Professor Lucy Easthope
@LucyGoBag
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Disaster Wild Card. Co-Founder, After Disaster Network. Author - Sunday Times Bestseller 'When The Dust Settles'
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Though she be but little she is fierce
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We are about to be collectively gaslit about the Spring of 2020 and what really happened. It will be implied that your memory was the problem, not the rules. This is a common experience dealt out from governments to both disaster and conflict survivors and responders. A few tips:
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I thought I would see a pandemic in my life time. One thing I never thought I would see is 60,000 of the poorest paid but hardest working people in this country being forced out of a job. And on this date. They were the difference in this “war” and we have betrayed them.
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Still hearing myth from some that the PM had rough time because nobody could have seen the pandemic coming. So I say again, loudly, that it was our most known about and expected national risk and we planned to train any new PM and Health Sec to be ready for it 1st day in office
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Why does
@BBCNews
persist with the myth that a pandemic was a surprise and that the PM was asked “to make decisions no leader ever expected to have to make” as some sort of excuse - when we literally used to be allowed to train them on this aspect on their first month in office
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If that plane takes off this week, don’t ever come at me again with “I’ve never understood how the ordinary Germans didn’t stand up to it”
#RwandaNotInMyName
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That’s funny…because I distinctly remember briefing on exactly this
Sunak confirms to
#CovidInquiry
that there was NO
quantitative or trade-offs/ cost-benefit exploration..
of the impact of ‘lockdown’ measures on the economy, education, mental health and societal well-being 👇🏽
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My colleagues’ put their lives at terrible risk to respond to terrorism in Salisbury and Manchester and London. To see the casual sloppiness with which Liz and Sue (and many others) treat issues of national security - I feel sick to my core. This is a very low point.
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MPs who abstain from vote on Johnson Partygate report deserve our scorn - this is a fight for our democracy
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I am a strong and patient woman, who tries to conduct herself with dignity. But if this gov makes me sit through a public inquiry between 2025-2039 into the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and children in “Homes for Ukraine” scheme, I will not be responsible for my actions
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I cannot and will not reconcile the dissonance between MPs and Lords/Ladies tweeting about wearing an extra cardigan and the emails I am getting from local gov/ hosp colleagues about whether I think they have enough body storage to get us to February
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As anybody who works in crisis management would tell you, this programme needs to be on a long summer break. It is currently only traumatising both its viewers and its presenters. Producers showing themselves to be utterly ineffective (again)
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This tweet is unbecoming of any MP - from a Prime Minister it is terrifying
This is what we’re up against.
The Labour Party, a subset of lawyers, criminal gangs - they're all on the same side, propping up a system of exploitation that profits from getting people to the UK illegally.
I have a plan to stop it.
Here’s how 🧵
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Arrange your visit at night Suella. See the body storage and the PM rooms. The little piles of personal belongings and wet clothes. The police conference room given over to confirming ID. Six folders for the coroner. Meet with the local authority who will try and sort funerals
My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the tragic loss of life in the Channel today.
This morning I spoke with our Border Force teams who have been supporting the French authorities in response to this incident.
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You received two police issued fines in 2023 - sit down
Those who break the law should feel the full force of it.
It's entirely right that selfish protestors intent on causing misery to the hard-working majority face tough sentences.
It's what the public expects and it's what we've delivered.
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Whenever somebody that my Dad really loved off the telly dies, I always like to imagine him on a welcoming committee in Dad Heaven. There is tea and cake and an induction. Today he is welcoming Dave Myers and they are talking about bikes and food and family. Look after him Dad.
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Hi Jake - it’s not actually to do with Easter coming too early. It’s a behavioural nudge used by supermarkets to hide the signs of growing food insecurity in our global systems. If only somebody could tell the U.K. government that there are things they could do to tackle this 🥚
Just been to Tesco in Haslingden with my kids and there’s already Easter eggs in stock!!!
What is going on!!
Let me know down below if you think Easter is coming too early?
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Chap has just walked up to GP receptionist, banged his hands on desk and said bluntly “appointment today”. When asked about his needs he said “I want me knees sorted before Christmas”. And I think this might be what we call “The Expectation Gap” in NHS
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Every line of this statement is heart breaking. But please note the line - “this photo, chosen by us”. Don’t harvest photos from social media and tributes, media outlets, use the one that the family have asked be forever linked out in the world. Let them…
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It doesn’t matter whether it’s a gif or a meme or an etching. When you pay tribute to an icon and legend,you select photographs of her as an absolute Queen not stood as the property of her abuser. Those are principles that a person guiding our young women SHOULD JUST KNOW
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It’s hard to express quite how catastrophic this is in terms of disaster communications - my head is in my hands
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Take this tweet down - for all parties involved. Urgent intervention needed from Attorney General here. This is a live case.
We depend on our brave firearms officers to protect us from the most dangerous & violent in society. In the interest of public safety they have to make split-second decisions under extraordinary pressures. 1/3
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Has Mr Scales ever bled through a night time pad and two pairs of tights in Year 10? (And I get what a nightmare toilet policies currently are but I really feel for any student battling health issues in schools)
Please listen to
@MrDavidScales
explain our rules regarding toilet use. Scholars should use these facilities before school, breaktime, lunchtime or after school and not interrupt lessons. At break and lunch they should go at the very start.
Thanks 🙏🏻
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Boris Johnson scrapped pandemic team six months before coronavirus hit
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What a strange message… your “tolerance” is irrelevant
Our tolerance for any disruption, whether through protest or otherwise, will be low.
We will deal robustly with anyone intent on undermining this celebration.
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My colleagues are still trying to sort out the personal effects in hospital stores that belonged to the dead of 2020….
Matt Hancock tearfully asks I’m a Celebrity campmates for ‘forgiveness’
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The way ‘Covid deaths’ are being counted is a national scandal | The Spectator
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I have seen things that would white your hair about governments in my career and this still reduced me to tears tonight. You absolute bastard.
“We frighten the pants of everyone with the new strain”
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Good God Daily Mail - that is some top notch victim blaming right there…
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Full of apologies… full of deference… full of self deprecation and emojis so they don’t hate us. When will women in some of the most senior positions in the land be able to stop writing emails like this?
Helen MacNamara fmr dep cab sec emerging as one of the heroes of the pandemic. Her email to the then NHS England chief Simon Stevens on the issue of PPE for women (SS told her it wasn't a problem)
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I will PAY GOOD MONEY to be at the Lancashire Fire and Rescue Debrief
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Let pregnant women have someone with them at the scan - we have tests, we have masks, we have vaccines, we have ventilation. Now let’s have humanity.
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Tip 1. Don't get angry. We are in the middle of a hard, deep Winter. Anger produces adrenaline and cortisol and you have produced enough of them already over the last 24 months. They make you ill. Instead, get informed [see below].
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Going out on a risky limb here - but the very last thing Kate and Wills and THEIR CHILDREN need to see right now is a sea of flowers outside their house. It’s performative, it’s for you not them. Donate the money to one of her causes. Send her a light hearted card…
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Gordon’s intervention is about more than energy and poverty. It’s showing us what good used to look like. Ministers working in August. Technical briefings that demanded the very best expertise. Actual and workable costed proposals. Using clout where necessary to make stuff happen
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Tip 2. Understand why weak governments (and more often Dictatorships) have to rely on these tactics. When something is built up through personality and bluster and fear, it can only be deconstructed in a similar way.
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It is naive to write off, peeve and denigrate people who mean something to this nation.Vordermans, Linekers, Nevilles. You can pull them down individually but are missing point. Gov contempt for them is noticed because it’s a noisy visible representation of contempt for all of us
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I honestly think that the Post Office scandal is one of the grimmest U.K. corporate horrors I have ever encountered- and I have encountered a few 😞
#PostOfficeScandal
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This was predicted in all pandemic exercises and it’s devastating to see it come to pass
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I don’t want to hear talk tonight in our Parliament about a pretend plane that is never going to take off. I want to hear talk tonight about an actual tiny little boy’s body found curled up against his dead father in the SIXTH RICHEST NATION IN THE WORLD 😔
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Tip 4: Ministers rolled out to gaslight now have abhorrent form for this sort of sleight of hand and head-wrecking. They use intelligence and class to imply that sensible people would make different decisions to the masses. Particularly distressing example:
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Tip 5: Take small comfort - You will not be gaslit to the extent of every other conflict and disaster I have worked on for the simple reason that this has been the most recorded and archived disaster in recent time. Your version of events is safe. Note date that I joined Twitter.
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Tip 3: Ppl may find comfort in misremembering '20 - maybe painting themselves as someone who knew rules were wrong.If you were a person who genuinely spoke out against rules and tried to find balance those people will start to really grate as they took none of the risks you did
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God this is a hard, rage-Inducing, truly devastating read. The arrogance of them punches in the face. The little comments In the medical notes. The price this beautiful family paid for a hierarchy that feels untouchable
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Overhearing lots of discussion along lines of “well just had Covid but know that if I had not had two jabs I would have been one of the people who died”. This is an interesting phenomenon and speaks to a new type of risk perception/ calculation
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Today
#JeremyVine
decides to cover that Lockdown fundamentally increased risk to vulnerable children. We couldn’t get word in during the most crucial time of Spring 2020 - we were told we were off narrative/ too pessimistic and would encourage non-compliance
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Tip 6: Demand more. This is a tactic used by weak governments who are not doing enough to shore up existing services and protecting their nation from the public. Ask Qs at the next election. Every husting should include UK disaster readiness questions.
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The more you insult people who have not had the vaccine, the more you create the environment where people do not feel safe to come forward for a vaccine. Stop the shame 💉
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I have a horrible feeling that certain Tories are being told to come out here and say shocking things and possibly use “fuck” * a bit - so that we spend the day discussing that instead of the great big boat of misery
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I have seen enough of them now to always watch with great interest the “moment” that a truly shocking state inflicted disaster hits wider public consciousness. It’s often, in the U.K. via the medium of an excellent TV docudrama and since the 90s I have observed the same pattern…
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Only very bad things come from this sort of posturing. Incredibly reckless call from Sunak
BREAKING: Rishi Sunak vows to hold Metropolitan Police chief 'accountable' for allowing pro-Palestinian protest on Armistice Day ⬇️
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He doesn’t even believe this himself. He just wants you to react to him. He is like a vulnerable prisoner on the extra measures wing, throwing his own faeces at the door so that you still check on him. It’s quite sad really
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Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble - BBC News
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Just to confirm that you can simultaneously think this virus is a right nasty bastard 🦠 while also raising concerns about government behavioural insight teams weaponising fear to achieve compliance (and then “cohesion”) at a time of national crisis
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Leisure centres are also the staple of U.K. emergency plans. They are where we take people in a crisis. Except we can’t any more, because they are all shut…
4 out of 10 leisure centres in the UK will face closure by the spring or be forced to make drastic cuts to services, according to a representing body.
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Grateful to
@carolvorders
for reminding people that first and foremost Paul O’Grady was a brave and principled social justice campaigner who never ever lost his social work roots. May we see more of his values everywhere
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The lawyers that train emergency response commanders have been warning about this day for years. Maybe if the 2020 Cabinet had attended the COBR training… 🥴 👇
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Things I am cross with Hancock about No.345…. That partners had to sit in their cars while women miscarried inside the Early Pregnancy Unit a few metres away (and watching him drink some fetid jungle trifle is not going to take that away)
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It’s right there in Yellow Hammer - your government’s own pretty detailed risk assessment. Just own it. It does not need to be politicised - it’s just a reality. We can get through it and innovate it to counter it. But you need to be honest.
Suella Braverman said of this weekend's delays at Dover: “I don’t think it’s fair to say this has been an adverse effect of Brexit.” But Brexit is a factor in the delays. 2 mins here on why.
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Lots of
#MrBatesvsPostOffice
viewers coming round to the idea today that Britain really does corporate crime, corporate corruption, cover up, conspiracy, political leverage and protection of high-power individuals extremely well
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Completely understandable that parents driving to Notts to collect students and many would do the same. However one note of caution - this next week the students will get a lot of support from being in this place and it’s very difficult to replicate that from away or online
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In March 20 gov used fear on populace to gain compliance. Opposition went along with it. By Summer of 20 they knew that fear had gone too far but they did not know how to row it back (it can’t be - we warned them of that). So they let much of public stay afraid…
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Tip 7: Feel reassurance that the UK has some of the best disaster planning in the Universe. We knew what this was, how afraid to be, how to work with the rules, how to keep you fed and how to recover from this. We have got your back. Always
@TheEPS1
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Rishi and Suella - you are appealing to a base that would spit on your kids.
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I studied alongside these men. I have worked alongside these men for 22 years. I have some insight into what makes them. But
@mrjamesob
‘s book has really helped me crystallise my thoughts on why they can’t be wrong, can’t be criticised and can’t be told to go when the time is up
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Raab is trained to use a key neuro-linguistic phrase that triggers in the human brain. Repeated use of terms like “the public now want us to focus on the business at hand, not parties” creates two important responses. 1. It makes us feel stupid for worrying about “trivia” that…
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The public didn’t just “stay away” from health services - they were told to stay away from health services. In a risk area that was predicted by all pandemic planning. Do not shift the culpability for this on to them
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Note to all women detectives preparing to deliver the death message to a wife somewhere, present a folder to the CPS on a series of gangland murders or take a statement from abused child in a special room in a police station. Please remember the sleeves rule in February 🥴
Had it been a male detective wearing something slightly unprofessional I would have remarked on it, too. It has nothing to do with her sex. Men and women should not go sleeveless in the office in February. It’s not a elegant look.
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Covid wasn’t a catastrophe for young people’s education. Lockdown was
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People have asked me this week what I mean when I say fear and blame and shame and stigma and guilt was built into messaging. Particularly in a way that would hit children and young people hardest. If you can’t see it now, then I can’t help you
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A reminder to please, please don’t organise collections of “stuff” for communities after the quakes. Donate cash. If you have stuff to give away, sell it and donate the cash
#CashNotStuff
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The whole country right now needs to pivot priority and resource to give back to the children and young people who have sacrificed the most. Fun, advocacy, opportunity, education, hope, health care, mentoring - no expense spared. We owe them big time.
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Reminding myself of my own Tip 1 but can feel the blood boiling for this poor family:
This is why
#PartyGate
matters to a lot of people
@SkyNews
Thank you Richard for telling your story 💔
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And there was a whole suite of decisions we expected them to have to make hence the development of a range of decision making tools and ethical frameworks. None of which it appears he ever read.
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For further reading please do consider pre-ordering
#WhenTheDustSettles
by me (31 March) and I would also recommend A State of Fear by
@BareReality
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Rules in 2020 described as “absurd” by
@edvaizey
and “ridiculous” by
@Kevin_Maguire
on
@GMB
this morning. Would have been nice to have had that critique 22 months ago, rather then leaving it to brave outliers who risked awful lot. (This was when Piers was at peak shriek)
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Already seeing knitting appeals for Morocco - please please don’t do this. Donated or home made gifts usually become the secondary disaster. Sell your beautiful yarn creations locally and donate the money.
#CashNotStuff
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I am fairly certain that our public health messaging has gone a bit awry when the bloke in front of me at the Co-Op just now had a go at “the knobheads” who won’t wear a mask, while buying 8 cans of lager and 2 packs of cigarettes. You do you, love.
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The very best of the scholars that I have taught have come from all four corners of the globe. They now head up disaster and forensics responses internationally. Their family members have only made my experience better. This is short sighted, mean and unnecessary
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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I don’t know wonderful
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Academic conferences requiring “vaccine passports” far beyond any state requirement and seemingly forgetting about medical exemptions need to stop right now. Sociology, criminology and anthropology conferences also need to look into the definition of irony while doing it…
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IF (and we do not know for sure yet) the Met used information that they had been given as part of a negotiated relationship with protest groups to then pre-emptively arrest them, then there are desperately grave times ahead for event safety planning 😞
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As somebody who deals with briefings on new threats and armageddons and poxes every single day I need to tell you that you can’t function at this level of heightened arousal and anxiety. Leave this one to experts and go about your business 🙊
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Big questions here for the Met, and the event commanders, but we should also demand that it’s not the Home Office or Braverman doing the questioning. There are equally big questions for them too.
It was not clear at the time that at least one of the group stopped had been engaging with police protest liaison team officers ahead of the event.
The Protest Liaison Team were not the arresting officers nor were they present in St Martin’s Lane at the time of the arrest.
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I have tried but I cannot find the sense in this policy. It is harmful and cruel…Wales threatens employees with FINES for going to work under new anti-Omicron rules | Daily Mail Online
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Clear that NHS staff are suffering an anticipatory trauma from thought of another Winter yet to happen. This has huge similarities to what we see in military personnel on a return trip to war after leave
@ngreenberg
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It’s Christmas Day and I have the turkey sweats so I won’t start a rumble but I am really struggling with the idea that “now”it’s ok to keep schools open. It was always right to keep schools open. Always. The alternative harms were always too great.
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Death toll could have been even higher in the first weeks - they were difference and we have forgotten that so quickly. They moved in with people they cared for, they worked day,night,day, held hand of terrified clients ..they earned less than their kids were earning in Tescos.
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This was the hardest thing to write but it’s important to put on record that there were no surprises here. There were choices made on which harms were acceptable and which children would survive this disaster
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I honestly think the treatment of Diane Abbott today has woken something in so many of us
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This will be the first of many “dissonances” that the public inquiry will need to wrestle with. It’s probably one of the most common questions that I am asked at book events - “did you really plan for it?”
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They no longer act when the risk becomes known and significant, they act when the risk becomes politically unsurvivable.
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Amusing as it is to watch Labour MPs score very directly into an open goal, they have their own questions to answer. They gave this government the legitimacy and majority it needed to police and stigmatise the hardest hit communities, without question or scrutiny.
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Things just got a whole lot murkier. This is not a surprise but British government and specifically MOD needs to understand rapidly that we are operating in a new era of comms - and there is no such thing as covert, deniable or black ops anymore. Sleepless night for David Cameron
According to reports, all three British citizens killed by Israel were former British military personnel who were working for the British intelligence firm Solace Global at the same time as World Central Kitchen in Gaza.
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