How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App
https://twitter.com/1mikefairclough/status/1673935756170084355The reason why the Chief Medical Officers of the UK and devolved nations (‘the CMOs’) recommended overruling them was astonishingly flimsy - that they might save a (proportionately) tiny number of school days in absences by reducing the number of children getting Covid.
https://twitter.com/BarbaraRich_law/status/1554188043959033860Not long ago, such withdrawal would have been expected and uncontroversial, however sad, where medical professionals determined that it was very unlikely that a person would awake from a coma.
https://twitter.com/EastEndEnquirer/status/1552699656949436422He had been working on this with other journalists - @TedJeory @mragilligan, John Ware and more - for years. But assembling the evidence was particularly challenging in the face of an organisation controlled by one man.
https://twitter.com/newstatesman/status/1487787950452711425As I said (in relation to pandemic planning) in November 2020.
https://twitter.com/francis_hoar/status/1329380025427243019
https://twitter.com/Francis_Hoar/status/1329380025427243019?s=20)?
https://twitter.com/LucyGoBag/status/14819128395687690263. Did you question the use of such an incredibly discredited figure as Neil Ferguson and did you investigate his credentials, in particular his history of using his 'reasonable worst case scenario' models to exaggerate mortality by between 1,000 and 500,000 times?
https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1477661959629778948Humane heads should know that this is guidance. Not only are they not obliged to implement it, they have an independent duty to undertake a risk assessment of the effect of continuous mask wearing on children. Following government advice is no answer or substitute.
https://twitter.com/lutherburgsvik/status/1473204088749838336HT @leoniedelt
https://twitter.com/briefanomaly/status/1472355207216435203This approach was built in to UK policy making with Raab’s ‘Five Tests’ (in April 2020) that fettered the government’s discretion to remove restrictions until tests relating only to this one virus had been met.
https://twitter.com/RMCunliffe/status/1471523049065402371The human condition has, since the Neolithic revolution, required an accommodation with viruses. This is not simply a matter of health, it is a matter of our ability to tolerate the risks as well as the benefits of society in its widest sense.
https://twitter.com/silkiecarlo/status/1461037553004556291And maybe Germany next.
https://twitter.com/AshTFE/status/1461059697163784192
https://twitter.com/michaellcrick/status/1458169995398197248John Smith may be an extreme example. But my old head of chambers, Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, not only had a regular practice at the Old Bailey, he sat on standing committees (considering legislation), introduced a backbench Bill that became law and held the record for filibustering.
https://twitter.com/francis_hoar/status/1329380025427243019And the Commons report is a pile of arse-covering horse-manure too.
https://twitter.com/LucyGoBag/status/1447793936056168454
https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1446171201743867906
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1437174830860804096The critical mass of students from mainland China are not absorbing what used to be our values - not least because we have abandoned so many of them in our educational institutions. And even if they did, they’d have barely a hope of making an impact on the values of the CCP.
https://twitter.com/dustinpenner25/status/1431063413858336769Obviously not. For the avoidance of doubt - that I didn’t think would be necessary - my entire point rests on the embarrassment he causes to supposedly free states by saying this when he quite clearly isn’t the leader of a liberal democratic state.
https://twitter.com/markeat66291584/status/1431990473959280645