.@LaylaMoran:
“It is staggering that Heathrow only this week announced that it has received the government support needed to ensure travellers arriving from red list countries have a separate terminal, rather than waiting alongside those from green and amber list countries.”
“Even now, those arriving from red list countries who have transited via another destination are being allowed to mix with others, & airports are warning of lengthy queues as internat travel reopens. The govt must fix this gaping flaw in our defences against covid immediately”
.@LaylaMoran:
“The next few months could define so much of what happens next, and yet the government seems incapable of stepping up and providing the global leadership we need. Time is running out for them to listen to scrutiny, learn lessons and lead.”
“there isn’t binary choice betw keeping covid under control or allowing econ to recover..It is far preferable to put measures in place early to suppress the virus, rather than allowing it to get out of control yet again resulting in longer lockdowns & more lives tragically lost”
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“millions of people simply will not have a clue that this is happening.
Their right to be informed is not being upheld. As a consquence, they will not be afforded the right to object/opt-out. No radio or TV ads, no letters to individuals, no junk mail to households. On the quiet”
“care.data2 is not about information sharing between healthcare professionals.
It is about data extraction, linkage and analysis: in other words, data mining.”
“The former sub-postmaster spent 18 months behind bars, was declared bankrupt and since coming out of prison has struggled to find work. He and Balbinder have had to sell their home and now rely on benefits.”
(His outrageous fraud conviction was one of those quashed by Ct App)
“The story of how a great British institution unfairly criminalised hundreds of law-abiding citizens is an astonishing tale of corporate cover-up, political mismanagement and personal injustice.”
There needs to be not only a full public inquiry, but prosecutions of PO bosses
“I still can’t believe we’re living in the UK and this kind of thing goes on. We were guilty until we could prove our innocence.”
Key point:
‘The Judge confirmed that @ReclaimTS’ assessment of
the law is correct: not all protest is, or can be treated as, illegal
under the Tier 4 rules.’
“unless it is necessary and proportionate to prevent persons gathering to exercise their right to freedom of expression and assembly, having regard to the individual facts and circumstances of the protest in question, such a protest is not prohibited by the Tier 4 regulations”
“this means that Arts 10 & 11 require police to facilitate & uphold the right to protest and that they only prevent it where, following a proper assessment, this is necessary and proportionate in the particular circumstances of the
protest in question”
I’m sure there is not the slightest reason to worry about Tory govt plans to scrap EU regs post-Brexit to ‘reduce burdens’ on City firms in order to ‘improve its competitiveness’. ft.com/content/387084…
“the City - ever quick to scent an opportunity - is positioning itself to have greater influence over the reshaping of the post-Brexit rulebook” ft.com/content/199e20…
“Proposals by Lord Hill, former EU fin servs commissioner leading govt’s review into City, to change UK listing rules have been welcomed by financiers keen to attract more flotations, but questioned by investors who fear the London market’s high standards are being compromised.”
“event was widely recorded in the press, with Yorkshire Post reporting that ‘a woman actually voted!’ Taking a hostile view, it suggested that the polling clerk should have ignored Maxwell’s claim when she appeared to vote, ‘as he would have ignored that of a child 10 yrs old’.”
“Just 5 months earlier, the Commons had rejected – by 196 votes to 75 – John Stuart Mill’s proposal to extend the franchise to women by substituting the word ‘person’ for man in the 1867 Reform Act.”
An appropriate use of gender neutral terminology in legislation...
Just feeling maudlin - 70th birthday in a week’s time, without Steve.
Not asking for sympathy, I know so many other people have suffered losses.
But it’s a bugger, nonetheless.
Had a lovely chat last week with my mother-in-law (100 in May) when she reminded me that ‘Stephen always joked that he married an older woman’.
This was because I was 2 months older than him!
Cheering myself up with some of my favourite booster tracks:
- Bryn Terfel & the Dunvant Male choir: Calon Lan
- Phil Coulter/Nathan Carter: The Town I Knew so Well
- Rod Stewart: Grace, & Downtown Train