You don’t get to stoke the fire at the beginning of the tournament by labelling our anti-racism message as ‘Gesture Politics’ & then pretend to be disgusted when the very thing we’re campaigning against, happens.

We knew it. Now here's the evidence.

Proof that devastating #DWP cuts have led to more people dying during the #Covid pandemic.

By Steve Topple

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/20…

Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.

I am noticing a pattern

The UK has achieved the worst of both worlds: the largest recession of any G7 country as well as the highest excess death rate in Europe. newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

Coming up: the most extraordinary thread I’ve ever written. On how we blew over £150m and Andrew Mills (a Government adviser) seems to have made a fortune.

But let’s start with introductions. THREAD /1

Rachael Venables rounds up an extraordinary week of testimony in the Grenfell Inquiry as attention turned to the company who installed the cladding.

James O'Brien | Rachael Venables

14 ministers in Boris Johnson’s government received donations from individuals or companies linked to Russia. businessinsider.com/russia-report-…

This is a massive scandal, perhaps the biggest so far under this government.
The secret, under-the-counter contracts given to really weird companies to deliver PPE and other pandemic services.
It needs more exposure.
Please RT and circulate. Thanks.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

▪️210 days since the election which was the excuse for not publishing it.

▪️266 days since it was handed to Downing St.

If only we knew why a Vote Leave Tory party that’s taken £3.5m+ from Russian donors won’t publish a report into Russian interference.
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport

Why was an enormous PPE contract handed out to this company?inews.co.uk/news/health/go…

elon musk hates chomsky because he called out how corporations suck off the state's teet, taking no risk and stealing tech developed by public funding, then make record profits, avoid taxes and underpay workers. thread on how tesla is a case study of what chomsky describes here

We are already pursuing a
Government over the £108m PPE contracts it said it entered into with a chocolatier and a supplier of pigeon netting.

I know there's only so much of this weirdness you can take but here are two more.

First Aventis Solutions Limited.

Johnson and Cummings: A Timeline of Failure (Part One)
Location: Barnard Castle
(Sound on - thanks to @GavinEsler for narration)

BREAKING: Pharma is suing to block Minnesota's new insulin access law.

The Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act was passed in honor of a 26-year-old who died rationing insulin.

The law would've taken effect today. Pharma's fighting it during a pandemic.

Beyond unconscionable.

The idea that Data Protection is stopping testing information going to councils is for the birds- this is the real reason, they didn’t put it in the contracts in the first place!

Full thread from John Burn-Murdoch here. Up to 90% of new cases are missing from the data being shared with the public, MPs and councils, with all the obvious risk that entails...

NEW with Andrew Bounds, @sarahnev & Laura Hughes:

The UK government’s published numbers of new cases at local authority level only include pillar 1 and *not* pillar 2 cases, meaning as many as 90% of new cases are missing from the data

ft.com/content/301c84…

Thread:

This is a growing issue, with pillar 2 tests catching an ever larger share of new cases.

Two months ago, most cases were found under pillar 1, so not publishing pillar 2 wasn’t a huge deal. Today, pillar 2 is >80% of new cases, i.e the public is being shown only 17% of new cases

So now we discover this 'FDR' speech cuts money for affordable housing---£12bn over 5 years in Budget 2020, now £12bn over 8 years. What an absolute fraud.