Randeep Ramesh

Somali Militants Live-Tweet Their Deadly Attack on U.N. Compound

turtlebay.foreignpolicy.com — The Somali militant movement Al Shabaab today launched a deadly strike against a U.N. humanitarian compound in Mogadishu that killed one international staffer, three contractors, four Somali security guards and an unknown number of Somali civilians. Then they gloated about it in a creepy series of Twitter posts The tweets seemed calculated to taunt the new U.N.

thetimes: Tomorrow's front page: NHS ...

twitter.com — Tomorrow's front page: NHS scandal watchdogs 'should face prosecution' pic.twitter.com/HBbUXmay76

CQC allegations and data protection

informationrightsandwrongs.com — Data Protection laws have been said to be behind the decision not to name CQC officials alleged to have covered-up a damning internal report. Oh really? Well, yes, perhaps, I argue.

Met asked to investigate NHS regulator after Morecambe Bay trust report

guardian.co.uk — Police have been asked to investigate allegations of a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission, stemming from the health regulator's failure to investigate an alarming rise in deaths in Morecambe Bay NHS Trust hospitals.

The Crown Prosecution Service

cps.gov.uk — Misconduct In Public Office: Legal Guidance produced by The Crown Prosecution Service

Cynthia Bower omitted from report into Cumbrian hospital baby deaths

guardian.co.uk — One name missing from Wednesday's report into the suspected cover-up at the Care Quality Commission over babies' deaths in Cumbrian hospitals is its former boss. Cynthia Bower was in charge when, in the words of the new chair of regulator, the "fish was rotting from the head".

Met asked to investigate NHS regulator after Morecambe Bay trust report

guardian.co.uk — Police have been asked to investigate allegations of a cover-up at the Care Quality Commission, stemming from the health regulator's failure to investigate an alarming rise in deaths in Morecambe Bay NHS Trust hospitals.

Is reform of the NHS doomed to fail?

guardian.co.uk — When Nigel Lawson, the former Conservative chancellor, remarked that the NHS was the closest thing to a national religion that the English have, he encapsulated an inconvenient truth: that challenging belief in the good of a state-financed, state-run health service could end in, as the editors of three medical journals put it last week, an "unholy mess".

Amol Rajan appointed as Independent editor

guardian.co.uk — Amol Rajan, the columnist and former adviser to Evgeny Lebedev, has been appointed editor of the Independent. Rajan replaces Chris Blackhurst, in a surprise move less than two years since he was named editor. Currently the editor of the Independent's comment section, Rajan becomes the first non-white editor of a British national newspaper.