#Cummings

Gail Read Undomesticated Goddess

Gailee99

Long thread warning:This Dominic Cummings thing. He was wrong.Very wrong. He could have put an emergency back up plan in place that didn’t include going to Durham. He had friends

Kirsty Brimelow QC

Kirsty_Brimelow

Thread Will update blog . Summary of Durham police conclusion is that Dominic Cummings broke the law when he drove to/from Barnard Castle. It’s a confusingly worded statement but they

Dan Lott

Danaiolos

Thank you for your views. I think I have a different concept of what it means to be elitist. It is not always about how many farmhouses the family owns...

Mark - Now That’s Just Gay

NowThatsJustG

When all is said and done, when it comes time for the next general election I really hope that people will remember the “revelations” of this weekend. Our current government

Rachel Stevenson

rachelstevenson

Like Dominic Cummings, my parents live in Durham. I grew up there. Next week is the funeral of a school friend - it's being held online because his friends can't

Peter Jukes

peterjukes

I’m sorry but if I was a commissioning editor, and wrote a deceptive piece about the ‘comical uncertainty’ of lockdown with my No 10 political adviser husband, and then let

ViewFromTheNorth (JHQC) 🐝

jaimerh354

I was pretty appalled at the Cummings revelations - what he did was, at best, completely undermining of the public message and effort. I am relatively intelligent and have followed

dasPost-CV

dasvee

What's the takeaway from today?The government thinks it can get away with post-truth (lies) on a subject that the entire public understands, which has affected them, which if undermined could

Henry Mance

henrymance

Woah, this seems far-fetched. But I have checked on the Wayback Machine and get the same result. What else could explain it?https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1264953956758884354 Dominic Cummings said in today's press conference that

Marcus Walker

WalkerMarcus

I think @giles_fraser captures extremely well the discomfort I felt about the bishops pile-on about Dominic Cummings. It isn’t about whether DC was right or wrong or wherher bishops should

David Leask

LeaskyHT

The Cummings revelations were a triumph of journalism, in all its messy glory. But the UK government response marks the ascendency of anti-journalism, with the Trumpist jibes of “fake news”

tony nog

tony_nog

1) Cummings, really, why the genius tag?Not of the greatest importance but keep wondering why Cummings is seen as this great genius, I mean really, what has he actually achieved

Rosamund Urwin

RosamundUrwin

Fair to say that Charles Moore as BBC chair will not go down well with the corporation's 21,000ish staff: "This will shatter morale. People will leave, thinking: I won’t stay

tony nog

tony_nog

1)The inevitable consequences of JohnsonYes, it's important to recognise the failures and sheer incompetence of this government, however it was inevitable. The events of the past 3 years were always

Simon Ubsdell

SimonUbsdell

Any reasonable person, looking at Mary Wakefield's R4 broadcast and the infamous Spectator piece, must surely conclude that they are both false narratives concocted to mask the reality of where

Russ Jones

RussInCheshire

About the term "The Fourth Estate"It's not used a often nowadays, but it describes the press. It comes from the concept that there were 4 great pillars holding up societyWithout