🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏

Marina Hyde wrote an interesting piece in The Guardian about ZP reminding us that we should not put people on too high a pedestal. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Do you really think that if you're the leader of a party, it's not fair for people to expect to know the really basic figures..." Rory reflects on his interview with Zack Polanski.

#AcademicSky we submitted a paper more than 4 months ago. They sent it out for me to review my own paper after >2 months (which I declined as COI!), but still have only 1 review and no one yet agreed to a second, so can’t give me any idea when we might get a decision. Is this common 🤷🏻‍♀️

The old Medical Officer of Health reports are becoming a bit of a weird obsession. Here's some things from Bradford in 1918: wellcomecollection.org/works/f2nczp... For a long time, Bradford's birth rate was lower than the England average, where it's now higher (also, look at this lovely old graph)

It's #buyastrangerabook day tomorrow. You may call it Wednesday. I'm going to give out loads of free books and also encourage you to give out free books too. Can we make it a big old Christmas Special please? www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

Apparently the prepaid envelopes are valid as long as they fit through a letterbox, but the costs to them will vary by weight. So if you have an old bathroom tile or something, for example, would increase the cost. Hypothetically.

SCIENCE SAVES LIVES. Overall pediatric cancer survival rate increased from 63% in mid 1970s to 87%‼️between 2015 & 2021. And this isn’t due to supplements, eating better or avoiding red food dye. It’s due to science & industry working together to develop & approve therapies!

Of babies infected w/Hepatitis B, 90% develop chronic infection. Of those, 1 in 4 will DIE. They lose the ability to get rid of toxins & make important proteins. Their skin yellows, their abdomen swells, they’re uncomfortable. A fate no one deserves. One we can avoid w/ vaccination. .

In a week where discovered my pension payments been miscalculated by payroll. Working near full time for £15k a year apparently! Another friend working in NHS has no record of ANY pension payments. Check your pension statements NHS peeps. Advice not just for doctors... www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-cont...

“The claim that this is a recent invention born of political bias is categorically untrue.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social reveals that Peter Ettedgui made identical accusations against Nigel Farage in private six years ago.

This !!!

Happy Advent! !!!🎄✨ Welcome to a new edition of the Research Integrity Advent Calendar. Each day brings a small challenge: spot the problem, detect inconsistencies, and sharpen your skills. Enjoy the season and the daily puzzles! Day 1. papermills.tilda.ws/advent2025

So... this just happened. archive.ph/2025.11.29-1...

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

So it was chaos on @crosscountryuk.bsky.social and at Birmingham New St due to delays and cancellations but all of staff were helpful and kind and the @gwr.com staff at home station as lovely and helpful as ever. I’m sure everyone is having a bad day, but your staff were fab

Effects of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programmes on community rates of HPV‐related disease and harms from vaccination - Henschke, N - 2025 | Cochrane Library www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... 132M people; 225 studies; 80% reduction in cervical cancer if vaccianted under 16 years

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer and other HPV‐related diseases: a network meta‐analysis - Bergman, H - 2025 | Cochrane Library www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.... Link to the HPV vaccine RCT review as I have failed to share the actual reviews!

My two daughters received their shots back in 2007 when it was introduced as part of a high school immunisation programme. Very proud of Australia's achievement here. Thank you, Ian Frazer, the late Jian Zhou and University of Queensland.

Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.

“I am delighted that my son, as well as my daughter, will now be afforded equal protection against catching and spreading the virus that killed the grandmother they never got to meet.” More good news about the HPV vaccine. open.substack.com/pub/kityates...

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

If I type what I feel about the people responsible for this I’d probably get struck off… but I’m sure you can imagine.

Superintresting and learnfull text which shows how challenging research and triangulation of evidence are. My respect that you wrote the whole text without using the Danish ø

We've had to wait a long time to get to this point! With this new pair of Cochrane systematic reviews, the weight of the evidence has tipped very heavily in favor of HPV vaccination. My new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t... #Vaccines

absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t... From @hildabast.bsky.social a wise and thoughtful ‘critical friend’

www.eurekalert.org/news-release... very cringey but we’ve done a video too to accompany the reviews being published. Thanks to Laura, Emma, the Cochrane team and the SFT theatre teams for their patience and support

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41276263/ One of 2 new reviews on HPV vaccination published today. Thanks to Nicholas, Hanna and team for a huge amount of work and @hildabast.bsky.social and the Independent Advisory Group

www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD0... One of 2 new reviews on HPV vaccination published today. Thanks to Nicholas, Hanna and team for a huge amount of work and @hildabast.bsky.social and the Independent Advisory Group

The difficult truth is that there is a clear national security element to social media information flows. It can't all be viewed through the single lens of free speech. Disinformation sabotage is a hostile act intended to destablise our societies. Our societies need appropriate protection.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.” It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

All my neighbours had ordered goggles to my house before we had any other ppe at work. We had a bathtub full. Every day I’d lay them out and carry some up and distribute - to porters, nurses, anyone I would see in the hallways, filled with fear. The community pulled together when others failed us 🫶

We are in many ways actively behaving worse - real flu vaccination campaigns no longer happen in hospitals, vaccination rates are down, disinformation rising, selective memory, etc etc

Too long, webinars from Italy, ward rounds where you knew next day the patients would no longer be there and others would fill their place, colleagues becoming unwell, some never recovered, delayed vaccine as “surgeons don’t see patients”, the endless streams of arterial blood clots thanks to covid

2020 and early 2021 were years I don’t want to think back to. We were completely abandoned. From all sides. I remember not being allowed to wear masks initially, smuggling goggles into the hospital which my neighbours donated, a self imposed decontamination before entering my home, no ppe for …

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record. @independentsage.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

Ignored warnings. Optimism bias. Chaos behind closed doors.🚪🤫 @rory-stewart.bsky.social reveals what was going on inside government during COVID. New episode out now - link in the replies 👇

In particular Lazy unprepared to master a brief or detail but instead rely on flippancy/"charm" and glib rhetoric People pleasing, so constantly flip-flopping to please whoever the last person he had spoken to Inconsistent Totally self-interested, narcissistic Lying and lying and lying

Thank you.

23,000! www.change.org/p/demand-the...

And of course had messaging about Covid being an airborne infection and promoting use of effective PPE/use of HEPA ventilation/uvc radiation to remove viruses from the air-we could be in a significantly better way- with less long term morbidity and future proofed against ongoing & future pandemics!

He was the worst person to be in charge at the worst possible time - unforgivable negligence

That inaccurate messaging persists. And staff remain unprotected on wards with patients with COVID armed with a mere plastic apron and surgical mask. As opposed to vaccination and FFP3 mask.

BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.

THE. SIXTH. OF. MARCH. 2020 …,

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