“You look at your son, the glasses you picked out with him, the haircut he chose from the wall at the barber shop, the beating heart you gave him. And you know that you, too, will never recover.” Elizabeth Bruenig maps how a child dies of measles: theatln.tc/9aJn7A7y

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Very clever

Goliath packaged food industry loses 12y battle to keep farce of voluntary star labelling with big win to public health Davids like @georgeinstitute.bsky.social @alikjones.bsky.social Jane Martin. Kudos! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

With the football World Cup months away, can we start a national movement to purge mention of the odious Sarah Moaney from all broadcasts? Bring back Sera Money!

Memoir of my 50yrs in public health research & advocacy. #Tobacco #GunControl #WindFarms #advocacy #Heresies #RhinoHide Free open access link in this review www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Memoir of my 50yrs in public health research & advocacy. #Tobacco #GunControl #WindFarms #advocacy #Heresies #RhinoHide Free open access link in this review www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

If you are like me & into Fully Certified Necrotic Rock, you won't want to miss "The Everly Brothers" playing Sydney this year . Phil died in 2015, Don in 2021. Too much excitement

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters. The media is framing it in completely neutral terms. Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

Powerful piece from Jewish David Leser, on why he takesno comfort from Herzog's visit, www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...

Latest from NSW Health on illegal cig/vape shop closures & seizures

The Obamas v the Trumps. Let us count the ways. Exhibit 1 for the Obamas

India & EU sign massive free trade deal in a huge 'up yours' to Trump's protectionism. This was inevitable. When China does likewise, Trump will look like the economic illiterate he is. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

NSW Health has now closed 66 illegal tobacconists, seized stock for 3 months since law reforms kicked in Oct '25. Four recent ones in the Newtown/Enmore area where it's wall-to-wall. Many more to come. Xmas holidays & Bondi police duty diversion slowed things www.health.nsw.gov.au/tobacco/Page...

"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other" Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story: www.themaybe.org/reframing-im... @naomiaklein.bsky.social @themaybe.org @alixdunn.com

Australian Border Force now intercepting industrial levels of illicit tobacco & vapes. This www.abf.gov.au/newsroom-sub...

Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"

This looks fine —

The Australian Electoral Commission is unimpressed with the rabid Australian Taxpayers Alliance's & a few others' failure to meet their reporting obligations. Big stick being taken out, by the look of things www.aec.gov.au/media/2026/0...

French health watchdog flags heart, respiratory risk from vapes as use grows. www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

Brilliant.

This is how you get it done. Spain's president. Musk is livid. All we need to know. x.com/i/grok/share...

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Our latest piece in Commercially Determined breaks down 10 common tropes used by industry to sway policy. www.commerciallydetermined.com/p/narrative-.... Curious which you hear most in your policy space.

If your children ever ask ...

Radio legend James Valentine announces retirement following cancer. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Few peers when it comes to combined unique, so special humour, searching intellect & one of the nicest people. Hope you have many more years James. Thanks for all the joy you gave us.

Call for sanctions on Israeli Government following deregistration of aid groups in Gaza www.croakey.org/call-for-san...

I am very concerned about those living with dementia &/or long term chronic disease who may be ineligible for voluntary assisted dying. See simonchapman6.com/2022/06/09/t... if you are or know someone who has been refused VAD, pls get in touch

Invaluable global review of flavouring of #tobacco products from the peerless Quit Victoria team. Bookmark this one www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-12-t...

NSW to remove ‘good character’ from being considered at sentencing hearings in nationwide first

This 100MW #solar power plant uses 12,000 mirrors and is capable of producing energy throughout the day and night. We have the solutions. Dump fossil fuels and implement them. #ActOnClimate #climateemergency #climatecrisis #climateaction #renewables #climate #energy

NZ approves first treatment for nicotine vaping addiction. Knock me over with a feather! It's another nicotine product! Next, another one to treat the treatment? The relentless commodification of smoking. simonchapman6.com/2024/10/09/t...

“Watching ‘Melania’ fills you with a profound and despairing claustrophobia” as the first lady traipses “from limo to limo, private jet to private jet, just to get to identically fancy rooms full of identically sycophantic people,” @petridishes.bsky.social argues. theatln.tc/LPLBxmeO

Is this deranged man the Australian gvt should be comfortable standing side-by-side with, paying billions for AUKUS subs that will probably never arise?

Me in 1983 on BBC TV on the civil disobedience graffiti movement BUGA UP www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM7.... My new 425p 50yr memoir looks at highlights across tobacco & gun control, defending windfarms, some heretical critiques of unethical policies +much more ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

Breaking: The US Environmental Protection Agency quietly changes its name and mission to the Environmental Pollution Agency www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If it's good enough for the Venezuelan Nobel laureate to gift her award to the Mango Mussolini, then let's all get on board and donate too! I'm sending my prized Good Camper's Certificate from 1963. Add yours here.

have a few papers in review that examine this issue, and the reality is that ‘circular’ claims often camouflage a reliance on chemical recycling technologies that are toxic and unproven these claims should be understood as a strategy by corporate interests to distract and delay meaningful action

More myth busting from @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social. Ever thought vapes target people who've smoked for many years and been unable to quit using approved cessation tools? Check out how gaming tools on some vapes overtly target youth: tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/34/6...

The US quits the WHO, which even has the support of North Korea, Somalia and presumably the Taliban, seeing Afghanistan is a member. US is officially now THE basket case government when it comes to participation in health intelligence sharing. thehill.com/policy/inter... This is dark ages stuff

We are so screwed #publichealthsky

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made" (FDR). Chapter 9 of my 50 year career memoir of public health advocacy catalogues growing rhino hide: discrediting, trolling, endless complaints, legal threats, lies &c. simonchapman6.com/books/

If you love movies, using letterboxd.com is a godsend. Every movie ever made, trailers, review, ratings. Look up every movies by any director, with any actor etc. Browse people's best genre lists etc. Here's my top 100 letterboxd.com/simonchapman...

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made" (FDR). Chapter 9 of my 50 year career memoir of public health advocacy catalogues growing rhino hide: discrediting, trolling, endless complaints, legal threats, lies &c. simonchapman6.com/books/

With respect, affection and gratitude for an extraordinary leader and her lifetime of service www.croakey.org/with-respect... Thanks to those sharing memories, tributes @simonchapman.bsky.social @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social & many others

Meet 10 Australian decent "law abiding firearm owners" who went on to commit gun massacres. Will someone please tell Bridget McKenzie, Barnaby Joyce & their National Party buddies who opposed the new gun reforms. simonchapman6.com/2026/01/21/d...

“A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice has become his private law firm,” Adam Serwer argues.

Jonathan Swift lives! A modest proposal from brilliant satirist @martinmckee.bsky.social on how public health might partner with organise crime. RotFL! But some local vaping fanatics might well agree. www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Joyce, McKenzie &c have been in their tardis & are letting us know that decent "law abiding shooters" pose no risk. Check the list of mass shooters who had no violent criminal record until they started their massacres. simonchapman6.com/2026/01/21/d...