🧵 Since I notice an increasing number of otherwise very reasonable people saying “we have to learn to live with the virus” I’d like to briefly spell out why I find it a fundamentally flawed idea. It is no coincidence that the skilled AIER/Koch/GBD PR people use this phrasing.

Mayor of Hackney PhilipGlanville Hackney Council this follows strong reporting by Emma J Bartholomew of Hackney Gazette of this development. No public tender was ever held before granting the multi-million pound development deal and 999-year lease. No disclosure of the beneficial owner hackneygazette.co.uk/news/wall-of-s…

Islington eco-festival opens – but what about the Edmonton incinerator? bit.ly/3DYSywt

Greenwashing? Islington's eco chief refused to answer questions relating to the new incinerator being built during an interview about the council's eco festival – held to reduce CO2 emissions.... Stop the Edmonton Incinerator Now @NL_incin_CTS @XRIslington Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 bit.ly/3DYSywt

Greenwashing? Islington's eco chief refused to answer questions relating to the incinerator rebuild during an interview about the council's eco festival – held to reduce CO2 emissions Emma Best AM Georgia Elliott-Smith Jeremy Corbyn Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green bit.ly/3DYSywt

Refuses to discuss or knows she cannot justify this climate- wrecking project to the #Islington taxpayer footing the bill? It's NOT too late to scrap this project- come on Rowena Champion Emily Thornberry Jeremy Corbyn Sadiq Khan @KwasiKwarteng you CAN do this! @XRIslington

For two months our team of journalists fanned out across Eng and Wales, logging possession hearings in 30 courts. But time and time again we were told - incorrectly - that journalists and the public were never allowed into these courts... thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2021-1…

'Tenacity' of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism journalists including Maeve McClenaghan earns open justice reminder to judges pressgazette.co.uk/open-justice-c…

Shocking, sad news that Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins has died. Here he is taking the mic at Glastonbury 2017 to cover ‘Under Pressure’. #Glastonbury #Glasto #RIPTaylorHawkins #FooFighters

A teenager has been found guilty of stabbing 15-year-old schoolboy Romario Opia to death in Archway last year.... bit.ly/3NWJjSq

A former Islington councillor candidate has gone on trial accused of hitting a man on the head with a metal baseball bat after leaving a voicemail saying: "I'm going to f***ing do time for that c***." bit.ly/3H1MohT

A man from Romford who has been accused of being a "white supremacist" has gone on trial for co-hosting an online podcast which allegedly encouraged right-wing terrorism.... bit.ly/3mw7fk1

A mansion in one of London's most expensive streets, The Bishops Avenue, has been gutted by fire... bit.ly/3zmvXuM

Three drug dealers who murdered a father-of-four Lee in a sham deal arranged on Snapchat have all been jailed for life... bit.ly/3mCwMYO

Bow Lock murder: Victim's two girlfriends give evidence at Old Bailey.... bit.ly/3mM5YFv

A man tortured as a child refugee has been jailed for life, after he "re-enacted the violence inflicted on him" and killed a complete stranger with two fire extinguishers and a broom handle. bit.ly/3xXjL2w

Exempt #GMOs (such as forestry trees, pets or wild animals, including insects) will not be required to have ANY environmental risk assessment before open release into the environment, and there is NO provision to stop, destroy or clean-up such releases if anything goes wrong.

It must be pretty tense in the dock.. Bow Lock murder defendants blame each other for fatal attack... bit.ly/3OMIzzR

The mother of a man who was savagely stabbed to death by two of his "friends" says she has "nothing but pity" for his murderers and their families, as they were sentenced to life behind bars. bit.ly/3IDNhhs

Pakistan's devastating floods: - 1350 people killed - 50M people displaced - 900K livestock deaths - 1M houses washed away - 40+ reservoirs breached - 220+ bridges collapsed - 90% cropped damaged - $10B loss to economy - 1/3 country underwater Source - PDMA / NDMA