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🎄Christmas approaching
🚀Infections rocketing
📢Scientists calling for action
😴The PM asleep at the wheel
Have we learned nothing?
Today we launch our campaign to ensure the #Covid inquiry is open, fair & robust so that we can hold this govt to account. Join us
The govt has shown contempt for truth & transparency time and again
▶️ They refused to tell us what science they were following
▶️ They withheld data
▶️ They abused emergency powers
▶️ They gave friends & donors £££s in Covid contracts
▶️ They made rules which they didn't follow
170,000 people have died. More than 1 million are living with chronic illness. It didn't need to be this way.
We're building a coalition of scientists, experts & journalists to ensure that the #Covid public inquiry gives people the answers they deserve crowdfunder.co.uk/we-demand-answ…
At the start of the pandemic we launched #IndependentSAGE to counter the government’s lack of transparency and to bring clear, transparent scientific advice into the public domain
The govt has said it will announce the ‘terms of reference’ for its public inquiry in the New Year. Independent SAGE & the Citizens have each submitted a list of key issues that need to be addressed
NEW: our weekly newsletter is out and tells the story of a Christmas 2021 that looks like 2020:
➡️a worrying new variant
➡️infections climbing
➡️scientists calling for action
➡️#NHS struggling
➡️Boris Johnson doing nothing
Journalists @carolecadwalla and @PeterJukes, with whistleblower Sergei Cristo, reveal a secret spy ring like no other.
From exclusive parties to the halls of power, this operation went unnoticed by MPs, intelligence, and police.
Listen to the trailer today!
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Episodes drop weekly from Tuesday 31 December on all major podcast platforms. 🎧
🚨NEW: Report from @JointCtteNSS warns the UK is facing "high risk of catastrophic ransomware attack" from foreign actors, like Russia, China & North Korea.
This comes a week after UK govt finally admitted to Russian interference in British politics. 🧵/1
2/The report states that @ukhomeoffice is not fit or prepared to see off these attacks from foreign actors.
It adds that"majority of ransomware attacks against the UK are from Russian-speaking perpetrators but this is not a straightforward state threat." committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…
3/Last week, the Foreign Office finally admitted to Russian interference in British politics.
It said Russian Intelligence Services targeted high-profile individuals in UK inc MPs & journalists through cyber operations. gov.uk/government/new…
"Ukraine targeted Alexander Lebedev as part of a wave of sanctions against individuals supportive of Russia’s war, placing greater scrutiny on the oligarch’s links to the UK government". @pcaruanagalizia@tortoise#RussiaReport
Boris Johnson gave Lebedev’s son Evgeny, a close friend, a life peerage despite security warnings from MI5. "The Cabinet Office has told parliament that “Lord Lebedev is a man of good standing.” Lord Lebedev has said that he has “no links to the Kremlin".
🔴 The Cabinet Office could take unprecedented action to prevent Boris Johnson’s unredacted diaries and WhatsApp messages from being handed over to the official Covid inquiry
We are so convinced of the need for transparency and accountability in the handling of official business that in March 2022 we went to court to challenge the government's use of disappearing #WhatsApp & text messages.
In July 2022, we requested a copy of the WhatsApp messages sent by No 10 staff shared with Sue Gray for her report on the Partygate when Boris Johnson was PM.
Here is the Cabinet Office's reply
🚨🚨🚨 NHS data breach: NHS trusts are sharing intimate details about patients’ medical conditions, appointments and treatments with Facebook without consent and despite promising never to do so. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…
An astounding investigation by @shanti_das@ObserverUK has revealed how a covert tracking tool in the websites of 20 NHS trusts has for years collected browsing information and shared it with Meta, in a major breach of NHS patients'privacy.
What data have been compromised?
granular details of
✔️ pages viewed
✔️buttons clicked
✔️keywords
Revealed
✔️user's IP address, a piece of info that can identify an individual or household
✔️ details of Facebook accounts