#Ministers

Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Jenny Harries says the is of your child dying in a road traffic accident “is probably higher than their risk from #COVID”.Especially if Dominic Cummings
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1. Hours before recess, PM quietly announced that Downing St had taken control of the govt’s use of data. Trump did EXACT same thing in the US last week.
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"There are reports that 12 generators on Idukki are not functional, which reduces release of water for power generation. High water levels in Idukki dam just before monsoon are not
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The biggest pox party in history #covid19UK Johnson’s U.K. Virus Strategy Needs People to Catch the Diseasehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/johnson-s-u-k-virus-strategy-needs-people-to-catch-the-disease UK strategy in a nutshellhttp
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India soldiers killed in clash with Chinese forceshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-53061476 China’s statement on the clash so far: NDTV: A first violent clash between Indian China soldiers in 45 years.No gunshots were fired.
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#THREAD about Boris Johnson, dead bodies, Brexit, & Andrew Neil's TV Channel & power.The news is full of claims that last year, Boris Johnson said “No more fucking lockdowns: let
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1. We are in the doldrums of August, and awaiting the well overdue announcement from Liz Truss, but don't imagine nothing is going on behind the scenes. The women of
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India's major cities are in the middle of harrowing, grim and deathly collapse of its healthcare system. I have been trying (like many others) to help people find things that
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1/. “The risk at 1 meter is about 10 to 30 times higher than at 2m.”This was Prof Vallance speaking on 5 May saying #coronavirus spread is up to 30
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There’s often a moment in the third act of a Hitchcock thriller – “the big reveal” – when the scales fall from the eyes of the hapless central character &
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Thread, on holding India's MOST influential, powerful person + party accountable for his/their hubris, arrogance and misdeeds. Much of this is from international media that BJP cannot control (advertising/coercion), but
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I was gonna leave #TheWeekInTory until Friday, but at their current rate it'll be 1000 tweets long by then, and I'm worried about you, mate.It's OK to get drunk on
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Mauryan Empire: Administration, Ideals & Divisions:- The governance of the vast Mauryan empire, which stretched from parts of eastern Iran to Mysore was a formidable undertaking. News would taken months
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Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little 95 years ago today. I wrote about his assassination f/ this book: https://products.abc-clio.com/abc-cliocorporate/product.aspx?pc=A4761C The most recent of the prominent Malcolm X biographies was by
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Unpopular opinion (from seasoned entrepreneur): #Covid19 is not an opportunity for startups & scale-ups to demand special gov financial support! As professional risk takers, we should humbly queue at the
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Thread on "Krishnadevaraya"Krishnadevaraya had been born to parents Nagala Devi and Tuluva Narasa Nayaka,[2] an army commander under Saluva Narasimha Deva Raya, who later took control of the empire to
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