Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit. That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.

Incredibly sobering post but do bear this section in mind when you hear Chris Philp and Robert Jenrick getting on their high horse...

Really good thread. The Heritage Foundation is evil.

What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

New post just out: Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list". No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks. It desperately needs a new approach. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

NEW SHEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!! Front to back are Geranium, Eloise, Amelia & Emily (spitting image of my old Ruby ❤️) & Bridget, who narrowly escaped culling when I wavered after marking her with the big green X for my friends 😂 I'd make a god-awful farmer

The court should simply take the freeholds off him and give them to the leaseholders and then go "haha fafo you cnt"

Even to someone such as myself - who has studied and worked in housing for over 15yrs - Leasehold law is very complex and difficult to navigate. This sort of behaviour is deeply predatory and utterly unacceptable. www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

Meanwhile the person responsible for this just scored a $1 TRILLION pay package. The world is broken.

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

I’m afraid I’ve heard enough to take this seriously - No.10 is thinking of abolishing ECO, the main source of funding for upgrading fuel poor homes. There’s no way to sugar coat this: it would be a disaster. And it would mean this government spending less on upgrading homes than the last one

"ARRRRGGGHHHH WHAT'S THAT BEEPING NOISE AND WHY'S IT DARK??" or "Oh, I'm awake now" Reminder, as mornings get darker, that a sunrise alarm clock is one of the best things I've ever picked up for dealing with the winter run in.

Today seems a good day to repost this. It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*

Antivaxxers are essentially demanding the right to spread disease to – and potentially kill – other people’s children. Republicans, perhaps desensitised after doing nothing to stop school shootings year after year, are apparently entirely okay with that.

When the 'something' is cancer, I'd focus on the 'may happen' bit, and then imagine the conversation with the adult you didn't vaccinate.

Excellent article on energy costs in the UK. Well worth a read. Teases apart a complex situation where rising costs are not just ‘gas price’ or ‘net-zero’, but a whole mix of things we need to pay for, but choose to load onto energy bills.

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

"...flaring his nostrils and peering anxiously into the middle distance, as if concerned Harold Bishop might suddenly appear from behind a shrub and club him with a mace." 😂😂😂😂 Bit wheezy now

Worth paying for a flu jab if you're not eligible on the NHS. Potentially a Bad Winter coming

I love them

At 185 mph maximum sustained winds, Cat 5 Hurricane #Melissa is now just 7 mph shy of what @michaelfwehner.bsky.social r.bsky.social & Jim Kossin have defined as the cutoff for a prospective "Cat 6" hurricane: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

No matter how many times I make The Decision about an animal,it never gets any easier. My darling old Emmy, who had been remarkably well after a stroke in Feb,could no longer manage. Eye infection & slightly reduced appetite this morning sealed it.She had a lovely last day in the sun, with her flock

Sultana’s position on Ukraine is not just morally reprehensible but juvenile and trite

Sultana’s comments are so offensive on so many levels. You can’t “both sides” Putin & Zelenskiy. You can’t speak over the voices of Ukrainian workers who are on the frontlines fighting for democracy & workers rights. It is Putin and his acolytes who benefit from this war.

Really good thread

Please watch our @pbsnews.org film, made across the last year. A generation of children, severely injured by Israeli strikes, are facing unnecessary disability, amputation & even death because Israel’s authorities won’t let them leave Gaza to seek treatment. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition aiming for Idi Amin levels of horror. Amazing. Overton Window just warp-speeding to the right. WTF is wrong with these people?

spotify.link/8EJPH5HsEXb This + hot bath=medicine Am I a hopeless romantic, or just hopeless? 🤔

Can't even straighten my middle or ring fingers on my left hand. Possibly a good thing I don't have a ring on that finger, given it would have had to be made into a fucking adjustable ring by now. Psoriatic arthritis, 0/10, do not recommend

“You need to vote for us to stop Reform” is hardly going to work as a campaign slogan when you won’t even criticize a Tory MP proposing things more extreme than Reform (or Enoch Powell, or the BNP), and won’t stand up for the families such proposals threaten.

One of the most insightful commentators on the NHS today is @samfr.bsky.social - here writing from his perspective as a patient. Essential reading for anyone interested in what has gone wrong (and he writes on lots of other important things too).

Panleukopenia is a heartbreaking disease. And completely preventable with vaccination (and please neuter your cats. For the Americans reading this, in the UK 'neuter' refers to spaying AND castration)

Fine is an absolute joke. Not exactly a deterrent.

I genuinely don’t know how to deal with the constant drip drip effect of feeling like the world has gone stark raving mad. It’s like water torture.

"Some have won legal relief. Others have been pardoned for their crimes, or benefited from policy changes. But what unites them is donations made to the favoured groups of President Donald Trump." just incredible scenes on.ft.com/4naHRgy

I hate him so so much I cannot even express it. His stupid smirking orange face. The laughter of the people around him. There aren't words for the hatred I feel towards them.

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Labour’s immigration plan in full: - raise the salience of small boats as much as possible - make it harder and more expensive for people to come here legally and contribute - ??? - solve the small boats issue to rapturous applause - markets reward their ingenuity with return to growth

My beautiful Astrid. Hebridean x North Ronaldsay

Stupid immune system

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health. Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Whilst I don't want to condone prison violence, and there should be proper enquiry into how this was allowed to happen in a prison...good

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

I'm trying to (finally) sort fleeces and I swear Torbjörn showers in hay when I'm not looking 😭😭😭 Think I'm going to have to keep this one and buy some wool combs, because I'm not putting that through my carder. It's such a lovely fleece 😭😭😭

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

This is so interesting (and who is more/less likely to refer is unsurprising 👀)

Fucking winter. Please please please prioritise ventilation in crowded spaces. Be the one who opens the window. And if you possibly can, please stay at home if you have 'just a cold'