Ed.White
@ed-white.bsky.social
"He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world was mad"
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Photo: Erich Salomon 1929
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#LookAndSee 257
Not a song, but lines from Chapter 18 of Tim O'Brien's "The Things they Carried":
"Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."
Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
Not a song, but lines from Chapter 18 of Tim O'Brien's "The Things they Carried":
"Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."
Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
#LookAndSee 257
Not a song, but lines from Chapter 18 of Tim O'Brien's "The Things they Carried":
"Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."
Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
Not a song, but lines from Chapter 18 of Tim O'Brien's "The Things they Carried":
"Daddy, tell the truth," Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And I can say, honestly, "Of course not."
Or I can say, honestly, "Yes."
Northern Ireland is majority Christian, but with a 2021 population of 1,903,175 in NI, Christianity is still <50% in UK as a whole, by 2021/2 census returns:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
November 18, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Northern Ireland is majority Christian, but with a 2021 population of 1,903,175 in NI, Christianity is still <50% in UK as a whole, by 2021/2 census returns:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
Scotland:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Scotland:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religio...
I'd question the assumption that the UK is even a majority Christian country, given the results of the 2021 England & Wales census wrt religion:
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I'd question the assumption that the UK is even a majority Christian country, given the results of the 2021 England & Wales census wrt religion:
October 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Is her account of the work 'on the menstrual cycles of mice to study transgenderism' another instance of her mischaracterisation of this work?
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
September 30, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Is her account of the work 'on the menstrual cycles of mice to study transgenderism' another instance of her mischaracterisation of this work?
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
By "archaic", you mean post-1984? My NI card is literally a piece of lightweight card with my name, address & NI number printed on it.
A credit card-style ID card would be my strong preference. There's a ton of stuff I prefer not to use the smartphone for.
A credit card-style ID card would be my strong preference. There's a ton of stuff I prefer not to use the smartphone for.
September 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
By "archaic", you mean post-1984? My NI card is literally a piece of lightweight card with my name, address & NI number printed on it.
A credit card-style ID card would be my strong preference. There's a ton of stuff I prefer not to use the smartphone for.
A credit card-style ID card would be my strong preference. There's a ton of stuff I prefer not to use the smartphone for.
#CarlsChallenge
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
& until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war
'Cos until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued
But never attained
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
& until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war
'Cos until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued
But never attained
September 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
#CarlsChallenge
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
& until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war
'Cos until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued
But never attained
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
& until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
Dis a war
'Cos until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued
But never attained
It's like the mid 20thC surge in Confederate monument construction. Lest folk forget to glorify the white supremacists.
With the added insult to universities & their duty to teach fact in the teeth of far right propagandists, given Kirk's professor watchlist project
www.rvavalues.com/post/unveili...
With the added insult to universities & their duty to teach fact in the teeth of far right propagandists, given Kirk's professor watchlist project
www.rvavalues.com/post/unveili...
September 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It's like the mid 20thC surge in Confederate monument construction. Lest folk forget to glorify the white supremacists.
With the added insult to universities & their duty to teach fact in the teeth of far right propagandists, given Kirk's professor watchlist project
www.rvavalues.com/post/unveili...
With the added insult to universities & their duty to teach fact in the teeth of far right propagandists, given Kirk's professor watchlist project
www.rvavalues.com/post/unveili...
I can't find official area of the festival park at Knebworth, but from g**glemaps it looks to be ~20acres; official capacity 125,000. I've been there in a crowd of 60,000, & even that felt like fkton of people. We'd have been much less comfy with 2x as many there.
Knebworth's photo of 125,00 in 2003
Knebworth's photo of 125,00 in 2003
September 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I can't find official area of the festival park at Knebworth, but from g**glemaps it looks to be ~20acres; official capacity 125,000. I've been there in a crowd of 60,000, & even that felt like fkton of people. We'd have been much less comfy with 2x as many there.
Knebworth's photo of 125,00 in 2003
Knebworth's photo of 125,00 in 2003
Here fact-checked: suggestions that Trump lying to congress in private interview, rather than formally & under oath, allowed for no legal sanction. Sen. Grassley correctly said that such interviews were common practice, & Trump legally required to tell the truth ...
checkyourfact.com/2017/07/27/f...
checkyourfact.com/2017/07/27/f...
September 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Here fact-checked: suggestions that Trump lying to congress in private interview, rather than formally & under oath, allowed for no legal sanction. Sen. Grassley correctly said that such interviews were common practice, & Trump legally required to tell the truth ...
checkyourfact.com/2017/07/27/f...
checkyourfact.com/2017/07/27/f...
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I'm not sure SARS-CoV-2 is sufficiently predictable to qualify as 'endemic' (though media & medical commentators have represented it as such), & it's certainly not stable.
biologyinsights.com/what-does-it...
biologyinsights.com/what-does-it...
September 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm not sure SARS-CoV-2 is sufficiently predictable to qualify as 'endemic' (though media & medical commentators have represented it as such), & it's certainly not stable.
biologyinsights.com/what-does-it...
biologyinsights.com/what-does-it...
Of course, it's still better to get long term immunity to measles by vaccination, since measles infection also causes significant, even severe, immune dysfunction:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
September 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Of course, it's still better to get long term immunity to measles by vaccination, since measles infection also causes significant, even severe, immune dysfunction:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
According to the BHF, the public access defibrillators were designed to be used without any training, they issue spoken instructions, & don't allow you to shock anyone who doesn't need it.
Idiot-proof, if you don't count the idiots who hide them in cupboards.
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
Idiot-proof, if you don't count the idiots who hide them in cupboards.
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
September 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
According to the BHF, the public access defibrillators were designed to be used without any training, they issue spoken instructions, & don't allow you to shock anyone who doesn't need it.
Idiot-proof, if you don't count the idiots who hide them in cupboards.
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
Idiot-proof, if you don't count the idiots who hide them in cupboards.
www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
September 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
England doesn't have "draconian" gun laws, nor does London have a higher murder rate than NYC. Crime stats vary month to month, & there were a couple of months a few years ago where London had a couple more murders than NYC.
www.searchlondon.co.uk/2025/03/10/l...
www.searchlondon.co.uk/2025/03/10/l...
August 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
England doesn't have "draconian" gun laws, nor does London have a higher murder rate than NYC. Crime stats vary month to month, & there were a couple of months a few years ago where London had a couple more murders than NYC.
www.searchlondon.co.uk/2025/03/10/l...
www.searchlondon.co.uk/2025/03/10/l...
The fact that the security assurances explicit in 1994's *Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances* have been violated by Russia since their invasion of Crimea, resisted by various US legislators, & dishonoured by the US under Trump, doesn't mean they weren't provided in the Memorandum.
August 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The fact that the security assurances explicit in 1994's *Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances* have been violated by Russia since their invasion of Crimea, resisted by various US legislators, & dishonoured by the US under Trump, doesn't mean they weren't provided in the Memorandum.
If I lied on a CV, I'd lose my job. Kennedy should expect to lose his at the very least; the False Statements Act makes it a crime to “knowingly and willfully” give a false statement, written or verbal, to federal government, whether or not it's given under oath.
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/a...
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/a...
August 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
If I lied on a CV, I'd lose my job. Kennedy should expect to lose his at the very least; the False Statements Act makes it a crime to “knowingly and willfully” give a false statement, written or verbal, to federal government, whether or not it's given under oath.
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/a...
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/13/a...
EU issues undeliverable promise to provide TACO cover for his latest climb-down on tariffs. If anybody reminds him about the $600bn later, he can just point to the current $2.8trillion of private investment in US from EU & pretend it's in there.
www.politico.eu/article/eus-...
www.politico.eu/article/eus-...
August 6, 2025 at 5:20 AM
EU issues undeliverable promise to provide TACO cover for his latest climb-down on tariffs. If anybody reminds him about the $600bn later, he can just point to the current $2.8trillion of private investment in US from EU & pretend it's in there.
www.politico.eu/article/eus-...
www.politico.eu/article/eus-...
Roger Livesey - & Anton Walbrook - in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Thank heavens the Fleet Air Arm wouldn't release Laurence Olivier to play Candy.
July 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Roger Livesey - & Anton Walbrook - in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Thank heavens the Fleet Air Arm wouldn't release Laurence Olivier to play Candy.
One concern was that childhood immunisation would shift burden of disease to adults, who are more likely to die from primary infection. Of course, we've routinely underestimated the extent to which kids are hospitalised as a result of chickenpox infection.
As for herd immunity against shingles:
As for herd immunity against shingles:
July 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
One concern was that childhood immunisation would shift burden of disease to adults, who are more likely to die from primary infection. Of course, we've routinely underestimated the extent to which kids are hospitalised as a result of chickenpox infection.
As for herd immunity against shingles:
As for herd immunity against shingles:
The JCVI are of the same opinion, which is why its inclusion in the routine vax schedule was recommended in 2023. So the advice is, as per your link:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
July 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The JCVI are of the same opinion, which is why its inclusion in the routine vax schedule was recommended in 2023. So the advice is, as per your link:
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
AFAIK, the reason chickenpox vaccine isn't on the routine vax list is that they just haven't yet got around to enacting JCVI's recommendation published Nov'23.
Evidence from other countries is that protecting kids with Cpox vax doesn't increase incidence of adult shingles.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Evidence from other countries is that protecting kids with Cpox vax doesn't increase incidence of adult shingles.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
AFAIK, the reason chickenpox vaccine isn't on the routine vax list is that they just haven't yet got around to enacting JCVI's recommendation published Nov'23.
Evidence from other countries is that protecting kids with Cpox vax doesn't increase incidence of adult shingles.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Evidence from other countries is that protecting kids with Cpox vax doesn't increase incidence of adult shingles.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
No more than they had before
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
No more than they had before
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...