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The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee.
www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...
www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...
October 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
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This Labour government chose to leave 1.5m children in poverty for 18mths longer than they needed to, because there were “more important things”.
YOU voted for that @joepowell.bsky.social
All those children will be marked, in greater or lesser ways, by that
Explanation 👇🏻
Please get in the bin
YOU voted for that @joepowell.bsky.social
All those children will be marked, in greater or lesser ways, by that
Explanation 👇🏻
Please get in the bin
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This Labour government chose to leave 1.5m children in poverty for 18mths longer than they needed to, because there were “more important things”.
YOU voted for that @joepowell.bsky.social
All those children will be marked, in greater or lesser ways, by that
Explanation 👇🏻
Please get in the bin
YOU voted for that @joepowell.bsky.social
All those children will be marked, in greater or lesser ways, by that
Explanation 👇🏻
Please get in the bin
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Flu is surging. What can we do about it?
Layered protections—vaccination, isolation with liveable sick pay, and clean air—enabled by government and institutions.
BMJ Opinion by Stephen Reicher, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Layered protections—vaccination, isolation with liveable sick pay, and clean air—enabled by government and institutions.
BMJ Opinion by Stephen Reicher, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Vaccinate, isolate, ventilate: will we finally learn the lessons from covid this flu season?
With flu surging again, Stephen Reicher and colleagues draw on the experience of covid-19 to argue that predictable winter pressures demand more than individual responsibility, they also require syste...
www.bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Flu is surging. What can we do about it?
Layered protections—vaccination, isolation with liveable sick pay, and clean air—enabled by government and institutions.
BMJ Opinion by Stephen Reicher, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Layered protections—vaccination, isolation with liveable sick pay, and clean air—enabled by government and institutions.
BMJ Opinion by Stephen Reicher, @martinmckee.bsky.social & @profstevegriffin.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🧵1/ Flu is surging again, & patterns look uncomfortably familiar. The lesson from covid remains unchanged: individual responsibility isn’t enough. We need systemic measures that make protective behaviours easy. @profstevegriffin.bsky.social Stephen Reicher & I offer some thoughts @bmj.com
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So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
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this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
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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...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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...
@independentsage.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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THE 2025-2026 SHANKLAND LECTURES KICK OFF TOMORROW NIGHT
“The Priest and the Poet: Dafydd ap Gwilym and Bangor Cathedral”
Delivered by Dr Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor of Welsh, Bangor University
Wed 19 November 2025
At STORIEL Bangor
13:00pm - 14:00pm
This lecture will be in English.
“The Priest and the Poet: Dafydd ap Gwilym and Bangor Cathedral”
Delivered by Dr Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor of Welsh, Bangor University
Wed 19 November 2025
At STORIEL Bangor
13:00pm - 14:00pm
This lecture will be in English.
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
THE 2025-2026 SHANKLAND LECTURES KICK OFF TOMORROW NIGHT
“The Priest and the Poet: Dafydd ap Gwilym and Bangor Cathedral”
Delivered by Dr Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor of Welsh, Bangor University
Wed 19 November 2025
At STORIEL Bangor
13:00pm - 14:00pm
This lecture will be in English.
“The Priest and the Poet: Dafydd ap Gwilym and Bangor Cathedral”
Delivered by Dr Sara Elin Roberts, Honorary Professor of Welsh, Bangor University
Wed 19 November 2025
At STORIEL Bangor
13:00pm - 14:00pm
This lecture will be in English.
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People arriving here by small boat are desperate, often traumatised. Latest figures are 68% of boat arrivals granted asylum (see link)
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
People arriving here by small boat are desperate, often traumatised. Latest figures are 68% of boat arrivals granted asylum (see link)
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
The idea of the govt stripping people of their valuables & then hawking it off literally makes me sick to my stomach
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
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Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
Another chilling aspect... The Tories simply passed a law declaring Rwanda "safe".
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Do we really trust that this govt or the next won't resort to similar tactics if this finds them politically convenient?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.
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I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Home secretary says it is ‘moral mission’ for her to tackle asylum system
Ukrainians are in the UK on a “bespoke scheme”, Mahmood says, and it is on a temporary basis.
If Ukraine becomes a safe country again and the conflict ends, “the principle of the new reforms are that if your country becomes safe then you will return,” she says. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I am telling you once more that there is something particularly sick about people who benefited from the courageous activism of previous generations of Blacks & Asians in Britain spitting on that legacy. Home Office can cancel me any number of times, I'll keep repeating
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whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
Trans Allies Systematically Intimidated Inside Tavistock – What The Trans!?
whatthetrans.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
whatthetrans.com/trans-allies...
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
The narrative put forward by Maitliss is the one you're likely to have heard.
But that isn't what really happened.
The kids lost their care. Some took their own lives. Nobody was 'saved'.
There is no 'trans ideology', just people who needed help.
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Actually it’s biased right.
All the academic studies show this
All the academic studies show this
The Myth of the BBC · Learning on Screen
learningonscreen.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Actually it’s biased right.
All the academic studies show this
All the academic studies show this
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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🧪
Tylenol use in pregnancy not tied to autism, ADHD, review shows
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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🧪
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Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
BBC Gives Israeli Deaths 33 Times More Coverage, New Study Reveals | Novara Media
An analysis of over 35,000 broadcast segments and articles found that the BBC referenced the 7 October attacks in at least 40% of its coverage - but only 0.5% of articles referenced Israel’s decades o...
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Yes, absolutely there is an impartiality crisis at the BBC. But it's not the one the billionaire media insists it is. novaramedia.com/2025/06/16/b...
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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The main reason this is even an option for right wing wackos is that we mutilated and deformed the fuck out of the BBC, specifically to protect Alastair and Tony from the consequences of their choices and actions. We’re still doing that now, 20+ years later.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The main reason this is even an option for right wing wackos is that we mutilated and deformed the fuck out of the BBC, specifically to protect Alastair and Tony from the consequences of their choices and actions. We’re still doing that now, 20+ years later.
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If this is true and U.K. Government really is planning to cut its contribution to the Global Fund, at a time when Trump’s action will cause deaths on a massive scale, it is moral bankruptcy.
@friendseurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@friendseurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cutting aid for disease fund would be moral failure, Labour MPs tell Starmer
UK expected to reduce contribution to Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 20%
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
If this is true and U.K. Government really is planning to cut its contribution to the Global Fund, at a time when Trump’s action will cause deaths on a massive scale, it is moral bankruptcy.
@friendseurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
@friendseurope.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Just been listening to the New Statesman podcast of 6/11/2025 titled ‘What Labour must learn from Zohran Mamdani’.
No mention of his anti Zionist position. Just an oversight?
No mention of his anti Zionist position. Just an oversight?
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Just been listening to the New Statesman podcast of 6/11/2025 titled ‘What Labour must learn from Zohran Mamdani’.
No mention of his anti Zionist position. Just an oversight?
No mention of his anti Zionist position. Just an oversight?
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Some 300 UK organisations say the #ECHR:
✅Lets us speak freely, love who we want and live in peace
✅Lets ordinary people hold authority to account
✅Helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
✅Has helped victims of injustice and improved public services
✅Is crucial in fighting violence against women
✅Lets us speak freely, love who we want and live in peace
✅Lets ordinary people hold authority to account
✅Helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
✅Has helped victims of injustice and improved public services
✅Is crucial in fighting violence against women
A day ahead of its 75th anniversary, nearly 300 UK-based organisations have spoken out in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights👇
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... via @the-independent.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75
🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... via @the-independent.com
#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #ECHR75
Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry
Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty
www.independent.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Some 300 UK organisations say the #ECHR:
✅Lets us speak freely, love who we want and live in peace
✅Lets ordinary people hold authority to account
✅Helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
✅Has helped victims of injustice and improved public services
✅Is crucial in fighting violence against women
✅Lets us speak freely, love who we want and live in peace
✅Lets ordinary people hold authority to account
✅Helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
✅Has helped victims of injustice and improved public services
✅Is crucial in fighting violence against women
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Yes, this is wingnuts and cranks all over: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or by kicking the poor. Every concession you give them, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more.
November 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yes, this is wingnuts and cranks all over: you can never appease them by walloping migrants or minorities or by kicking the poor. Every concession you give them, every group of people you sacrifice to please them, is just wasted. They don’t respect you or feel grateful, they reset and demand more.
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I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I'd venture politely to suggest that if the EHRC had done its job and written a code that was about the law rather the pursuit of an anti-trans ideological agenda duty bearers would be better able to do what she urges upon them.
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"A country is not just what it does - it is also what it tolerates' Kurt Ticholsky
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"A country is not just what it does - it is also what it tolerates' Kurt Ticholsky
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In this case not just white, but male, class, wealth & royal privilege (Which, acting together, make a complete mockery of the principle that no one is above the law).
In Rotherham male adult privilege ruled.
Privilege, like discrimination, is intersectional.
In Rotherham male adult privilege ruled.
Privilege, like discrimination, is intersectional.
October 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In this case not just white, but male, class, wealth & royal privilege (Which, acting together, make a complete mockery of the principle that no one is above the law).
In Rotherham male adult privilege ruled.
Privilege, like discrimination, is intersectional.
In Rotherham male adult privilege ruled.
Privilege, like discrimination, is intersectional.