How a vocal core of MPs and pundits helped deepen the UK's #COVIDー19 crisis. Driven by ideology or contrarianism, they argued for fewer restrictions, disputed data and denounced a sinister health establishment. ft.com/content/1fcbc5… By @robertshrimsley.
How a bunch of contrarian Tories, including members of the misleadingly-named "Covid Recovery Group", preyed on Boris Johnson’s insecurities, slowed the government's response and deepened the UK's #COVIDー19 crisis. By @FT editor-at-large @robertshrimsleyft.com/content/1fcbc5…
And naturally, MPs on the "Covid Recovery Group" (the ones who preyed on Johnson's insecurities; slowed the govt's response; and deepened the UK's #COVIDー19 crisis), were given plenty of airtime on TalkRadio.
guess who's funding the "Covid Recovery Group" of MPs who who have almost certainly deepened and prolonged the UK's Covid-19 crisis through inane contrarianism? Step forward Luke Johnson, who failed to spot a £94m blackhole in Patisserie Valerie's accounts. via @PrivateEyeNews
Like most adherents of the fallacious "Great Barrington Declaration", Luke Johnson doesn't seem to care if people with pre-existing conditions and the over 65s live or die. All that matters is pizzas. #bbcqt
After a £94m black hole was discovered in the accounts of Patisserie Valerie, which he chaired, Luke Johnson claims his "self-belief was shattered" and he wanted to flee the country. Now, he thinks he knows better than all the experts on #COVIDー19 🤔 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
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Texas radio host and estate agent Jenna Ryan flew in a private jet to storm the #Capitol. "It was he one of the best days of my life... God wanted us there" 🙄 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
Texas radio host Jenna Ryan flew in a private jet to storm the #Capitol. "It was one of the best days of my life," she said. "God wanted us there." 🙄 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account.. we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," said Twitter variety.com/2021/politics/…
Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account because of tweets he sent after he was allowed back onto the platform today. Twitter decided they violated its "Glorification of Violence Policy"
Those who consistently defend the British Empire and British colonialism, arguing it must have been a force for the good as a result of its "civilising mission", ought to read this!
The crushing of the Morant Bay rebellion in Jamaica by the Caribbean island's then governor Edward John Eyre in October 1865 is precisely the sort of thing that ought to be taught in British schools. After all, it was fiercely debated at the time. law.yale.edu/sites/default/…
The British are dangerously blind to how they're perceived abroad, and it's largely because most of us are so clueless about the realities of empire. Superb talk by @DalrympleWill, in conversation with @OfficialJassa@UKPHA
This @thesundaytimes piece on Johnson's nonchalance towards the coronavirus crisis is utterly damning, and ought to be a resigning matter.
He skipped 5 cobra meetings, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/c…
Here's one excerpt from @JCalvertST@Arbuthnott and @Jonathan__Leake's Sunday Times Insight piece detailing the extraordinary nonchalance of Boris Johnson as the coronavirus spread around the UK in January to March.
The UK's last rehearsal for a pandemic, #ExerciseCygnus in 2016, predicted the NHS would collapse and highlighted a long list of shortcomings — including a lack of PPE and intensive care ventilators. But none of the recommendations to address these deficiencies was implemented.
The prediction that the UK will have the second highest death toll from #COVIDー19 by August comes from Seattle-based @IHME_UW. If they're right, three weeks of nonchalance and the pursuit "herd immunity" will come to be seen as a catastrophic errors. theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
IHME is no fly-by-night operator. It's been called the "best organisation in the world at collecting data on diseases and mapping out why we fall ill. Its Global Burden of Disease study is a collaborative effort that's valued and used in every country" theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
He's worked for Cambridge Analytica and AIQ. He was Vote Leave's CTO. He's been placing Facebook ads pretending to be from the Green Party to divide the anti-Tory vote in swing seats and gather data on Green voters. Meet Thomas Borwick — who also seems close to Jennifer Arcuri
When @ITVNews caught up with digital media strategist Thomas Borwick in Westminster, the son of ex-Tory MP Victoria Borwick and Jamie Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick had nothing to say about why he’s promoting the Green Party. via @rupertevelynitv.com/news/2019-11-2…