Global hub fail

by | Jul 18, 2011


OK, that’s it. We are officially no longer a serious country:

The prime minister, who found out that Stephenson was resigning just over an hour into his overnight flight from Heathrow to Johannesburg, made a series of phone calls to the home secretary, Theresa May, and government officials from his Virgin plane.

These had to be made on the Virgin credit card phones available in all seats after the No 10 secure satellite phones failed.

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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