Chris

[Chris @chris_mcdevitt]

@970426Com @github Tell me a recipe for rhubarb crumble

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW:

Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events

It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks

https://t.co/xJcNiCJk2b

Thread:

[Chris @chris_mcdevitt]

@PhilipProudfoot YES

[Jon Stone @joncstone]

when money was free and interest rates were basically zero, the UK destroyed its public services in the pursuit of balanced budgets. Now money is expensive the UK going to borrow lots of it to spend on cutting taxes for rich people 😸

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

In the latest PTO @ProfPRogers considers Joe Biden's confident assertion that there will be no repeat in Kabul of the scenes during the evacuation of the US embassy in Vietnam in 1975:

https://t.co/KMqApWaEln

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I just voted for a motion calling for a public inquiry into dodgy government Covid contracts.

But the Conservative Party – which received £8 million from donors who won Covid contracts worth £881 million – ordered its MPs to vote down the motion.

What a strange coincidence!

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Greensill is the privatisation of the NHS writ large: access to data and billing was the big prize and #Greensill met everyone who mattered (Hancock, Harding, Stevens etc). This is why this scandal matters

[Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3]

Don't ever take this fool seriously.

[SK @samjknights]

THREAD: So where did the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill come from?

Answer: the police... and their friends.

[Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk]

Soon you will not be allowed to protest about the removal of your right to protest.

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

Amazing to think of how many businesses have been forced to shut, often with stock going to waste, and people suddenly deprived of an income and not a peep out of Rishi Sunak.
Nine months into this pandemic and still no increase in poverty levels of statutory sick pay.

[Ailbhe Rea @PronouncedAlva]

I am struck by BBC reporters' continued use of household budget metaphors to describe the UK economy re. the spending review. That is a deeply political and contested framing that comes hand-in-hand with a pro-austerity argument. I don't think it is good analysis or "impartial".

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

Britain is corrupt https://t.co/2RTd7xMzgC

[Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm]

The public health experts told us the way to avoid a second peak and the need for Lockdown 2 was to have a test, trace, isolate system that works, manage outbreak clusters and have the public (and the govt) buy in to following rules. We are where we are for a reason and by choice

[Tom Blackburn @malaiseforever]

remember that shit Sunak came out with the other week about 'my sacred duty to balance the books'. What a load of bollocks - there's limitless government largesse on offer if you're in the right business https://t.co/arA2kym04s

[Dr Gabriel Scally @GabrielScally]

In the Spring people gave lives and livelihoods to buy the government time to set up an effective public health response. They failed them. The government must act now to dismantle the failed Deloitte/Serco/JBC test and trace, and build a regional & local system based on the NHS

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

Worth remembering that when PM says everyone should support NHS Track and Trace- many elements are not run by the NHS. They’re outsourced to Deloitte, Serco, Mitie, G4S, Sodexo, Boots, Randox and the like...

[Prof. Devi Sridhar @devisridhar]

So not the PM’s advice to ‘go holiday abroad’, ‘Eat out to Help Out’, ‘get back to the office or lose your job’, & ‘It’s ok to break the rules based on your interpretation’?