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Jake
@drjje.bsky.social
Doctor. Greenwich based. CYP Diabetes. Leftish, Bookish. Ginger-ish. Gay. Anti-misanthrope. Bowie. Personal views. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ He/Him Instagram : drjje
London (and frequently Vienna)
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Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End | The Beatles
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The Beatles - Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by {TheNew}
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December 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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This series of articles in the Guardian on the Free Birth influencers makes terrifying reading. So many dead babies.

If you’re planning (or going through) a pregnancy and you want to maximise the chance of a surviving, healthy baby, don’t mess with these people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘She was like a deer in headlights’: how unskilled radical birthkeepers took hold in Canada
In holistic communities and midwifery deserts, women are turning to the Free Birth Society for information and unlicensed providers
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Tom Stoppard was for me, to British (and personal) theatre what Bowie was to British music - that level - RIP
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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I lived at 34th and Broadway for a number of years and hosted guests for the Macy’s #Parade. I traveled for #Thanksgiving this year and am very sad that I missed the balloons.
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge has thrown out the criminal indictment of James Comey, ruling that Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed and had no lawful authority to bring the case. The court found her actions violated federal law and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
1/3

You may have heard @mrjamesob.bsky.social recommending an article on his show yesterday.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by renowned American journalist Dorothy Thompson, is a wonderful piece of writing. ⬇️

#DorothyThompson

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Dorothy Thompson - Who Goes Nazi? (Her voice modelled on a genuine 1934 broadcast)
YouTube video by Quiet Majority
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November 5, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I second this. Welcome to the club - our two cities are the future
What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Rachel Reeves: “My job is to deal with the world as I find it, not the world as I might wish it to be.”

A great sentence.... for July-Sept 2024.
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”
November 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The next 12 months are going to be remarkable
The US government’s debt burden is on track to exceed levels in both Italy and Greece for the first time this century, according to IMF forecasts, underscoring the parlous state of America’s public finances on.ft.com/3L50KnT
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It’s Austria Day - I am eating Punschkrapfen - delicious
October 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Trump is destroying the White House and the US. From symbolism to literalism.
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I have never seen such a perfect image
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
New read……
October 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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“Gottle of geer.”
October 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage.
Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.
October 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If the rapture happens today, I wonder how many cancellations I will get for clinic this afternoon? Actually, life may be a bit better with all those bores gone
September 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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A pop up box on Tylenol dot com
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 AM