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Gov.UK is back up too. They have a mandate from government to be able to provide emergency communications so I expect they did have a backup and have managed to switch over, but just took 30 mins to do so.

Gov.UK is supposed to be a bit like BBC 1 or Radio 1 – in a national emergency they can be taken over to disseminate critical information, like if there was a nuclear attack launched on the UK.




no, it's just that the incident has just been fixed by fastly https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj




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