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May 22, 2020 5 tweets 5 min read Read on X
Dominic Cummings was spotted by witnesses at his parents’ home in Durham, more than 250 miles from his London property, during lockdown . He was questioned by the police.

I remember seeing this story on Twitter at the time, but wasn’t able to verify. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Interesting how they managed kept the lid on this story for almost two months.

Witnesses saw him at the end of March, the police investigated on March 31 & #DominicCummings story floating on social media for weeks.

I wonder how many editors got the Malcolm Tucker treatment.
SNP - #DominicCummings must resign now.

Lib Dems - #Cummings should resign “if" he broke guidelines.

Labour - calling for a "very swift explanation" from Number 10.

Piers Morgan - “Boris must have known”

Still no official response from Downing Street. #TomorrowsPapersToday ImageImageImageImage
“Any other business?”

At the end of the cabinet meeting last night, Matt Hancock asks tentatively if perhaps #DominicCummings should maybe consider the possibility of resigning. #classicdom #domcummings https://t.co/75cgxcDLf5
#DominicCummings ignored coronavirus lockdown rules for a 2nd time to visit his parents.

He was spotted with his wife in Houghall Woods 2 weeks after the 1st sighting.

He had been photographed in Downing St two days earlier #domgate #cummings #breaking
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

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Mar 9
1/. “It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; & it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch”

Arthur Koestler’s 1944 essay expressing frustration at the failure of the world to acknowledge Nazi atrocities resonates today
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2/ “There are a few of us…yelling at you in newspapers…Now & then we reach your ear…But it only lasts a minute. You shake yourself like puppies who’ve got their fur wet; then the screen again descends & you walk on, protected by the dream-barrier which stifles all sound”
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3/ Koestler notes maniacs lose contact with reality so “perhaps it’s we, the screamers, who react in a sound & healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened fantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts” Image
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Feb 23
“They got me!” Liz Truss tells far-right kingpin, Steve Bannon, before going on to explain that, to have effectively tackled “the deep state” that runs Britain & its institutions, she would have “needed a bigger bazooka”! #LizTruss #BritanniaUnchained
"I was just saying it like it is & that’s what people respect me for"(!)

Liz Truss’ compares her premiership to a one night stand & says she was just “fattening the pig” for slaughter & that she should have gaslit the public like Rishi Sunak is doing (!)
"I faced the most almighty backlash...from the usual suspects in the media” Liz Truss

“Truss's decline is simultaneously tragic & horrifying but the claim that the media conspired against her can't go unchallenged. There are front pages praising her to the rafters” @mrjamesob



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Nov 6, 2023
Despite previous denials, Michelle Mone finally admits her involvement in failed PPE supplier Medpro

There should be a criminal investigation into possible intentional breach of beneficial ownership disclosure rules

The govt VIP Lane needs investigating

Something about the #MichelleMone interview doesn’t pass the smell test

Why are Mone & her husband - currently under criminal investigation in UK & Spain - being given a prime time slot to tell ‘their side of the story’?

5 questions @bbclaurak should ask

@bbclaurak “I don’t honestly think there’s a case to answer. I can’t see what we’ve done wrong” @MichelleMone

Wow! #MichelleMone & #DougBarrowman on @bbclaurak’s programme, this morning

Read 13 tweets
Oct 3, 2023
As the 2nd module of the #CovidInquiry begins covering “core UK decision-making & political governance”, comes news that Rishi Sunak - like Boris Johnson - has also fail to fully comply with the order to hand his WhatsApp messages

Both claim they can’t access key messages
#COVID
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“The govt needs get professional IT experts to recover these messages”

Charles Persinger who lost his wife & mother to #COVID, echoes the call of @CovidJusticeUK’s lawyers calling on the @covidinquiryuk to commission experts to retrieve Sunak & Johnson’s ‘lost’ WhatsApp messages
“It was like watching his death approach & seeing every mistake that was made”

@LoreleiKing describes listening to the timeline of govt inaction in the months leading to her husband’s death of #COVID19

Bereaved families want accountability #Covidinquiry
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Sep 9, 2023
Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September

It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇
twitter.com/en/privacy



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“I do not accept that Twitter has deteriorated in any way since Elon Musk took over”
A week before Twitter’s change in privacy policy, some questions for @elonmusk

1. What biometric information will be collected & what are the intended uses?

How will X ensure that that the data of X’s 530 million users isn’t used for unlawful purposes?
mashable.com/article/x-twit…
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Aug 7, 2023
1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe

Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK
theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…
2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics

Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election
nytimes.com/2023/07/31/pod…

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3/. “The far right don’t need to win elections to spread their malign ideas” @kenanmalik

Last month, a coalition of the centre-right PP & the far-right Vox failed to win Spain’s election

Ystdy, Vox pledged it wouldn’t impede PP’s efforts to form a govt
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…




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