Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge@mastodon.social

RT @gabyhinsliff
Every parent of student kids I know sent them off half-resigned to them coming home infectious, but still intending to have them back for Xmas anyway. Surely govt considered & came to a decision about this *before* unis went back? https://twitter.com/RichardVaughan1/status/1308830306984759298

RT @jayrayner1
This just in. If your car is chauffeur-driven you will not need to wear a mask. A cynical person would point out that this means the cabinet, being driven around in government cars, have exempted themselves. But I am NOT that cynical person. We're all in this together. and so on.

RT @IndyVoices
The government’s flagrant dismissal of gender recognition reform confirms what trans people like me have always known
@notCursedE
https://bit.ly/3mLdbo9

RT @PenLlawen
Pearson spitting directly into the eyes of the gods, like something out of Greek parable about foolish mortals who should be careful what they wish for

RT @peterjukes
When did Libertarian come to mean “the god given right of one English person to infect another”

They’ve twisted the idea of liberty into pure oppression — just like the philosopher Nozick did when he concluded we should be ‘free’ to sell ourselves into slavery.

Extremism https://twitter.com/sebastianepayne/status/1308406769970970627

RT @hautepop
“It would be a disaster for feminism to return either to a strictly biological understanding of gender or to reduce social conduct to a body part or to impose fearful fantasies, their own anxieties, on trans women.”
—Judith Butler
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times

RT @GeorgeMonbiot
So this week we learnt:
Rail franchises don't work.
Water privatisation didn't work
Privatised testing and tracking doesn't work.
A government run by privatisation obsessives doesn't work.
I wonder ... could it be that we need to rethink privatisation? 🤔

RT @hettieveronica
if you’d told me six months ago that we’d be in the same place six months later because this government paid Deloitte and Serco millions for a testing and tracing system that doesn’t work, headed by one of their mates, i’d probably be like.... sounds about right

RT @theirishego
Is there anything more illustrative of British politics in 2020 than a @Conservatives MP tweeting like an anon football account by accusing @mrjamesob of being 'anti-British' whilst spelling 'British' incorrectly?

I've wheelchairs more qualified to be an MP than @andreajenkyns

RT @theJeremyVine
This sums up the view of a lot of listeners @BBCRadio2 this afternoon

RT @Psythor
I can’t believe resistance hero Mitt Romney was bad all along. https://twitter.com/senatorromney/status/1308403638897958914

RT @howardnoakley
First question then: why has it taken him 3 weeks to recognise what was obvious in the government’s own figures by the start of September? https://eclecticlight.co/2020/09/22/watching-the-second-wave-covid-19-wins-yet-again/ https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge/status/1308382489824591872