Stunning and devastating opening from Newsnight tonight.
Harsh, yes. Media students (and current broadcast journalists!) take note: your edit is nothing without the right choice of music. And oh boy this is quite the choice.
Brilliant MacTaggart lecture by @maitlis - Why journalism woke up too late to populism and what do to now. A speech absolutely everyone interested in healthy democracy should watch. Here's the link. https://t.co/zUAWYQwtl1 https://t.co/0q8XEHvBqp
Why it doesn't matter anymore who will be the next Tory PM and why Alice in Wonderland was luckier than Britain will be in the end.
My new @NewStatesman is out now!
https://t.co/AncHwzg765
"Thems the breaks," they say to the 180,000 dead of Covid, the families enduring the biggest benefit cut since WW2, the schoolkids denied catch-up funding. "Thems the breaks." All just a game to these people.
The Taliban have ordered female news presenters to cover their faces. We visited @TOLOnews this morning, as the newsroom worriedly discussed this new Taliban edict, and whether to keep going at all. 🧵 1/9
Monday: Boris Johnson launches his government’s ‘crime week’
Tuesday: Conservative MP arrested for alleged rape.
Thursday: Metropolitan Police say they've issued 126 fines for Covid breaches in Downing St and Whitehall, making it the most fined location in the whole of the UK.
It will get almost no publicity, but the government just won a vote to take control of the Electoral Commission. That’s right: Johnson will now wield ultimate power over another of the bodies designed to hold executive power in check. This is not a functioning democracy.
Rishi Sunak asked why UK trade has slumped compared to the rest of the world, since Brexit.
Sunak says it’s “quite hard to disentangle” why it has happened.
Congratulations to the New Statesman to have the wit to translate and publish this devastating indictment of Boris Johnson and his post Brexit government written by a German journalist in London. A must read ICYMI https://t.co/hoJwNIXdk0
Most people aren’t scientists and look to the government for instructions and advice. I just don’t get why, if you’re going to make masks voluntary, you don’t communicate with explicit clarity that they absolutely work and that people should still bloody wear them.
If it avoids rising cases, people getting ill, another lockdown and helps businesses stay open -> doesn’t it make sense to keep face masks for indoor settings like shops & public transport, until we understand more about vaccine effectiveness in stopping transmission?