Surely within the UK we have learnt the lesson that we need to rely on our own resources more, and not create increasinng dependency on US tech companies for our health services and national security.

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

If Starmer is serious about a "reset" for Labour then one of the first things which needs to happen is that he boots Mahmood, and others, out of the cabinet and scraps his government's cruel and inhumane policies and rhetoric against migrants, and other marginalised groups. #r4today

It's not that hard. We don't have to let workers or students come here in the first place - as long as we are willing to bear the economic, tax and other costs of not doing so. But if we do let them in, we should treat them decently. And their children!

I spoke with Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman with a TBI whom ICE dragged out of her car. But that video was just the beginning of her nightmare. To this day, she can’t lift her arms normally. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

The great thing about the New Gilded Age of Billionaire Power is that, if you are one, you can muse publicly about enserfing 99.9% of the population to your bizarre racist whims, and everyone just laughs and says "Have another teenager!"

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

Where's the £350 million a year Brexiters claimed we'd gain...?

"Let's take off all the brakes that stop as actilng like violent out-of-control thugs" - after all, that's working so well in the US.

Corrupt kleptocrat’s death squads execute second dissident as military round up clergy and terrorise cities in chaotic lawless petro-state.

This strikes a painful chord. A memory of our own flag being taken down from the EU buildings. An end to cooperation. So symbolic, isolating and shameful.

Trump's Davos speech was the act of a madman and that is the only sensible manner in which it should have been covered iandunt.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Last message from @ofcom.bsky.social was 8 days ago. If they are working round the clock as they say, why haven’t we seen any results? Why isn’t there more transparency around the investigation?

Ok! Mar-a-Lago

Trump shenanigans contributing to Iceland decision to hold a referendum on joining the European Union. It will be the 11th non-EU country to apply to join. If this continues, Britain will be almost alone in Europe in being outside the EU, isolated, poorer and weaker.

I have British friends who served in Afghanistan and lost friends during their time there. This is an appalling thing to say.

This is official Reform Party policy. 👇🏻

Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer www.investing.com/news/stock-m...

Gavin Newsom, Governor of California at Davos, does not hold back in criticising Keir Starmer and the European Union for capitulating to Trump, "I can't take this complicity, people rolling over, I should have brought a bunch of kneepads for all the world leaders" "Trump has a police state"

We’ve asked millions of service members to die for this country and a handful of Republicans won’t even risk their jobs to save it.

Meanwhile in Minnesota, ICE agents are telling people filming them “Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?”

The look on the dog’s face speaks for us all

Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

This is pretty much the only post anyone should need to understand that Farage is a traitor, a conman and a populist simpleton who must *never* be given power.

A market with no price signals that has created some of the highest fees in the world that hasn’t secured university funding. A policy that achieves literally none of its aims!

if you put this in a script even erin brockovitch would be like “too on the nose, dial it back”

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

This is what RFK thinks about vulnerable children.

self-awareness FTW

Prophet revises time of apocalypse after originally projected date passes uneventfully.

Very happy to see this new and improved IG genetic resource for Rhesus Macaque published today in Immunity! An enjoyable and fruitful collaboration with Steve Bosinger & team (Emory), @guryaari.bsky.social, @ayeletperes.bsky.social and @williamlees.bsky.social - More to come! doi.org/10.1016/j.im...

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research. A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans. futurism.com/health-medic...

Since I dumped some really bad news on y'all I wanna tell you about the other side of social media. It's children of anti-vaxxers turning 18 and filming themselves getting vaxxed.

and the ability to do such vaccine research was impossible. In 1918 it was not known what caused influenza; the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933. The bottom line is that a vaccine virus could never have been imagined in 1918. The influenza virus arose in

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

A recent modeling study in JAMA showed that if MMR vaccine rates drop 10% (easy to see happen with this), we’re back to 400,000-500,000 cases a year. Our current outbreak is 2,000. This turns the clock back to 1950 🚨🚨🚨

Over the past 5+ years I've had the honor of working with @wsdewitt.github.io @victora.bsky.social and many others on a project to "replay" affinity maturation evolution from a fixed starting point. matsen.group/general/2025...

I'm not going to lie. I find these numbers staggering. Why would you not? Is it not free for NHS frontline workers?

Gonna wallow for a second: I'll share more info tomorrow, but over the last couple weeks, we've finally put our NSF center on ice as we continue to just not get paid and run out of money. I'm just so sad and angry about it. No real "but" at the end of this

Happy to see this work on IG light chains from @e-engelbrecht1.bsky.social in press www.nature.com/articles/s41... How else will germline variation impact the expressed repertoire? Can't wait to see! Thanks to awesome collabs: @williamlees.bsky.social @guryaari.bsky.social @ayeletperes.bsky.social

We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen. 1/n

My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter. I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.

My best guess regarding the Ukraine/Russia negotiations is that both sides fully realize there is simply no overlap in the Venn Diagram of what each could accept in terms of conditions and assurances. None. However neither can afford to alienate the US by not engaging in the pantomime of looking.

The UK is losing up to £250m a day in lost tax revenue due to the economic impact of Brexit, House of Commons Library analysis for the Lib Dems suggests. Brexit has blown a "black hole of [up to] £90 billion a year in the public finances" the party says. Even under lower estimates the hit is ~£65bn