Kate Cooper

do-er, ideas-monger, chucker of stuff, guide-dog exerciser & not-very-good-but-enthusiastic dancer. Also Visiting Fellow @AstonUniversity

[Kate Cooper @katecooper]

@SirJJKC Where, if anywhere in the legal provisions, is the relevance of the risk of mosquito-borne disease on unvaccinated people entering Rwanda?
https://t.co/0c4L6ChHXC
@mrjamesob

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

How systematic and how crucial was Russian meddling when it came to Brexit? So many hints and leads out there, not least all the valuable work @carolecadwalla @CatherineBelton and @tomburgis did, but overall still the biggest untold story of those years.

[Dr Duncan Robertson @Dr_D_Robertson]

You see, if avian flu *does* kick off, how prepared will the UK be?

And what lessons have we learnt *that we have implemented* that will put the UK in a better place to counter pandemic avian flu than we were to counter Covid-19.

[Kate Cooper @katecooper]

Is Rwanda a safe place?
@UKHouseofLords
please see this info via the NHS: https://t.co/uFxug1mEbH
@BBCr4today

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

Are there "circumstances in which it is WRONG that facts are considered"?

Like Brexit, the Rwanda scheme has become a kind of vengeful idol.

Facts, evidence, value for money, parliamentary scrutiny, the relationship between Parlt & the courts - all burnt offerings on its altar.

[Kate Cooper @katecooper]

This should be astonishing . . .

[Sophie Hill @sophie_e_hill]

One of their plans – codenamed "Project C" after the initial used for heads of MI6 – was to hire ex-MI6 or ex-CIA operatives to spy on Remain campaigners and civil servants suspected of being pro-EU.

A plan which was helpfully recounted in detail by Prins over email:

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

National Trust revealed as most searched-for UK charity in 2023, with the highest social score. Here’s to all members, visitors, donors, readers, listeners, tearoomers & sconepals. It takes a ruddy massive village to protect the nation’s loveliness. https://t.co/C4p9BVtGaz

[Rob Wüst @RobWust]

After a long wait, our longitudinal long COVID study is finally published in @NatureComms: https://t.co/0xfTnjTPNB. We find a skeletal muscle alterations in patients with #longcovid, which worsen with exercise. 1/n

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

By 1pm today, 4 January, the average FTSE-100 executive will have been paid as much as the average full-time worker will earn in the whole of 2024.

So many of Britain's problems are rooted in its obscene levels of inequality.
https://t.co/7gwcZgFhg4

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

Here's the key paragraphs. Because they were allowed to get away with it in the past, because of Johnson's cover ups and lies, the threat to UK election integrity has increased.

[Jess Phillips @jessphillips]

Off to bed. Just want to leave this here for the wet and one nation Tories who tomorrow will vote that Rwanda is a safe country. It's the report of the US State Department on Rwanda. Perhaps they'd like a read. Here's a highlight. Sleep tight.

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

Like many, I'm very cautious about using the word 'fascist' and I'd think that that is true of @adamboultonTABB. So when people like him start to do so, we should take it seriously - whilst it's still debatable, not when it's beyond debate or, even, beyond when debate is allowed.

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

“It is fascist...because what it's saying is we don't care about democracy, we don't believe people have absolute rights, we simply believe that our ability to govern overrules everything else.”

@adamboultonTABB questions the “anti-democratic” nature of the Rwanda policy.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I've seen the most experienced, tough, brilliant doctors in A&E break down and weep at the humanitarian crisis conditions of their departments in winter.

How dare you insinuate they're somehow "using" those conditions for their own ends?

Show some respect, please. 8/

[Jim Reed @jim_reed]

I had a look back at some of the documents posted by the #covidinquiry and used in Boris Johnson's evidence. This is a slightly random bunch but plenty of stuff which might not have been really noticed at the time. A short(ish) 🧵

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

New @PNASNews
Covid was associated with a marked increase in preterm birth (< 32 weeks of gestation).
Vaccination was linked with preventing preterm births.
https://t.co/wqfXlFeGcF @florenciatorche @je_nobles

[Peter Foster @pmdfoster]

Not surprising, but OBR isn't revising it's #Brexit trade impacts assessement, which is just plain stubborn, I know, but there you go.🤷‍♂️

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Great responses to the new 68 page format. Thanks to all the great @BylineTimes design team behind it. And of course our awesome editor @Hardeep_Matharu

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

"Brexit has ‘chilled’ business investment, says Bank of England deputy governor"

[Kate Cooper @katecooper]

Storm Ciarán live: deaths reported across Europe while UK faces major disruption https://t.co/3JRQxfHU9A