"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Farage: epic grifter

One for the Tragically Hip fans... BBC News - Man jailed for 1986 murder acquitted after 38 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fighting the good fight

“Your weekly food shop will get cheaper… You and your family will benefit from a resurgent economy” Five years on from Brexit, here's a quick reminder of how it was sold to the country before we left www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVHV...

Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In early 2020, a pandemic was spreading. The UK’s PM went on a 10 day half-term holiday during which he was uncontactable and the government went into panic mode, focusing, as Hancock related to the COVID enquiry, on buying enough body bags. 1/8

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

Us: Let's go look inside that little building in the woods. Quoth the Raven guarding the doorway: Nevermore

Career highlight recently - our team of amazing music, psychology and neuroscience researchers designed & projected a live EEG brain data visualisation to accompany the wonderful Kantos Chamber Choir,& me & the awesome @canadianjason.bsky.social gave a pre concert talk at each of the 4 tour venues

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