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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The journey that began with Boris Johnson backing Dominic Cummings over his trips to Durham and Barnard Castle reached a destination today. The rules never apply to them.
I hope and think it's fair to say that no organisation in the country is doing more to tackle sleaze - and the collapse in our democratic standards - than @GoodLawProject.
We can only do that vital work with your support.

If you want to empower us to do more please join our mailing list here actions.goodlawproject.org/subscribe...
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2 Nov
The history of searching out - and amplifying - wrongs that exemplify negative stereotypes of minorities has a long and ugly history.
History shows as that in racist societies black men were presented by the media as sexually predatory. In homophobic societies, gay men as paedophiles and lesbians as undesirable. And in anti-semitic societies, Jews as avaricious.
Straight, conforming white people escape because the tactic - of demonising those who cannot speak back - is the preserve of those with power.
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23 Oct
How a flailing Government is buggering up its Covid response. Again. In Charts.

For political reasons Government ditched Covid mitigation measures in schools. But also delayed vaccinating teens.
Unsurprisingly, that combination caused a massive surge in cases amongst teenagers.

(On the continent cases actually FELL when schools reopened!)
That may not have troubled a Government that sometimes acts like it hates the young.

But the surge then spread into older groups.
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18 Oct
The notion Boris Johnson invited Nimco Ali for Christmas so she could provide childcare is as absurd as the notion Dominic Cummings drove to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight.

The truth is, they don't believe the law really applies to people like them.
You can read the guidance as it then existed here. Note how it is absolutely explicit: you can't use a childcare bubble as an excuse to have your mates around for Christmas. web.archive.org/web/2021010116…
This is the legislation that created so-called childcare bubbles. You will see the bubble has to be "for the purpose of the second household providing informal childcare." legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1200…
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17 Oct
To return the country to a less angry and divided state would require a process for which, I fear, this Government has no appetite.
The Brexit process, which took a dishonest and absolutist mandate from a flawed referendum that delivered a tiny majority, has left us angry and divided.
The Government quite deliberately, and for its own political gain, chooses a policy of dividing the country through its dishonest culture war that attacks the basic humanity of the most vulnerable.
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16 Oct
I see yet another vast, and vastly expensive, piece of anti-trans infrastructure has sprung up virtually overnight with zero transparency as to where the money came from.
Worth reading the brilliant 'Empire of Pain' to understand the playbook. Fake grass-roots 'authenticity', money to amplify crank science and outlier voices, pushed in compliant media, bullshit pseudo-official 'institutes', co-ordinated social media campaigns. All so familiar.
I also feel sorry for the satirists. ImageImageImage
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16 Oct
We are leading western Europe in terms of hospital admissions...
... and in terms of deaths.
Why might this be?

Well, we are leading Western Europe in abandoning masks.
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