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Symonds became the Conservative Party's head of communications in 2018, but left the position later that year, taking up a job in public relations for the Oceana project. It was reported that she was asked to leave her post as director of communications after sources claimed party chiefs had said her performance was poor, and questions were raised over significant unjustified expenses claims. These accusations were, however, rejected by other sources as being a smear campaign based around rumours allegedly spread by Johnson's political strategist, Lynton Crosby.

THE BBC has been ordered to move to content to a subscriber model by critic Annabel Denham who hit out at the broadcaster for taxing the public.

Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs, Annabel Denham, claimed the BBC is charging a "public service broadcasting tax" which Britons are forced to pay. She said that the broadcaster needs to re-focus its content on what is popular and what people are willing to pay for. Speaking to talkRADIO, Ms Denham said: "There are many, many issues at the BBC and in my view, it needs to be salami sliced and moved to a subscriber model just like the video streaming services are.

Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling.

Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health.1 Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So too are scientists and health experts. The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Economics=cultural construct; Being alive doesn't.

RogerOThornhill wrote:
Shame the BBC is too polite to tell her exactly what she can do...

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Arizona election witness confesses to being Trump campaign lawyer's business partner in court

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This photo of children living in poverty caused shock waves in 1992. Where are they now?

Years of cuts, a £500m shopping centre loan, then Covid pushed Croydon over the edge
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adam wrote:I'm aware this isn't terribly helpful, and I'm not encouraging anybody, but it's interesting, and historically interesting, that this kind of over-reach by the federal government, and especially by the executive branch of the federal government acting like royalty, is exactly - exactly - what the second amendment was all about.

citizenJA wrote:a lot of people with everything in common can be motivated into irrational action
civil wars are deadly
wasteful

when the rain stops here, the fireworks start up

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh dear...

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Arizona election witness confesses to being Trump campaign lawyer's business partner in court

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'Chumocracy': how Covid revealed the new shape of the Tory establishment (Guardian)

Police stop lockdown-busting service at London church

About 30 worshippers had gathered at the Angel church in north London on Sunday for a service including a baptism after pastor Regan King said Christians served “a greater law”. (Guardian)

PorFavor wrote:The concession's off. It was a fundraising ploy.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Has anyone been to the Canadian Potato Museum (Prince Edward Island), for example?

tinyclanger2 wrote:Has anyone been to the Canadian Potato Museum (Prince Edward Island), for example?

tinyclanger2 wrote:Anyone got any good potato stories? (off topic again, sorry)