This is what Geidt said in his letter of Jan 2022 ( ref #WallpaperGate non disclosure) :-
“(Johnson’s Office) have told me that in April 2021, in light of a wellpublicised security breach, you implemented security advice relating to a mobile device. The effect was that historic messages, potentially including the Missing Exchange, were no longer available to search”
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“Later, in June, after my report had been published, the device was again accessed for another purpose. It is of grave concern to me that, neither at the time when the Cabinet Office was collecting information ahead of my report…
“…nor subsequently when the device had been activated again, was any attempt made to check for information relevant to my enquiries, such as the Missing Exchange.”
Very very plain they did not want to HAVE the evidence even when offered it on a plate by Lord Brownlow
ALSO of interest (Times report)when it comes to the Cabinet Office in this Covid Inquiry:
“Hugo Keith (counsel to the Inquiry) also revealed that the health department had handed over unredacted material — including the former health secretary Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages”
This “despite a refusal by the Cabinet Office to comply with the inquiry’s ruling…..This is subject to a government legal challenge that is expected to be heard later this month.
“It may be worth pointing out that the Department of Health and Social Care has to date provided much fuller disclosure [than the Cabinet Office], including Mr Hancock’s WhatsApp messages, without any redactions at all for relevance being applied to that material,” he said.
And on that note of absence of transparency of the Cabinet Office… Baroness Hallett today
Incomplete data due to Hospitals not responding to an FOI (94 trusts out of 209 responded) but, from those that did nearly 70K people caught Covid IN hospital (positive test >8 days after admission) and over 14k of them died. That’s 20%.
That was for a period from March 2020 to August 2022. The true number likely MUCH higher given less than half of trusts responded and record keeping very mixed.
But that gives rise to a number of questions.
What percentage of admissions used to end in death pre Covid.
Does anyone have those data?
It gives us a comparison point given some of those patients may well have died despite Covid
But I know there are studies showing outcomes worsen if Covid added to the mix
I shall have a dig and link when I find where I’ve filed them
The @FT throwing down the gauntlet at Crispin Odey again. “The Octopus” “20 stone toddler” his utterly boorish assaults on his receptionist staff and others so well known they would be warned, on being given their passwords, not to take the lift with him.
The so-called “Odey Girls” gained a reputation, she said, for having good legs because they “always took the stairs”.
He was known for hiring “earls and girls”.
Most are adamant that everyone — from junior staff to senior partners — knew how vulnerable they were to unwanted attention from Odey. “I think you’d have to have been under a rock if you didn’t,” said one. “Literally under a rock.”
Zelenskyy also took aim at international humanitarian organizations, which he said were missing in action when it came to rescue efforts on the ground.
“They are not there,” he said. While Ukraine has appealed for help, “we haven’t received any response. I am shocked.”
The cronyism carries on…this time to massive (£millions ) Tory donor Chernukhin - the wife of Putin’s ex finance minister whose sources of income appear to be via people closely linked to the Kremlin.
She was on the donors with special access to ministers.
Leaked files show her husband received $8m (£6.1m). The money initially came from a politician facing US sanctions due to his closeness to the Kremlin.
The majority of Chernukhin’s donations to the Conservatives – more than £1.5m – took place after this date. It is not clear if any of that cash went to the Tories
Interestingly “4 members of the Standards Committee (including senior Conservatives Sir Bernard Jenkin & Sir Charles Walker) voted against the sanction imposed on Ferrier. They unsuccessfully called for her to be suspended for 9 days, with just her salary suspended for 30 days.”
“The recommendation for a full 30-day suspension from the Commons was only carried with the support of the lay members of the Committee”
Now watch the Tories thrashing around to change the rules to get rid of the lay members…who seem to have a better grasp of public feeling