christinelord

Freelance Journalist, Campaigner, Broadcaster

[Cows, Cash & Cover-ups? @vCJDFilm]

Christine Lord @justiceandy, who sadly lost her son Andrew to vCJD and helped produce our film on the subject, features in this French documentary about BSE on @FranceTV

#BSE #vCJD

https://t.co/cjA9NhIW6Z

[christinelord @justiceandy]

@justiceandy
'ASSISTED DYING' please read my book, 'Who killed my son?' Amazon books, my real time account, last weeks my son Andrew 24. Despite medical intervention dying not always gentle path. My investigations zoonotic disease.@vCJDFilm @ERantzen @DailyMirror @DoctorChrisVT

[christinelord @justiceandy]

https://t.co/of4MO6O8W6 A universal vaccine created from the 1918 Spanish flu virus protects against a deadly strain of bird flu, research found.
@vCJDFilm @Kevin_Maguire @slowsupport @lucyproctor @BBCBreaking

[Sheila Dillon @SheilaDillon]

Babies born with smaller brains to women who’ve eaten poor industrial diets. Crucial story told & followed on @BBCFoodProg We started talking to Prof Michael Crawford in 1989(?) about study in E London on the link: brain-diet. His work sidelined. Now https://t.co/u544tL6gAL

[Screen Scotland @screenscots]

🌏 @STVStudios has been commissioned to produce a landmark documentary film for @BBCTwo and @BBCiPlayer, Disease X, which will see virologist and broadcaster, @DoctorChrisVT, set off on an international hunt for the source of the next global pandemic.

🔗 https://t.co/9Fn4jO88RV

[Robert Peston @Peston]

I'm about to go submarine. Under the rules, TV journalists aren't permitted to say anything material about politics on election day. So this is my last chance to offer a few reflections as the most maddening and absurd election battle of my life draws to a close.

Here, in no particular order of importance, is a list of just a few of the events I never expected to see in an election period but did.

1) Revelations that Tory candidates and officials bet on the date of the election, rather than concentrate on winning the election, and that a Labour candidate bet he'd lose

2) A PM turning his back on free publicity that campaign money can't buy, through his early departure from a D-Day gathering of world leaders that was held to celebrate our brave war veterans

3) A wannabe Tory leader, Suella Braverman, saying that Rishi Sunak's attacks on racist remarks by Reform leaders and candidates have less force because the Tory party kept millions of pounds from a donor who made racist remarks

4) A Tory leader seemingly conceding defeat weeks before polling day by saying that the vote is all about making sure Labour wins only a normal majority, not what Sunak calls a "super" one

5) A prime minister drowning in the pouring rain when announcing the dissolution of parliament, for want of an umbrella

And here are the big issues that would have been discussed in a healthy functioning democracy but were downplayed or ignored by Labour and Conservatives

1) how to manage the risks and rewards of the most far-reaching industrial revolution of modern times, the generative AI industrial revolution - that will require radical changes to our schools, welfare system, healthcare, employment, media rules and taxation

2) what kind of military and defence capability is necessary to protect ourselves from the military threats of Putin, China and the wider cyber threats of other bad actors

3) how to avoid deep cuts in public services after 2025, that are baked into spending plans underwritten by the Tories and Labour, at a time when prisons are overflowing, waiting lists for NHS treatment are still rising, teachers remain demoralised

4) whether it's sensible to commit to freezing all rates of direct personal and business taxation, when rates for those on average incomes are lower than they've been since 1975 and when public services are crying out for investment

5) how to end the strikes in the health service once and for all

I could go on, and on, and on.

It was in keeping with the systemic displacement activity of the campaigns that the final argument just before polling day has been about whether Keir Starmer should be allowed to have Friday nights with his kids if he becomes prime minister.

In what universe do Rishi Sunak and the Tories believe that voters who are thinking of voting Labour, Reform, LibDem or anything but for him will be swayed by Starmer saying he wants to preserve space to be a dad?

Anyway here is the nutshell of the two parties' arguments, if we can dignify them in that way.

Tories: "Labour will put up your taxes and we'll cut them. Don't ask us how we'll fund public services, or our confidence levels in our plans to cut immigration."

Labour: "We won't put up taxes and we'll encourage investment by promoting economic stability and dismantling planning restrictions. Don't ask us how we'll fund public services, or our confidence levels in our plans to cut immigration."

Does any of what we've witnessed matter? I suspect not.

The die for tomorrow's vote was probably cast long before Sunak announced 4 July would be the day. My thesis, which I will discuss with you after the votes have been counted, is that if history is made in this election - and that looks likely - the big causes go back to 2015, and there have been a series of sub-causes and triggers in the past few years.

I'll explain more in coming days, as a special treat

[christinelord @justiceandy]

Remembering all those that never came back,
D-Day, 80th anniversary.
Also my dad William Lord served RAF 1939-45. He lived to 74, many who fought for our freedom today never had the chance to grow old. #DdayAnniversary @PartickularFilm @BBCBreaking

[christinelord @justiceandy]

Remembering those lost, affected, 80th Anniversary
D Day. Please read my book 'Women at War' Amazon books, inspired by a true story, my real life interviews with women, veterans. It highlights the commonalities and differences between men, women, civilians during any conflict.

[christinelord @justiceandy]

https://t.co/1hGt1TbmjJ
Read my book Who killed my son? Amazon, to find out more about the cover-ups surrounding Human BSE that I expose, the threats to my well-being just weeks after the death of my only son Andrew 24, of human mad cow disease. @BBCBreaking
@vCJDFilm @guardian

[christinelord @justiceandy]

My wild garden in Hampshire, celebrate our wonderful landscape and planet. We need to care for nature, animals, climate and each other. @vCJDFilm

[christinelord @justiceandy]

@The_RHS
Celebrating the Chelsea Flower Show. Photo my garden in Hampshire, what a wonderful country, planet in which we reside. We need to take care of nature as we are all interconnected. #RHSChelsea

[christinelord @justiceandy]

To ask Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to prepare for another potential outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the UK. My MP asked these questions parliament, what do you the public think? @vCJDFilm @GMB

[christinelord @justiceandy]

Questions to Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Please see below:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has identified the original source of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the UK.@vCJDFilm

[The i Paper @theipaper]

‘Mad cow disease’ at Ayrshire farm after BSE case confirmed https://t.co/XWQkP3WQtX

[christinelord @justiceandy]

https://t.co/zdQfogZJTy
If you care about climate, the food you eat, politicians you vote for, scientists you trust, read my book 'Who Killed my son?' Amazon books/kindle. My expose food industry, govt policies, corruption/cover-ups!
@vCJDFilm @jamieoliver @GMB @Kevin_Maguire

[christinelord @justiceandy]

https://t.co/zdQfogZJTy
'Mad cow disease found in farm Scotland.' A case of BSE, mad cow disease, been identified on farm Ayrshire. I have been warning for a decade its not 'if' but 'when' next global pandemic hits! Read my expose 'Who killed my son?' Amazon Books @vCJDFilm @GMB

[christinelord @justiceandy]

@PartickularFilm
'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland
Published10 May 2024, 11:35 BST
A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been identified on a farm in Ayrshire.
As I have been warning 4 years its not 'if' but 'when' next global pandemic explodes!

[christinelord @justiceandy]

@PartickularFilm
'Mad cow disease' case found on farm in Scotland
Published10 May 2024, 11:35 BST
A case of BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease, has been identified on a farm in Ayrshire.
As I have been warning 4 years its not 'if' but 'when' next global pandemic explodes!

[christinelord @justiceandy]

@PartickularFilm
https://t.co/HEFCPA9KwF