This is worth clearing your diary for
@piersmorgan v @MattHancock (Part IV)
Not a great start!

@piersmorgan asks @MattHancock three times whether he supported the 221 day boycott of @GMB

Hancock fails you answer three times
Unbelievable!

Matt Hancock claims TWICE that the govt had no idea about asymptotic transmission of #COVID19 when the virus hit the UK.

This is NOT TRUE

The govt keep repeating this claim

Journalists keep failing to challenge them on it. @piersmorgan @susannareid100 @GMB
Why does Matt Hancock always wearthe same pink tie?

As someone closely documenting what has happened with the UK’s #COVID19 response, I think I’ve worked it out...
SAGE member & head of the Wellcome Trust, @JeremyFarrar, says asymptomatic spread was known about in mid-January

On 28 January, the govt published a paper on it

On 26 Feb, @Dr_PhilippaW asked Hancock about it in the Commons

It was highlighted by journals & newspapers since Jan
As someone who has media trained people for decades, my advice is:

1) Answer the question
2) Never lie

These ministers have had different training

It is a deliberate & well-rehearsed strategy

If asked about govt failings, ministers either avoid, go on the offensive or “fib”.
A request to journalists & politicians

When a minister tries to claim that no one know about asymptomatic #COVID19 transmission, please stop them & point out that this is not true

#AsymtomaticTransmission was known about - including by SAGE - in January!
“My advice: take #COVID19 seriously” Prof @devisridhar
warned on 16 January

@MattHancock claims he told @BorisJohnson right at the start of the year

They knew about asymptomatic transmission in January

Why didn't they act to protect us for 3 months?

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17 Nov
Last week, I started this👇 thread on how #Trump appears to be gearing-up for military action against Iran

Today, @nytimes revealed "Trump asked senior advisers in a meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against #Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks.”
Any military orders by #Trump are transmitted through the secretary of defense

By replacing Esner with Miller & giving top Pentagon & Intelligence jobs his allies, Trump appears to have created a chain-of-command that would support military action in Iran
Trump is also increasing sanctions on #Iran pledging “a steady stream of sanctions through the end of the administration”

Sanctions are not dangerous in themselves, but the enforcement of sanctions - checking cargo etc - will undoubtedly ramp-up tensions.
Read 5 tweets
16 Nov
“The revelations from C4 #Dispatches...are breath-taking. It amounts to criminal negligence. Pure & simple.” @globalhlthtwit on #LockdownChaos

To understanding how the #ContractScandal fits into a much bigger & more sinister plan👇#Palantir #DidoHarding #SERCO #HerdImmunity
This diagram👆shows how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy allowing the military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, to control heath data

Parler, the SM platform is funded by the Mercers who funded #CambridgeAnalytica who worked with Palantir
“It’s very hard not to be speechless about this.”

Dr Tom Lewis on viewing #Dispatches footage taken by an undercover journalist exposing unsafe practices & “VIP processing” for paying customers, in the Randox testing labs. #LockdownChaos #COVID19 #coronavirus #Palantir #COVID
Read 6 tweets
16 Nov
#MustWatch 👀

MARR: How was money was allocated to your constituency?
JENRICK: That was decided by another minister
AM: Who?
RJ: @JakeBerry
AM: Who also got money for his constituency
RJ: That was a decision made by another minister
AM: You?
RJ: Er...yes
“There have been some changes in govt over the last few days & the decision has been made to be back on your show” @RobertJenrick implies that the government's 201 day boycott of @GMB was Cummings’ fault

He will is the faux scapegoat for all govt failures
Cummings may have left the building but he hasn’t left govt

He’s in position til Dec working on #COVID19 strategy & it is likely to continue to work on this, away from public scrutiny

#Palantir & #FacultyAI are running UK’s COVID data store & #GenomeUK was launched in September Image
Read 4 tweets
14 Nov
1/. Very disturbing

The @WSJ has just revealed that the social media app Parler, - set up as an alternative to Facebook & Twitter - is funded by the Mercers, the former owners of #CambridgeAnalytica

Parler has had a surge in users since the #Election2020
wsj.com/articles/parle…
2/ "They always wanted to create a social network to collect data & disseminate propaganda. Now they have” @chrisinsilico (#CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower)

"Posts on Parler often contain far-right content, antisemitism, & conspiracy theories” @Wikipedia
3/ "To me the easiest fix is for every Conservative to kill two liberals."

Under the guise of free speech, Parler appears to be an uncensored space for libertarians, right-wingers, far-right wingers & conspiracy theorists of every description to come together & share their ideas
Read 11 tweets
14 Nov
“Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb #COVID19. Don't do what we did” write 25 leading Swedish scientists

“Sweden’s approach to COVID has led to death, grief & suffering. The only example we're setting is how not to deal with a deadly infectious disease” usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
UK & US are also attempting a
#HerdImmunity strategy despite the fact almost every epidemiologist/virologist will tell you that Herd Immunity is an “outcome”, never a “strategy”

Late lockdowns, keeping schools/workplaces open etc are political decisions not just scientific ones
I’m not a scientist. 8 months months ago, i knew nothing about communicable diseases

But I stumbled on @BorisJohnson’s #TakeItOnTheChin comments

They led me to the #GreenwichSpeech, the #HerdImmunityScandal, #Palantir/#PalantirPlan & #GenomeUK

I’ve just been joining the dots.
Read 5 tweets
12 Nov
The @BBCNews six o’clock news are talking about #PestFix & contact scandals

Well done @sophie_e_hill for #MyLittleCrony & all those at @GoodLawProject @BylineTimes @openDemocracy incldg @JolyonMaugham @peterjukes @NafeezAhmed @PeterKGeoghegan
@PaulLewis
Just as it is helpful to see a visualisation of the #ContractScandal, so it’s helpful to see a visualisation of the wider structure into which it fits

The shadowy surveillance firm, #Palantir, run #COVID digital health platforms In the UK, US & many other countries

Data heaven!
What this diagram shows is how the US & UK govts appear to have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy allowing the military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, to access heath data

There are grave concerns around human rights & fears are that this data could include genetic data
Read 7 tweets

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