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Does "the hapless minister du jour" mean "the reckless minister who is destined to be short-lived for his minstership"? Simply a wild guess here. It is for the first time that I see "du jour".
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Richard Horton, The Lancet’s editor-in-chief, on coronavirus and controversies
“Viruses are creeping up on us. This one is bad. The next one could be even worse”
Even before the Dominic Cummings debacle, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, loses his temper when I bring up the government’s daily Covid-19 briefings. “It’s a betrayal of science,” he says. “It’s a betrayal of science’s responsibility to the public. It’s actually an abuse of power.” He is incensed by the two scientists standing like altar boys and girls either side of the hapless minister du jour. “They’re supposed to be giving independent advice to the government. But they don’t give independent advice. They support government. Our scientific community has become the public relations wing of a government that has abjectly failed to respond to this pandemic.”
There is, I suggest, another problem — “gotcha” questions asked by the usual cabal of political journalists. Horton
Source: The Sunday Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...nd-controversies-08k37zv27#Echobox=1591374162
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Richard Horton, The Lancet’s editor-in-chief, on coronavirus and controversies
“Viruses are creeping up on us. This one is bad. The next one could be even worse”
Even before the Dominic Cummings debacle, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of The Lancet, loses his temper when I bring up the government’s daily Covid-19 briefings. “It’s a betrayal of science,” he says. “It’s a betrayal of science’s responsibility to the public. It’s actually an abuse of power.” He is incensed by the two scientists standing like altar boys and girls either side of the hapless minister du jour. “They’re supposed to be giving independent advice to the government. But they don’t give independent advice. They support government. Our scientific community has become the public relations wing of a government that has abjectly failed to respond to this pandemic.”
There is, I suggest, another problem — “gotcha” questions asked by the usual cabal of political journalists. Horton
Source: The Sunday Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...nd-controversies-08k37zv27#Echobox=1591374162
