun’s political editor stating as fact that PM suppressed crucial intelligence report & has now parachuted in Britain’s most feckless man to oversee the cover-up, you know you’re strange uncharted waters.

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