I'm happy to state on record that @AllisonPearson has been conducting a months-long hate campaign against public health officials and scientists. THREAD:

1/ Allison claims that the government had been "Captured by tunnel-visioned autistic scientists" [Tweet later deleted]

2/ "It’s time the scientists went back to their labs and hobbit holes and left Earth to the humans."

https://t.co/R6gc4MRZOM
3/ "The swivel-eyed scientist John Edmunds [...] These scientists are not trustworthy."

https://t.co/LeEjSfHvJW
4/ "[...] those shifty government scientists"

https://t.co/oTtVeVtBlA
5/ Deputy CMO Jonathan Van-Tam is "revolting".

https://t.co/9cyJdZcjDZ
6/ CMO Whitty and CSA Vallance should be "locked in a cupboard"

https://t.co/khMt9wiyhw
7/ "Whitty and Vallance should be sacked"

https://t.co/LTvlvq1HWy
https://t.co/4ACQqq0yDP
8/ "Whitty and Co are Martians. They attempt to describe and categorise human existence but they don’t understand it."

https://t.co/DdmOVGQsv7
9/ "[...] the geeks of SAGE regard their lowly lab rats"

https://t.co/m4fhm2AdYe
10/ The Scientific Advisory Group England "need to be purged"

https://t.co/gMFmaFNrdc
11/ "SAGE is a group or upper-middle class Marxists with no idea that most people have to earn a living"

https://t.co/qGRP1teNwg
12/ "Professor John Edmonds is the worst"

https://t.co/siIw9zYlzS
13/ "This scientist looks like he was grown in a mushroom shed [...] obsessive geeks."

https://t.co/lEJDINjmaW
14/ Repeated themes of dehumanising and bullying comments run through Pearson's Telegraph columns, too.

https://t.co/9adv34uOAZ
15/ Whitty, Vallance and SAGE should be "charged with high treason"

https://t.co/Xd6HkNMle8
16/ "Tunnel visioned doomster scientists"

https://t.co/Xd6HkNMle8

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The extremely small minority of people who known anything about this who think that Brexit will be good for the City make a number of arguments which I shall address in turn...

1. They need us more than we need them. This is a variant of the German carmakers argument. And we know how that went...Business will follow the profit opportunity and if that has moved then so will the business...

And what do we mean by us / we. We’re not talking about massed ranks of Euro investing / trading etc blue blooded British institutions.

Au contraire. We’re talking about the London based subs of US, Asian and indeed European capital markets players...As soon as they think the profit opportunity has moved then so will they...it’s a market innit...
This article by Jim Spellar for @LabourList misses the point about why Labour needs to think seriously about constitutional reform - and have a programme for it ready for government.


The state of our constitution is a bit like the state of the neglected electric wiring in an old house. If you are moving into the house, sorting it out is a bit tedious. Couldn’t you spend the time and money on a new sound system?

But if you ignore the wiring, you’ll find that you can’t safely install the new sound system. And your house may well catch fire.

Any programme for social democratic government requires a state with capacity, and a state that has clear mechanisms of accountability, for all the big and all the small decisions that in takes, in which people have confidence.

That is not a description of the modern UK state.

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सत्यवती ने महर्षि भृगु से अपने तथा अपनी माता के लिए पुत्र का वरदान मांगा।ये जानकर महर्षि भृगु ने यज्ञ किया और तत्पश्चात सत्यवती और उसकी माता को अलग-अलग प्रकार के दो चरू (यज्ञ के लिए पकाया हुआ अन्न) दिए और कहा कि ऋतु स्नान के बाद तुम्हारी माता पुत्र की इच्छा लेकर पीपल का आलिंगन...

...करें और तुम भी पुत्र की इच्छा लेकर गूलर वृक्ष का आलिंगन करना। आलिंगन करने के बाद चरू का सेवन करना, इससे तुम दोनो को पुत्र प्राप्ति होगी।परंतु मां बेटी के चरू आपस में बदल जाते हैं और ये महर्षि भृगु अपनी दिव्य दृष्टि से देख लेते हैं।

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इस पर सत्यवती ने भृगु ऋषि से बड़ी विनती की।


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