This is a really top thread from @DavidHenigUK on the difficult state of play we are now in re EU negotiations.

Essential reading
“(Ignoring ) the content of any deal, which has been clear for months, the UK compromises on level playing field, the EU on fish. Something so obvious really isn't the fundamental issue. Could, as some not noted for their perspicacity have said, be done in an afternoon”
The thing is. It wasn’t and just when we are right in the middle of a pandemic. The choice was there.

Flouncing and behaving like children has been the absolutely unforgivable state of play.

Meanwhile businesses are floundering for want of clarity, certainty & tested systems.
People are dying and getting very sick in their tens of thousands.

This really has been the most spectacular failure of statecraft, not just by the Government but every single MP that has not stood in their way INSISTING on maturity, skill and competence.

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18 Oct
White House was warned Giuliani was target of Russian intelligence operation to feed misinformation to Trump - The Washington Post

This really is quite something.

Not just that Giuliani WAS a target for Russian Intelligence to feed disinformation

But washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
ALSO the way this information was received by Trump.

Imagine being told that multiple sources, inc intercepted communications, showed that your lawyer Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, Image
That he was there to serve YOUR interests, gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter....so pointing the finger at you...
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17 Oct
🦠 16,171 new cases.

⚰️ 150 new deaths.

A reporting lag for both.

The continuing upward pressure on hospitals continues .

Remember Covid is not a condition where most people are admitted for a day. Many can be in hospital for weeks hence exponential pressure on beds.
Taking England in hospital cases today with the Scottish, NI and Welsh in hospital data from their most recent reports there are MOST likely over 6k in patients with COVID right now.

On top of the NHS usual work.

That is a massive burden and the trajectory suggests ➡️ worse.
Likely the same to be said about daily admissions. Latest data for England, NI and Wales is Thursday. Scotland Tuesday.

I will be surprised if we are not on c 1k daily admissions today.

That is really hard on doctors and nurses, let alone the poor devils admitted + families
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17 Oct
Interesting paper from @martinmckee @ScienceShared and @Selinarajan

I did not realise, when I suggested it, that pooled testing for the routine “screening” cohort -eg care homes HCW (as opposed to the symptomatic testing cohort) was already in use in Germany, USA &++ countries
It is one of the reasons why I think there is an urgent need to separate out the cohorts in testing and positivity rates.

Partly to monitor positivity rates separately and partly to provide a gold standard base line to pilot pooled testing in a resource limited environment.
Once the positivity rates in the cohort gets too high it makes pooled testing less useful.

Several other suggestions here.
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17 Oct
@zamaanq47 @carolecadwalla In fact the AIQ contracts produced by Chris Wylie did have SCL as the other party
@zamaanq47 @carolecadwalla And, legally, from the particular doc Carol has produced here, AiQ is not named as a legal party to the agreement.

A name in a letter heading doesn’t do that.

Would be handy to send which companies signed the contract when.
@zamaanq47 @carolecadwalla This is the thread I did so long back when Wylie first produced the docs to DCMS.

There are photos of Somme of the key legal doc & emails inc.

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17 Oct
Hey! @Turloughc @ur_friend_papu

From the latest Brittany Kaiser data Dump (c p167)

This bit re Leave EU

Here is Julian Wheatland arranging dinner 19/11/15 for Farage/Barclay Brothers/ Simon Heffer et al.re the Leave EU launch

5 Hertford Street. Again !
Link to archive

Several other little curiosities in there from a very shallow dive

archive.org/details/ca-doc…
Another Wheatland company linked into CA-AiQ and the Trump campaign (Sept 2015)
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17 Oct
This might interest you @WendySiegelman @brexit_sham to add to your company tree.

Hatton International Ltd is another Wheatland Company, and that link opens a doorway to several other companies

Letter heading Interesting too and the specific reference to Trump in the parties
Wheatland the sole shareholder
Accounts 2015 (filed 2016)

Then 2018
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