I’ve read all 106 pages of the #PrivilegesCommittee Report and looked up extracts they’ve referred to, at source in Hansard etc., to get context. Their findings hinge on 4 occasions where they say Boris deliberately mislead HoC. To get to this conclusion they spend 55 pages…1/ ..going over all the events relating to #Partygate to say, in essence, that Boris must have known he was deliberately misleading (‘lying’ in common parlance) HoC on those 4 occasions. I prefer to look directly at detail of those 4 occasions and consider whether their case.. 2/

British journalism is completely missing the public mood at present. WE a want the State to succeed in defeating #COVID19 and to play our part in doing it. Yes, we want #HMG to explain what it is doing, when and why, and journalism has a part to play in that, BUT...1/4 ..political journalists seem to think it’s political ‘business as usual’ and that they should attack, attack, attack..because that’s what they do. They think it’s clever to to pick holes, ask stupid questions out of feigned ignorance, engage in ‘whataboutery’. Well, chums..2/4