#Cronyism

The Citizens

allthecitizens

With Christmas just around the corner, the UK has suffered a record rise to 4.8% unemployment since September due to Covid-19, and is now facing the worst recession in Europe.

Yogi Jaeger

yoginho

I made the mistake of taking on a grant review in my old field of research. The first this year. Much has happened since January. And many of my priorities

Dr Ella Cockbain

DrEllaC

I just can’t. Government claiming it’ll defend free speech & stop “cancel culture”... by stifling academic freedom & defunding research that’s “political” 1/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/02/13/exclusive-uni

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied.It's

Josh Wolfe

wolfejosh

1/ Personal note:I am generally ‘center left’i believe in liberal democracy + free market capitalismour current political moment is imperfect democracy + oft illiberalour current market moment is distorted with

Putin's Clown Prince

putinsclown

POWERFUL AND CONTINUING NATIONALISM DISDAIN FOR THE RECOGNITION OF HUMAN RIGHT IDENTIFICATION OF ENEMIES & SCAPEGOATS AS A UNIFYING CAUSE SUPREMACY OF THE MILITARY RAMPANT SEXISM CONTROLLED MASS MEDIA OBSESSION

John Raftery

johnjraftery

Leadership transition, a challenge at the best of times, is much harder when the incoming leader is inheriting discontent, division, underperformance and the results of poor leadership by a predecessor.

Barbara Rich

BarbaraRich_law

And the truth turned out to be that Kate Bingham did offer her time and talents in service of the public good, and the cv that was published with the

small robots

smolrobots

It's just sort of sad seeing British media grappling with a leftward-shift in American politics after investing so much in assuming that the arc of history was springing back towards

Reform

reformthinktank

Today @NAOorguk report on procurement during COVID-19: contracts worth £18 bn had been awarded by July, of which £10.5 bn was awarded without competition. Direct awards might be necessary in

Sophie Hill

sophie_e_hill

The cronyism in this Tory government is so out-of-control that I honestly couldn’t keep track… so I combined my two main skills (puns and #Rstats) to create this interactive visualization.Introducing…

Shoaib M Khan

ShoaibMKhan

Not sure many Muslims will want to engage with this "independent review" then.Shawcross has previously said "“Europe and Islam is one of the greatest, most terrifying problems of our future.

🥧 SUZANNE 🥧

425suzanne

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IlluminateDark8

Hunter Biden's connection with Chinese surveillance.[NEW THREAD] I want to start by providing some context to what the implication of the thread title means.https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/09/china-up-to-one-million-detained

Kate Brannen

K8brannen

What's going on at the Pentagon? Is there some master plan or is it a bunch of guys putting undeserved titles on their resumes on their way out the door?

Mary Fitzgerald

maryftz

BREAKING: Facing a threatened lawsuit from @openDemocracy & @Foxglovelegal, the UK govt secretly signed a massive a 2-year, £23m NHS data deal with controversial tech firm Palantir (1)https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/controversi

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