FlyTheNest

Peter Geoghegan
@PeterKGeoghegan
The widespread reporting of Boris Johnson's announcements yesterday as 'cautious' seems out of whack both with its actual content and the behavioural nudge it clearly gives

Extreme Temperatures Around The World
@extremetemps
Just 1 day after its earliest 20C, #Beijing did what it seemed impossible and on 21 February recorded 25.6C, pulverizing by almost 5C the monthly record just set yesterday. This 25C+ is 25 days early of the previous earliest 25C (18 March 2009).

Bemusement aplenty.

Rosena Allin-Khan, a shadow health minister, said it was “an insult” for Hancock to claim there was no shortage of PPE. She said:

Many frontline workers had to ration protective equipment, putting themselves at risk.

Lots of it was inadequate and poorly fitting, and some NHS staff had to make gowns themselves from bin bags.

The fact is, it was a smash-and-grab for Tory donors and friends. And protecting workers who were putting themselves in harm’s way to look after people seems to have been an afterthought.
(Politics Live, Guardian)

Good morfternoon.



Well, he certainly won't like her tone.

Announced last night that council elections this May have been cancelled in my patch, pending a possible "reorganisation"

The group claims 10,000 people a month are viewing its 'wholesome' syllabus, which has also been dubbed 'hateful and poisonous', online during lockdown, the MirrorOnline reports.

It claims it helps kids “learn history and culture free from the shackles and ideology of the National Curriculum”.

Parents are told to teach their children how Britain abolished slavery, glossing over its involvement in the barbaric trade for 300 years and blaming “African chiefs” for selling their people.

Lessons focus on a “heroic age” when Britons were “a superior kind of people showing great feats of courage”.