UK first country in Europe to pass 150,000 Covid deaths, figures show https://t.co/UOwPd3e5xR
— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) January 9, 2022
We’re the first country in Europe to pass through this milestone of 150,000 Covid deaths.
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) January 9, 2022
It’s been a story of tragic mismanagement, repeatedly— causing surges at the outset and in winter 2020/21 in particular. Plus failures to get systems fixed when death rates were slow. pic.twitter.com/64JqoumwRt
The shock when you realise the UK is the 7th country to pass 150,000 deaths to Covid and that 5 of the 6 other countries have at least more than double our population….
— Laraine J (@elrington1952) January 8, 2022
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Free lateral flow tests face the axe under plans for living with Covid which Boris Johnson will announce within weeks https://t.co/8aWjrAgT1l
— Times Politics (@timespolitics) January 8, 2022
Nothing should surprise us from the Govt of @BorisJohnson but the threat of removing free lateral flow tests is madness. These tests are an important defence to help restrain the growth of cases. This would be highly irresponsible. https://t.co/hRt5RPjVTM
— Ian Blackford 🇺🇦🏴 (@Ianblackford_MP) January 8, 2022
The bleakest and most brutal of milestones. A monument to pandemic mismanagement 💔 https://t.co/vjMwAHNTCo
— Dr Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) January 8, 2022
Cutting self-isolation to five days would be "helpful", former vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi says https://t.co/JQE8CbnDgI
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) January 9, 2022
And yet strangely the bbc prefers this. There is good international data on mask wearing but erg led government wriggle to avoid mitigations. Covid: Evidence on face masks in schools 'inconclusive' https://t.co/Wm441f03SX
— Janet (@JanetSouthCoast) January 8, 2022
Latest government Covid-19 strategy pic.twitter.com/v493fkFZGd
— Tim Barraclough 😷🐑 (@barraclough_tim) January 9, 2022
Nation continues ‘Living with Boris’
🔺 NEW: Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie, are accused of attending a “booze-up” in the garden of No 10 that broke Covid rules during the first lockdown https://t.co/5HuGJEEsPh
— Times Politics (@timespolitics) January 8, 2022
Etonocracy: How One Public School Came to Dominate Public Life – Byline Times https://t.co/7W4EnINJHH
— James robertson (@jimmytheplant) January 9, 2022
"All the forces that propelled Boris Johnson are still going to be there, including mainstream media, regardless of whether he leaves."@BylineTimesPod with @GoldbergRadio hears from @Hardeep_Matharu @peterjukes https://t.co/WV3oHz4sGg
— Byline Times Podcast (@BylineTimesPod) January 9, 2022
“The kiss of the vampire” Matthew Parris at his absolute best. Accurate & honest. Speaking truth to power.
— Anna Soubry 🖤🤍🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@Anna_Soubry) January 8, 2022
“Johnson leaves a scar on all who deal with him” https://t.co/IJQt2pJws5
Do you really think so? I think there are two (loud) extremes but (like Brexit) most people are somewhere in the middle and just trying to muddle through all of this.
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) January 9, 2022
comical without meaning to be
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) January 9, 2022
ARMANDO IANNUCCI 'I always thought myself as in favour of preserving the union, but I can see exactly why people in Scotland have had enough… I get it… Emotionally why wouldn't Scotland go independent if the alternative was more Boris Johnson & Farage on your television?' pic.twitter.com/m9JOqTmdjH
— Independent Voices 🇺🇦🏴 (@Celebs4indy) January 8, 2022
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warns she is prepared to unilaterally override parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland if the negotiations she is newly leading failhttps://t.co/LiF3xG2JHf
— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) January 9, 2022
But let me be clear.
— Deirdre Heenan (@deirdreheenan) January 8, 2022
Boris Johnson has *already* signed up to this in an international agreement.
And YOU voted for it. pic.twitter.com/glGc37JzUJ
But the problem here @J_Donaldson_MP is you did not consent to the backstop either and there clearly has to be a demarcation somewhere. The Protocol does not change the constitutional integrity of the UK and NI’s place within it. *Only* a border poll would/could do that https://t.co/C5NkMoxkYv
— Simon Hoare MP (@Simon4NDorset) January 9, 2022
Patrick Murphy: Although Jeffrey Donaldson may not resemble Julius Caesar, either in appearance or leadership style, he too might be well advised to beware the Ides of March #premium https://t.co/SqejWgsuVV
— The Irish News (@irish_news) January 8, 2022
My piece on the DUP and its welcome for a revival of traditional sectarianism: North’s politics take a dark turn as Catholics ‘get way above themselves’ https://t.co/TyY9YPceLG
— Susan McKay (@SusanMcKay15) January 8, 2022
The Overnight Note 