US measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.

This is absolutely shocking. Something has to be done about this appalling situation in which so many now find themselves. The government needs to act

She is describing ICE. That is what they seem to want.

A leader in the global fight against smallpox and a champion of vaccine science, William Foege died last Saturday

Measles "re established" in the UK. The shameful consequence of so-called vaccine skeptics and antivaxxers.

This is excellent, careful, ruthlessly calm effective reporting from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social in stark contrast to the earlier both-siding bollox from other BBC colleagues.

They really walk among us. With all the news about countless Americans losing their healthcare insurance we have actual elected politicians (such as they may be) wanting the UK to do the same.

Considering the news of what Federal Authorities are doing in America a more sensible Home Secretary may have questioned the wisdom of announcing this right now, or ever. Once again Mahmood showing she only cares about looking "tough", while Labour comms continue to be utterly dire.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

New wrinkle added... Attorney General Warns Masked Federal Agents Could Be Shot Under ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law if Citizens Fear for Their Lives stitchsnitches.com/attorney-gen...

You misspelled "BORED".

🌀 CO₂ thresholds do matter. In essence, the study emphasises that, 'clean indoor air matters because good ventilation reduces the build‑up of exhaled pollutants - including viruses - keeping people healthier, safer and more comfortable'. 💯 Lidia Morawska et al. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

POLIO. Deadly, crippling, preventable. My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.

Nigel Farage has breached the MPs' code of conduct 17 times by failing to register financial interests on time. Angela Raynor once Who was hounded by so called unbias media outlets?

Utterly shocking., callous and criminally stupid. My brother got polio as a young boy. I remember kids & adults limping around in calipers due to the ravages of polio. The fear of ending up in an iron lung…And these were the survivors.

This should have been an absolute no brainer. 89559 signatures.

There’s a tuberculosis outbreak at an Amazon warehouse in the UK. Sick leave? Respiratory protection? Building ventilation? State of workers T cells? We *must* accept respiratory protection as part of our “new 💩 normal”. www.unilad.com/news/world-n...

Quite. And for the same reasons, it is also time for a rethink on any question of UK unilateral nuclear disarmament which I understand is/was a Green Party principle. Pretty sure Ukraine went through a form of nuclear disarmament in the 1990s.

“This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

Over 200K Danish citizens signed a petition to buy California as a response to the orange felon’s hunt for Greenland. The petition states that they’ll provide Californians with universal health care, fact-based politics, rule of law, lifetime supply of Danish pastries. Love it.

I was struck, seeing this on the tube, by the contemporary resonance of Auden"s Epitaph on a Tyrant in this phase of the global projection of Trump’s sociopathic narcissism

This Tweet is evergreen Nigel Farage

They have been calling for FFP3 type masks for years. Surgical masks offer little more than "thoughts and prayers" .

🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨 The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit: 📉 GDP down 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% ❌ No trade benefits ❌ No regulatory freedom ❌ No upside whatsoever Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?

Funding NHS facilities with private finance a breach of manifesto, Labour MPs say. Govt paid £6 for £1 PFI investment. Private equity profiteering from NHS contracts. Public money buys less. Govt reviving PFI, handing NHS to private equity. Govt can borrow, create money, do QE, tax the rich.

www.genano.com/infobase/sta... Covid is predominantly airborne.

There it is. Farage and Reform would end our NHS. Millions of people could not afford to be ill under a Reform government.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

In the spirit of brotherly love, could I gently enquire why the almighty **** are government departments, government ministers and Labour MPs *STILL* using X?

Curse of Private Equity. Vets under pressure to increase revenue, Six companies control 60% of the UK's pet-care market Prices up by 63% between 2016 and 2023. Vets pressurised to meet financial targets by offering costly tests and treatment options. Govts do nothing. Now handing the NHS to PE.

Governor I was not familiar with your game

Nearly half of hospital Trusts have a ‘planned’ deficit £2.2bn this year The context here is that GP practices don’t run at a deficit, have had £2.2bn removed from their budgets over the past 10yrs ~20% Make this make sense @wesstreeting patients need GPs, GPs need employment

Google the video & see for yourself. This is not law enforcement. This is murder. Sickening.

BBC Verify has a slow motion breakdown of the video which shows very clearly the truth.

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves". I was called "hysterical". Well, here we are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am pleased to announce that I have commandeered my neighbor's home. This home will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, to ensure it is used to benefit my neighbor and me! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.

The world capitulates. 150 countries agree plan to stop global companies shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions, but US companies will be exempt from 15% global minimum tax. They make profit we fund the cost. The race to the bottom will accelerate.

This does sound very much like censorship if BBC journalists are not allowed to use the term "kidnapping" to describe a kidnapping.

The US military action in Venezuela breaches international law and the UK should make clear it is "unacceptable", the chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Reform UK won’t say ‘private’ when talking about the NHS. Richard Tice is calling it ‘independent’: "Instead of giving £26bn to the already bloated wasteful NHS, we proposed easing pressure on the health service by incentivising those who can afford to pay more to go independent with a tax break."

More satire for today's events:

search.app/6n471 He is not going to "lose" that prize money, he is liable to pay UK tax on it. Surely this article is not suggesting millionaire sports personalities should be exempt from tax? Having said that, billionaires appear to be so perhaps tax is just for those who earn less.

High risk occupations include: medical staff, teachers, supermarket staff ..

Chlorinated chicken. I see no rationale for chlorinating fresh chicken meat produced and stored to hygienic standards. Except, of course...

Trump's attack on Venezuela will create global instability. Will prolong the Ukraine war. How could the US condemn and sanction Russia? Encourage Putin to kidnap Zelensky. Encourage China to takeover Taiwan. What is the point of the UN if rogue powers can do whatever they want?