Peter Donnelly

Patient/carer/PPI and Ethics Committee member aiming to improve healthcare treatment, education and research in type 1 diabetes

[Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 @martindvz]

Everything about Brexit has turned out to be lies.

[Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed @BrexitBin]

Only a liar and a cheat would describe honouring an agreement as "purism".

#BlameBrexit

[Peter Donnelly @PeterDonn973]

I've signed the @38_degrees petition calling on @marksandspencer to stop labelling unsustainable, factory farmed #salmon as “responsibly sourced”. Will you join me? https://t.co/jkRo5zay4x via @38_degrees

[Dr Seth Thévoz🇺🇦(@seththevoz.bsky.social) @SAThevoz]

Political parties hate to admit it, but they're usually reliant on a few major donors - who are not necessarily consistently loyal supporters over the years.

A look at living Tory Treasurers gives a sense of this. 5 of the 14 in the Lords no longer sit as Tories...
[THREAD]

[Institute for Government @instituteforgov]

"If a PM is unable or unwilling to take decisions, it's almost impossible for anyone surrounding him or her to keep the show on the road."

📺 @AlexGAThomas on the Cumming's select committee hearing https://t.co/SRNgOL5KNZ

📃 Read our comment for more https://t.co/9L35HYfF3B

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

Amid the acres of commentary on Cummings' select committee testimony this stands out, not least for its focus on the incipient authoritarianism within his 'disruptor' politics

[Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD @zoeharcombe]

This is really important & not widely known.
A doctor I know has been trying to increase awareness of this.
People with immunocompromised illnesses don't have antibodies (& therefore protection) even after 2 jabs.
https://t.co/KkCTgapKoE

[Dr Zoë Hyde @DrZoeHyde]

The basic reproduction number (R) of the original SARS-CoV-2 is thought to be ~2.5. The UK variant is probably ~4. The Indian variant (B.1.617.2) is probably above 6.

Measures that worked against the original strain will not be enough to control B.1.617.2.

Fix quarantine now.

[Chris Burns @ChrisGBurns]

@zbris6 Johnson. The UK's borders have been open since last year. 22 million people have moved through mainly Heathrow, bringing new infections with them.

[Carl Schreck @CarlSchreck]

Who were the Russians behind the secretive drive to discredit the Pfizer vaccine via European influencers? We dug into it and found an entrepreneur linked to Russia's ruling party...& nutritional supplements & malware: https://t.co/6rVyUVTOOL

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Hello friends at @IndependentSage
A statement on the Cummings evidence asap please! If you want signatories to an open letter, count me in.

[Dr Gabriel Scally @GabrielScally]

Astounding! According to Dominic Cummings, on 12th March 2020, the Cabinet Sec was telling a meeting that everyone needed to get infected with #COVID19, and we needed to have the equivalent of 'chickenpox parties'. This was the official advice from the Dept of Health.

[Tim Bale @ProfTimBale]

Important thread by someone who knows.

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

LONG THREAD on B.1.617.2 & latest PHE data covering:

1) latest tech report on B.1.617.2 (aka "India" variant)
2) vaccine efficacy against B.1.617.2
3) consequences for roadmap
4) avoidability... or not.

[Sanjay @SanjayFBPEUK]

So Brexit is sh*t because we killed our local EU market and:
- are using our new freedoms to do a deal which will kill off more of our farming or
- or aren't doing deals as they kill off our farming but not using our new freedoms so what was the point?

Got it #BrexitDisaster 👇

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

I still can’t believe Public Health England did this. They held a press conference y’day trumpeting ‘good news’ with a 10.30pm embargo. And then dumped long overdue critical data showing devastating news about spread of variant at exactly same time on Sat night. Absolutely stinks

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Govt got headlines it wanted. And PHE played central role. Is not public health. It’s actively harmful to public health. It’s covering up news that public desperately needs to understand & hear. That govt’s decision to lift mitigation’s as variant taking off has been disastrous

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

It is extraordinary that the British people are loving Johnson for the #vaccine.

When it was Johnson that herded us into a #covid catastrophe.

British people are suffering from Stockholm syndrome.

[Robert Patman @Robert_Patman]

@brexit_sham The old saying "beggars can't be choosers" applies here. Many far-right Brexiteers knew that leaving the EU provided the perfect excuse for scraping "woke" ideas like food protection and creating the low-regulation, low-welfare and low-tax haven they have always craved in UK.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Hypocrisy of @MattHancock preaching about how we need to be more vigilant & alert re Indian variant, while his Government is doing exactly the opposite by refusing to reconsider any of the lockdown relaxations tomorrow, & putting what we’ve achieved so far at risk #Marr