Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

Can we just raise tax for people on decent incomes (and I include myself in this) and be done with it? And crack on actually making things better - for all of us - because lo and behold, the money I would save on tax doesn't buy me good schools, unis, roads, trains, prisons, GPs on my own.

The bar was so very low and yet this government has managed to slide beneath it. Continual soul-destroying disappointment at how very awful Labour is

Good one to show kids

Sounds like an ideal addition to the Lake Windermere 24 hours of number 2s music-against-sewage-dumping protest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'Excessive generosity' seems like a phrase designed to appease the far right. It isn't reflected in the lives of migrants stuck in dire hotels for months unable to work. We are rightly welcoming to Ukranians & Hong Kongers - but not so much if you are fleeing war or eviromental collapse elsewhere.

Not so Golden Brown: DJ plays 24-hours of No 2s in Lake District sewage protest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

NEW: UK confirms 15% cut to the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its next funding round, a decision aid agenices say will result in hundreds of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️ Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.

The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power. No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality. The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.

Release the Epstein files. Time for him to lose his title and swap the make up for an outfit in the same colour.

If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting

Important umbrella review showed NO link between Tylenol use in pregnancy and autism. Notably this review also graded how reliable the studies were and highlighted a low level of confidence in the studies RFK used as confounding factors were not considered🧪

Consultant opthalmologist Tim Dabbs explains at @richardburgon.bsky.social event in parliament now with the @99organisation.bsky.social about how patients are losing their sight as private clinics draw expertise away from the NHS

Up your street @endlessyesterday.bsky.social

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

I'm so, so sick of hearing about immigration. It's like a foghorn 24/7. On the news. In the papers. In the shops and the pub. In the coffee shop. For God's sake just knock it off - yeah it's important, but it's not the only or even the main thing going on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states

What is is about the insatiable desire of pathetic old men to sacrifice the lives of young men? Putin is just the last in a long line. My granddad, who survived 4 years in WWI, saw pretty much all the friends he'd started out with killed. His anger at the waste never abated. #Remembranceday2025

This is full of really useful and interesting info - like the good bits of a local newspaper

Well, I'm thrilled that we beat off 'Restore Trust' again this year, and that their number of votes was well down. But N.B. also a drop in other #NationalTrust voters. We must not let our guard down.

I was given a tiny seedling in June. It has grown to a mighty 5 foot plant. And eventually produced its first flowers in November.

Sad, but that’s the reality in the U.S.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

📈Latest England data show 145 deaths involving COVID-19 in w/ending 24 Oct 2025: 📈Large increase since August (weekly deaths were 47). 🛑Stop treating COVID-19 as closed chapter. 🤷The virus hasn’t gone away. 🤦Neither has the responsibility to protect the vulnerable. 💉Improve COVID-19 vaccine access.

"Things have gone horribly backwards over the past five or six years." With far right rallies being held across the UK, our latest podcast episode disucusses how racism affects doctors. @kamranabbasi.bsky.social Listen at open.spotify.com/episode/1zS9... Or podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.

“I agree it would be nice to get a diagnosis, but prepare yourself that we might not”   Diagnostic journeys for patients with possible endometriosis are often complex, with #PrimaryCare identified as a pivotal bottleneck doi.org/10.3399/BJGP...#PrimaryCare#GeneralPractice

👏 Prof Lidia Morawska: global champion for truth, science and public health. While others hesitated, she spoke with courage - showing that #SARSCoV2 spreads through the air, indoors and over distance. Her work helped reshape global guidance, ventilation standards and public awareness - saving lives!

Prostate Screening - an update

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Worked in fundraising a lot of my career and truly believe this. Under-taxation is the issue.

This is what freedom of speech looks like in America.

Ann Arbor killing it with the Halloween decorations, 10/10, no notes

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

“A month’s supply of Miebo, Bausch & Lomb’s prescription dry eye drug, costs $800 or more in the U.S. before insurance. But the same drug — sold as EvoTears — has been available over-the-counter (OTC) in Europe since 2015 for about $20. I ordered it online from an overseas pharmacy for $32”

The word that springs to mind listening to the Today programme is 'lickspittle' Can they not see that the monarchy is well passed it's sell-by date?

This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

"Free at the point of use" is not the bar People voted for this Labour government to defend patients not profits e.g. 🏥reinstating the NHS as a fully public service 🏥saving £10 million a week by ending outsourcing 🏥ending all private finance deals labourlist.org/2025/10/star...

Why are some protesters given statues and some peaceful protesters arrested by police, and put into gaol by judges? This is gross hypocrisy by our authoritarian Govt that is trying to suppress dissent.

“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence. The earth is round. Vaccines save lives. These aren’t 50-50 debates. Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance. www.livescience.com/... 6/10

Climate denialists love the “global cooling” myth from the 1970s. The reality is that warming was the dominant view even then. Today, the evidence for human-driven climate change is overwhelming. journals.ametsoc.org... 4/10

Yes, science updates. But that doesn’t mean everything is up for grabs. Gravity, evolution, germ theory—these are settled within tested domains. Pretending otherwise misleads the public and erodes trust in science. www.livescience.com/... 3/10

Populists weaponise uncertainty: “Science is never settled” becomes a shield for fringe views. Politicians use it to dismiss climate consensus or revive debunked vaccine-autism myths. Consensus ≠ dogma—it’s evidence-based. www.livescience.com/... 2/10

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10