Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

This is actually insane. How am I just hearing about this?

hence the completely underplayed driver of rising PIP claims - pure and simple cost of living inflation

Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on. We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.

This is the hidden in plain sight heffalump trap in the Budget - Mahmood’s plan will deepsix whatever fiscal headroom the Chancellor has.

Links between the radical right in this country and the corrupt regime of the former President of Honduras, a convicted narcotrafficker, are clear. Most US media hasn’t laid them out; this thread absolutely does the job. Today was the Honduran election for Xiomara Castro’s successor. I’m worried.

Thinking about the Laconia Incident today for obvious reasons en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Farmyard at Dusk’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

I'm amazed senior leaders would find a use for something whose primary response is mindlessly agreeing with what one suggests.

I think Corbyn and Sultana's new party exists to help Farage into power by taking votes away from Labour. I think Corbyn's previous role was to help deliver Brexit for Putin.

"Why does no one care about men and boys?" When I was in my twenties I used to buy the homeless guy I passed on the way home from work a cuppa or some food when I was grabbing myself something. One day he tried to sexually assault me. The men in my life blamed ME.

Something ancient and wonderful for the weekend! 🤩 The world’s oldest known sculpture of a horse! This tiny figurine was carved from mammoth ivory by an Ice Age artist some 40,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.

Rustaveli Avenue is absolutely packed tonight. One year of continuous, nationwide protests in Georgia against an illegitimate, pro-Russian regime. 🎥 Mo Se

A sharp rise in AI-generated sex crimes in South Korea is being driven largely by teenagers, according to police, in what officials describe as a troubling intersection of cheap deepfake technology, digital manipulation and underage offenders. www.koreaherald.com/article/1061...

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Did you know of the link between this story and #MEcfs? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... THE LEGEND OF CAMELFORD: MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF A WATER POLLUTION ACCIDENT ANTHONY S. DAVID and SIMON C. WESSELY* www.simonwessely.com/Downloads/Pu...

'Biodrones'. I've seen papers on this procedure being done to rodents, but to try to industrialise it for war is a bleaker & sicker place than I'd imagined anyone being prepared to go to.

what i love is that in 1990 judas priest got brought to trial over the claim that subliminal messages in the recording "better by you better than me" caused two suicides and now in 2025 openai seems to be generating a suicide a week with its superliminal messages and the US government is funding it

The take-home message when I give talks about race science: “for bad science to persist, you need (1) a core of ethically or methodologically compromised people who are willing to fabricate data or create misleading evidence & (2) a larger group of people who are willing to promote these ideas”

Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Frustrated by repeated delays, the Treasury has thrown down the gauntlet to Phillipson. Sort out SEND - or see your planned increase in school funding become a 1.7% per pupil cut. Big upping of the stakes for the promised SEND White Paper.

I feel the opposite. I don't understand how people I know who used to criticise creationists, antivaxxers and cllimate deniers, in a few years began insisting that a man could literally become a woman just because he declared he was, and that inner feelings took precedence over biological reality.

I have often seen masculinity, conventional version, as a constant renunciation, in return for corrosive power. All the things you're not allowed to like, enjoy, do, say, wear, but (metaphorically speaking) this straitjacket comes with a gun.

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.

The government can stick to this plan, or the government can get re-elected. Unlikely it can do both. Therefore either the government has a death wish or the 27-29 figures are yet another budgetary fairy tale. Remember when this government promised to be serious and not to duck the hard choices?

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

To be fair to Dulwich College this letter from the Master shows that SOME senior personnel DID speak out. But how was Farage MADE prefect when someone of this seniority clearly thought it wrong. As it was.

Thought I'd try a little thread about getting ill and all those glorious benefits, worth £20k, we all get. Now I've never done this or said much about what's up with me but why not, sure it'll make no difference to some but it might others. 1/n

More on misinformation being shared about Rape Crisis rapecrisis.org.uk/news/misinfo...

A 850-year-old chain-link column from the Church of Saint-Lazare, Avallon, France, circa 1160

Let this short thread radicalize you.

Can you imagine if Keir Starmer were constrained in pursuit of his ambitious and daring agenda by those overcautious Eurocrats?

Contemporary landscape painter Sarah Jane Brown captures the dramatic beauty of her home on the Pembrokeshire Coast, West Wales #womensart

2/3 She came top in exams but as a woman this was not formally acknowledged, her results only being listed as “above the senior Wrangler.” She lectured at Newnham but then travelled to South Africa where she lectured in mathematics and trained maths teachers.

Much of the world gets this. America doesn't. And the rest of the planet wonders why.

"we probably do not need to worry about the fact that the actual effect of one treatment rather than the other is not the same for all patients. Quite limited knowledge about an average improvement is the best that we can do" John Tukey, Controlled Clinical Trials, 1993 p282

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc

When does a libel judgment for calling someone a "Nazi" breach freedom of expression? Analysis of a recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights www.linkedin.com/posts/ecthr-...

COMMENTARY: Evidence of sexual violence in conflict is rising at the same time as international attention wanes.  With more of the world at war than at any time since World War II, women are paying a devastating price.

Interesting use throughout this article of "identifies as" to mean "isn't really"

"Facebook does work for a beauty product company tracking when thirteen-to-seventeen-year-old girls delete selfies, so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment." - Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People

Parents, if you have time to read anything today (and the capacity to feel rage), then these new allegations against two of the largest social media companies, and their apparent disregard of you and your kids’ relationships and mental health, should be it.

NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵

Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult