'Corona fiascos' The main story for the Mail is the government's abandonment of its coronavirus tracing app. "How Many More Corona Fiascos?" asks the front page headline. It cites a string of U-turns over testing, protective equipment, schools and quarantine. It's also the lead for the Times, which says the failure of the technology leaves the government's virus tracing strategy in "disarray" and hampers efforts to lift social distancing restrictions. Its leading article says Boris Johnson "needs to reassure the country that he really does have a plan to get out of this mess".
The project has become a "national embarrassment", says the Telegraph, which calls Health Secretary Matt Hancock "hapless and app-less". The Guardian points out that three months and millions of pounds were spent on "technology that experts had repeatedly warned would not work". "Another day, another U-turn", says Huffpost UK. The cover of the Economist has an illustration of a tattered Union Flag shot through with virus-shaped holes. "Not Britain's finest hour", it declares about the country's response to the pandemic, arguing that the UK has the "wrong government for the covid crisis". "It has played a bad hand badly," is the magazine's verdict.
Apple hits back at Matt Hancock over claims tracing app can't detect distances and says government has NOT asked to work together after NHS software was humiliatingly scrapped
The tech giant also said it had not been consulted over the Health Secretary's statement last night that they would now work together to develop software.
'Corona fiascos' The main story for the Mail is the government's abandonment of its coronavirus tracing app. "How Many More Corona Fiascos?" asks the front page headline. It cites a string of U-turns over testing, protective equipment, schools and quarantine. It's also the lead for the Times, which says the failure of the technology leaves the government's virus tracing strategy in "disarray" and hampers efforts to lift social distancing restrictions. Its leading article says Boris Johnson "needs to reassure the country that he really does have a plan to get out of this mess".
The project has become a "national embarrassment", says the Telegraph, which calls Health Secretary Matt Hancock "hapless and app-less". The Guardian points out that three months and millions of pounds were spent on "technology that experts had repeatedly warned would not work". "Another day, another U-turn", says Huffpost UK. The cover of the Economist has an illustration of a tattered Union Flag shot through with virus-shaped holes. "Not Britain's finest hour", it declares about the country's response to the pandemic, arguing that the UK has the "wrong government for the covid crisis". "It has played a bad hand badly," is the magazine's verdict.
If memory serves me well ( as I CBA to find the article)
I think the company that was awarded the contract to devise the App was either- no, you will never guess....
a) A mate of Domcum b) A company that Domcum had done some paid consultancy work for c) Both
Compound this nepotism with T wat Hancock's new bessie Baroness Di ldo 'I screwed it all up when I was in charge of TalkTalk' Hardon, wife of yes a Conservative MP John Penrose
Beggars belief the arrogance of this party that rides rough shod over the every day person with their decisions....
'Corona fiascos' The main story for the Mail is the government's abandonment of its coronavirus tracing app. "How Many More Corona Fiascos?" asks the front page headline. It cites a string of U-turns over testing, protective equipment, schools and quarantine. It's also the lead for the Times, which says the failure of the technology leaves the government's virus tracing strategy in "disarray" and hampers efforts to lift social distancing restrictions. Its leading article says Boris Johnson "needs to reassure the country that he really does have a plan to get out of this mess".
The project has become a "national embarrassment", says the Telegraph, which calls Health Secretary Matt Hancock "hapless and app-less". The Guardian points out that three months and millions of pounds were spent on "technology that experts had repeatedly warned would not work". "Another day, another U-turn", says Huffpost UK. The cover of the Economist has an illustration of a tattered Union Flag shot through with virus-shaped holes. "Not Britain's finest hour", it declares about the country's response to the pandemic, arguing that the UK has the "wrong government for the covid crisis". "It has played a bad hand badly," is the magazine's verdict.
If memory serves me well ( as I CBA to find the article)
I think the company that was awarded the contract to devise the App was either- no, you will never guess....
a) A mate of Domcum b) A company that Domcum had done some paid consultancy work for c) Both
Compound this nepotism with T wat Hancock's new bessie Baroness Di ldo 'I screwed it all up when I was in charge of TalkTalk' Hardon, wife of yes a Conservative MP John Penrose
Beggars belief the arrogance of this party that rides rough shod over the every day person with their decisions....
And yes @Essexphil , just to be clear, I can't stand the Tory party and all it stands for...i wasn't sure if my feelings came through?
'Corona fiascos' The main story for the Mail is the government's abandonment of its coronavirus tracing app. "How Many More Corona Fiascos?" asks the front page headline. It cites a string of U-turns over testing, protective equipment, schools and quarantine. It's also the lead for the Times, which says the failure of the technology leaves the government's virus tracing strategy in "disarray" and hampers efforts to lift social distancing restrictions. Its leading article says Boris Johnson "needs to reassure the country that he really does have a plan to get out of this mess".
The project has become a "national embarrassment", says the Telegraph, which calls Health Secretary Matt Hancock "hapless and app-less". The Guardian points out that three months and millions of pounds were spent on "technology that experts had repeatedly warned would not work". "Another day, another U-turn", says Huffpost UK. The cover of the Economist has an illustration of a tattered Union Flag shot through with virus-shaped holes. "Not Britain's finest hour", it declares about the country's response to the pandemic, arguing that the UK has the "wrong government for the covid crisis". "It has played a bad hand badly," is the magazine's verdict.
If memory serves me well ( as I CBA to find the article)
I think the company that was awarded the contract to devise the App was either- no, you will never guess....
a) A mate of Domcum b) A company that Domcum had done some paid consultancy work for c) Both
Compound this nepotism with T wat Hancock's new bessie Baroness Di ldo 'I screwed it all up when I was in charge of TalkTalk' Hardon, wife of yes a Conservative MP John Penrose
Beggars belief the arrogance of this party that rides rough shod over the every day person with their decisions....
And yes @Essexphil , just to be clear, I can't stand the Tory party and all it stands for...i wasn't sure if my feelings came through?
Government is accused of underplaying coronavirus death toll at height of crisis as it is revealed more than 1,000 people died every day in the UK for 22 consecutive days
The latest figures, which reflect deaths in hospitals, care homes and private homes, dwarf those that were announced by ministers at the time, which only took hospital fatalities into account.
Are we all going on a summer holiday? Mixed messages, dithering and questions galore. No wonder it's so confusing - but don't despair... we reveal where we're welcome and where we're not
Well, did they or didn't they? Some reports say Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French president Emmanuel Macron discussed a reciprocal arrangement to allow holidays to go ahead this summer in their respective countries without any need to self-isolate; others, including a No 10 spokesman, said it 'didn't come up'. Which is symptomatic of the shambolic way the Government has handled travel to and from the UK during the Covid-19 crisis. That's why we are helping readers find a way through the quagmire and here we reveal where we're welcome and where we're not..
The quote, which reads “Make the lie big, keep it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it,” is attributed to the Third Reich's propaganda supremo, Dr Joseph Goebbels
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'Corona fiascos'
The main story for the Mail is the government's abandonment of its coronavirus tracing app. "How Many More Corona Fiascos?" asks the front page headline. It cites a string of U-turns over testing, protective equipment, schools and quarantine.
It's also the lead for the Times, which says the failure of the technology leaves the government's virus tracing strategy in "disarray" and hampers efforts to lift social distancing restrictions. Its leading article says Boris Johnson "needs to reassure the country that he really does have a plan to get out of this mess".
The project has become a "national embarrassment", says the Telegraph, which calls Health Secretary Matt Hancock "hapless and app-less".
The Guardian points out that three months and millions of pounds were spent on "technology that experts had repeatedly warned would not work".
"Another day, another U-turn", says Huffpost UK.
The cover of the Economist has an illustration of a tattered Union Flag shot through with virus-shaped holes. "Not Britain's finest hour", it declares about the country's response to the pandemic, arguing that the UK has the "wrong government for the covid crisis". "It has played a bad hand badly," is the magazine's verdict.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-53102517
The tech giant also said it had not been consulted over the Health Secretary's statement last night that they would now work together to develop software.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
I think the company that was awarded the contract to devise the App was either- no, you will never guess....
a) A mate of Domcum
b) A company that Domcum had done some paid consultancy work for
c) Both
Compound this nepotism with T wat Hancock's new bessie
Baroness Di ldo 'I screwed it all up when I was in charge of TalkTalk' Hardon, wife of yes a Conservative MP John Penrose
Beggars belief the arrogance of this party that rides rough shod over the every day person with their decisions....
I was getting mixed messages
The latest figures, which reflect deaths in hospitals, care homes and private homes, dwarf those that were announced by ministers at the time, which only took hospital fatalities into account.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html
Well, did they or didn't they? Some reports say Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French president Emmanuel Macron discussed a reciprocal arrangement to allow holidays to go ahead this summer in their respective countries without any need to self-isolate; others, including a No 10 spokesman, said it 'didn't come up'. Which is symptomatic of the shambolic way the Government has handled travel to and from the UK during the Covid-19 crisis. That's why we are helping readers find a way through the quagmire and here we reveal where we're welcome and where we're not..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html