#Government

Not to get political or anything but in the UK we have the rainbow to support the nhs and just recently they’ve said that “They’re going to use the rainbow
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The argument about hindsight in relation to hospital patients being sent to care homes is frustratingly circular and ignores that care workers raised concerns about PPE and testing whilst it
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IMPORTANT: While "contact tracing" is essential to curbing the spread of #COVID19, new polls show many Americans don't want to do it. Here’s what it actually is & why we
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A must read thread - stay educated and watch what’s happening externally. Negative yields in the bond market mean you get back less than what you give the government. Treasury
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of our pandemic response regulatory framework. There is a patchy framework of regulation to address issues around sick people who refuse to isolate
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A Month After Emergency Declaration, Trump's Promises Largely Unfulfilled https://www.npr.org/2020/04/13/832797592/a-month-after-emergency-declaration-trumps-promises-largely-unfulfilled?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_
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Americans enamoured with New Zealand's handling of COVID don't even know the extent of how good it is: our most recent small cluster of cases was followed in such detailed
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The National Pork Producers Council is about to hold a conference call on the "devastating financial crisis" hog farmers are facing. Saying "immediate government intervention is required." I'll tweet what
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Chris Wallace was a terrible moderator. It wasn't just that he got steamrolled & didn't enforce the rules. It's that most of his questions flowed from the Fox News /
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As a federal official, I do my best to stay out of state politics. But I have a constitutional duty to ensure states don’t trample on the rights of the
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The latest move by Twitter against President Trump will only fuel calls for government intervention. The standard of "glorifying violence" is so ambiguous and subjective that it could be used
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Im gonna need more Nondisabled people to pay attention to the ways that the disability community is used to justify horrible shit, because there’s a new class of disabled white
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So with #indyWales on my mind and a global pandemic forcing me to stay at home, I've had a lot of time to think things through. Mostly of the horrific
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This is awful and I just can't understad how we have come to this, but I have some thoughts...https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/24/thousands-of-students-in-isolation-at-20-uk-universities First the obvious bit: the universi
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At the request of Trudeau, @GoFundMe has just stolen $9,000,000 from the truckers. Rather than automatically refunding it to the donors, they say they’re going to give it to groups
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Inside Higher Ed reported yesterday "we'd like to see 100% forgiveness of those ripped-off by for-profits & bad-actor, high-priced colleges with unconscionably high dropout rates." That’s true. But there’s more
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