Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦
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Leap year reformer, app truther and daylight savings appreciator. IEA. Views my own.
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Vaccine passports needed to watch a football match, but not to get on the packed train to get to the stadium, or in the pub afterwards. It’s a stupid, unnecessary, wasteful idea from people who don’t live in the real world. Give it up.
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Quite a striking graph in the Financial Times.
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Hearing rumours that Dominic Cummings will get a knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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It’s increasingly obvious that the new variant poses very little risk to a country with high levels of immunity from infection and vaccination like the UK. Tune out the noise and enjoy the xmas party season. 🎄
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South Africa has been on its lowest level of Covid restrictions (level 1) since 1 October and the government sees no reason to change that.
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“This current event is actually about the thing I’m obsessed by” - Ukraine edition. 🧵
1. Brexit
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The UK government has a choice between believing in vaccines and believing in quack modelling. No country with such a high % of antibodies from vaccines and prior infection should be considering any restrictions on freedom.
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Interview with a Climate Extinction crank confirms that they have no answers, no solutions and no idea what they’re talking about.
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1) Piers has a secure, well paid job.
2) He has nothing to lose from lockdown.
3) So long as we only focus on COVID-19, he will always be able to say “I told you so”.
4) The same is true of everyone on SAGE. And Keir Starmer.
5) That’s the reality.
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“There are 200,000 Omicron infections a day.”
“Correction: There are 200,000 cases of Omicron in total.”
“Correction: There are 200,000 Covid infections a day, 20% of which are Omicron.”
“Correction: Our model reckons there were 200,000 Covid infections today.”
What a shower.
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You have to admit that a mutated virus and a no deal Brexit and the Channel Tunnel being closed is a hell of an end to Season One.
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Patients in English hospitals with Covid:
1 Nov 2020: 9,623
11 Dec 2020: 13,901
1 Nov 2021: 7,535
11 Dec 2021: 6,395
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The BBC thinks Emily Maitlis’s monologue last night was politically biased, but Paul Mason, Owen Jones, Carole Cadwalladr, Andrew Adonis and James O’Brien have all said it was brilliant, so who knows?
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Is there any missing context here to explain what appears to be a policeman capitulating to the unreasonable demands of a religious fanatic?
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It’s not a “circuit breaker”, it’s a second lockdown, just like a “people’s vote” was a second referendum. Old wine in a new skin. Don’t repeat the spin.
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I don’t know about you but I never leave the house between October and March. Far too dangerous.
"People are not going to thank you for asking them to come out and vote in a general election when we're in the middle of winter."
The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford says Boris Johnson's proposals for a December election are "barking mad."
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The BBC: “There is no leftwing bias here.”
Also the BBC: “We will resign if a conservative is appointed chairman.”
Fair to say that Charles Moore as BBC chair will not go down well with the corporation's 21,000ish staff: "This will shatter morale. People will leave, thinking: I won’t stay working here under Thatcher’s vicar on earth."
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Newsnight is now starting with a monologue telling you what you are supposed to think. We’re being forced to pay for a left-wing version of Fox News.
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The three week lockdown to protect the NHS is now in its ninth week. The NHS has never been less busy, the economy is going down the toilet, but it’s the people who want to ease the restrictions who are the extremists?!
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Revealed preferences at a public health conference.
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Who among us hasn’t got carried away and thrown a Molotov cocktail at a police car?
A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison.
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I had no idea Elton John was on Twitter until he left.
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As a Leave voter, it was always my biggest fear that Remainers would start an online petition. I prayed that they would never think of it but, now they have, we need to accept that it’s game over. We gave it a shot but they were just too smart for us.
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Rumours that Nigel Farage will get a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours list. 🍿
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At least they’ve got each other.
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well, well, well, if isn’t the consequences of my own actions
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MPs voting against British shale gas after everything that’s happened with the energy market this year. Shame on them all.
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“Boris Johnson will announce a 30% increase in the UK’s funding of the World Health Organization”. That’s it. I’m done. Get him out.
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Watching the BBC 10 o’clock news for the first time in months. No wonder the Tories are 30 points behind if this is what people are being told.
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The UK now has the lowest rate of infection in Western Europe and is the only country where it is below 1.
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1. It's been 600-800 a day for the last five months.
2. Sage predicted 2,000-7,000 a day from Delta. It's never reached 1,000.
BBC exclusive: The number of people needing hospital treatment from the Omicron variant may reach at least 1,000 a day in England by the end of the year without extra restrictions being put in place - Sage scientists have told ministers. 1/n
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This seems to be a drainage problem caused by anti-terrorism barriers obstructing the drains. Bridges don’t tend to get flooded.
Climate change is not a problem in far off parts of the world.
It’s on our doorstep.
It’s our problem too.
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When I saw this quote earlier, I assumed he meant one million total cases, but looking at the full quote it looks like he genuinely thinks we could have one million cases a day. These people have lost their minds.
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Hearing rumours that Independent Sage - known to many as Diet Sage or Happy Shopper Sage - will be disbanding tomorrow. “Senseless to continue”, an anonymous source tells me.
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The reason I am so cautious about entering Wimbledon is that I do not trust Roger Federer.
“The reason i am so cautious [about agreeing a general election] is that I do not trust the prime minister” says
@jeremycorbyn
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You can forget about economic growth with corporation tax at 25%. Above the global average. Above the EU average. Twice as high as Ireland’s.
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I've given it a lot of thought and have reluctantly come to the conclusion that only a revolution can save us now.
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If things get much worse we might hit the bottom end of the lowest confidence interval of SAGE's most optimistic scenario.
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Corbyn releases 451 pages of a confidential document and not one word of it supports the conspiracy theory he has built his campaign on. He’s shot his own fox.
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Overheard six year old in a shop earlier saying to her mother "if Kay Burley and Beth Rigby don't have to follow the rules, why should we?" Sadly, everyone applauded. Very concerned about a third wave now.
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It’s been 8 weeks since England embarked on its “unethical and dangerous experiment” (Diet Sage) of removing all domestic Covid restrictions. On that day, 34,657 new cases were reported. Today there were 21,077.
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The number of people in hospital with Covid in England has fallen below 6,000. There were more patients at the end of August than there are today. This time last year there were 13,000 - and that was after 3 weeks of lockdown.
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1. The BBC produces amazing, world class content and is well worth £150 a year.
2. Switching to a subscription model would be financially ruinous for the BBC.
Pick one of these. They can’t both be true.
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Perhaps Sky News should have given a platform to people like this AT THE TIME. All I remember is Beth Rigby asking the government why it wasn’t locking down harder and longer.
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Someone needs to tell her about the vaccination programme we’ve been running since December 2020.
“We now face a choice between lifting restrictions but facing what we had last year… or we open up very gradually.”
SAGE member Professor
@SusanMichie
says we should learn from what didn’t work in lifting lockdown last year in England
#Newsnight
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How many times do the doctors treating Omicron patients have to say this before the Northern hemisphere takes notice?
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It seems likely that the Omicron wave has peaked in South Africa. (7 day average below). At the very least, the absurd idea that rates double every two days for more than a brief period has been disproved.
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Journalists fuming because LADBible, which gets more traffic than any newspaper website, gets to ask a question at the Number 10 briefing. 🥴
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Aside from being an insane act of wanton destruction, how much is it going to cost the state to suddenly educate an extra 615,000 kids?
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If my only job was keeping inflation at 2% but inflation was 9% and I expected it to rise to 13%, I’d like to think I would have the decency to resign, even if I was earning £575,000 a year.
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I had this cat for more than 20 years. She had a splendid innings but today was the day. RIP Penny. 😔
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They want to topple the statue of the guy who abolished slavery. 🥴
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Britain is the 8th biggest island in the world and the richest by far. The Guardian is the 21st biggest newspaper in Britain.
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Remove the word “PM” and this is a plausible headline.
Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband latest suggestion to become caretaker PM
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If
@BorisJohnson
needs to stuff the House of Lords with pro-Brexit peers this week, I am ready to serve.
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If Boris Johnson gets taken in by modelling from people who have been epically wrong all year, he should not only be deposed but committed to an institution.
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Labour has unleashed Eddie Izzard. The bookies might as well pay out on a Tory majority now.
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Mild cold-like symptoms and is carrying on working. She’s 95. If this doesn’t scream ‘Covid is over’, nothing does.
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Quarantining the entire population is an effective way of reducing the number of infections, like amputating your leg is an effective way of getting rid of a verruca.
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This would be worrying if nearly everybody who had more than a minuscule chance of dying from COVID-19 hadn’t already had two doses of a vaccine that protects them from every known variant.
The UK has recorded a further 6,238 coronavirus cases - the highest daily figure for more than two months - as England's R number continues to rise.
@NickMartinSKY
has the latest.
Get the latest on
#COVID19
:
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OK, just hear me out. I know it’s not going to make me popular but I, too, am against racism and in favour of feeding children. There, I’ve said it.
"Those [footballers] speaking out... whether it be racism, whether it be feeding our children... It takes bravery to do that. Because you know that whenever you put your head above the parapet there are a lot of people trying to knock it off"
#Newsnight
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@maitlis
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@GaryLineker
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If they think we’re going to forget their predictions from January, they’ve got another think coming. Those models cost the country billions and should be career ending.
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I can't find any mainstream news coverage about Carole Cadwalladr dropping the "truth defence" and paying Arron Banks' costs in his libel case. Strange, as her theories have had a lot of attention up until now.
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I've just written to my MP to oppose the government's carpet bombing of the nation's pubs. I hope you will too.
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Every MP who votes for this gets barred for life from every pub in England. No exceptions. Abstainers too.
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This has been a terrible year for political journalists. I’m starting to think that they’re not just pretending to be thick, but actually are thick.
An oven ready deal?
"You're muddling up two things"
"I don't think I am"
The Prime Minister is in Blyth today.
Watch what happens when
@GreggEastealITV
shows Boris Johnson a clip from last year in which the PM says "we have a decent deal"...
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The Guardian puts the same non-story on its front page two days in a row in a desperate attempt to make somebody care about it.
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Everything the government has got right on Covid-19 in the past 12 months has happened when it ignored ‘the science’.
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Find me anyone - scientist, politician, pundit, anyone - who said in January that we should still have restrictions in August even if two-thirds of adults were double jabbed and 86% had had one jab.
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'Leo Varadkar criticised President Michel and President Von der Leyen for offering Ireland a bad proposal that saw the country contributing a lot of the EU budget without getting much back.' Imagine that! 🤣
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How fake news spreads. The BBC should apologise loudly and often for this.
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New study from Imperial finds significant reduction in risk of hospitalisation from Omicron, almost as if those doctors in South Africa weren’t lying after all.
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MPs who vote for this should be barred from every pub in England for life.
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They haven’t managed to get us out of the EU after three years because some of them think it might damage the economy, but they nod this trillion pound pig in a poke through on a Monday afternoon.
MPs have approved - without a vote - a change in the law so that the UK is committed to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
At the end of a short debate in the Commons, MPs backed a statutory instrument which amends the Climate Change Act 2008, reports
@cripeswatson
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If the government proceeds with this (and I don't think it will), I will join the smileys on one of their demos.
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Inflation is at 8.5% in the USA and 7.5% in the Eurozone but this guy thinks Britain’s 6.5% inflation is mostly due to Brexit. Where does the Bank of England find these people?
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Aside from being totally wrong (Wright-Phillips, Alexander-Arnold, Calvert-Lewin etc.), I can’t even work out what point she’s trying to make.
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