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19 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
the moment that Boris Johnson cancelled his 5-day Christmas relaxation of the restrictions:

- now most people are limited to a single Christmas Day with wider family

- 18m people in new toughest Tier 4 (including London) can’t have an Xmas bubble at all and must stay at home
people in “Tier 4” will be ordered to "stay at home" for a fortnight and will be restricted from socialising with more than one person even outdoors, while shops, leisure facilities, gyms and hairdressers will be closed.
Tier 4:

- London
- Kent
- Buckinghamshire
- Berkshire
- Surrey (ex Waverley)
- Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth
- Rother and Hastings
- East of England
- Bedford, Central Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough
- Hertfordshire
- Essex (ex Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring)
here's my @ft current splash

ft.com/content/3484bb…

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20 Dec
new Tier 4 polling from @YouGov

- 74% support the introduction of Tier 4 for parts of England vs just 17% say they are opposed

- 67% support the Christmas rules changes vs 25% opposed

- 61% say gov has badly handled covid Xmas rules vs 33% say they have handled it well
I want to meet the 33% and sell them some bridges
the best bridges
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27 Nov
River Thames this morning
and the view back to the Royal Star & Garter
taken with an iPhone XR, for those asking
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10 Nov
remember this story from Sunday?

we've established that the co-director of Admiral also works for Sir Humphry Wakefield, father-in-law of Dominic Cummings

@FT

ft.com/content/6159d5…
these are the directors of Admiral Public Relations
and these are some of the directors of the Chillingham Castle Wild Cattle Association
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5 Nov
I know everyone is distracted by the USA but Rishi Sunak extending the entire 80% furlough to the spring is a huge U-turn - even by the standards of this, the *government of the U-turns* - and a reminder of the grim winter prognosis
here’s the @ft story - it’s hard to think of an economic statement that has been as comprehensively ripped to shreds as Sunak’s September “winter economy plan”

ft.com/content/8f9371…
- first (September announcement) it was 22% state support for furloughed jobs
- then they added 67% for furloughed staff in Tier 3
- then (late October) overall scheme became 62% of hours not worked
- then it was 80% for 1-month November lockdown
- now it’s 80% for six months
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3 Nov
Sadiq Khan has just confirmed that the Greater London Authority (GLA) will leave City Hall (aka the glass gonad) next year and move to The Crystal building in the Royal Docks - estimated saving £61m over five years
if you're interested in the etymology it was Ken Livingstone who dubbed it the "glass testicle", Boris Johnson who called it the "glass gonad" and then latterly "The Onion"
I can’t decide if it’s beautiful or ugly Image
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2 Nov
you don’t need to be a super-forecaster to guess the impact of JD Wetherspoon offloading its beer at 99p a pint on Wednesday

ft.com/content/1e98ff…
on the plus side William Hague will be able to procure his daily 14 pints for just £13.86
showing my age here with a contemporary reference from the year 2000

google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
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