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All drive poor mental health, from anxiety & depression, through to severe OCD and schizophrenia. The most powerful preventative action we could take to improve population mental health would be to try - as much as is feasibly possible - to eradicate child poverty. UK rates are obscenely high.

Two University of Leicester students speak out over ‘absurd’ and ‘Orwellian’ decision by the BBC and ITV Studios to edit out pride pins worn on University Challenge

Again, it’s important to understand that the transgender terror did not arise organically from the public. It was imposed from above, by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media class.

I’d say his greatest political trick was destroying most of the Gaza Strip while the world’s most stridently malicious liberals relentlessly screamed abuse at anyone who objected to it

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The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/

1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Home By Warsan Shire Somali-British poet

I’m not interested in the hypothetical spherical Zionism in a vacuum. What Zionism means in the real world, and what it has meant for the past 80 years, is support for a religious ethnostate working to drive the lesser races off its stolen land.

Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...

Historically the interventions that have had most benefit for socio-economically disadvantaged children have not been targeted/means tested interventions (eg SureStart-missed so many) but universal ones: •Universal education •Health visiting •childhood immunisation •Universal child benefit •The NHS

Sad A bit sick if I think about it too much Terrible for the parents too, who spend their lives worrying about will happen to their disabled child once they (the parents) die. A good care system for disabled adults used to be some sort of comfort.

I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175

Did Danny Tommo attempt to knife the boat at any point? Can't be told careful. (Lovely story and thanks for sharing ☺️)

Pretty much every women’s public loo in, say, a train station, motorway service station, museum etc says something to the effect of “both male & female attendants are employed at these facilities”. Yet trans women aren’t allowed to use them Britain has become an extremely stupid place #transphobia

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

just learned this today

If the media wants a story about academia which is of real public interest, then they should cover the resurgence of race science, which is providing legitimacy for racism and eugenic ideology in political and public discussions. Unfortunately, there seems to be little interest in this story

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

How it started / How it's going

I watched an otter with my kids while waiting for this ferry. It's fabulous!

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

Pleased to be one of the authors of this letter. I've been privileged to join research projects in ~ 100 countries, and visit ~ 40 more in my long career. So if you ask me why I reject nationalism and xenophobia so strongly, this is why.

Gah! Maxima mea culpa! rnli.org/support-us/g...

Zoe’s heart is in the right place and this is by far the best, most honest attempt to explain how something this insulting and absurd could ever have happened. But it *doesn’t make any sense at all* that it could’ve happened unless it was a wilful, calculated fraud across multiple organisations.

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Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjfT...

Good to know.

"Trump's cohort has a universal plan that they apply to every region in the world: they split a country up and sell it for parts. They exacerbate preexisting divides, which they're doing in Canada now. Their model is the pillaging of the former USSR in the 1990s." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFdI...

What a very English lynching, though, done ever so slowly and politely, in plain sight, by people who are only asking a few questions and trying to see both sides, but whose gently simmering racism, classism, and ableism seems to be remarkably easily brought to boiling point.

ULEZ has to stand as one of @london.gov.uk Sadiq Khan's finest achievements www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

The main update since February (when I last did this) is that the final analyses of the complete V-safe pregnancy registry dataset has been published following peer review. It continues to show no increased risk of any pregnancy problems associated with COVID vaccination. 3/3

this is the person to follow and the thread to read to understand all the evidence about Covid vaccines in pregnancy - to sum up - highly protective of mother and baby from covid, no increased risks of miscarriage or stillbirth or premature birth, and covid in pregnancy is bad for mother and baby!

Senators Paul and Johnson are repeating a claim from 2021, made based on a misinterpretation of the first data from the V-safe pregnancy registry, and commented on by me and others at the time... 2/ www.factcheck.org/2021/07/cdc-...

WATCH ► 48 hours after interviewing an Israeli government spokesperson on live radio, Sangita Myska was taken off air and removed from her show.

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Careful debunking of the misinformation that Trump and RFKJr touted in the press conference for Trumps wish to reduce the number of free vaccines available

The thing to note here isn’t the comically oppressive conditions in the contract. It’s that everyone immediately understood what had happened, and there wasn’t a whisper of support. Was that because everyone thought she’d brought it on herself, or because they were afraid they’d join her in the bin?

Rukhshana Media reports on what is happening to women and girls under Taliban rule. There’s a team of 10 women journalists in Afghanistan. They rarely ask for money but they’re fund-raising now. www.justgiving.com/page/rukhsha...

I had planned posting something on bizarre rewriting of history on school closures, in particular the ludicrous argument that approaches were totally polarised. However @philipcball.bsky.social has said everything I would have. & everything we said at time is on record @independentsage.bsky.social

Interview in Vogue about HIDING IN PLAIN sight, on sale for only $2.99: “Trump covers up crime with scandal and covers up malice with incompetence. His administration would like you to think that they’re inept, that they’re just stumbling into these situations.” www.vogue.com/article/sara...

“justice, like health, is a good which is enjoyed without being felt, which inspires no enthusiasm, and the value of which is felt only after it has been lost.” Rousseau Considerations on the Government of Poland

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

How these headlines focus on food prices instead of food scarcity/food security is annoying- a window into the extreme economic privilege of those writing them @theguardian.com Food prices go up when there’s not enough to go round Yet again the poorest are hardest hit while the rich don’t notice