Minutes of a Monday #66

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Brain Food > You can’t handle the truth

Enquiry: And your evidence, putting those exchanges in context, is that there was no sense in which you were somehow defying them in staying in your role in January/February 2020?

Lord Stevens: No.

Enquiry: I do want to ask you about one more message, which is from later in the year, August 2020. I'm not going to bring it up on screen, but let me just read it out - its primary focus is Mr Cummings coming back to the question of whether Mr Hancock should leave his role, but he does mention you as well.

He says this: "I also must stress I think leaving Hancock in post is a big mistake -- he is a proven liar who nobody believes or should believe on anything, and we face going into [an] autumn crisis with the cunt still in charge of the NHS still -- therefore we'll be back around that cabinet table with him and Stevens bullshitting again in [September]. Hideous prospect."

The former head of the NHS, Lord Simon Stephens, being questioned at the UK Covid-19 Enquiry, relating to a message from Downing Street Advisor, Dominic Cummings, regarding his position.

Soul Food

“The only thing you owe the public is a good performance.”

Frank Sinatra

LOL

There’s only one Roy Keane:

Appendix

“You want to promote the work that you’ve done… but then there is a whole phlanx of people you’re talking to, and the last thing they want to hear is about the work. They want to find out if you’ve been in jail… oftentimes, you crawl back to the car or back to your little apartment somewhere [and] you’re filled with self-loathing.”

Tom Hanks talking to the FT about work and celebrity

AOB

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