Only a few weeks ago the government was lauding the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its speedy approval of covid vaccines. World leading they were described as!
It makes it even harder to understand therefore to understand why the government has been pushing the use of 30-minute lateral flow tests to allow students to remain in classrooms instead of sending whole "bubbles" home when it has been discovered that the much lauded Agency had not authorised their use for this purpose
Following a number of high profile cases where under cover police officers were seen to break the law in the course of their investigations. The Government is seeking to make such actions legal in the future.
Liberal Democrat peers have helped to pass cross-party amendments to the Covert Human Intelligence Sources ( Criminal Conduct) Bill, as the number of Government defeats on the controversial new law rose to four.
The picture is of a food parcel provided for school kids in Finland.
Why show this?
Well Marcus Rashford is back in the news this morning complaining about the quality of some of the school meals being sent to kids now forced to study at home in the UK
His tweet below says it all
The Department for Education have responded saying "We have clear guidelines and standards for food parcels, which we expect to be followed." The children's minister, Vicky Ford, said she would be "urgently" look into the matter.
Our NHS is under more pressure than it has ever been. As we write, brave nurses, doctors, cleaners, porters, health care assistants are putting in superhuman effort to keep people alive, to comfort them and their families when they can't and to treat more critically ill people than they have ever had to at the same time before.
