Alan McKenna

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Male, European, northern UK, Scouse heritage, aged over70, social democrat, still married. Will follow people who think before they speak and filter accordingly

Good Law Project.
Today we can reveal – after a six month freedom of information battle with the Cabinet Office – that Michael Gove greased the wheels of Unispace’s £679m PPE deals. Details of how they were able to secure a place on the unlawful fast-track scheme have been hidden – until now.

At least £3.67m worth of PPE supplied by Unispace was unusable in an NHS setting.

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@ChrisMayLA6 My usual metaphor for Tory cuts is ‘we cut off one leg and the patient is still mobile, so clearly we can cut off the other leg too’.

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Last night a retired UK state school teacher was telling me, over her decades as a teacher she has seen the primary school curriculum narrow and shrink, nowadays it's all about math and testing, and barely little else. Because if the school kids do badly on the tests, a regulatory agency labels the school "unsatisfactory" and it's only downhill from there.

Too many kids per class, too narrow a focus on a few subjects, no emphasis on good writing and eloquence and expressing oneself, lack of subjects that would develop critical thinking skills. Was grim to hear it from someone who was in it from Thatcher's time to now, witnessing the effects of continued funding cuts and the narrowing of the curriculum, pushing aside the humanities and focusing on skills that, presumably, make good, docile office workers.

#UK

#GDPR has been used to challenge the use of health data and illegal profiling.

Strong data protection is essential as new ways are found to profit off of us. But the #DataGrabBill will weaken our rights for data to be used for 'research purposes'.

Keep Our NHS Public signed our open letter to stop the Bill: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/26-civil-society-groups-call-on-government-to-scrap-data-protection-and-digital-information-dpdi-bill/

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

26 civil society groups call on government to stop the Data Grab Bill

26 civil society organisations have written to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan MP, calling for the Data Protection and Digital Information (DPDI) Bill to be dropped.

Open Rights Group
"Ethnic cleansing is not self-defence"
Pasteups in Paris
Good morning everyone! 😊 If you agree with #BrexitIllegal 🤬 #ToriesOut428 #MediaReform & #ClimateEmergency 🌍😭🌊🌳🌷🐝🥵🥶 then you're my kind of person & I want to follow you! 😉 Happy #FollowBackFriday! 🥳 #RejoinEU #FBPE 🇪🇺❤ @SydesJokes @marchforrejoin @Euromove @TerryReintke @RejoinEU @Julius_VD @TaviraJim @TaviraJim @cnapan @guse_guse @16MillionRising @BrexitBin @BremainInSpain

Why is nobody asking Putin which part of Russia he will give up in exchange for peace?

Original tweet: https://twitter.com/irgarner/status/1704123417887158638

Dr. Ian Garner on X

Why is nobody asking Putin which part of Russia he will give up in exchange for peace?

X (formerly Twitter)
Braverman stopped immigration centre inspections despite safeguarding warnings

Inspector reveals home secretary’s decision as Brook House inquiry finds evidence of verbal and physical abuse

The Guardian
The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.