After Huawei, former GCHQ boss Robert Hannigan tells @BBCr4today a failure of industrial policy left us dependent on China. I’ve been covering this area for 25 years and from Marconi to ARM UK governments have stood by as our best tech firms have either failed or been sold
This is a massive scandal, perhaps the biggest so far under this government.
The secret, under-the-counter contracts given to really weird companies to deliver PPE and other pandemic services.
It needs more exposure.
Please RT and circulate. Thanks.
https://t.co/V5lXWvfzxI
Michael Gove, has the nation still had enough of experts?
The Tories have criminally neglected advice from overseas and large swathes of the scientific community - putting economic survival over human lives. Hundreds are still dying everyday!
#BrexitReality#ridge#marr
https://t.co/8dcdqXGCnZ While the NHSX centralised contact tracing app was shelved, advisors from the Alan Turing Institute have found out how to improve the way Bluetooth apps measure distance. This could prove significant for the way all apps using the Apple/Google toolkit work
So, rather than the shit deal which involved er stuff and um backstop we now have a terrific new deal that involves um er Irish Sea border thing. Well fucking woo hoo. That’s that sorted. #NoBrexit