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23 Jan, 6 tweets, 5 min read
Handy interactive timeline showing all the times "Covid sceptics" Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan, Karol Sikora, Mike Yeadon, Toby Young, Alison Pearson and Julia Hartley Brewer have been utterly wrong about #COVIDー19

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Another "Covid sceptic" pumping out disinfo about #COVIDー19? Pathologist Clare Craig last Oct tweeted "we're in the midst of a false positive pseudo-epidemic". Now she's emulated Toby Young and deleted all her tweets from 2020. See @NeilDotObrien's thread
In his thread (quote-tweeted above), Tory MP Neil O'Brien examines some of the whackier claims Dr Clare Craig has made about #COVIDー19 in past few months, including the letter she co-signed with David Icke. Image
It's great there's now an organised group debunking the disinfo being spread by "Covid sceptics" Sunetra Gupta, Carl Heneghan, Mike Yeadon, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Julia HB, etc. Well done @s8mb @StuartJRitchie @NeilDotObrien covidfaq.co

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Anti-Virus: new site covidfaq.co debunking the disinfo being spread by right-wingers who abhor lockdowns and other restrictions, but whose knowledge of public health, virology, immunology or epidemiology is quite limited. The entry on Toby Young is a classic... Image
'Anti-Virus' Prof Carl Heneghan. Prior to the pandemic, his Centre for Evidence Based Medicine @UniofOxford had "a fine reputation". But his commentaries on #COVIDー19 have strayed from evidence into motivated guesswork and anti-lockdown politics, putting that reputation at risk. Image

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22 Jan
The biggest worry about BBC chair Richard Sharp isn't necessarily the £400,000 he's give to the Tories. It's the £35,000 he's given to Quilliam, a "thinktank" loved by the transatlantic super-rich but distrusted by almost every British Muslim @OborneTweets middleeasteye.net/opinion/richar…
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10 Jan
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.
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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.
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Radio host Jenna Ryan (@dotjenna): "We just stormed the Capital (sic). It was one of the best days of my life."
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…
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"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/…
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7 Sep 20
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!

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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/…
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18 Apr 20
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.
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