PM: Give “name & contact details of everyone behind the bar...behind the...to the...er...in the restaurant or wherever”
UK has 2x #COVID deaths as the rest of the EU put together
1 JULY
UK 176
Italy 21
France 18
Sweden 12
Germany 9
Spain 8
Belg 7
Portugal 3
Ire 2
Denm 1
Norw 1
This is a time for sober, well-informed, transparent leadership & for MPs journalists & experts to challenge govt where they go wrong.
An Inquiry in 2021? What for?
We know what went wrong & why.
We know the govt ignored warnings.
We know this not sheer incompetence/bumbling.
“They’re environments whose principle job it is to bring people together. That’s a great thing to do socially. But it’s also a great thing from the virus’s point of view.”
Whitty explaining why...er...[checks notes] pubs shouldn’t be opening. #PubsOpening
The R rate has gone above 1 in London
Leicester is in lockdown
We had 137 deaths in the UK today which is almost TRIPLE the number we had (55) when lockdown was introduced in March.
A Great British pint in a Great British pub. We will not let some dirty foreign virus come over here & impose their PC madness on our time-honoured & hard-fought traditions. I’d rather die in a ditch...or in an ICU ward or in a care home. #PubsOpening#nigelfarage#SuperSaturday
On 23 March there were 55 deaths.
This 55 brought the entire total of COVID deaths in the UK to 336.
336 deaths altogether(!) & the country was gravely concerned.
In terms of new infections they had 967 in March, around the same as now. PM said “under 1,000”.
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Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Saipan, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, where he’s expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act & be sentenced to 5yrs
Given he’s already served this time, he should walk free
The public have a right to know what their govts do in their name
Julian #Assange’s prosecution represented a grave threat to press freedom, undermining the key role of journalists & publishers in scrutinizing govts misdeeds & creating a chilling effect
2/. From the start of the pandemic the govt had given #Palantir, a US spyware company with reported links to #CambridgeAnalytica, access to NHS health data
3/. Palantir worked on the NHS data store with #FacultyAI - a company with ties to Cummings
In 2020, @amnesty warned that Big Tech firms might use the COVID crisis to hoover up genomic data, obliterating the last frontier of privacy: our biological selves
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 wethescreamers.com
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”
#Gaza
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”
“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
2/. It’s clear that the bomb blasts in Kerman on the 4th anniversary of #Soleimani's assassination by the US, could lead to a quick ratcheting up of dangerous tensions
After Oct 7, the US sent two aircraft carrier groups to the region
3/. Three US soldiers were killed & two dozen injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern #Jordan near the Syrian border, President @JoeBiden said