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    20 Sep 2018

    If you are reading this, you can participate in a bit of history. Next Weds, and every Weds, you can watch my new show live on Twitter at 8pm, before it goes out on , by going to the pinned Tweet at ⁦⁩

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  2. 1 hour ago

    limit serious illness from the Indian variant.

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  3. 1 hour ago

    Cummings's most important argument today is that the Vaccines Task Force is not being given the freedom it needs to develop an urgent plan to cope with variants. By coincidence my blog today directly addresses the question of whether mixing vaccines would better help to...

    Covid: Why the study into vaccine mixing is so important
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  4. 2 hours ago

    Covid: Why the study into vaccine mixing is so important

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  5. 3 hours ago

    Significant intervention by Cummings. He says « I can think of no significant element of Covid response that would not have been improved by discarding secrecy and opening up »

    14/ I can think of no significant element of covid response that wd not have been improved by discarding secrecy and opening up. This was symbolised by e.g how COBR cd not be used: a constrained STRAP environment cd not cope with the scale/speed, another important lesson
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  6. 20 hours ago

    Covid: Likelihood of full lockdown restrictions being lifted on June 21 'close to nil'

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  7. May 16

    The brilliant Stewart Lee set me a challenge I cannot ignore. ⁦⁩

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  8. May 15

    India went on red list eight days after my remarks below on 15 April. Pakistan and Bangladesh, where the Covid19 crisis was not as acute, had been on it since 9 April. If lockdown easing is set back, this late decision on India will be another focus of the public enquiry

    With India’s Covid19 cases at more than 200,000 a day, and worries about a new strain there, it is extraordinary it has not been put on the red list for travel. The conspiracy theory from senior Tories is that the PM wants to avoid it going on...
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  9. May 15

    « I am sure madam would like the matching handbag and hat. And don’t forget the all important shoe trees ». My sales patter in Debenhams’ shoe department, every university vacation. It didn’t work very often. And today the very last stores close.

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  10. May 13

    Remarkable. The Home Office will have hated conceding in the face of popular protest and representations from

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    An agreement has been reached thanks to and . The men being detained are being allowed to walk free. We’ve done it Glasgow💛💛💛
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  11. May 13

    “A generous big salary”. Says of his Greensill wedge, but won’t guide whether more or less than £1m a year.

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  12. May 13

    .: “I haven’t got complete record of use of private fleet” but he concedes that on a “handful of times” he used Greensill’s jets for private use. All tax on this benefit has been paid, he says

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  13. May 13

    “They’re more like stalking than lobbying”. ’s reflections on ’s texts and WhatsApps on behalf of Greensill

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  14. May 13

    “I can produce a list of friends and relations that have ‘love DC’ at the end of their text messages”. Not sure here proves that his sign off to Treasury permanent secretary Tom Scholar when lobbying for Greensill wasn’t inappropriately chummy

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  15. May 13

    .: “I was paid a generous amount, far more than as prime minister”. He says he had a “serious economic interest” via shares awarded that would vest over years. He insists the precise value of all this is a “private matter”.

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  16. May 13

    . confirms he was a “regular attender” at Greensill Capital board meetings and not purely as an observer - he “made contributions”

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  17. May 13

    The “total bollocks” edition

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  18. May 13

    The story of a 24-year-old Italian woman jailed in a windowless cell for failing to apply for a visa before coming here to work as an au pair. From free movement to punitive deterrence, the Brexit immigration shift.⁩ for ⁦⁩

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  19. Retweeted
    May 12

    “People have had enough, people want us to deal with it” tells that we’ve left it “very late” on climate change and that people now want banks and governments to take the lead on tackling it.

    Carney on the urgency of climate change
    Mark Carney speaking on #Peston 12/05/2021
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    May 12

    “We need progress on the technologies of the future” tells that markets alone cannot solve the climate crisis, adding that we need a lot of investment to make new, environmentally-friendly technologies work “practically, profitably, economically”.

    Carney on climate solutions
    Mark Carney speaking on #Peston 12/05/2021
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  21. May 12

    . says explicitly that the government does not want trustees of publicly funded galleries and museums who say there may be a case for removing objects that some find offensive because of their origins or associations.

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    “Major institutions are the temporary custodians of our national heritage..to preserve heritage not to destroy and remove it” MP tells that public bodies should abide by the government and trustees must be committed to protecting our heritage
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