Al McC
@almccartney.bsky.social
Here in a personal capacity, with an interest in science, health, equality, politics, gluttony etc.
Optimistic Arsenal fan | Clapton CFC | 🦘
Optimistic Arsenal fan | Clapton CFC | 🦘
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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...
Make Racists Afraid Again
Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Make Racists Afraid Again
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most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 AM
most people don't want politics that hurt other people. we just want a long overcoat like david bowie and affordable housing
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Good explainer of a thorny issue for universities, which doesn’t often get the cool heads it needs. I look forward with interest to the judicial review of the OfS decision to fine Sussex.
I wrote on the UK’s new policy of enforced free speech at universities, how it’s being enforced, and whether government-mandated “free speech” can ever be anything of the sort. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/fre...
The assault on academic freedom
Is the universities regulator protecting free expression, or are some beliefs more protected than others?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Good explainer of a thorny issue for universities, which doesn’t often get the cool heads it needs. I look forward with interest to the judicial review of the OfS decision to fine Sussex.
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True privilege is thinking “oh if I’m accused of sexual assault I can just change my job title and the fuss goes away”
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Prince Andrew to stop using titles and honors, including the Duke of York.
October 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
True privilege is thinking “oh if I’m accused of sexual assault I can just change my job title and the fuss goes away”
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How can better understanding of #hormones improve health for everyone?
Find out at Prof Niamh Martin’s inaugural lecture on 15 October, exploring hormones, #health, and the fight against misinformation.
Register👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19687...
Find out at Prof Niamh Martin’s inaugural lecture on 15 October, exploring hormones, #health, and the fight against misinformation.
Register👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19687...
Problem solving: from the clinic to the classroom
Join us for Professor Niamh Martin's inaugural lecture in person or online.
www.imperial.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
How can better understanding of #hormones improve health for everyone?
Find out at Prof Niamh Martin’s inaugural lecture on 15 October, exploring hormones, #health, and the fight against misinformation.
Register👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19687...
Find out at Prof Niamh Martin’s inaugural lecture on 15 October, exploring hormones, #health, and the fight against misinformation.
Register👇 @imperialmdr.bsky.social
www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19687...
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They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”
And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.
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If you have opinions on this and are on the club's mailing list there was an e-mail sent out today surveying fans about attitudes towards their brand partners.
surveys.arsenal.com/jfe/form/SV_...
surveys.arsenal.com/jfe/form/SV_...
October 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
If you have opinions on this and are on the club's mailing list there was an e-mail sent out today surveying fans about attitudes towards their brand partners.
surveys.arsenal.com/jfe/form/SV_...
surveys.arsenal.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Let us hope these "discussions" lead to nothing but the termination of this indefensible commercial relationship with Kagame's dictatorship. As to you, fellow Arsenal fans, why parade shirts which promote it? We too share responsability here.
Arsenal are in discussions over extending their sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda.
Arsenal fan group Gunners For Peace said discussions over extending the deal brought the club’s values into question.
✍️ @gunnerblog.bsky.social and @dansheldon.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
Arsenal fan group Gunners For Peace said discussions over extending the deal brought the club’s values into question.
✍️ @gunnerblog.bsky.social and @dansheldon.bsky.social
🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Let us hope these "discussions" lead to nothing but the termination of this indefensible commercial relationship with Kagame's dictatorship. As to you, fellow Arsenal fans, why parade shirts which promote it? We too share responsability here.
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Paying the piper. Calling the tune.
Not a word from FIFA on this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Not a word from FIFA on this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
How did Qatar and Saudi Arabia get home advantage and more rest than rivals in World Cup qualifiers?
The Oman coach, Carlos Queiroz, is among those who are questioning the AFC’s decision for the upcoming games
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Paying the piper. Calling the tune.
Not a word from FIFA on this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Not a word from FIFA on this.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...