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Mar 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Really striking on #LongCovidAwarenessDay how many young previously fit people are now long disabled to the extent of being unable to shower or go out.

How many lives ruined?

What help available?

What hope?
Just one
The (medical) parent watching their adult child suffering …and the helplessness at the absence of effective treatment.
An ex colleague of mine now on 24/7 oxygen.

And suffering heart failure.

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Mar 16
UK life expectancy growing at slower rate than rest of G7

In the 1950s, the UK had one of the longest life expectancies in 🌍 , ranking 7th globally behind countries such as Denmark, Norway & Sweden, but in 2021 the UK was ranked 29th: Income inequality
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Mar 15
Especially seen in conjunction with rate young GPS are deserting the NHS too.

@BBCNews STILL doing the Government’s bidding. Unsurprising when you see how Tory the Board appointments now are…and the executive…and the news editors.

Cover up Government incompetence.
And the story showing how @BBCNews takes its instructions from Downing Stree.

Altho’ now the Board and senior appointments (inc ex GBNews) are so Tory themselves they don’t really need instruction any more. They just ARE it. Which was the intention or the restructure.
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Mar 14
The BBC and impartiality - by dag - the law and lore blog

Very good from ⁦@davidallengreen⁩

Both-sideism is not impartiality as he demonstrates by comparison with legal proceedings lawandlore.substack.com/p/the-bbc-and-…
“If there is a dispute as to the applicable law the judge sets out the submissions of the parties & why one view of the law was preferred instead of another
(Sometimes a judge may provide their own view of the law & why that is to be preferred instead of the views of the parties)
If there is a dispute as to the applicable facts then the judge will often set out why the evidence of one party was to be preferred to another.
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Mar 14
BBC came under No 10 pressure to avoid using ‘lockdown’ in early pandemic, leak shows

I’d really like to know who the “Senior Editor” involved who seems to have emasculated the news team.

How much No 10 pressure? How much who he or she is?

theguardian.com/media/2023/mar…
One BBC insider said: “Particularly on the website, our headlines have been determined by calls from (No 10) on a very regular basis.” They said the messages would have been a small snapshot of what was going on, because most pressure was applied verbally rather than written down Image
And on that note….it isn’t even trying to achieve both-sideism here, let alone impartiality.

Something @davidallengreen discusses with his customary economical elegance.
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Mar 14
The Herd Immunity Catastrophe: How British Public Broadcasters Failed the Impartiality Test on COVID-19 – Byline Times

Direct criticism of government policy appeared in just 11.8% of news items on BBC1 and 15.5% of articles on ITV bylinetimes.com/2023/03/14/the…
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“Across more than 6000 lines of news text analysed by the study, there was only a single two-line reported statement suggesting the Government’s herd immunity strategy was flawed.”
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Mar 14
Eleanor Williams jailed for eight and a half years after rape and trafficking lies

This is so grim.

3 of her victims wanted to kill themselves. One spent 73 days in gaol.

One lost £80k worth of business.

Adding fuel to the Asian grooming gang fire

theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…
Utterly bizarre.

And such an extended course of conduct.

Extensive self inflicted injuries using a hammer she’d purchased.

Numerous victims’ lives bade an absolute misery. Image
Judge’s sentencing remarks (h/t @BarristerSecret for the link)

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