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'According to Vallance's diary, Dominic Cummings said: 'Rishi [Sunak] thinks just let people die and that's okay'.

Vallance wrote at the time: 'This all feels like a complete lack of leadership.''

Yes - or complete sociopathy

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I can't see how Eat Out To Help Out can't now become a major scandal. Here was a scheme imposed by Sunak with zero scientific consultation, and which in Vallance's words utterly reversed the public-health messaging: from 'Keep distant from those outside your family' to... (1/n)

Seriously?

This is just unbelievable really x.com/REWearmouth/st…

There's a lot going on, attention understandly elsewhere. But the covid inquiry evidence is incredibly important. 'Why are we destroying economy for people who will die anyway soon?' is how Boris Johnson argued against lockdown theguardian.com/politics/live/…

Great, evidence-based debunking of an evidence-free fad here: x.com/wendyzuk/statu…

If your X news feed is full of the most hateful and hostile expressions, it is because the recommendation algorithm amplifies the most incendiary content: arxiv.org/abs/2305.16941

We find that out-group animosity drives engagement on social media: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Politics of HS2 cancellation are pretty odd. The public don't feel the pinch from the high costs, all they see is a government that can't build a train line. And stopping it at Old Oak Common just makes it more of a joke at their expense...the railway that goes nowhere

Let Rishi be Rishi 😂 x.com/YouGov/status/…

I think this would be good. Twitter being knocked off its absurd pedestal as a driver of news and discourse. Might be like waking up from a weird dream. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

The brilliant Gary Shteyngart reviews Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

'At the very core of effective altruist thought is an attempt to recognise our painful reality for what it is' - in a rare original essay for the Guardian, William MacAskill sets out his store theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

'Rebanks does an excellent job of writing women’s labour back into the story of the English farm. The result is a tart anti-pastoral' - Kathryn Hughes reviews Helen Rebanks' warts-and-all account of rural life theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…

I spoke to Mustafa Suleyman about how he went from selling smoothies in Camden to co-founding the world's most advanced AI research outfit - oh, and whether we can stop technology from destroying civilisation as we know it theguardian.com/books/2023/sep…