Nathan Jenkins

London-based sporadic tweeter filed under art, theatre and miscellaneous.

[Vanessa Kisuule @Vanessa_Kisuule]

I've never been prouder to be Bristol City Poet & to offer a poem to my adopted city than I am today. This piece is called Hollow and I hope you like it. I've captioned it and everything!

Rust in shame, Eddie.

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

No one from the government has appeared on @Channel4News for three weeks, and for the entire week we have not been given the opportunity to ask a question at the press conference. Extraordinary lack of engagement during a global crisis. #coronavirus

[Darren Dutton @Darren_Dutton]

next slide please

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

I’m aware of how hysterical and melodramatic this sounds even as I type, but I can’t think of another way to say it:
All the lives lost in the coming second spike in infections will have been deliberately and consciously sacrificed by the government to protect Cummings & Johnson.

[John Crace @JohnJCrace]

It just got worse. Boris totally ignored eyesight question. Not content with trashing his own reputation, PM has now trashed that of CMO and CSA

[Donald Tusk @donaldtusk]

This is apparently Cummings and his Brexit friends’ rule: that they leave when they should stay.

[Nathan Jenkins @nartanj]

The only way to avoid the problem would have been to STAY IN LONDON

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Do they think we’re not going to notice?

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Today's #LocalHistoryMonth constituency is #CountyDurham. Except under the commonwealth, the 1st MPs for #Durham weren't returned until 1675. One, Thomas Vane, then died from smallpox just 4 days after the election.
@dumuseums

More here: https://t.co/5kkUVe5ewG
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[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Prime Minister has treated the British people with contempt.

One rule for Dominic Cummings, another for everybody else.

[Sue Perkins 💙 @sueperkins]

We are now, officially, a post-truth state.
When us plebs are allowed to move freely, let's move to No 10 en masse and let that fucked haybale know how we feel.

[Richard Osman @richardosman]

We're being taken for absolute mugs. Our parents, our kids, our carers, our health workers, every one of us. It's such a sad day.

[Tim Burgess @Tim_Burgess]

So. @BorisJohnson just said that ‘most people would accept and agree’ with what Dominic Cummings did.
Please answer and retweet.
Do you accept and agree with what Dominic Cummings did?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Boris Johnson is lying to the nation. Dominic Cummings did not get childcare in Durham. The journalists need to pin this lie down, because it is a lie.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

If Dominic Cummings isn't gone by the end of today, @BorisJohnson is insulting every grieving relative I have had to call to explain why they can't visit their dying loved one in hospital. Every distraught family member not at a funeral. Every frontline carer risking their life.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

He’s now simply ignoring the questions. The press should all keep asking the same question until he answers. The contempt that this Prime Minister has for the people of this country is jaw-dropping. Never seen anything like it. Trump has arrived.

[Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon]

I know it is tough to lose a trusted adviser at the height of crisis, but when it’s a choice of that or integrity of vital public health advice, the latter must come first. That’s the judgment I and, to her credit, Catherine Calderwood reached. PM and Cummings should do likewise.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Given that there is now evidence of repeated breaches, which Cummings contests, there is a possibility of a criminal prosecution.

The Attorney General, as head of the CPS, should delete this tweet and apologise for politicising and prejudging prospective legal proceedings.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

If true, this means that senior Cabinet ministers - including the Attorney General - have spent the whole of today spreading false statements to the public.

Which means either they were lied to by Downing Street, or they are part of the lie themselves.

This is serious.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Why does the Cummings story matter? And what does it obscure? The real story is the huge transfer of government assets to private companies that he is overseeing under cover of a pandemic while restructuring the Cabinet Office into his & @michaelgove's private fiefdom
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