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[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

This is astonishing. Hot on heels of Newsnight comes this. The government is now literally using our money to *pay* the Daily Mail to publish pro-government propaganda pieces about how well it is handling COVID-19.

‘Sponsored by The UK Government’

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

The utterly spinelessness of the BBC really is extraordinary sometimes. Maitlis deserves better treatment. But so do the public. If it won't allow reporters to speak accurately, it cannot inform them. And no amount of Wii Tennis false equivalence balance will compensate for that.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

There were three key figures in the BeLeave group, unlawfully used to funnel overspending for Vote Leave.

Tom Harwood, Darren Grimes and @shahmiruk

The first two you see on TV incessantly, despite their dubious activities. How often do you see the whistle-blower, Shahmir?

[rob delaney @robdelaney]

1. Cummings caught flagrantly violating lockdown multiple times
2. Johnson declines to do anything about it
3. Maitlis says so
4. BBC punishes Maitlis
🇬🇧❓
https://t.co/cgdZtrScpj

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

I’m stunned by this. Polling shows 70-80% of people assert that Cummings broke the rules.

⁦@maitlis⁩ reflected that. Simple.

Contrast this with no reprimand of ⁦@bbclaurak⁩ activism on behalf of Cummings.

This is Govt bullying of BBC. https://t.co/l9irVhY6XA

[Paul Armstrong @armoaning]

@carolecadwalla @maitlis @BBCNews As an ex-BBC Editor, I have never, ever been this ashamed of the place. Laura K simply parrots anything Cummings says, the Ten O’Clock News on Friday ducks the story. But the punishment goes to the programme which simply stated incontrovertible facts. This is an utter disgrace.

[Goodable @Goodable]

BREAKING GOOD NEWS ALERT:

New Zealand has announced it no longer has any patients in hospital being treated for coronavirus.

It comes on the fifth straight day where no new cases have been reported.

This is what winning looks like.

🇳🇿

[Smith @IRS_8]

Such a good thread. This latest shower of shit in power only serves to highlight the big (purposefully designed) flaws in the system.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. Our outdated, first-past-the-post electoral system, that grants crushing majorities to parties that win less than half the vote, and shuts out smaller challengers.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Cummings will never be taken seriously again

[Matthew Thompson @mattuthompson]

I’m sorry but if @maitlis can’t walk outside and tell you it’s raining then what’s the point in journalism?

He broke the rules. On the Barnard Castle trip at least, that is incontrovertible. Fact. Not opinion.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

And what alarms me is that scientists & doctors are now being exposed to this. We are seeing the same attacks is on evidence-based science that we’ve seen for last 4 years on evidence-based journalism & it’s deeply concerning

[Smith @IRS_8]

Hey Don, it's De Pfef, put down the fidget spinner and listen. If we're going to sell our NHS and your shitty chicken, then we'll need to get through our latest fuck up. Any chance you could ramp up the craziness to make us pricks looks relatively less err..batshit?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

The image of a powerful government official flouting the lockdown rules that Downing Street enforces on everyone else has struck a nerve in a way that Britain’s haphazard response to the coronavirus has not https://t.co/rHaq8aAYz5

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

It’s incredible to watch. Exactly the same playbook as Brexit but with the crucial difference that they’re lying to everyone about stuff that has already happened rather than stuff that certainly will.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Wait a minute... I think I’ve got it... It’s just a theory but it’s the only thing I ca think of that explains the timeline, the inconsistencies, ALL of it...

He went to Durham and Barnard Castle because he fucking felt like it and he didn’t give a shit what the rules were.

[David Mitchell @RealDMitchell]

There’s currently an annoying helicopter circling around while I’m trying to work. I assume it’s the police checking that, as per the latest government guidance, everyone’s doing whatever the fuck they like.

[Alex Sobel MP for Leeds Central and Headingley @alexsobel]

Dominic Cummings to show he had long been concerned about pandemics and didn't oppose lockdown reverse engineered an old blog. Then if that wasn't enough used it in his defence when in peril.

If he was the US President we'd be in impeachment territory

https://t.co/jwx8HeoEFk

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

Look at this slime ball, Gove. Finds it all so funny. Couldn’t care less about the thousands of people who have died. All he cares about is covering his lying mates arse - by lying himself. These people are appalling.