Mark Petticrew

@markpetticrew.bsky.social

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Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 15h

25 years after Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser returns...

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...

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Alcohol Review @alcoholreview.bsky.social · 15h

"We are much better informed today about the risks, and the message that any alcohol consumption carries a health risk is really starting to get through," says Mickael Naassila, the organiser of France's alcohol-free January initiative.
www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

Dry January: cultural shift around alcohol, but political resistance remains

"Dry January", an initiative to encourage people to stop drinking during the month after the holidays, has had trouble picking up steam in France, where winemakers hold political and economic clout.…

www.rfi.fr

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Prof Amelia Lake @lakenutrition.bsky.social · 1d

Listen to @emmaboyland.bsky.social talk about the new junk food bans on #BBC today - listen at 1hr 52 into the programme.
Also on with Emma was Jonathon Bone from @nestauk.bsky.social
Brilliant discussion around the limitations as well as benefits.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Today - 05/01/2026 - BBC Sounds

News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 4d

Rare, and welcome positive messages in Nason's piece...I look forward too to more MPH podcasts in 2026

Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 4d

I published a slightly different piece on Money Power Health to close out 2025. I called it “2025 in review: A Gangster’s Paradise”, an attempt to name a world where raw power is increasingly visible and rewarded, harm is externalised, and moral ambition worn down. open.substack.com/pub/nasonmaa...

2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise

Some personal reflections and a note of hope

open.substack.com

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Nason Maani @spidermaani.bsky.social · 4d

2025 in review: A Gangsters Paradise

Some personal reflections and a note of hope

open.substack.com

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Riff Gaffer @riff.is.djing.fyi · 6d

there's nobody alive left in this version

We Didn't Start the Fire (Bardcore | Medieval/Renaissance Style Cover)

YouTube video by Hildegard von Blingin'

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 7d

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It)

James Smith, Rob Moodie, Carmel Williams, Glen Ramos, Katherine Trebeck, Caterina Giorgi, Melinda Edmunds, Gemma Crawford

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It)

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sam McBride @sjamcbride.bsky.social · 7d

They knew: Declassified files prove Stormont understood Lough Neagh’s pollution decades ago – but then made it worse. Stormont explicitly knew that intensive agriculture was killing our waterways, but then used public money to encourage more factory farms.

They knew: Declassified files prove Stormont understood Lough Neagh’s pollution decades ago – but then made it worse

Stormont officials knew about the chronic pollution of Lough Neagh decades ago - and also knew that it largely stemmed from intensive agriculture, declassified files prove.

www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley @ardernkate.bsky.social · 7d

Many very well deserved congratulations to my friends & colleagues @felly500.bsky.social OBE & Alice Wiseman MBE in the #NewYearsHonours @adphuk.bsky.social plus work of social care colleagues recognised & @bevcraig.bsky.social OBE 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder that years ago it was found out that the FBI straight up made up a whole bunch of fake forensic sciences, plural. People have gone to jail and been executed due to literally pseudoscience.

Hair forensics, for instance, is totally nonsense.

They admitted it.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science

slate.com

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 9d

Analysis of BBC Question Time concludes “The findings reflect growing concerns about the role of sources on televised panels for broadcasters globally and a media agenda led by the radical right that is shaping the nature of political debate”

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9d

'This approach raises concerns about an over-reliance on journalists and pundits from right-wing media, especially those who are regular contributors to the political magazine The Spectator.' 2/2

Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 11d

Make a Bond movie academic (UK version...)

Diamonds Are For-REF-er

REF and Let Die

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 18d

Watch The Insects’ Christmas from 1913: A Stop Motion Film Starring a Cast of Dead Bugs

Kind Reader, Will you do us the honor of accepting our holiday invitation? Carve five minutes from your holiday schedule to spend time celebrating The Insects' Christmas, above.

www.openculture.com

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 18d

Moving beyond individual choice: why public health language matters – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/moving-beyon...
By Mark Robinson, Mark Chenery and James Smith

Moving beyond individual choice: why public health language matters

Introduction by Croakey: As we head into the season for New Year's resolutions, we will begin to see advertising, media

www.croakey.org

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Clearyb @clearyb.bsky.social · 20d

#OTD in 1890 Bram Stoker published Gibbet Hill in a Christmas supplement of the Daily Express (Dublin). This long-lost story is published by the Rotunda Foundation in aid of the Charlotte Stoker Fund, supporting research on preventable hearing loss in newborns. This fund is already making an impact

Shot of masthead of Daily Express Wednesday Dec 17, 1890
Gibbet Hill [All Rights Reserved] by Bram Stoker is underneath.

Shot of advert from Daily Express Jan 1, 1891
Gibbet Hill by Bram Stoker is among a list of specially commissioned articles. .

OUR SUPPLEMENT.
WITE the Danx Expans of the 176h was issued
a Supplement of eight pages, making a paper of 112 columns for one penny. Copies can bejhad at this office and at all newsagents.
Every article was specially written for this num-ber, and amongst them will be found the following:— A STEP IN ASTRONOMY, BY SIE ROBERT
BALL.
A VISIT TO IONA, BY M. C. F.
DERMOT BYRNE, BY PROFESSOB G. F. ARM-
STRONG.
WATCHWORDS OF CRITICISM, BY PRo-
FESSOR TYRRELL.
GEORGE MEREDITH, By PROPESSOR DOWDEN.
EARLY LETTERS OF CHARLES LEVER
(Now for the first time published), By W.
J. FITZPATRICK.
THE SLIM MAN, BY TEE REY CANON CAR-AN IRISH SAGA. BY STANDISI O'GRADY.
GIBBETT HILL, BY BRAM STOKER.
HOW TO READ A NEWSPAPER. B G.
F. SHAW, S.E.T.G.D.
THE OLD ROUTE TO HOLYHEAD. BY
CHARLES MILLS.
CUTCHERLY YARNS. BY E. S. RoBERTSON.

Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social · 23d

Repurposes his compressed air bolt gun, for blowing up kids party balloons

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Ally Brown @allybrown.bsky.social · 24d

I've been concerned recently to see a few blogs associating over-diagnosis & medicalisation critiques of mental health & neurodiversity with the right-wing, and even fascism.

This excellent article by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com clearly shows some of the sociological concerns www.ft.com/content/8252...

How redefining special needs rocked education

Broadened criteria are benefiting the better-off, harming those facing greatest difficulty and straining the system

www.ft.com

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Rebecca Tushnet, Robert B. Reich

Stacy Mitchell @stacyfmitchell.bsky.social · 25d

1. For at least 10 years, Pepsi has conspired with Walmart to force up grocery prices. That’s the shocking evidence made public today in an unsealed FTC lawsuit. The suit was abandoned in May by the Trump FTC just before it was to be un-redacted. We went to court to get it unsealed & won.

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Gary Ruskin @garyruskin.bsky.social · 25d

Social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, especially girls, study shows.
Via @pamelawrites.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social
usrtk.org/healthwire/s...

Social media fuels smoking and vaping among children, especially girls, study shows

The more time teens spend on social media, the higher their risk of using cigarettes or e-cigarettes — and potentially developing serious health problems.

usrtk.org

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 29d

It's #MosaicMonday and miserable in the UK so here's an early Winter personification from Bignor Roman villa. It's from a room that had underfloor heating and was probably a dining room.

www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

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Tracey Woodruff @traceywoodruff.bsky.social · 29d

Want to see the result of a 30 year campaign? Industry gets its wish to undermine risk assessment and formaldehyde

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Under Former Chemical Industry Insiders, Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to Inhale

Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or...

www.propublica.org

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The Signal @the-signal.bsky.social · 29d

Is there really a “new oligarchy” in America? Quinn Slobodian on why so many Silicon Valley billionaires have gotten so involved in everyday American politics. Read on. Link in comments.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Dec 5

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza

The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

truthout.org

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Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · Dec 5

EXCLUSIVE: Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my
@bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

How Epstein Channelled Race Science and 'Climate Culling' Into Silicon Valley’s AI Elite

The Epstein files expose how racial hierarchy, genetic “optimisation” and even climate-driven population culling circulated inside Big Tech circles

bylinetimes.com

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Dec 4

Who will benefit from this decision?

The list would have to include: vaping/tobacco industry; alcohol & gambling interests; those who profit from unhealthy food systems....
Who else?

www.croakey.org/shock-and-al...

Shock and alarm greet news about VicHealth’s demise

News that VicHealth (the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation) will close as a standalone agency – 38 years after launching as

www.croakey.org

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, John Hogan

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Dec 4

loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · Dec 3

🚨The video recording of the AI and the Politics of Extraction panel is now live! Watch this fascinating 1.5 hour discussion with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @profwhw.bsky.social, @mysdick.bsky.social, and @profhvdv.bsky.social as they explore the risks of unfettered AI implementation.

AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice

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Reposted by Naomi Klein, Mark Petticrew, John Hogan

Centre for Climate Justice @ccj-ubc.bsky.social · Dec 3

AI and the Politics of Extraction | Centre for Climate Justice

YouTube video by Centre for Climate Justice

www.youtube.com

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · Dec 2

Watching Father Ted’s a Christmassy Ted and remembered this nugget of pop trivia, the priest with the most boring voice Father Fitzgerald (Sean Barrett) in Ireland's largest lingeree section was the cover star of The Smith's single "How Soon is Now" a still from the 1958 film "Dunkirk".

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