Ein Flyer ist echt, einer fiktiv.

Having pondered it all morning, I'm still incredulous that all that Today programme coverage of migrant hotels at no point (unless I missed it) mentioned why people were here, what they might be fleeing from etc.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

#GoodNews: In Paris sind inzwischen mehr mit den Fahrrad unterwegs als mit dem Auto. 🚲💚 #Verkehrswende #StädteFürMenschen

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Leaving aside optics of attending at any time an event hosted by industry that does so much to create misery, transferring billions from the poor and desperate to billionaires, Rachel Reeves’ decision to do so ahead of a budget seriously questions her judgment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

In early Brexit debate British friends downplayed my concern what this would mean for EU citizens like me. Don’t worry, we’re liberal & tolerant, won’t stand for such nonsense. That went well.It’s going to be the same. We aren’t taking this seriously enough to act www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very much enjoyed hosting a fantastic line up of speakers to discuss Multisolving for Human and Planetary Health this afternoon - @michaelmarmot.bsky.social Manira Ahmad, Rich Mitchell, Jude Robinson and Jaime Toney.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Didn’t think anyone could improve on Banksy. But the attempt to remove the artwork has made it eerily powerful.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

This is why I’m optimistic about energy innovation: It took the global solar industry 68 years to reach 1 terawatt (TW) of installed power, from the first commercial silicon solar cell in 1954 to 2022. The next 1TW was delivered in only two additional years from 2023 to 2024.

We are in awe 🤯 Over 100,000 citizens have already sent a message to the European Commission, sharing why they oppose the weakening of EU nature laws. If you care about nature & support strong EU environmental laws, now is the moment to speak up! Send your message! 👉 www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just a reminder that U.K. has new Foreign Secretary 4 days before start of UN General Assembly. Leaving aside scale of briefing to get through, worth recalling that these events rely hugely on personal relationships developed over time. Still, it’s not as if there are any important things to discuss

Excellent Day 1 @bspsuk.bsky.social Conf. Andreas Hoehn presented building a full-scale synthetic population dataset for Scotland, with a Poster on Inequalities in Life Expectancy in the UK & Germany. Our colleague from @uofgshw.bsky.social Reese Green spoke of 20-Minute Neighbourhoods #BSPS2025

Join us today #BSPS2025 1 –2.30, Great Hall 043, Ric Colasanti presents his work with Hugh Rice, @pmeierprof.bsky.social & Andreas Hoehn on predicting fertility by age, ethnicity & parity, and how it feeds into microsimulation for GB. Learn how modelling can inform better population health planning!

Unakzeptabel: Bundesregierung will dt. Lieferkettengesetz massiv abschwächen + gibt Zivilgesellschaft 24 Std, die Änderungen zu kommentieren! Das neue Gesetz würde DE weiter vom international anerkannten UN-Standard für Wirtschaft & Menschenrechte entfernen. lieferkettengesetz.de/2025/09/01/s...

📢 New SARG paper 📢 This study aimed to investigate whether drinking occasion characteristics differ between those who moderate their drinking and those who do not, and among different subtypes of moderators. #alcoholresearch #publichealth

It's disappointing that the government's plan to get people moving is focused around "Go for a jog" rather than, as the evidence suggests, building environments that encourage everyday incidental exercise: the ability to walk to amenities liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/388...

“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”

The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power. To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With the death of Kathy Galloway, we lost a truly inspirational woman - not just because of her lifelong fight for justice, peace and reconciliation and against everyday discrimination and poverty, but because she was warm and kind, and had time for everyone www.heraldscotland.com/news/2542637...

Outreach health-care services for people experiencing exclusion in high-income countries Good review this www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Once again on the “achievements” of the most right wing government in the history of #Finland. Sigh. To warn others to learn from our mistakes. On the left, government projections of new jobs (blue) vs the reality (red); on the right, distribution of tax cuts by income decile.

Does built environment influence how much walking ppl do?? Yes Build it and they will come (walk) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Bit more here www.linkedin.com/posts/liorst...

Public health grew out of the creation of population statistics. It's hard to look after the health of a population if you don't know its size, health, and exposure to things that cause illness. It's like a doctor not knowing a patient's height, weight, blood pressure or if they smoke.

Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced that Berlin will not approve German weapons exports to Israel for use in the Gaza Strip "until further notice." p.dw.com/p/4ygoR p.dw.com/p/4ygoR

Nicotine pouches are clearly an area for urgent legislation. Now that disposable vapes are banned, industry actors are finding the next thing to get teens into smoking-related products www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

RFK Jr is destroying research on vaccine technology that has saved millions of lives in favor of antiquated vaccines that don’t work as well and take longer to produce. Killing mRNA vaccines will kill people. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from the database, heavily backed by industry and government. @mgtmccartney.bsky.social and ‪@debscohen.bsky.social‬ investigate www.bmj.com/content/390/...

This seems like an insane conflict of interest to me. Great reporting from @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

Innovating with people, places and communities - the PHI UK Annual Review 2024-25 is now available. This Review captures the foundations being laid in our first year, and the ways in which our research is already making a difference. Watch a short intro. Links in the reply.

So lovely to attend the 50th International Alcohol Epidemiology Symposium of yhe Kettil Bruun Society #KBS2025 on my home turf at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Here’s to 5 days of sharing ideas!

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

It’s important that we name that sociologists (including Jess) have been raising the alarm about these trends toward misogyny in young men and boys for a decade. This isn’t something that sprung up out of nowhere. It has been brewing for their whole adult lives.

The silence of Stanford (my employer) is staggering.

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

Labour using Brexit to weaken nature laws, MPs say

In just the last 50 years, it’s estimated that measles vaccinations have prevented over 90 million deaths worldwide. In a new article, @spoonerf.bsky.social and I describe how they were developed and scaled up worldwide, and the impact they've had:

...And this is also why the tobacco industry funds the British Museum @british-museum.bsky.social, the alcohol industry sponsors community groups, and the gambling industry sponsors the Courtauld art gallery: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New investigative reporting by @rebeccajohn.bsky.social (with editing by me and Matthew Green): BP, Chevron, Shell + major oil companies have used arts and community sponsorships as parts of their of long-term strategies to delay #climate action: www.desmog.com/2025/05/20/r...

But wait, there's more! "The grant to help deliver high-cost subjects and access initiatives will be cut from £1.46bn to £1.35bn, Phillipson told the Office for Students."

Deeply concerning, and I don't think the line that this poses "an ­existential threat to the universities sector" is an exaggeration. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

"Farage tells new Reform council's climate and diversity staff to change jobs" (Sky News) Many depressing results in #Loughborough and #Leicestershire (table from BBC below) www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/lcc2025