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#TheWeekInTory1. The govt relaxed the rules on eating in restaurants, as long as the restaurants followed the guidelines2. To promote this, the Chancellor posed for a photo-op serving customers in
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And we're off! Our hearing over Matt Hancock's refusal to provide what we believe is critical evidence on our PPE challenges has begun. Follow this thread for live updates from
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I'm aware of 3 TV/Radio journalists who've covered/commented on post-lockdown face mask 'issue' re: #Coronavirus #redux1. Peston - ITV -ex-BBC - twice in Daily Briefings2. Fergus Walsh - BBC (2
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1/ This will sound bizarre & I may be wrong, but I think the Cummings story is a trap.Why?1. Father phoned police2. Cummings wasn’t tested3. Govt’s coordinated reaction4. 2 month
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Right as per this- I’m about to start watching Carry On Cleo, a take on Anthony and Cleopatra that makes Shakespeare’s look like a masterclass in Egyptology.https://twitter.com/_f_b_g_/status/1247444598219210752 Once again I
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The conservatives have been in power for almost a decade. It's not gone well. Don't vote conservative. Even if they promise the moon on a stick. Which they will. https://www.ft.com/content/8075e68c-7857-11e8-8e67-1e1a0846c475
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“The real hero of Jaws is the mayor.A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents & he decides to keep beaches open. OK,in that instance he was wrong. But in
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#TheWeekInTory (Wed to Sun)1. Let’s start with the milder corruption: it was revealed Matt Hancock tried to block 400 homes and a primary school near Newmarket racecourse, after receiving at
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It’s Tuesday, #TheWeekInTory is already 80 points long, and I’m very sorry you have to read it.And even more sorry I had to write the bloody thing.Anyway, here goes. 1.
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False Narratives. Thread. 1/37 Brexit is a stupid, dangerous and hugely damaging process to put the UK through. Furthermore this ‘oven ready Brexit’ will not deliver a single benefit that
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#LondonLockdown: Can I still meet my friends?Your questions answered as nine million Londoners are plunged into Tier 2 lockdown Read more:https://trib.al/ZhDSnt6  Nine million people in London are set to face
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So, we revealed today that the school tiers are going down the drain. And not a soul made it beyond Tier 1 (of 4). How did this happen? If you
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Ok Space Cats! The boiler's just broken so I need to bend the knee to the hegemony of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics & do some work to warm up.
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Ahead of the bank holiday we want to take a moment to highlight the brilliant groups mentioned in our paper that are working to put racial justice at the heart
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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." ~Thomas Jefferson, March 31, 1809 “Posterity! you will never know
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1/n In my new book, Technologies of Speculation, I talk about 'control creep': data surveillance justified for one purpose is inevitably repurposed elsewhere. Exhibit A: Self-tracking & Internet of Things,
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