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Online news businesses make money via people clicking, sharing and promoting. The Daily Mail uses opposition to its advantage. They use the sharers and argubly the sharers use them for their own online end goal themselves. The Daily Mail makes a financial killing off a mass of people who think they're doing a good thing by "exposing" some bullshit to the world whilst not realising they actually enable it to exist. No longer do you need someone loyal popping to the newsagent every morning to buy a copy in order to have a business. The retweeters are the newsagent and clickers the readership. Removing the need to part with a 20 pence piece in exchange for the words, the Daily Mail, through its online iteration, has found a way to make money out of people who rant and rave against them. You can write absolute shite and make thousands of pounds off the actions of people who oppose what you wrote and they're all non the wiser. The Daily Mail must laugh behind closed doors at the online "bothered". Starmer is off to a strong start. Looks promising. In a funny way fortunate that he starts during COVID. His style and approach so far has been good. Intelligent. Methodical. Professional. Key to that good start is that the crisis has meant not needing to talk about anything else. Topics where Labour are divided gone. Where Labour are beaten gone. Only a few here and there are left still managing to slip the word Brexit into a COVID-19 opinion. These people are self destructive to the Labour and left wing cause. The stronger Starmer can get before politics goes back to topics the better Labour will be for it.

Whilst the clickbait quick opinions are laughter and head in hands because they've immediately assumed it is Daily Mail making shit up, the article itself is actually about academic research at the University of Reading. It is the academic trained in health discourse who makes the assumption that German media discourse is not in the same vein as the UK because of words coined during the Nazi period being a no go. As well as citing work by a German academic to support that claim. Still, 19 likes for Reading University and the academic work versus 19000 likes for laughing at the Daily Mail. I feel quite bad for the academic that her work is being taken to be laughed at.

A hottake of suppositions solely baked in one article of a rumoured sentence said by a spad.

We'll get a public inquiry but manslaughter charges would be an insane precedent to set. Who would ever become a civil servant if you could easily go to jail for being incompetent. The "government" is not just 26 MP's infested by 3 who were part of Vote Leave. It's hundreds of civil servants and Spads. You can't actually expect 26 people to know everything there is to know.

Ex WHO Director Click for thread

How do you know what is going on in the UK if you can't see Piers Morgan's tweets?

An adult would be the bigger person and not mention the tone. Still, it's not as big a deal as being made out, just looks like we are returning to our ordinary day to day Westminster. There's plenty to push the government on but it needs to be good quality. I suppose it's good for social media shares among the converted.

The same argument occurs now from some of the technocrats who think we shouldn't have locked down. So fixated on their way being correct they accuse the opposite view of being the victim of panic and outside influence. It may well be the case to some degree. However once something becomes a political matter the philosophy should be to open it up to diverse opinions as to allow the actual decision makers to be exposed to all views and subsequently responsible for their decision. With the technocrats kept in secret the politicians can and will blame the technocrats and not take any great responsibility for consequences of the technocrat advice they took. The political system of responsibility then doesn't work. UK last minute switch has a lot to do with the technocrats not being able to successfully defend their stance when exposed to experts outside the technocrat circle.

Saying there's no testing strategy gave him something to talk about. If you are going to hold someone to account you can't give them cheap easy wins by getting your own argument wrongly worded like that. I can see what Hancock meant by tone and he hit back. That's why I said in my original post that I see two teenagers. It looked like the exchange of teenagers masquerading as adults. Hancock has spent the last 6 weeks facing loaded questions from journalists that no one would answer directly. It's no good politicians doing the same gotcha nonsense.

Don't think there's much difference between Hancock and every government I've known at every stage in their power cycle after about 3 months of being elected. Khan didn't do very well there. Poor gotcha questions and the line saying there has been no testing strategy played right into his hands. If Hancock is to be held to account it needs to be a lot better than that.

It'll be a failure if the analysis of the UK late lockdown is driven by the concept of "exceptionalism" rather than a lack of transparency in technocracy. We only locked down once they had to air their research and conclusions and they could be openly scrutinised. They were allowed to get away with not doing that for too long. A level of trust was placed in them that might not have been with better open debate. When technocrats lock away they remove outside knowledge and input. Experts who aren't part of the inner circle are shut out. They remove outside pressure which is what people who support technocracies want. Those of scientific background who oppose the lockdown often blame public and media pressure for it coming about. Make no mistake, some nations technocrats backed lockdown and so get away with their lack of transparency but you can see even there more minor decisions which are questionable and they are expected to take it.

I'd expect this to escalate the number of occasions lockdown rules are being breached.

Who would dare be famous even for 5 minutes.

Just looks like two standard Westminster politicians stuck in their teens.

Oops.

Dustin Hoffman would find it.

Face to face meetings are going to be banned, or at least against government guidelines. That means there is no point for most of us to go to the office. Employers are going to be made responsible for workers mental health so I think the option to go in will probably be there for most. But I worry about London's public transport if as I've heard there are offices who have already told their employees that they're to go back to the office on June 1st.

I've heard of a couple of people already who are planning to go straight back to the office as soon as lockdown is over and their businesses want that to. It's going to be vital the government tells these wfh capable businesses in London they stay at home or the tube is going to be rammed on day 1. Elsewhere it looks like Mike Ashley's Sports direct and house of Fraser have broken the furlough laws. They've had store managers work once a week in secret.

In the FT that it's expected government will announce office workers must work from home for the rest of the year

I miss pre-FBPE Balon

US intelligence agencies release that they are confident that the virus was not man made after reviewing the evidence. Then hours later Trump says he is confident the virus is man made in Wuhan after he saw the evidence.

They might have to join forces with Plaid.

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There's a probable earthquake coming in next year's assembly elections. Polling at the start of this month has the Conservatives projected to win the most seats. Though not a majority.