Al McC
@almccartney.bsky.social
Here in a personal capacity, with an interest in science, health, equality, politics, gluttony, and all the sports.
Optimistic Arsenal fan | Clapton CFC | 🦘
Optimistic Arsenal fan | Clapton CFC | 🦘
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...but the Bundesliga is a model of transparency compared to the PL, where 11 clubs currently have commercial relationships worth millions with those illegal operators. There's no reason why the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 shouldn't be doing something similar. We are at their disposal if help is needed.
Great news from Germany, where Borussia Moenchengladbach has just announced the termination of their partnership with Asian-facing betting operator AYX, following the broadcast by @zdfde.bsky.social of a documentary on the Bundesliga's relationship with illegal operators.
December 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
...but the Bundesliga is a model of transparency compared to the PL, where 11 clubs currently have commercial relationships worth millions with those illegal operators. There's no reason why the BBC, ITV or Channel 4 shouldn't be doing something similar. We are at their disposal if help is needed.
Good news: UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme - students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Good news: UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme - students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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May Ahmed al-Ahmed fully recover from his injuries. In this wave after wave of heartbreaking, terrifying news, his bravery is a beacon of hope.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘It was a matter of conscience’: Ahmed al-Ahmed’s family reveal why he risked his life to disarm alleged Bondi shooter
Family say al-Ahmed ‘doesn’t discriminate’ and would have done anything to save lives during the attack
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
May Ahmed al-Ahmed fully recover from his injuries. In this wave after wave of heartbreaking, terrifying news, his bravery is a beacon of hope.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Never change, westcountry news
December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Never change, westcountry news
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Spurs capitulating to opposition bigotry like this is shameful.
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Spurs capitulating to opposition bigotry like this is shameful.
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The festive wisdom begins! 🎄✨
In the first of our Three Wise Women blog series, Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya highlights new insights into #obesity, metabolic #health, and why inclusivity in research matters.
Read here 👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...
In the first of our Three Wise Women blog series, Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya highlights new insights into #obesity, metabolic #health, and why inclusivity in research matters.
Read here 👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...
Weight, hormones and health: Rethinking research for women and older adults - Imperial Medicine Blog
Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya from Imperial's Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction explores how decades of research into obesity and metabolic health are beginning to translate into better c...
blogs.imperial.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The festive wisdom begins! 🎄✨
In the first of our Three Wise Women blog series, Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya highlights new insights into #obesity, metabolic #health, and why inclusivity in research matters.
Read here 👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...
In the first of our Three Wise Women blog series, Dr Chioma Izzi-Engbeaya highlights new insights into #obesity, metabolic #health, and why inclusivity in research matters.
Read here 👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med...
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Do football ethics matter? To these two they do.
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Do football ethics matter? To these two they do.
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Join us on 10 December for the Mohn Centre/PaeCH Joint Christmas Lecture 2025 – Child Health & Urban Environments
We'll be joined by @profrosiemc.bsky.social (Born In Bradford) and Professor Ian Sinha (@alderhey.nhs.uk)
16.50-19.00 GMT | White City Campus
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19786...
We'll be joined by @profrosiemc.bsky.social (Born In Bradford) and Professor Ian Sinha (@alderhey.nhs.uk)
16.50-19.00 GMT | White City Campus
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19786...
Mohn Centre/PaeCH Joint Christmas Lecture 2025 – Child Health & Urban Environments.
Annual PaeCH & Mohn Centre Christmas Lecture - an insightful exploration of child health in the urban environment.
www.imperial.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Join us on 10 December for the Mohn Centre/PaeCH Joint Christmas Lecture 2025 – Child Health & Urban Environments
We'll be joined by @profrosiemc.bsky.social (Born In Bradford) and Professor Ian Sinha (@alderhey.nhs.uk)
16.50-19.00 GMT | White City Campus
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19786...
We'll be joined by @profrosiemc.bsky.social (Born In Bradford) and Professor Ian Sinha (@alderhey.nhs.uk)
16.50-19.00 GMT | White City Campus
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19786...
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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I drew North London
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I drew North London
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“to listen and read the British press over recent weeks is to get the impression that not only is Farage not in any way racist, but that to dare to suggest otherwise is a major affront to decency that risks putting his very life in danger.”
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“to listen and read the British press over recent weeks is to get the impression that not only is Farage not in any way racist, but that to dare to suggest otherwise is a major affront to decency that risks putting his very life in danger.”
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
Good to see this - which should never have happened in the first place - come to an end.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good to see this - which should never have happened in the first place - come to an end.
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This one minor piece of legislation will have a much bigger practical impact on people's lives - as well as being almost universally popular - than any amount of trying to dehumanise immigrants.
But among all the government's hatemongering, it will go unnoticed.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
But among all the government's hatemongering, it will go unnoticed.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown
Touts, and ordinary consumers, will no longer be able to charge anything more than price at which they bought ticket
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This one minor piece of legislation will have a much bigger practical impact on people's lives - as well as being almost universally popular - than any amount of trying to dehumanise immigrants.
But among all the government's hatemongering, it will go unnoticed.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
But among all the government's hatemongering, it will go unnoticed.
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
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Younger generations are witnessing more celebrities smoke on social media — and adults aren’t paying close enough attention.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Is Gen Z Romanticizing Cigarettes Again?
Younger generations are witnessing more celebrities smoke on social media — and adults aren’t paying close enough attention.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Younger generations are witnessing more celebrities smoke on social media — and adults aren’t paying close enough attention.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Urgh, this again. *screams in historian*
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Urgh, this again. *screams in historian*
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Boston Dynamics and Open AI could collaborate for a thousand years on producing the ultimate robot butler and still not produce something as obsequious as Gianni Infantino.
FIFA will present its inaugural “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” award during the World Cup Final Draw on Dec. 5 in Washington D.C.
Gianni Infantino to present first FIFA Peace Prize award at 2026 World Cup draw
FIFA will present its inaugural “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” award during the World Cup Final Draw on Dec. 5 in Washington D.C.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Boston Dynamics and Open AI could collaborate for a thousand years on producing the ultimate robot butler and still not produce something as obsequious as Gianni Infantino.
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The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
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New.
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
By Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
By Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...
Dirty money - josimarfootball.com
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
josimarfootball.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM
New.
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
By Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...
Celtic proudly promotes itself as a football club with a social consciousness. For nine years the club’s main sponsor has been a betting company breaking laws, defrauding customers and wrecking lives.
By Nathan Paul Southern and Lindsey Kennedy
josimarfootball.com/2025/10/29/d...