Bookshops are: Travel Agents Rocket ships Time machines Mystical portals Safe
I’m in the shop all by myself today - so let’s have the best day ever, just to prove to the others that I do do some work.
I recently had a lovely long podcast chat with @michellefranklin.bsky.social & @mrsoup.bsky.social about my career as a public historian, why You’re Dead To Me works as a format, and loads of other interesting history, archaeology, and comedy stuff
youtu.be/3zRgv4WYqf0?...
This really nicely illustrates the impact that vaccines have had. As an aside, as a health journo with a biomedical science degree, I couldn’t even tell you much about diphtheria. Have had no need to find out. What a privilege that is.
Older adults more willing to have Covid vaccines when framed in terms of being a way to maintain their freedom from disease and avoid restrictions on activities caused by illness.
#Medsky
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NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.
The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
8 million No Kings protesters
Zero police officers beaten
Zero police officers killed
Zero feces smeared on walls.
It's #LongCovidAwarenessDay and I don't really know what to say. We started acknowledging long covid in 2020 and SIX YEARS later:
❌ The NHS still perpetuates the "long covid is complete mystery, we can't help" myth
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
Nigel Farage said in 2022 that MPs defecting to another party and then refusing to call a by-election was
“no go, it’s not right, it is dishonorable”
So where are the by-elections for all those MPs who have now joined Reform?
A Baptist church sign reads Blessed Are the Whistle Blowers for They Play the Music of Salvation
In Minneapolis
Today, GMC notified my client of an Interim Order hearing on 23 December in respect of a case which (a) they've had since April 2025 & (b) involves no patient or clinical concerns. WHO makes these decisions? GMC just furthering domestic abuse of doctor by ex-husband complainant. #FitnessToPractise
NEW @bmj.com research reports experiences of access to general practice in England.
It finds that the three proposed shifts in the NHS 10 year plan may not be what patients or practices want
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Sadly it happens...
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters.
His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound.
A true hero.
“Back at King’s Cross, and a teenage girl sings Back to Black with a Jamaican twang, at the piano, next to M&S — and there’s England, right there. Patois, Winehouse, custard; golden owls, brews and gurdwaras, and Betjeman keeping watch over the whole thing.“
People with more honest coverage than the @nytimes.com . I hope the shame runs deep and stays for years
"I would argue very strongly that the Conservatives and Nigel Farage, the champions of Brexit, caused the small boat crisis themselves.
"It's about time that we held them to account for that."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
The Conservatives plan to reduce government spending by £47 billion.
It's not just taking money away from the poorest and most vulnerable people... it's taking £47B out of our local economies - which puts the nation in managed decline.
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
First they came for
And I didn't speak up
Because I knew they had read the poem too,
And had tweaked the algorithm so that any
Speaking up would boost the
Original post
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A quick YouTube short.
🎶 Steve Winwood.🎶
British.
Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.
Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.
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This is the crucial choice facing those both in the United Kingdom and the United States. What is to be the relationship between those with political power and the force of law? In the United States it would seem that, at a federal level, both Congress and the Supreme Court are content to nod along with excessive use of presidential power. It is only the individual states themselves and the lower courts that are seeking to hold that executive power to account. While in the United Kingdom there are louder political demands for the government to be free from the constraints placed by international law and supposedly activist judges. The implicit call is that ministers and officials should be able to do as they like to the rest of us without any possibility of a court ever saying otherwise. What will happen in this contest between executive power and legal restraint cannot be predicted. The happy assumption of the Whig interpretation of history may not be well-grounded. From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well.
NEW
Law versus politics
Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution
By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
I think we need a debate in this country about what education is for. We're
lost in a spiral about driving up standards whilst knowing many find school a terrible ordeal. Why is that? Learning should be joyful and a continual part of life
It's not just about turning out cogs for the economy.
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL AMBER WHAT GEORGE DID TO ALICE IN THE CAR.
#TheArchers
Nothing says, "Hey international companies, bring your manufacturing to the US" like arresting 475 workers at a Hyundai (70% of whom are South Korean).
