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The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial
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Funders have picked a damaging fight with scientists and the public. They should reconsider their plans

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/the-guardian-view-on-the-lovell-telescope-cuts-physics-bad-science-politics

#Sciencepolicy #Physics #Astronomy #Science #Space #Politics #AndyBurnham #Labour #LizKendall #PatrickVallance #UKnews #TheGuardian #Editorial

The Guardian view on the Lovell telescope: budget cuts to physics are bad science and worse politics | Editorial https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/31/the-guardian-view-on-the-lovell-telescope-cuts-physics-bad-science-politics #SciencePolicy #Physics #Astronomy #Science #Space #Politics #AndyBurnham #Labour #LizKendall #PatrickVallance #UkNews

UK Biobank has my data, but I’m not worried. I know the benefits are too great to consider pulling out | Polly Toynbee https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/01/uk-biobank-data-china-breach-longitudinal-study-benefits #MedicalResearch #DataProtection #China #PatrickVallance #Science #UkNews #WorldNews

UK braces for further leaks after more private health records appear on Chinese website https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/uk-data-leaks-alibaba-biobank-health-records #DataProtection #China #UkNews #Alibaba #PatrickVallance #HouseOfLords #Politics #IanMurray #AsiaPacific #Technology #WorldNews

AI will transform the ‘human job’ and enhance skills, says science minister https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/16/ai-will-transform-the-human-job-and-enhance-skills-says-science-minister #AiArtificialIntelligence #Robots #Computing #Technology #PatrickVallance #Politics #UkNews #Unemployment #SadiqKhan

NHS must reverse decline in drugs investment, says science minister https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/16/nhs-must-reverse-decline-medicines-investment-science-minister-patrick-vallance #Pharmaceuticalsindustry #PatrickVallance #AstraZeneca #Politics #Business #Science #Society #UKnews #Health #NHS

I would not have been a minister under Tories, says Labour’s Patrick Vallance https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/30/labour-patrick-vallance-science-minister-tories #PatrickVallance #Sciencepolicy #Conservatives #Coronavirus #RishiSunak #Politics #Science #UKnews #Labour

Am I the only one wishing #Starmer would #maskup and get #PatrickVallance to start a campaign talking about how many people have #longcovid and now can’t work. That might make #luxon pay attention if he realised the #economy would be screwed. #WearAMask #CovidIsNotOver

Another #pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says #PatrickVallance

Former #UK #ChiefScientificAdviser warns ‘we are not ready yet’ and urges next government to prepare
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/25/another-pandemic-is-absolutely-inevitable-says-patrick-vallance-covid
#ToryFailure #GE2024

Another pandemic is ‘absolutely inevitable’, says Patrick Vallance https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/25/another-pandemic-is-absolutely-inevitable-says-patrick-vallance-covid #WorldHealthOrganization #Infectiousdiseases #PatrickVallance #Microbiology #Coronavirus #Epidemics #Science #UKnews

#PatrickVallance contradicts #RishiSunak’s evidence to #CovidInquiry

PM would almost certainly have known concerns over ‘#EatOutToHelpOut’ scheme, says former chief scientific adviser

How Vallance’s diaries exposed chaos inside No 10
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/20/patrick-vallance-contradicts-rishi-sunak-evidence-to-covid-enquiry

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryInhumanity

Martin Rowson on #PatrickVallance’s appearance at the #CovidInquiry – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/nov/20/martin-rowson-on-patrick-vallances-covid-inquiry-cartoon

And... "Pete Weatherby KC, counsel for #CovidBereavedFamiliesForJustice, is asking questions now.

He starts by asking Sir #PatrickVallance to confirm that the #EatOutToHelpOut scheme would have increased the number of #CovidDeaths

Vallance accepts that.

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #CovidInquiry #LetTheBodiesPileHigh #MoneyBeforePeople #ToryInhumanity

#BorisJohnson ‘bamboozled’ by science and #MattHancock had habit of saying things that were untrue, #UK #CovidInquiry hears – live

Former chief scientific adviser #PatrickVallance revealed there was ‘complete lack of leadership’ at times in crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/nov/20/pensioners-winter-fuel-payments-autumn-statement-rishi-sunak-patrick-vallance-covid-inquiry-david-cameron-keir-starmer-michael-gove-david-lammy-uk-politics-latest
#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryIncompetence

‘‘Nature’s way of dealing with #OldPeople’: the damning messages revealed to #CovidInquiry

Inquiry sees verbatim messages from #BorisJohnson, #DominicCummings and #PatrickVallance'
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/natures-way-of-dealing-with-old-people-the-damning-messages-revealed-to-covid-inquiry

#ToryPoliciesInAction #Covid19 #ToryCallousness #LetTheBodiesPileHigh

'What you’ve missed at the #CovidInquiry

From allegedly lost WhatsApp messages to Sir #PatrickVallance’s frank #lockdown diary, revelations only get more intriguing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/wednesday-briefing-first-edition-covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-patrick-vallance
#COVID19 #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIndifference #ToryInfighting

‘This feels exactly the right place to be’: Sir Patrick Vallance on pandemics, eco-anxiety and leading the Natural History Museum
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/15/sir-patrick-vallance-natural-history-museum-eco-anxiety-pandemics-climate-action-aoe?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#PatrickVallance
#NaturalHistoryMuseum