#Government

In the summer of 1938, delegates from thirty-two countries met at the French resort of Evian. Roosevelt sent Myron C. Taylor, a businessman and close friend of Roosevelt's, to represent
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G7 Technology Ministers signed a joint declaration today under UK Chairmanship that agreed a set of Internet Safety Principles for G7 action. This is a significant step towards solid multilateral
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The ultimate refuge of a person whose ideas aren’t working is that the failing implementations of their ideas are invalid“This is not real capitalism”“China is not real socialism”And, the hardest
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Greece reports 233 new cases in the last 24 hours.A small increase from yesterday, where 207 cases were reported.Hard to predict what may happen in the UK quarantine
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I know there are more important things, and no one cares about government comms as much as I do, *but* just re-upping the Rishi Sunak personal brand situation. There are
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I didn't vote for Corbyn in 2015, I was a member of @TheGreenParty and hadn't voted @UKLabour since 2005. But he won me over with policies and passion and I
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What do the following now have in common?Joe BidenThe PopeThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex...... and now Bill Gates?You will be amazed by the answer!(clue - it's something to do
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Matt Hancock: government is setting up a life assurance scheme for NHS staff. Families who lose a relative who is an NHS staff member to coronavirus will receive a £60,000
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In political life, there is inevitably a difference between what people are able to say publicly and think privately. As I haven’t been involved in frontline @UKLabour politics for many
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What’s the difference? An anonymous “organization” that is mapping strikes and efforts going on is very dangerous and is a very shitty security culture. They are literally making it easier
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I find it remarkable that many who only recently (rightly) opposed the anti-authoritarianism and gnostic individualism of feminism and critical theory, without saying much of anything to oppose child abuse
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The #1 reason to make your government web service user-friendly is because it's what is just.The #2 reason is because if people can't figure it out they're going to call
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THREAD: Chatting with @chrischirp about why the UK hasn’t seen Covid cases rise on the same scale as many other countries.Has the government actually got something right? Probably not. Instead
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The pile-on from the anti-LTN echo chamber is hilarious. Same faux outrage, rubbishing alternatives and data, all contradictions and insults, never answering questions directly from all of them. A bully-boy
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Something we saw in 2008-2009 and now again this year. When congress doesn’t deliver enough help, people end up getting mad about the help that was delivered (to banks then,
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look man. soldiers are supposed to nonpartisan and that’s a very important norm. but those lines are getting harder in the last few years. is it partisan to point out
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