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Johnson below DT. A poll in France last week found Merkel to be far and away the most trusted world leader. Just 2% had confidence Trump was leading the world in the right direction. Only Boris Johnson and Xi Jinping inspired less faith. Just how damning can you get?

'Appens it likely won't work and will not be anonymous. Great. NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh? Plus: There are some worrying data protection implications...

Yes - I can see why alll sorts of actors might wish to affect us. But to do so in a way which was, it appears, stoppable seems a bit odd. Either they meant to bring things down seriously - in which case they failed. Or this was some sort of probing attack or warning.

Nice working for Johnson and May. Not. The civil service after Brexit: lessons from the Article 50 period A divided cabinet and battles between parliament and the government revealed fundamental tensions in the civil service’s role and its duty to “serve the government of the day”...

All too many anti-virus products act in ways which make them functionally indistinguishable from malware. They screw with your system, slow it down, stops things working, are difficult to remove, etc.

Yes, this is a Chinese source. Yes, it very likely is state-controlled and propaganda. But difficult to disagree: 'Is Trump insane' to threaten cutting off ties with China? By GT staff reporters Source:Global Times Published: 2020/5/14 23:33:24 Yes. And it is not China but the US...

Obviously a possibility - as are Israel, Russia, USA, and numerous others. I did also ask "Why?"

Might be a good thing to keep back - the "Even when you knew she/they had done something bad, and admitted it, you didn't take action beyond asking her/them to remove the tweets." ploy? He said something like there are more important issues to deal with - which also adds to his statesman-like...

Got away with it this time, it appears. But who did this? And why? Lights stay on despite cyber-attack on UK's electricity system Cybersecurity measures keep electricity flowing after IT infrastructure targeted...

I see even number 10 has had to act: Downing Street has rebuked Conservative MPs, including a minister, for sharing a video from a far-right Twitter account that falsely claimed Sir Keir Starmer obstructed the prosecution of grooming gang members when he led the Crown Prosecution Service. A...

Did someone say that they would be out to get Kier (or Sir Kier - I don't care)? Health minister Nadine Dorries deletes tweet sharing anti-Starmer smear Labour has expressed alarm after a series of Conservative MPs, including a minister, shared a video tweeted by a hard-right Twitter account...

Putting Starmer's letter somewhere accessible was right and sensible. I don't like twitter, but I accept it might have been the best place - though I suggest posting on a Labour party site and then mentioning on twitter might be a better approach. (Perhaps he did that as well? I have not...

This gets the full PDF: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.20094805v1.full.pdf Oh sh**, someone's taking the pi**. I certainly would not wish to use public toilets at present. Though that is not the focus of the paper.

You can see their lack of science every minute of every day. Even the way they speak of pushing "the R number" down. The R number comes down if you manage to reduce the rate of infection. In itself, it is just a way of expressing the rate of infection. Targetting infection, with the result of a...

I hope and pray that they can continue this well. The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19 Laura Spinney KK Shailaja has been hailed as the reason a state of 35 million people has only lost four to the virus. Here’s how the former teacher...

Time for a revival? A song de nos jours. Now all of you tradesmen who travel alone I'm asking you now where the work has all gone Long time I've been travelling and I cannot find none Sing, Oh the hard times of old England In old England very hard times

Slightly more: Brexit means Irish Sea checks – The government has privately conceded there will be post-Brexit checks on goods crossing the Irish Sea, months after Boris Johnson ruled it out. A letter to the executive office in Stormont confirmed there would be border control posts in three...

Further information on the apparently covid-19 related disease in children. Firstly, how awful for the affected familes. Secondly, this might have a profound impact on willingness of parents to send children to schools. Italian doctors find link between Covid-19 and inflammatory disorder The...

1) Vincent who? 2) Corbyn did not set off well - he never got hard hits in. (But he did try to avoid some of the worst that we have seen in others.) 3) I am crap at politics. :)

Just how many lies can one person Johnson's pants are on fire. UK government will operate checks on goods going from Britain to Northern Ireland, Stormont told Lisa O'Carroll The government has privately conceded there will be checks on goods crossing the Irish sea post Brexit, months after...