Sometime civil servant, public health. Too many interests, too many unread books: history of art, complex systems, various areas of science & public policy.
West Yorkshire, UK
Joined September 2014
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Peter Dick retweeted
You don’t actually have to do anything to bring inflation down. When the step increase in gas prices falls out of the back of the inflation calculation, inflation will fall anyway. Entirely predictable, but you are setting yourself up to take credit for it.
Peter Dick retweeted
I’ve worked in A&E for 22 years & seen nothing like this before.
The NHS is in a critical state. We need urgent action for sake of our staff & patients.
@SteveBarclay @RishiSunak we need you to listen to those who know what’s happening.
To get them to listen, pls retweet
Peter Dick retweeted
Gov.uk scam text messages are out in circulation. DO NOT CLICK that link!! The energy rebate scheme from the Government is automatic. Ignore, report, delete #scam #fraud #take5
#AgainstScams #westyorkshire #actionfraud
Peter Dick retweeted
“Unless we provide safe routes we are complicit with the people smugglers.”
Yet again, our immoral English government heaps shame upon our nation.
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard brilliantly eviscerates government claims about refugees yesterday in #HouseofLords
The facts, stark and clear.
Full transcript here ⬇️
bit.ly/3xqvYL1
#RefugeesWelcome #Migrants
Peter Dick retweeted
Why didn't Boris Johnson sack Matt Hancock? @bbcnickrobinson asks Justice Secretary Robert Buckland
#R4Today bbc.in/3hsvnRN
Peter Dick retweeted
How, when less than half the UK population has the two doses needed to protect against the Delta variant, does continuing as we are arrest exponential growth? A clue: it doesn't.
Peter Dick retweeted
Also, everyone seems to have missed the fact that Johnson threatened to do exactly the same thing 2 weeks ago.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
Peter Dick retweeted
Let’s make this clear:
Mail-in voting is the EXACT SAME THING as absentee voting in EVERY STATE
Trump wants to suppress the vote. We can't let him.
Peter Dick retweeted
We've been made aware that face coverings for babies and very young children are available for sale in England.
Children under the age of three should NOT wear face coverings, as they could cause choking or suffocation.
ALT Quote from Viv Bennett, Chief Nurse at PHE: "PHE has been made aware that face coverings for babies and very young children are available for sale in England. Guidance is clear that children under the age of three should not wear face coverings or masks, these masks should not be used as they are potentially dangerous and could cause choking and suffocation."
Peter Dick retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: On #BBCBreakfast @mrdanwalker is speaking to the Prime Minister @BorisJohnson. This is the PM's first in-depth TV interview since winning #GE2019 pscp.tv/w/cO1tXjEzNjA0MzU2fD…
Peter Dick retweeted
WATCH LIVE: Trump holds bilateral meeting with Finland's president xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1ynJOwmQg…
Peter Dick retweeted
These attacks by government ministers on Parliament and MPs are so dangerous. It's ministers' responsibility to get their plans through Parliament, not Parliament's responsibility to nod through whatever the government wants. Bonkers that even needs saying.
Peter Dick retweeted
Worth noting though that overall tone of this paper is going to REALLY annoy businesses. Lots of focus on how they're not preparing. But prep is expensive, many work with slim profit margins, and with political uncertainty many understandably not sure whether it's worth it
Peter Dick retweeted
Jacob Rees-Mogg is the perfect example of the product of an educational system in which acting with confidence as if you are right is the top skill, more highly prized than actually knowing the facts of the matter. An English disease, it seems, shared by too many politicians.
Peter Dick retweeted
NEWS RELEASE: Health Foundation response to announcement from @10DowningStreet of funding increase of £20 billion per year to NHS England’s budget by 2023/24.
health.org.uk/news/health-fo…
Peter Dick retweeted
As damning as it is predictable. The reckoning can be delayed no longer. The UK has shown itself unqualified for the task it set itself. Since gov is too deluded and enfeebled to determine UK policy, EU simply has to step in and do it for us.
Total, searing, epochal humiliation
Peter Dick retweeted
Brexit feels like being trapped in a French New Wave film: the more dramatically it changes, the more doggedly it stays the same.
But a year on from Lancaster House, the director's time is running out- and so is ours. My new piece: politics.co.uk/comment-analy…
Peter Dick retweeted
Watch: Artificial intelligence is set to disrupt companies' traditional models. Our columnist Rana Foroohar says the challenges that AI and robotics pose to business has been a topic of discussion at this year's Davos event on.ft.com/2Bp6ejO #Davos18