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21 May, 5 tweets, 6 min read
1/. As we dig out our sequins & prepare for the #Eurovision Song Contest, it's hard to believe that it's only been a year since the final of the Corona Vision Song Contest
150+ entries
32 finalists
12 categories
Only one winner
#EurovisionSongContest2021 #eurovision21 @Eurovision Image
2/. "Let the virus inspire us!"

Coronavision tapped into that extraordinary burst of creativity in those early months of the COVID pandemic

Our slogan - "We have a category for that" - meant that even if you couldn't sing you could enter for "Worst Song" podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pol…
3/. “Now we’ve been blessed!
The Coronavision Song Contest
People vote & chose the best
Coronavision Song Contest”

One highlight of the competition was when @gloriagaynor RTed this version of @LoveTinaTurner's Simply the Best!
#Eurovision #Eurovision2021
4/. “I’m speaking from the future, it is 2022

And I have a message you must believe is true

I got #coronavirus it was nothing like the flu”

The winner = “You Must Start Testing” by Dieter von der Future
#Eurovision #Eurovision2021 #EurovisionSongContest
5/. The winning song👆in the #Coronavision Song Contest 2020 got airtime around the world & was played on @bbc5live by @chriswarburton_

Another favourite was @Trio_mandili👇who were in #Eurovision in 2017 but didn’t win. #Eurovision2021 #Eurovision2021 @scott_mills @grahnort

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23 May
With #Cummings’ admission of what has been obvious from the start & is what me & a handful of journalists have been saying all along, it’s surely time for @Peston to come clean & tell the nation who in No.10 briefed him on 12/3/20 that #HerdImmunity was the UK’s #COVID19 strategy
2/. But #Cummings’ thread raises more questions than it answers

We KNEW #HerdImmunity was the strategy & the govt didn’t “pivot away” from it

In Feb, @Dominic2306 rprtdly said the strategy was “herd immunity to protect the economy & if that means some pensioners die, too bad."
3/. Every epidemiologist or virologist will tell you #HerdImmunity is an “outcome” never a “strategy”

Without a vaccine it would involve “sacrificing the vulnerable on the altar of the economy in truly vast numbers”

It was clear this “strategy” would ALSO devastate the economy.
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20 May
1/. "Govts aren't insensitive to the outside pressure & when world opinion is concentrated on one weak spot, it can succeed in making govts relent...That is why we have started Appeal for Amnesty, 1961"

It's 60 years since @amnesty launched with this OpEd
theguardian.com/uk/1961/may/28…
2/. The idea of @amnesty founder, Peter Beneson, was a simple & beautiful one

To harness the power of public opinion to change the world for the better

Six decades, on that idea still fizzes with energy & boundless potential & Amnesty Intnl's work has never been more important.
3/. In 1977 - 16 years after it was set-up - Mumtaz Soysal, an ex-Prisoner of Conscience accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on @amnesty's behalf with a poem

"Soon night will fall & they'll close the cell doors
I don't feel lonely
I am with the whole of mankind & mankind is with me"
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17 May
1/. We know SAGE recommended a circuit-breaker lockdown on 21 Sept

We know that on that day, the PM & @RishiSunak met controversial anti-lockdown scientists Anders Tegnell & Prof Heneghan & Prof Gupta

Now we know Prof Gupta advised a full #HerdImmunity strategy. #DISPATCHES
2/. We know that the PM did NOT “stick to the science like glue”

Every epidemiologist & virologist will tell you #HerdImmunity is an ‘outcome’ never a ‘strategy’

And yet the govt briefed @Peston that it was their ‘strategy’ on 12/3/20 & it appears the strategy didn’t go away. Image
3/. Could it be these repeated blunders were not really ‘mistakes’?

@sarahkendzior writes of the Trump admin:

“They cover up crime with scandal & cover up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan.”
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13 May
1/. A year ago today, I broke the #CareHomeScandal

The reason so many had died in care homes was b/c the govt had INSTRUCTED hospitals to send people “who may have #COVID19” to care homes WITHOUT TESTING

The guidance was issued on 2 April 2020

Yet NO journalist had reported it
2/. As I’ve been doing since March 2020, I shared this widely

15 days later ITV reported it

Whilst I may have “broken” dozens of #COVID19 scandals, I no more “discovered” them than Cook discovered Australia

But by asking WHY these scandals happened, I did make a BIG discovery.
3/. The govt STILL claim that they put “a protective ring“ around care homes

The 2/4/20 guidance proves that, despite knowing about asymptomatic spread, the govt did the opposite

Who issued the instruction?
Was it approved by a Minister?
If so which one?
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12 May
1/. Twenty-seven years ago, I was in Soweto, having driven up from Cape Town for Mandela's inauguration with ANC colleagues, Leroy Jones Hemmings & Shaffee & Mira Hussein

We were watching the news - still high from the day before - when it was announced that #JohnSmith was dead
2/. Over the decades, the loss of #JohnSmith has grown more poignant

Had #JohnSmith - dead at 55 - lived, he would have swept to in 1997 power rather than Blair & perhaps won another term or two

He would not have gone into #Iraq & the Britain would be a very different place.
3/. “The opportunity to serve our country—that is all we ask”

Like Blair, #JohnSmith was a lawyer

Unlike Blair - who'd modeled himself on Mick Jagger & had no interest in politics until he met Cherie - Smith was a dyed-in-the-wool socialist & a rarity: "a conviction politician"
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12 May
1/. “Palantir expects sales to grow 43% in the second quarter”

#Palantir, run by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, won the contract to build the #COVID data store for US Health Dept (HHS) & a similar contract in the UK for the NHS in mid-April 2020. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/. #Palantir, a shadowy CIA-backed company, reportedly taught #CambridgeAnalytica data-scraping

They won the NHS data-store contract together with
#FacultyAI set-up by Ben & Marc Warner

FacultyAI worked for #LeaveEU & 2019 emails show Cambridge Analytica did work for them too
3/. The NHS is the most trusted brand in Britain.

#CambridgeAnalytica is the least trusted

Granting two companies with links to Cambridge Analytica access to population-wide NHS health data, should give cause for concern

Are #Palantir doing the same in dozens of countries?
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