Government: The NHS should make us eat our veg
Media: superb idea let’s chat about how poor people eat too many Frosties, hoorah
Government: the NHS should cut what healthcare it offers people
Doctors: terrible idea
Media: *silence*
I don’t want to reconcile myself that there will be more deaths. I don’t want people to die unnecessarily. I’d prefer that we all adhered to basic public health measures for a short while longer.
Wearing a mask is #nobigdeal
If you agree, RT 🌟
Whilst wealthy countries have now delivered over 39 million vaccine doses, low-income countries have delivered just 25.
Not 25 million. Not 25 thousand. Not 25 hundred. Just 25.
We need to change this. Global vaccine equality is a strategic & moral imperative.
The full text of my speech to the #SpyCops inquiry this morning is now inline via @hazardsmagazine - ideal for any journalist wanting to double check points.
https://t.co/BZOxeCCzPM
my overwhelming feeling this morning is one of deep shame and embarrassment. i feel mortified at what my jewishness is used for in this society. i feel ashamed of how some jews have conducted themselves. i feel like i have to be apologetic about how i am racialised.
Stinking Tory Corruption - I wrote a furious article about the £250 million PPE contract inexplicably awarded to the "family office" Ayanda Capital, an investment house for private wealth tax avoidance. We now learn £150 million of face masks delivered a https://t.co/Lt9yQcDRyq
NEW - I've been poring over the NHS's secretive contracts with politically well-connected tech firms, after @openDemocracy and @Foxglovelegal forced the government to release some details - and what I found was very worrying...
https://t.co/BsFyplWWL8
Here's a nice little case study in what used to be called 'fake news'. It may be worth reading if you've seen that '200,000 lockdown deaths' number.
This is a short thread on how the tweet below is wrong, and how the Telegraph headline it misquotes was wrong.
At the local level, we now have what you might say is an absurd situation where NHS trusts are competing against each other, sometimes in price terms, to secure PPE.
The situ in England doubtless made worse by Lansley reforms of 2012 Trusts now a patchwork of sovereign bodies.
@JonAshworth@paulmasonnews The marketisation of the NHS, the break up of national and strategic planning over the last 20 years and chronic underfunding for the last 10 have surely contributed. After this, we must reverse the disastrous "reforms" that have left the NHS fractured as well as under funded.