Dr Ben King 🌍

To drive from Totnes to York (5 and a half hours of driving) would have been something that I would have managed to do before my #LongCovid symptoms started. My right foot gets quite painful if I drive for more than around an hour. So I'm #Pacing my journey North over a couple of days ☺️

We've published a new blog and six calls for change to protect young people's health and future opportunities. www.longcovidkids.org/post/young-p... #ForEveryChildhood #LongCovidKids #NEET #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS @longcoviduk.bsky.social

Young people do not become NEET overnight. For some, exclusion begins in childhood, when ill health disrupts education and appropriate support is missing. Read more: www.longcovidkids.org/post/young-p... #ForEveryChildhood #LongCovidKids #NEET #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #MECFS

I am old enough to remember when it was agreed that 2 degrees warming would spell real trouble. And now the boiling frogs are saying an extra degree can be adapted to... This is copium for the Fafocene. It's going to get very fugly quite soon. www.euronews.com/2026/10/27/e...

Just remembered I've got my People Who Think They're Furniture Club committee meeting tonight. I've got to go because I'm the chair.

Well, yes , and ….

Just found this photo showing our local #Petrol #Gas #Diesel prices just before #Trump started the #WarWithIran. They are now £166.9p for Petrol and £197.9p #Totnes #Devon #England #UK

Congo's Ebola infections surpass 10,000, government says reut.rs/4zd8xEk

More than a thousand years ago, Al-Khwarizmi was the father of algebra. Ibn Sina/Avicenna wrote the leading medical text. Al-Biruni made original contributions to geodesy/astronomy. Nobel Prizes: Naguib Mahfouz Ahmed Zewail Moungi Bawendi Ardem Patapoutian Wolf Prize: Ahmed Zewail Omar Yaghi

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

It's been a full year since a Jordanian Palestinian Arab won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

#BrexitReality

Can’t believe this. Speaking plainly, and honestly. Finally addressing the issue head on, instead of skirting around it, pretending Brexit is fine. Finally.

"This is some of the strongest evidence so far that the #AMOC has weakened over the last 40 years.”

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War. Meanwhile, Trump himself owns up to $81 million in oil and gas stocks — which have increased in value by 43% since the end of 2025. When Trump says "we're making a freaking fortune," understand who he is really talking about.

Tweet 3/3 The Department for Education’s ventilation guidance supports monitoring to help schools understand classroom ventilation. Good air quality matters for health, wellbeing, attendance, inclusion and achievement. Clean air is also an important part of asthma management.

Tweet 2/3 The monitors help teachers and pupils investigate the air they breathe, compare indoor and outdoor conditions, and explore how classroom environments change. It’s a great opportunity to combine practical science with healthier learning environments.

Tweet 1/3 Safe Air Schools UK is pleased to help share this brilliant opportunity from CHILI! Many schools lack IAQ monitors, and cost is a barrier. CHILI offers schools in England and Wales two free monitors to explore indoor and outdoor air quality. 🔗 chili.ac.uk/get-involved/

In 2024, Earth’s average surface temperature surpassed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. “The warming, primarily caused by us humans, is accelerating, which is a really worrying sign,” says PIK Director Rockström. What does this mean for the stability of our planet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rphp...

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

A summer of extreme heat, reservoirs running dangerously low and fears of water shortages before Christmas. The weather today may feel reassuring, but one wet spell won’t undo months of drought. www.thetimes.com/article/7812...

Solar is booming.

My political education began in Brazil, where I lived from 1989-91. I learnt that the only defence we have is "conscientizaçao": raising awareness about the relations between exploiters and exploited, and the violence that underpins them. The Brazilians have once again demonstrated its power. ✊❤️‍🔥

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Victory for Lula, who has already reduced Amazon deforestation by 70% since 2022, means there is now a chance of ending deforestation of the rainforest entirely I’m weeping with joy for Brazil, for the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon, and for life on Earth 🇧🇷🌳🌎 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Monday morning 07:30. Another TEN HOURS in bed - eight of which sleeping. And my body seems to be Stable again - VisibleHealth - Ready and Balanced - EliteHRV and KubiosHRV. Today I will of course keep #pacing everything that I do. #LongCovid symptom management.

#GoodNews for people of Brazil and the Amazon www.euronews.com/2026/10/26/l...

Absolutely marvellous to wake up this morning to this fantastic and unexpected news I think I can just hear the Amazon Rainforest breathing a small sigh of relief too www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

Now 47 hours, and counting 😮 A&E longest waiting time at Derriford Hospital #Plymouth Shorter, of course, for the most urgent cases 🤔

My patients are appalled - when I tell them - this is how bad it is and I share this on my phone to help them understand. They are thankful but we need to mass educate MDs to stop being complacent! pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/...

Despite Lula solidly winning the Brazilian Presidential runoff, his Far Right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro is describing the result as “inexplicable” and calling for the election to be annulled. A preview for the US Midterms.

The stock markets and bond markets are no supporters of democracy, and we should never allow them to dictate the limits of politics.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

Maybe the fascists overplayed their hand; both domestic news media and foreign social media didn't so much put a thumb on the scale as elbow it from the rafters, and maybe people finally saw that. I don't know.

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

We are in the middle of a Covid wave which as usual we are not meant to talk about. So no surprise. There is a reason for these horrendous problems that dare not speak its name.

Surely not? Current longest waiting time in Plymouth's Derriford Hospital A&E is 38 hours (at 2am) Of course, the most urgent cases will be seen first, but A&E can be a scary place to end up, at the best of times 😔