Chris @chris_mcdevitt

New Crobuzon Joined January 2010

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

3 years ago

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 enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/c540270… Thread:

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Jon Stone @joncstone

3 years ago

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 😸

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother

4 years ago

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: soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana

4 years ago

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!

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Lionel Barber @lionelbarber

5 years ago

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

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3

5 years ago

Don't ever take this fool seriously.

Robert Peston @Peston

5 years ago

Don't ever take this fool seriously.

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SK @samjknights

5 years ago

THREAD: So where did the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill come from? Answer: the police... and their friends.

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Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk

5 years ago

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

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Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty

5 years ago

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.

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Ailbhe Rea @PronouncedAlva

5 years ago

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".

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Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty

5 years ago

Britain is corrupt theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…

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Krishnan Guru-Murthy @krishgm

5 years ago

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

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Dr Gabriel Scally @GabrielScally

5 years ago

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

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Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall

5 years ago

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...

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Prof. Devi Sridhar @devisridhar

5 years ago

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’?

Kay Burley @KayBurley

5 years ago

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’?

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Joseph Swan @JosephSwanTwo

5 years ago

Channelling the amazing @SlenderSherbet if you take a video of bat's and turn it upside down, it ends up looking like a goth nightclub, c/o reddit. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face tonight lovely twitterati

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Stan's Account @tristandross

5 years ago

totally headspinning that the wealthy are being handed savings in the tens of thousands to acquire more property, while renters are being given an NUS-card style discount on selected restaurants for a month

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis

5 years ago

No words can describe how angry I am at this news. This cannot be allowed to happen. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

5 years ago

The rest of the public, whether it’s school governors, local business owners or journalists writing about the presence or absence of new outbreaks, are being fed data that is ultimately garbage, and the people publishing that data know it. fin.