Britain’s NHS did indeed launch its allegedly super duper track and trace app over the weekend – with a veritable advertising blitz – and, as we might have, expected it doesn’t work properly, not for everyone anyway. But the real ...
Read More »Boris Johnson’s unwelcome blast from the past
At the same time as a writer in PM Boris Johnson’s other employer the Telegraph surmises that Boris has six months to save his job amid the coronavirus testing fiasco, a number of minds have gone back to 1979 and ...
Read More »Ben & Jerry’s launches ice cream salvo at UK government immigration policy
Ben & Jerry’s was always likely to be an unruly member of the Unilever family but in the nearly 20 years since the FMCG giant bought it for north of $300m, life’s been pretty sweet all round. That may change ...
Read More »Newly-ennobled Lebedev wields axe at Evening Standard
Will the new post-Covid normal have amy newspapers in it? The London Evening Standard, which is given away at tube and train stations and some supermarkets, is cutting a third of its workforce including a load of commercial jobs (my ...
Read More »Is UK PM Boris Johnson now a prisoner of “the science” again? – the case for and against
The UK is battening down the hatches again on Covid-19 after ONS figures reveal the number of cases in the UK is rising again. PM Boris Johnson has delayed a further series of lockdown relaxations (theatres etc) alongside new localised ...
Read More »Boris cabal plan free daily prime time airtime – will the broadcasters play ball?
Looks like Hancock’s Half Hour, the once-daily media briefings on Covid-19, usually hosted by health secretary Matt Hancock, are about to make a comeback – although not about the virus we hope. The Government is reportedly planning to introduce “White ...
Read More »It’s a Covid-19 Mother’s Day but at least Billy Bragg hits the right note
Mother’s Day is said to have been invented by Hallmark Cards in 1920 but this manufactured event has taken on a more significant meaning, in the UK at least, with the Covid-19 virus wreaking its havoc. PM Boris Johnson, who ...
Read More »UK premier Boris Johnson fluffs his lines over COVID-19
I caught up belatedly with Boris Johnson revealing the outcome of his (somewhat delayed) Cobra emergency cabinet committee meeting, when he seemed to be making some fairly sensible “steady as you go” comments about the COVID-19 outbreak (better give it ...
Read More »Whoops – Yorkshire Tea becomes Tory Tea
All publicity is good publicity? Not in the social media age it isn’t. Boris Johnson’s new chancellor Rishi Sunak, an unfeasibly rich Yorkshire dweller (he married into the Infosys family and is a former hedge fund partner) probably thought he’d ...
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