NEW: Cambridge Analytica on Steroids: a tale of 2 data scandals. @carolecadwalla reports on why #NHSDataGrab & PHE's refusal to publish schools data are both so alarming.
This newsletter owes particular debt to what govt calls 'activist lawyers'. Hugely grateful to @Foxglovelegal for organising challenge against #NHSDataGrab. We're taking on PHE with help of @A__W______O. And we report on threats to JRs as cited by @JolyonMaugham & @GoodLawProject
It also features the brilliant @doctor_oxford. We asked her to explain the #NHSDataGrab. Please watch this. She explains so clearly why we should all be worried. And why we have so little time to stop it.
Managing Partner of consultancy firm Baringa Partners, behind £12m in COVID contract wins, revealed to be Conservative Party donor. THREAD:
Baringa Partners LLP, a management consulting firm operating in the Energy and Resources, Financial Services, and Products and Services sectors, won £11,857,205 across 5 awards from June to November 2020. bobsguide.com/2014/11/11/bar…
This work includes support for Test & Trace, consulting on national vaccination efforts for NHS England, and advising the government Crown Commercial Service (CCS).
Almost exactly 1 year ago, the govt stopped doing daily briefings. It left an information vacuum. So Independent SAGE began regular Friday briefing with weekly analysis of all data. Yesterday’s has already been watched by 10k people. (This is relevant) 2/
Week after week @chrischirp (& later @Kit_Yates_Maths) has presented an analysis of all available data. Yesterday’s was perhaps clearest yet. But it was also very stark. What has happened with the new variant is yet another national disaster. These numbers are bad. 3/
BREAKING: More than £600,000 has been donated to the Conservative Party by firms and individuals that have been awarded some £400 million in public contracts during the Coronavirus pandemic.
A thread by @ALLTHECITIZENS and @BYLINETIMES
Yesterday’s release by the Electoral Commission of quarterly donations shows that since Q4 (October) 2020, John Bloor, Wol Kolade, Peter Rigby, John Nash, Vin Murria, & Michael Ashcroft, together donated £615,000 to the Tories. All linked to huge gov contracts in the pandemic.
Oluwole Kolade gave £205,000 between November 2020 - March 2021. Wol sits as managing partner of Livingbridge, a private equity firm that until Jan 2021 held a controlling stake in Efficio, which has now received £11m from the gov since the pandemic began
We are so proud of the work we do to support @IndependentSage. This week's briefing couldn't be more important. It streams live on Twitter & YouTube & is watched every week by 10,000+ people & anyone can ask a question
This is completely astonishing from @PHE_uk. It has repeatedly refused to release actual data on spread of the new variant in schools - despite our legal letter.
And it has now published a non-evidence-based blog that literally contradicts its own latest technical report. Wtf?
NEW: We have joined @Foxglovelegal & this coalition in bringing legal action to stop the NHS data grab. It is SUCH an important fight. These are our private health records. The deadline is June 23. There is so little time. We need your help. 🙏🙏🙏
Yesterday, as @madhumita29 in @FT reports, we sent govt our pre-action letter. We're asking for immediate pause on June 23 deadline. If you haven't opted out by then, it means all your confidential medical records gone forever. We cannot let this happen. ft.com/content/a13225…