Great commentary @dalupton.bsky.social and thank you for speaking out about the #Covid19 information vacuum we live through

Check out my new commentary, in which I provide 2 new versions of healthism - antiscience healthism and reverse healthism

Little robin eating out of my hand yesterday #robin

Sleeping giant at sundown 🌙 #CauseyPike #Keswick

Batman returns! Leadership by crisis and the moral entrepreneurship of Donald J Trump: A dramaturgical perspective journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky

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.

New #StrongMessageHere is up. This week, Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. We talk Trump, Truss, Farage and the olden times.

New #StrongMessageHere talking Civilisational Collapse with Stewart Lee. In a few weeks we’ll be discussing your own nominations for political words or phrases that have gobsmacked or baffled you. Send suggestions to [email protected]

🧵How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave? You may have seen this alarming headline on the BBC website today... I think it's too early to make this claim and the data does not support it. I think it will be a bad flu season but no evidence to think worse than previous yrs 1/8

PS It should go without saying that I think getting the flu vaccine is a very good idea! I've had both my flu and covid vaccines this winter.

Good to see CMO recognise and highlight risk of delirium when older people develop infections. And link between delirium and dementia. Infections are one possible cause of delirium (acute confusion) in older people. Sometimes the first symptom, recognised in COVID www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

With the release of The Covid 19 Report, this podcast is worth a listen again. It's an interview with Dr Dan Goyal who worked on the frontline during the pandemic. He was talking about the ITV series "Breathless" which depicted the conditions NHS staff worked under. #Covid19Inquiry

142 deaths in England involving COVID-19: w/ending 7 Nov 2025. 🤦Data too limited 🤷COVID-19 has not disappeared, continues to spread, disable, and disrupt lives - while strategies appear to fail to acknowledge its persistence or the need for better infection prevention. @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social

Modelled on family members #Halloween 🎃

Countdown to #Halloween 🎃 #EdwardGorey

I used to work at a small shop that made little plastic vampires. There were only 2 of us working there, so I had to make every second count.

I'm saddened to learn that the reactionary legal project launched by Adrian Vermeule overseas has now found an official home in the UK at Surrey Law School (as if some of the stuff coming out of Oxford Law wasn't enough). Unsurprisingly, their first 'research project' is to attack the ECHR system /1

Tim Walz: “People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we’re talking about a damn ballroom. Don’t lose the plot.” That’s the line of the week. While Republicans obsess over Trump’s décor, Walz is talking about hungry families.

'COVID-19 still causing a lot of serious illness. This study showed that 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines were effective, especially against severe outcomes, although their effectiveness waned over time. Thus, it is beneficial to have an annual COVID-19 vaccination.' www.news-medical.net/news/2025102...

Due to asthma I’m eligible for #fluvaccine but not #covidvaccine. Computer says no 🤷🏼‍♀️

Current NHS England policy restricts free COVID-19 vaccination to certain age groups and risk categories. Yet age alone should not determine access to protection. Anyone whose health professionals recommend vaccination should surely be eligible? open.substack.com/pub/joepajak...

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Countdown to #Halloween 🎃 #EdwardGorey 🕷️

No Welsh? 😉

Now published! My edited book ‘Long COVID and Society’ - my introduction is free to read for everyone. Download from the link below and check out the others chapters too (Chapter 14, about LC children and families, is also open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

Every analysis of the effects of children’s screen time needs to include, as the counterfactual, older generations’ countless hours spent watching TV test cards while waiting for something to come on

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Shocking that ~still~ people in senior positions of govt don’t know that airborne respiratory infection is preventable.. or that in 2020 we had the knowledge to safely allow visits to nursing homes, & it was ignored We are woefully unprepared for future pandemics www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-n...

Very proud of our new paper in #JHOM on the politics involved data sharing. An @arc-gm.bsky.social research project, we found resistance to data reporting reflected hidden issues of power and trust between healthcare providers & managers. doi.org/10.1108/JHOM... #WorkforceData #Transparency

Japan is reporting a flu epidemic much earlier than is usual. This early season could have implications for other countries via international travel so do get your flu vaccines (if you can) soon! 🧪 #HealthPolicy

Today is the centenary of the birth of the great Tony Hart who opened the eyes of generations to visual art and who is forever associated with this, the shimmering Gallery theme from Vision On – which was also pretty much everyone’s introduction to the vibraphone. youtu.be/-ZNkJXKV7_w

A hugely underreported scandal. Those responsible still not adequately held to account. An important, but infuriating watch.

A very useful list of interesting and impactful projects related to COVID-19. These initiatives aim to improve air quality, track COVID-related data, and provide valuable resources for individuals and communities. github.com/medero/covid...

The right wing snippets that BBC News puts out on 6 are so out of tune with the values and beliefs of I imagine nearly all its presenters, artists and listeners. Like picking up the NME in the old days and getting an article by Kelvin Mackenzie.

Doctor sexual misconduct hearings too lenient, says UK review

He hasn’t finished- the hepb votes are today and so are discussion on covid and flu vaccines and this is just the start. In just a few months he has eroded trust in science, vaccines and damaged vaccine access

Far-right commentators reacted in shock to the murder of Charlie Kirk, claiming his killing is 'not what America is'. "I'm sorry, this is exactly who you are," say The News Agents. "You have the most toxic political environment in the world."

BBC still pretending there's no way to be sure why these flags are appearing... "some see it as an act of patriotism, while others say the flag has been hijacked by the far-right amid a wave of anti-immigration sentiment." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Removing racist displays in one city = the cost of 12,000 hours of social care.

He massively admires Tommy Robinson... He was with Tommy Robinson the previous evening... Tommy Robinson gave him the flags... But this is a grassroots movement apparently

Why do these flag shagging morons ALWAYS get the union jack upside down?

Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit

www.science.org/doi/full/10.... Mandating Indoor Air Quality in Public Buildings. Our paper in Science. 🧪 #healthpolicy

"A federal judge ruled that President Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school"

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty crap about my small business. It’s so bloody difficult at the moment with rising costs, US tariffs, Brexit nonsense and the threat of AI. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word gailmyerscough.co.uk

Disturbed by the flags? Here’s a positive alternative - free Hold on to Hope poster to display in your window secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/176747/...

Ah, "The Moral Maze" - another show (like "Question Time") I'd rather eat my own face than watch or listen to.