The impression I get reading this is that the intent is sincere, but the content dangerously misguided. Like me sincerely believing I could do a...
Roger the Dodger used to have a whole book of evasion strategies. Maybe SB had a copy. @NelliePledge made her comment as a form of sarcasm ......
Possibly even because certain media-silencing lobbyists are maybe not so powerful in this instance?
Yep. I said similar earlier in the thread. It will become extremely obvious to a lot of MPs now how such important health/science news is...
This number 27 is getting to me, seeing as it coincides with another highly political membership figure that is constantly in the news :rolleyes: :p
Another good point. I would like to think their lobbying attempts will fall on increasingly stony ground. Maybe this coming year one of the...
Yes. It should make it considerably harder for the "old guard" members on the NICE guideline committee to try and sweep things under carpets -...
It's a very slippery slope if they do interfere directly, that's why they are independent. Else politicians can just barge in and influence...
Yes, yes, and almost certainly no. Although he gave off all the right signals when my wife and I met him, he was not Secretary of State for Health...
Yes I heard that too, but this web link has nearly half an hour. The news only had a few minutes. Which is why I put the web link up, but am...
Nothing at the SMC ... http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/working-with-us/for-journalists/ [ATTACH]
Not able to check this at the moment, but maybe someone could see if the BBC made any mention of yesterday's debate here....
Ironic, but I suspect that if he and Matt Hancock were not at the helm of the government's health department, they might perhaps have been on...
Steve Brine's words from last time around come across as time-filling and crocodile tears.
Which will be a case of silence speaking volumes. And less likely to go unnoticed. I suspect there may be a degree of hand wringing going on. I...
I'm guessing the SMC will come up with some wishy washy half-baked news report on today's debate, or maybe not at all. Whatever it is, or is not,...
Agreed. Asking MPs to vote for something that government has no remit to undertake, is just asking for the vote to go the wrong way.
A public enquiry maybe. I'd like to see them give it a go, because they will be accusing a lot of prominent MPs in that case, so I doubt they...
They probably just won't report it at all.
@dave30th: I really do think Brine needs calling out on this, because it is such a blatant cop-out from responsibility by his department, and I'm...
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