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So this is who Keir Starmer has got in to look at the "culture of the party". Not subtle, is it?https://twitter.com/AmmarKazmi_/status/1316510840791748609 Sorting out the "culture of the party" by siding

Peake's statement was ill-judged & the specific claim she made untrue. Equally, this tendency to assume worst when anyone makes an error is problematic. Israel isn't just the world's 'only

This edit is a little unkind, but I’ve checked the whole thing and it’s quite phenomenal. The same SAGE modeller who argued for herd immunity on C4 news back in

I’ve read @nearlylegal’s defence of Labour policy, which apparently he advised on. It’s odd. If you admit that who takes a haircut can be negotiated between government, tenants and landlords,

This judgement is completely nutshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/24/rachel-riley-wins-first-round-of-court-case-against-corbyn-aide Ok - the headline over eggs the pudding. The judge has decided what Murray tweeted were claims about fact

Two options now:1. Lengthen lockdown, get transmission close to zero, don't loosen until capacity for mass test-and-trace. Contain virus. 2. Loosen lockdown soon, but keep social distancing in place to

.@StewartWood making too many excuses for the government on #newsnight for my liking. We need to stop framing their failures as about comms. Their comms have been fine, it’s their

Some really unpleasant stuff in here. People at the top of Labour HQ were actively rooting for a Conservative victory. It makes this request to the EHRC seem entirely reasonable

Just caught up on @Keir_Starmer's interview with @Peston from last night. It was disappointing:- He said antigen tests only useful for getting frontline workers back to work. That's not true.

This is a brilliant article. It confirms the government's move away from "herd immunity" was not based on changed modelling. They really had planned to allow 250,000 people to die,

The centre left have Labour back.On both sides of Atlantic, it's been shown the populist left can't yet win majorities. But it does have the young, and will have the

It's still not clear to me why mass antibody testing would be a game changer, other than for health-workers.Assumption seems to be that mass testing would limit extent of lockdown,