Following yesterday's @tortoise investigation into the case of Emanuel Gomes, a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, David Lammy MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, has called for an investigation into the treatment of cleaners at the ministry.
“Don’t kick things into the long grass… just do it, get on with it, make it happen”.
Last week at a #TortoiseThinkIn, Lammy called on the Prime Minister and the government to get on with delivering recommendations to deal with racial inequality in Britain.
How the British government handled the pandemic within its own walls, highlights how inequality has been magnified in a national emergency.
While frontline workers were publicly praised, behind closed doors some were left bewildered and alone #TheReckoningtorto.se/3f51rIM
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Author Neil Gaiman has been accused of sexual assault by two former partners in the first claims of misconduct against him, and is the subject of a police complaint in New Zealand.
Gaiman’s account strongly denies any allegations of non-consensual sex with the women, and says New Zealand Police did not take up his offer of assistance.
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New Zealand Police said their attempts to speak to "key people" are "ongoing", adding the "location of all parties” is a consideration.
Neil Gaiman left New Zealand at the end of February 2022.
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As the Conservative party begins the process of electing another leader – and therefore, a de facto election of the Prime Minister – here’s a summation of our application for judicial review on the way it elects its leader. 🧵⬇️
In August, Liz Truss was elected by a handful of the population – Conservative party members.
But nobody knows exactly who these people are – or how secure the process is. So we asked the Conservative Party to tell us.
We argued the public has a right to know for the following reasons:
1️⃣It is unrepresentative.
The membership accounts for around 0.2% of the population and includes non-UK citizens and under-age voters. There seems to be minimal checks on new members.
This morning, we sent a letter to the Conservative Party to seek a Judicial Review of its conduct of the election of Party leader and the UK's next prime minister.
This is because we believe it is undemocratic and unlawful.
He was a cleaner at the Ministry of Justice, working for £9.08 an hour, which was just above the legal minimum.
He continued to come into work during the early days of the lockdown.
He died on 23 April 2020.
Emanuel and his colleagues had petitioned their employer for occupational sick pay.
They pointed out that failing to guarantee workers a basic survival income if they fell ill would force potentially infectious people to leave home and endanger others.
But they were refused.
The day before Emanuel arrived for his shift, he had felt worse than ever; so unwell, in fact, that he could barely stand.
“I took him home on public transport,” recalls Bio Fara, a fellow night shift cleaner. “When we got to Victoria station, he didn’t even know where he was.”
EXC: Downing Street has confirmed our story that Boris and Carrie Johnson made use of Chequers between 16th and 27th March 2020 – with the PM accused of moving between Chequers and London against government guidance.
At least one member of the Chequers staff caught the virus at the same time as the PM, entering isolation on the 28th March – a day after the PM tested positive for the virus himself.
For many #Covid_19 patients, the worst thing about it is that for months after falling ill they still can’t think straight.
Today we’re trying to answer the key question of how Covid affects the brain (thread):
It’s possible that cognitive issues stem from any of the following:
a) the body’s inflammatory response going into overdrive
b) a lack of oxygen reaching the brain (hypoxia)
c) high levels of blood clotting
d) the experience of being on a ventilator
But an alternative explanation has also surfaced.
A Yale School of Medicine study showed evidence that Covid was crossing the blood-brain barrier and directly attacking brain cells. This could cause lifelong disorders without the right treatment.