A long read by me for Reuters Institute The waves of pandemic misinformation have triggered massive changes to how social media works in a short space of time. Reflecting on my own reporting and analysis from experts, here's what's changed since March... reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/risj-review/ho…

For all those who were yesterday revelling in the prospect of journalists losing their jobs. This is why a vibrant, free press is so important 👇

Boris Johnson held a war game on how to handle the virus on Wednesday and has now asked officials to draw up plans for much wider shielding of the over 50s IF local lockdowns don’t control the virus. Full details in The Sunday Times

If you are keen to see a temporary foot/cycle bridge at Hammersmith Bridge, and repairs to the Bridge itself, please sign our petition at trlibdems.org.uk/hammersmithbri… This situation is urgent and we need as much public support as possible to push the Government to allocate the funds.

It's adding up to an awful lot of keyworkers struggling to get to work because of #hammersmithbridge. Is this what we need during a pandemic Sadiq Khan Charlotte Vere Boris Johnson Andy Slaughter H&F Council? Clapping alone won't fix it.

NEW: Govt to set up task force to fix Hammersmith Bridge & send in own engineers. Grant Shapps says “been far too long messing about with nothing happening” .. “effectively take over this project to make sure we bash heads together and get this thing sorted.”

Read this to the end - the last sentence is golden. Great read from Clare Bucknell in The New Yorker

Word of the day is 'sequaciousness' (17th century): the blinkered, unreasoning, and slavish following of another, no matter where it leads.

Well that escalated steadily for four years.

Day 1 vs. Day 1,448

Good to see this joint report highlighting lessons learned from Covid-19 response. To safeguard us against the next Covid-19, a key next step is to appoint a government Chief Risk Officer, as set out in The Centre for Long-Term Resilience’s and Toby Ord’s longtermresilience.org/futureproof report.

Email from the Speaker to MPs names Christine Lee, a solicitor whose firm donated several hundreds of thousands of pounds to parliamentarians (most notably Labour’s Barry Gardiner) as a Chinese agent

The Times Oliver Wright revealed this FIVE years ago on the front page of the Times thetimes.co.uk/article/a95edd… Only today…

🚨EXCLUSIVE Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone. Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16. Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…

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