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Technically his third job, his other two employers were @RandoxOfficial and Lynn's Country Foods

https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7644/documents/79907/default/

Many thanks for reacting so quickly to my call to [name] last week and agreeing to meet key technicians from Randox Laboratories. It was great to meet you all again. We rapidly agreed that what Randox’s superior technology has uncovered is shocking and potentially incredibly damaging to the UK Dairy Industry. It is not good that illegal products have not been detected by the current testing regime in retail milk. It is also bad that the current systems miss certain illegal products which Randox can detect.

You agreed to begin an enhanced programme of testing for the illegal substances which Randox have discovered. We agreed Randox should test the same samples in parallel so results can be compared. You were interested in using the Randox technology within the FSA. You offered to help with ISO 7025 accreditation at a suitable laboratory. Once established the application of the technology could be discussed not just within the FSA but across the whole dairy industry. This could lead to a much rapider and more thorough testing regime of huge value to U.K. Dairy promotion at home and abroad in the future. You suggested discussing the revelations on antibiotics with [name redacted] the Chief Vet. In the meantime, although none of us could have reacted quicker to the information I was given 10 days ago by Randox, we agreed that you should agree defensive lines on immediately increasing testing should the news get out.

Looking further ahead, [one of your FSA colleagues] mentioned the issue of mycotoxins in maize and I have long been worried about the potentially explosive danger of campylobacter in chickens. It would be good if he could liaise with Randox and discuss further how their latest technologies might help on grain and meat. Thank you once again for agreeing to meet so quickly and for reacting in such a constructive manner to what is very unwelcome news for us all. Let’s keep in touch and plan to meet again in the New Year. I wish you a very Randox Christmas

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Lost. For. Words.

https://www.cityam.com/tfl-tells-city-commuters-find-another-way-as-northern-line-branch-set-to-close/?utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=TfL

seriously?? wtaf...

Been in the works for more than a decade. Regular commuters must have noticed something was going on at Bank?

You could have made your thoughts know in 2011, probably in a basement disused lavatory somewhere.

Read all about it at https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/improvements-and-projects/bank-and-monument

Open one branch and close another, regardless of the fact at since March 2020 there must have been plenty of opportunities to accelerate this work, meh

Beautiful opening to Marina Hyde's Graun article today:

An edifying week in the government of Britain, a country run by the third prize in a competition to build Winston Churchill out of marshmallows.

Open one branch and close another

That's basically what they are doing. The new running tunnel has been built. They need to do the joining bit including fiddling with the signalling etc.

plenty of opportunities to accelerate this work

Not really. Start to finish it is a 15 year project.

Always good when you see your tax's spent in such a rewarding way
https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1456521008656130048

And coining “blunderrhoea”

So, standard check: Is all this meant to distract from something even worse?

I mean, it's possible, no?

In Johnson's case, it's usually safer to assume cock-up than conspiracy, but you never know.

And coining “blunderrhoea”

'Carl von Clownewitzes'

In case there's someone who doesn't get the reference, it's to Carl von Clausewitz.

Man cave in..

https://archive.md/TDVTl

Is there a connection I missed?

No, it's just another coinage in the article.

Ah!

Bloody hell, that's about as big an illegal extension as I've seen ...

Not applying for planning permission for something like this takes some ignorance ...

And, what? He claims to employ 40 staff?

He also claimed that he would be ruined financially if he were forced to demolish the structure, which would leave him in financial difficulties and result in redundancies for 40 staff.

Presumably, that's in his accountancy business and not in there?

It's here:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Cinderford,+UK/@51.8185558,-2.5019531,134m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x4871a4fd70bee4ff:0x475da4f8b65fb4df!8m2!3d51.825303!4d-2.5009579

I prefer Liddell Hart's prose style..

Yes, now create a bad pun from 'Liddell Hart' that can be used to ridicule Boris Johnson. :)

Actually, it's not that ... er ...

Abortion protest Warsaw:

https://twitter.com/MarcinTerlik/status/1457005043375349769

£3m for a peerage is more than I was expecting
https://twitter.com/thesundaytimes/status/1457055930261118978?t=dFOapV7qa6iMfvG10IUI_Q&s=19

Is it possible for me to put a bet on Patterson getting a peerage in the next two years?

I'll bet you £10 at 2 to 1 he doesn't.

or at least, not before the next election.