Is it really a 'changed' Labour Party? Labour's tax plans are dressed up as signalling a desire to raise money for state schools - but these posts betray their true motive - ideological envy and hatred
As I understand it, the max sentence for manslaughter is life imprisonment. Can someone pls explain why these 3 aren't still in prison - and why - having killed SIX people - all of them CHILDREN - they aren't in prison for the rest of their lives? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-deā¦
Rees-Mogg hopes contest goes to wider membership bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-polit⦠via @BBCNews As if the members made a great job of it last time - or the time before! Letās hope (for the countryās sake, not Moggās) that Sunak emerges the clear winner amongst MPs + the contest ends there
Kwarteng out as chancellor bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-polit⦠via @BBCNews Didnāt Liz Truss say the two of them were āin lockstepā? So what next? š¤
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Farrow & Ball have released a new colour: Sue Gray.
However it is a very light shade, which means that if spread too thinly it looks like whitewash.
Unbelievable - Is that the best excuse he can come up with ? - worthy of a miscreant 4th former at school (and when forming your judgment, donāt forget his egregious CBI speech!) #BorisJohnson #cbi bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6ā¦
Why is Johnson hanging on? He must realise the game is up now⦠#DowningStreetParties independent.co.uk/news/uk/doā¦
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If you improve a skill by 1% each day, after one year you are 37 times better at it. The mathematics of progress!
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NEW: quick chart showing key context for todayās news of a Tier 4 Christmas
Cases are soaring in areas set to go into T4, with rate of increase extremely worrying. Testing has increased lately too, but even if we look at positivity, the rate of increase is very steep.
PMās virus adviser calls for a way out of lockdown
thetimes.co.uk/article/boris⦠Just the sort of message we DONāT need.. Plenty decades younger than me on ITU. Letās concentrate on the lockdown for now.
Yes, this may be our Dunkirk, but eventually weāll have our D-day #coronavirus
I wonder if Apple could at least temporarily re-word the messages on their Activity app? Admittedly I had a quieter day - helping Oscar with his homework and playing Monopoly - but I donāt recall ātaking it eastā for a very long time! š¢
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Some key takeaways:
1) LOOK at the death rates by age group. Under 50s death rate is 0.1% from 803 deaths. Even 50-70 is low. 70+ it bites hard. Takeaway: be responsible. Protect elderly relatives from infection. /2
BBC News - Coronavirus: UK deaths double in 24 hours bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51889957 #coronavirus Note Whitty says āevery measure we are taking is designed to protect...ā- NOT āwe are taking every measure we can to protect...ā - there is a big difference š¢
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ITALY: lockdown
CHINA: lockdown
DENMARK: lockdown
NORWAY: lockdown
Turkey: lockdown
IRELAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM: close schools, cancel gatherings
USA: close schools, ban all european flights
BORIS JOHNSON:Right. Some of you are going to die. NHS are a bit busy shit happens #bbcqt
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Chart from my live on #Newsnight just now. Right or wrong, thereās no doubt the UK is increasingly an outlier in our Covid response.
Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now - Tomas Pueyo - Medium #coronavirus medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronā¦














