For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t trust Boris Johnson to negotiate a roundabout let alone a Brexit deal.

From our family to yours, wishing everyone a peaceful and joyous holiday season, and a happy and healthy 2019. Merry Christmas! Joyeux Noel! Frohe Weihnachten!

EU citizens in the UK: Please, please register to vote. You were denied a voice at the referendum. You can make it heard in May.

My first Twitter activity for a long time is a fitting tribute to my father.

👋 Hi! We drew straws and the winner got to take over this account. So, let’s talk about good technology. 1/5

Good technology is about dignity and respect. That means it’s designed in collaboration with the communities that use it and it enables people to make meaningful decisions. It never asks you to trade privacy for participation. 2/5

That’s our work. If you haven’t heard of us before, we are a Toronto-based not-for-profit with a mission: healthy communities enabled by good technology. 3/5

We believe communities thrive when people have access to shared knowledge, the opportunity to engage in informed debate, and when they have the tools to co-develop solutions to today’s most pressing challenges. 4/5

Want to find out how we do it? We talk about it here: digitalpublicsquare.org 5/5

Cost of Covid test and trace is to date a staggering £37bn. Can someone break down and analyse this (ineffective) splurge with the same forensic attention as currently being paid to Downing Street’s £200,000 Lulu Lytle makeover? We live in odd times...

We teamed up with TikTok Canada to host a roundtable of medical experts, public health practitioners, civil society leaders, and content creators to discuss strategies for tackling COVID-19 and vaccine misinformation. The takeaways: digitalpublicsquare.org/blog/respondin…

Britain has some excellent diplomats. I wish they felt more able to tweet original and substantive thoughts about foreign policy.

As the pandemic continues, so does the global infodemic. We've been working for more than a year to help communities build resilience to COVID-19 misinformation. This is our approach: digitalpublicsquare.org/blog/how-were-…

NEW! The value of the North Korean currency, the won, has suddenly skyrocketed, confusing #NorthKorea, which continues to suffer from a severe economic slump due to extreme quarantine measures against the coronavirus. asiapress.org/rimjin-gang/20… #DPRK

This was a nice surprise, thank you for the recognition, Bujar Osmani

Note for the UK Conservative Party… Chesham and Amersham is what happens when you abandon One Nation Conservative Values!

20-th anniversary of the signing of the #OhridFrameworkAgreement. Celebrating the achievements of building comprehensive multi-ethnic society, social cohesion & inclusivness. It became key of our progress towards NATO & #EU turning 🇲🇰 as a role model in the Region.

On the sidelines of the 20th anniversary of the #OFA excellent opportunity to present to Lord Robertson, Sir Barney White-Spunner, Pieter Feith & David Slinn a special recognition for their contribution for #EU & #NATO integration of the 🇲🇰 The Ohrid Group #30yearsindependence

+30 former FCO/DFID officials who worked in Afghanistan have called at this late hour for more to be done to help Afghan aid workers, by expanding ARAP, simplify procedures + increasing staff resourcing. As a former DFID SoS I urge UK Prime Minister & Dominic Raab to support.

Thank you to Digital Public Square for hosting DAS Steinhelfer and USAID Office of Transition Initiatives Director Brown for talks on the need to highlight electoral risks and disinformation vulnerabilities. Civil society organizations can and must be enabled to counter disinformation trends.