Karen Meadows
@karenmeadows.bsky.social
Retired NHS director. Garden history writer. For garden history tweets see British Gardening History.
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The brilliant Dr Robert Sapolsky on the frightening link between exposure to pesticides and herbicides and the increased incidence of Parkinson's Disease. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4GU...
#38: Trans Brains, Parkinson’s, Inequality | Robert Sapolsky Father-Offspring Interviews
YouTube video by Robert Sapolsky
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November 21, 2024 at 7:09 PM
The brilliant Dr Robert Sapolsky on the frightening link between exposure to pesticides and herbicides and the increased incidence of Parkinson's Disease. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4GU...
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🚨New research🚨
Official labour market data has ‘lost’ almost a million workers and is over-stating the scale of Britain’s economic inactivity challenge.
More➡️https://buff.ly/4fz1ifQ
Official labour market data has ‘lost’ almost a million workers and is over-stating the scale of Britain’s economic inactivity challenge.
More➡️https://buff.ly/4fz1ifQ
November 20, 2024 at 8:10 AM
🚨New research🚨
Official labour market data has ‘lost’ almost a million workers and is over-stating the scale of Britain’s economic inactivity challenge.
More➡️https://buff.ly/4fz1ifQ
Official labour market data has ‘lost’ almost a million workers and is over-stating the scale of Britain’s economic inactivity challenge.
More➡️https://buff.ly/4fz1ifQ
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9/ Meanwhile, separately to APR, 355 aristocratic estates are claiming another tax break - the 'tax-exempt heritage assets' scheme - and using it to prop up ecologically damaging grouse moors & pheasant shoots.
Let's close this loophole & give nature a break:
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
Let's close this loophole & give nature a break:
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
Loophole exempts 355 landowners in England from inheritance tax, data shows
Chancellor urged to cancel tax break that uses scheme to register land as heritage asset and worth at least £68m
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:34 PM
9/ Meanwhile, separately to APR, 355 aristocratic estates are claiming another tax break - the 'tax-exempt heritage assets' scheme - and using it to prop up ecologically damaging grouse moors & pheasant shoots.
Let's close this loophole & give nature a break:
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
Let's close this loophole & give nature a break:
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/o...
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Actual good news.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Actual good news.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻♂️
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻♂️
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻♂️
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻♂️