MagsyH
@magsyh.bsky.social
Grandmother, permanently tired, I once had a life I think
Fibromyalgia, food now my enemy
Fibromyalgia, food now my enemy
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I’ve signed. Will you?🤔
It’s important Parliament decides before any trade deal is imposed on 🇬🇧. Starmer doesn’t have the right to push deals through without MPs being consulted & allowed to vote!
Our food safety is worth more than pleasing Donald Trump!☹️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
It’s important Parliament decides before any trade deal is imposed on 🇬🇧. Starmer doesn’t have the right to push deals through without MPs being consulted & allowed to vote!
Our food safety is worth more than pleasing Donald Trump!☹️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
August 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I’ve signed. Will you?🤔
It’s important Parliament decides before any trade deal is imposed on 🇬🇧. Starmer doesn’t have the right to push deals through without MPs being consulted & allowed to vote!
Our food safety is worth more than pleasing Donald Trump!☹️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
It’s important Parliament decides before any trade deal is imposed on 🇬🇧. Starmer doesn’t have the right to push deals through without MPs being consulted & allowed to vote!
Our food safety is worth more than pleasing Donald Trump!☹️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried.
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried.
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.
But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
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This is deeply shocking and disturbing, the opposite of scientific good practice. As I see it, a group of diehards promoting a discredited treatment (exercise "therapy" for ME/CFS patients) are seeking to stifle medical progress - to protect their reputations. And Cochrane has kowtowed to them. 🧵
I never thought a day would come when I would write a post this critical about the Cochrane Collaboration. But today was that day:
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/01/24/w...
#mecfs
absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/01/24/w...
#mecfs
When Journal, Scientific Society, and Community Values Clash - Absolutely Maybe
A process I’ve been involved with at a journal recently exploded. It was meant to resolve a controversy about a publication, not…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
January 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This is deeply shocking and disturbing, the opposite of scientific good practice. As I see it, a group of diehards promoting a discredited treatment (exercise "therapy" for ME/CFS patients) are seeking to stifle medical progress - to protect their reputations. And Cochrane has kowtowed to them. 🧵
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V interesting clip from BBC Radio Leicester on how the design of built infrastructure likely exacerbated recent floods and how we could do things differently.
Mentions ideas including lowering water run-off from properties and de-paving.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Mentions ideas including lowering water run-off from properties and de-paving.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Floods - what's the impact of climate and housing? - BBC Sounds
How is climate change and new housing affecting the risk of floods?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
V interesting clip from BBC Radio Leicester on how the design of built infrastructure likely exacerbated recent floods and how we could do things differently.
Mentions ideas including lowering water run-off from properties and de-paving.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Mentions ideas including lowering water run-off from properties and de-paving.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
January 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs
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Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
January 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs
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That is quite some headline
@dailymail.co.uk…..
Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?
I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!
1/17
@dailymail.co.uk…..
Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?
I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!
1/17
January 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
That is quite some headline
@dailymail.co.uk…..
Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?
I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!
1/17
@dailymail.co.uk…..
Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?
I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!
1/17
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'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!
January 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!
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We already have a potential winner of the Tory imbecile of the year award - as early as January 2nd - truly stellar. 👏🥇🏆 🎉
Suella Braverman tells LBC that Italy have "built a wall" on the "land border between Italy and Turkey" and insists that "I've been to see it"
January 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We already have a potential winner of the Tory imbecile of the year award - as early as January 2nd - truly stellar. 👏🥇🏆 🎉
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A stunning sky as the sun sets after a beautiful but chilly day on Loch Long in Argyll Scotland 🌅
Temps sliding into the -1°s so wrap up if going out 🥶
Time to prepare for the darts, let’s go Bunting mental 🎯
#StormHour #Scotland #WCDarts
Temps sliding into the -1°s so wrap up if going out 🥶
Time to prepare for the darts, let’s go Bunting mental 🎯
#StormHour #Scotland #WCDarts
January 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A stunning sky as the sun sets after a beautiful but chilly day on Loch Long in Argyll Scotland 🌅
Temps sliding into the -1°s so wrap up if going out 🥶
Time to prepare for the darts, let’s go Bunting mental 🎯
#StormHour #Scotland #WCDarts
Temps sliding into the -1°s so wrap up if going out 🥶
Time to prepare for the darts, let’s go Bunting mental 🎯
#StormHour #Scotland #WCDarts
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England's water companies fined just £2 since 2021 for breaching regulations.
OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines.
So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends
archive.ph/iIugA
OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines.
So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends
archive.ph/iIugA
Water companies fined just £2 for rule breaking despite record sewage
Ofwat has been accused of not acting quickly enough to issue fines against water companies for sewage dumping
inews.co.uk
December 28, 2024 at 10:24 AM
England's water companies fined just £2 since 2021 for breaching regulations.
OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines.
So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends
archive.ph/iIugA
OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines.
So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends
archive.ph/iIugA
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This is the person of the year.
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
This is the person of the year.
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Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
Thames Water fined £18m over dividends but granted 35% bills hike by 2030
The ruling falls well short of a 59% bills hike requested by the troubled water company, as it tries to secure a bailout from investors.
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.
Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.
Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...
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This needs to be taken very seriously. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
December 18, 2024 at 7:01 AM
This needs to be taken very seriously. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations
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In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
December 15, 2024 at 8:22 PM
In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
The role of media ladies and gentlemen.
#covid #covidcanada
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UK manufacturing accounts for £518bn; 23% of GDP; 7.3m jobs. £1m of manufacturing activity has £1.8m multiplier effect.
Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.
But Govt wants bigger finance industry
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...
Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.
But Govt wants bigger finance industry
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...
The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry
Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.
leftfootforward.org
December 13, 2024 at 3:13 PM
UK manufacturing accounts for £518bn; 23% of GDP; 7.3m jobs. £1m of manufacturing activity has £1.8m multiplier effect.
Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.
But Govt wants bigger finance industry
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...
Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.
But Govt wants bigger finance industry
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...
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‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
The Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined the UK economy. Hold onto your seats..
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 13, 2024 at 7:24 AM
‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts
youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...
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The average cost of renting a newly let UK home is now £3,240 higher than in 2021.
Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.
People priced out of buying/renting homes.
No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.
People priced out of buying/renting homes.
No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
Annual rent for newly let UK home £3,240 higher than 2021, research finds
Rents have risen by 27% since end of pandemic lockdowns, while earnings have increased by 19%
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 8:02 AM
The average cost of renting a newly let UK home is now £3,240 higher than in 2021.
Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.
People priced out of buying/renting homes.
No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.
People priced out of buying/renting homes.
No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
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Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Why Britain's doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
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Superb explainer on whether and when bird flu will become a pandemic. TL;DR: possibly, and if so, soon. #medsky #academicsky 🧪
You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
How close is a new bird flu (H5N1) pandemic?
Probably not around the corner but getting uncomfortably closer.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Superb explainer on whether and when bird flu will become a pandemic. TL;DR: possibly, and if so, soon. #medsky #academicsky 🧪
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You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
How close is a new bird flu (H5N1) pandemic?
Probably not around the corner but getting uncomfortably closer.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:06 AM
You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Boris Johnson is a disgusting man who uses any excuse for his appalling behaviour.
December 9, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Boris Johnson is a disgusting man who uses any excuse for his appalling behaviour.
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Wow. The magnificently restored interior of the Notre-Dame Cathedral
December 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Wow. The magnificently restored interior of the Notre-Dame Cathedral
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
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Massive Brexiter says what now?
December 5, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Massive Brexiter says what now?