Today is the Day of Reflection.
A day to remember the lives lost since the pandemic began.
In their name, we will keep fighting for justice.
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Today is the Day of Reflection.
A day to remember the lives lost since the pandemic began.
In their name, we will keep fighting for justice.
Remembering my Grandma Sheila and everyone lost or affected by COVID 19 โค๏ธ๐
The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If itโs not heeded, yet more lives will be lost | Ben Connah www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
4/4 The horrors experienced by some in the pandemic have already started to be forgotten, to be minimised and airbrushed from history. We cannot allow that to happen if we want to do better when the next crisis hits.
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1/4 Covid Inquiry Module 10 Day 11. Today the Inquiry will hear from its final witnesses. It is fitting that it will be 6 bereaved.
Margaret Waterton (Scottish Covid Bereaved)
Sharon Boswell (Scottish Covid Bereaved)
Heather Stewart (Scottish Covid Bereaved)
1/3 Covid Inquiry Module 10 Day 10. Today the Inquiry will hear from 6 witnesses, all of whom lost loved ones to Covid-19
Sam Smith-Higgins (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru)
Julie Thomas (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru)
Doughty Street Chambers is immensely proud to announce that our leading immigration junior,โฏAlasdair Mackenzie, has been appointed Kingโs Counsel following his success in the 2025 competition.
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We have security services which the prime minister and the highest judges say have misled the court and which another senior judge said in an inquiry report do not present accurate pictures and instead give retrospective justifications for their actions. And these are the instances we know about. The Hillsborough law campaigners are right to resist this late amendment, and the government should provide that any exemption of the duty of candour on national security grounds should be independently assessed from those who assert it. And that is how the national interest would be best served.
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Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute
The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted
Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
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Thank you for acknowledging the catastrophic and unforgivable failures contained in the M2 Covid Inquiry report & that covid continues to impact the economy. As someone who lost a family member it is galling that people who failed us have been rewarded and many remain in positions of responsibility.
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So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
The Covid Inquiry shows the importance of ministerial leadership during crises
Clarity of priorities, clear messaging and visible leadership are paramount in any crisis. @sophiedaud.bsky.social @timdurrant.bsky.social
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On 28 November 2025, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social wrote to the Cabinet Office and the DHSC on behalf of the Long Covid Groups.
Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:
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#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas
Iโve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here Iโm comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.
My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costelloโฆ.
โThe Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.โ
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
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A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com
"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."
We will never forget. โค๏ธ
Thank you for writing this. This minimising of the report's findings and making excuses for such a poor response have been really hurtful to bereaved families โค๏ธ๐
"My NHS colleagues & I werenโt willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
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Apparently, according to Boris Johnson, covid bereaved are โwrangling onโ about deaths.
I have no words. Just utter contempt.
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In black and white here you have it. 'Too little too late' and led by a 'chaotic and toxic' government. Without both my Grandma Sheila, and many others, may well not have died at that time and in that way.
Unforgivable โค๏ธ๐๐
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B&W photo of two hospital staff in PPE hugging
Tomorrow is a hugely important day.
At 4pm, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry will publish its report into the UKโs pandemic decision-making & political governance.
I dearly hope our political leaders & decision-makers will listen, learn &, above all, act on the findings.
Because there will be a next time.
The question โhas there been a culpable state failure?โ must surely fall into module 2, Core UK Govโt decision-making & political governance.
The question on many HCW minds is surely โdoes the decision to downgrade PPE from FFP3 to FRSM on 13 Mar 2020 represent such culpability?โ
On Thurs 20th, Lady Hallett publishes her module 2 report.
We wait with interest to see how it covers the deception wrought upon HCWs that: a) Covid is droplet/fomite, but not airborne b) Flimsy Fluid Resistant Surgical Masks are 'PPE' and will keep you safe.
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