@ardernkate
Public health doctor, hon Professor @salforduniversity, visiting Professor @chesteruniversity, former Director of Public Health, Scouser & @FT Women of 2020 ❤️all arts especially music & film, wildlife, photography, history, politics & sci-fi
Reform's Andrea Jenkyns says we shouldn't rule out British troops on the ground in Iran
So much for learning the lessons of Iraq, or Afghanistan, or anywhere else for that matter
Featured on the hub today, a new blog where @rogerkline.bsky.social reflects on the findings of his review exploring the literature on patient safety and speaking up. www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur...
With the right help, you're up to 3x more likely to quit smoking for good this #NoSmokingDay.
Download the free app NHS Quit Smoking App today: www.nhs.uk/better-healt...
Is our 21st century Boudicca wannabe proposing to put the Honourable Member for Boston, Skegness & Dubai in charge of the newly formed crack troops of the Lincolnshire Light Brigade?
Fascinating thread from a US senator.
Interesting that as he cannot say anything which was briefed and classified, he lists what was not briefed.
Clever.
Brilliant as ever from @mrjohncrace.bsky.social 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...
I'm sure Kemi Badenoch will be interested.
#R4Today
Around a quarter of global seaborne oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, along with roughly one-fifth of liquefied natural gas shipments. https://bit.ly/46TzbG6
“You just suggested that Iran got its hands on a U.S. Tomahawk and BOMBED ITS OWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL on the first day of the war.
You are the only person in your government saying this.
WHY ARE YOU THE ONLY PERSON SAYING THIS?”
PEDOrump’s answer:
“Because I just don’t know enough about it.” 😲🙄🤬
"They can't stand people with brown or Black faces, or with religions that aren't Christian, who actually deeply identify as being British and English – it fries their brains."
Why is GB News comparing migrants to a 'genocide' of white people?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
This story suggests that Witkoff and Kushner bungled the negotiations with Iran because they don't understand nuclear technology
www.ms.now/news/trump-i...
“The Strait of Hormuz closure has caused the biggest oil supply disruption in history. About 20% of global supply has been disrupted for 9 days, more than double the previous record set during the 1956 Suez crisis.
There’s virtually no spare capacity to address the problem.”
Rethink oil dependency.
Fools on the Flank. UK-Norway: right diagnosis, too weak medicine. Trump wants Greenland - Iceland, Jan Mayen, Svalbard follow. Britain can’t deter Washington. Neither can Oslo. Two smaller targets standing closer isn’t a counterweight. EU integration is arithmetic, not naivety. #EU #UK. 🇳🇴🇬🇧🇮🇸
This image depicts the aftermath of the Great Sheffield Flood of 11 March 1864.The disaster was caused by the collapse of the newly constructed Dale Dyke Dam. The dam wall failed while the reservoir was being filled for the first time, releasing roughly 114 million cubic feet of water into the Loxley Valley. The flood resulted in the deaths of an estimated 240 people and nearly 700 animals. It destroyed or damaged over 400 houses and 20 bridges, significantly impacting villages like Loxley and Malin Bridge
The Great Sheffield Flood devastated parts of Sheffield OTD, 11 March 1864, when the Dale Dyke Dam broke as its reservoir was being filled for the first time. A small crack had been discovered in the embankment. Despite attempts to relieve the pressure, the dam breached. Around
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Blair pontificates on going to war in the Middle East; Clegg whinges about tuition fees. A (very long) period of silence would be welcome. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at a Reform UK petrol station They have pledged to reinstate the 5p fuel duty cut in their first Budget
Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy.
So much dignity going on.
Grasping little nobodies, who think they have a god given right to literally lord it over us in perpetuity, because some ancestor bought a peerage or was the illegitimate child of a royal or won some battle in a long forgotten colonial war or lent money to some tosser who lived beyond their means.
As much of a must read as your timeline is telling you it is
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing
Now *that* is interesting. (Confession: I'm a fan of citizens' assemblies).
A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war.
Here's what has happened since then to public opinion
72 years ago tonight, Edward R. Murrow made his famous broadcast on Sen. Joe McCarthy.
As I wrote for @newrepublic.com a couple years ago, we should remember Murrow not for taking down McCarthy (which is a myth), but as one of the great advocates for democracy: newrepublic.com/article/1795... 🗃️
An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.
"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm"
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
As I try to point out in my forthcoming piece for the print edition of Byline Times, Trump’s Christian Zionists are actually deeply antisemitic. They want Jews to provoke the Second Coming by fighting Muslims, and then they will be damned in the ‘rapture’ if they don’t convert
@nafeez.bsky.social
