Jane Keats

Happiest with my family, horses and dogs; skiing and travelling the world. Oh, and eating good food!

[Dr Nigel Kellow @NigelKellow]

This will annoy quite a lot of people but we need to start debating it now we’re out of the COVID tunnel.
The NHS isn’t free. It’s time to stop worshiping it and start questioning whether it’s the best way to deliver healthcare today. Public health spending is £273/m per person.

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

Let’s face it. Party-gate is not really a matter of who consumed what when. It is about INTEGRITY (or not) and a wider culture of entitlement at the “top”.I was waiting to see how Gray reported on that. This last development leaves a very nasty taste indeed.

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@leemcder @sajidjavid Absolutely agree. Unnecessary intrusion.

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@SimonCalder About time too. Completely ineffective, except at inhibiting economic recovery. PLF should also go - it’s an unnecessary intrusion - one of so many areas of authoritarian creep we seem to be ‘accepting’ as permanent in the wake of this.

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@Alisoncbailey @AdrianEdmondson Unusually.....

[Dr Katie Musgrave @dr_musgrave]

If I wanted to create the perfect conditions for prolonged post-viral fatigue, I would:

- tell patients repeatedly they are at high risk of suffering from the condition.
- restrict them to their homes for a week or more, limiting exercise & activity. 🤷‍♀️

#covid19 #isolationharms

[Dr Charles Levinson @DrCharlesL]

I agree with this.

Extremely credible South African scientists could not have been clearer.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Covid should be treated as an endemic virus similar to flu, and ministers should end mass-vaccination after the booster campaign, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce.

It’s almost done. It’s almost over. It’s time get back to normal life.

https://t.co/e5iUReF3FM

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Yes, let's make sure the Lateral Flow Test fairies keep making and bringing a never-ending supply of the little boxes from the Land of Free Lateral Flow Tests. Otherwise we'd end up having to pay for them for decades through higher taxes. 🙄

[Simon Calder @SimonCalder]

Wednesday:
@SajidJavid predicts travel restrictions will end "very soon"
Prime minister says self-isolation at home may replace hotel quarantine
I've chased more details without success. @HuwMerriman will do better: he chairs the Transport Select Committee
https://t.co/UnCPssFhZg

[Huw Merriman @HuwMerriman]

With #Omicron spreading through community transmission, and likely to become the dominant strain, I have written to the Health Secretary to ask for the rationale, and for how long, the latest #InternationalTravel restrictions will be needed

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@Marc_Allinson @ArchRose90 Since when has logic played any part in any of this? 🤷‍♀️

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@CommonsTrans All of the above and unnecessarily complex and expensive rules on pet travel since Brexit.

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

Tasted great, but so they should at nearly 42p a biscuit! How can this amount of packaging be justified for six tiny biscuits?!
#Tesco #Tescofinest #overpackaged

[Gavin Sheppard @GavinJSheppard]

This is the @BBCNews homepage. This sort of imagery is deeply irresponsible and I’m sure can turn localised issues into a full blown crisis. Surely a benefit of the license fee should be that our national broadcaster doesn’t have to chase clicks in this way. #petrolshortage

[Jane Keats @JaneKeats]

@SimonCalder Because the unstated policy was to coerce people into staying in the UK and spending their money there 🤷‍♀️

[Simon Calder @SimonCalder]

Calamitous state of inbound tourism to the UK revealed in visitor figures from the analysts ForwardKeys: July/August visitors this year compared with 2019.
Of the top 20 European countries, the UK takes last place with just 14%.
By comparison, Greece welcomed 86% of 2019 numbers

[The Spectator @spectator]

'My favourite was Emma Thompson. Sometimes I have to Google just to check it’s definitely true that she once flew from LA to London to attend an XR protest. It is.'

✍️ Brendan O'Neill
https://t.co/3z9WLyv3EX

[Robert Boyle @rboyle]

I quite like the graphic the government shows on its daily dashboard to show progress on vaccinations. I did a similar one to demonstrate why they need to decommission the arrivals testing programme for arrivals from green and amber list countries.