ZoZo
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Trying to survive a world that’s gone mad. 😵💫 Against racism, violence, misogyny, the Tories and Reform. Anti Brexit. Not convinced ‘living with Covid’ is working. We need clean air and ventilation. Not a 🤖 I’m more of a ♥️er than a poster.
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Bernard Jenkin, "Achieving net zero will add 21% of GDP as a cost"
Ed Milliband, "The bit in the report you didn't mention, is if we end up in 3 degree world, we add 56% of GDP.. That is the cost of inaction"
Ed Milliband, "The bit in the report you didn't mention, is if we end up in 3 degree world, we add 56% of GDP.. That is the cost of inaction"
July 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Bernard Jenkin, "Achieving net zero will add 21% of GDP as a cost"
Ed Milliband, "The bit in the report you didn't mention, is if we end up in 3 degree world, we add 56% of GDP.. That is the cost of inaction"
Ed Milliband, "The bit in the report you didn't mention, is if we end up in 3 degree world, we add 56% of GDP.. That is the cost of inaction"
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Brexit! The gift that keeps on taking!
Europe benefits from golden age of pioneering research & novel treatments, Britons with cancer “lost out” thanks to rising prices & red tape
Brexit “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via ink clinical trials
Europe benefits from golden age of pioneering research & novel treatments, Britons with cancer “lost out” thanks to rising prices & red tape
Brexit “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via ink clinical trials
NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds
Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Brexit! The gift that keeps on taking!
Europe benefits from golden age of pioneering research & novel treatments, Britons with cancer “lost out” thanks to rising prices & red tape
Brexit “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via ink clinical trials
Europe benefits from golden age of pioneering research & novel treatments, Britons with cancer “lost out” thanks to rising prices & red tape
Brexit “damaged the practical ability” of doctors to offer NHS patients life-saving new drugs via ink clinical trials
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Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in the UK for the first time, Reuters reports.
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Bird flu has been detected in a sheep in the UK for the first time, Reuters reports.
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Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
Nuffield Trust says supply chains have shifted, with medicines for epilepsy and cystic fibrosis among those now scarce
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years, report says
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
March 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.
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This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
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If you all could take 30 seconds to add your name to this open letter opposing the proposed cuts in disability benefits, that would be great... Cuts kill.
As a reminder, unless we happen to drop dead, we ALL will be disabled at some point in our life.
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/th...
As a reminder, unless we happen to drop dead, we ALL will be disabled at some point in our life.
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/th...
The cost of cuts | Disability charity Scope UK
The government is considering changes to disability benefits, which are a lifeline for millions. Learn more about the campaign and how to get involved.
www.scope.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
If you all could take 30 seconds to add your name to this open letter opposing the proposed cuts in disability benefits, that would be great... Cuts kill.
As a reminder, unless we happen to drop dead, we ALL will be disabled at some point in our life.
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/th...
As a reminder, unless we happen to drop dead, we ALL will be disabled at some point in our life.
www.scope.org.uk/campaigns/th...
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:21 AM
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This is shocking. Even by the standards of 2025.
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Did you know ISDS is written into the UK's post-Brexit CPTPP free trade deals?
Did you know that LCIA is written into the licenses of 86 deregulated free zones which are currently being rolled out across the UK?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Did you know that LCIA is written into the licenses of 86 deregulated free zones which are currently being rolled out across the UK?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
March 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Did you know ISDS is written into the UK's post-Brexit CPTPP free trade deals?
Did you know that LCIA is written into the licenses of 86 deregulated free zones which are currently being rolled out across the UK?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Did you know that LCIA is written into the licenses of 86 deregulated free zones which are currently being rolled out across the UK?
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Thiel's money and influence has propelled Vance into the White House. Thiel is a billionaire associate of Elon Musk. He wrote the forward to the book "The Sovereign Individual" co-authored by William Rees-Mogg which forecasts a takeover of power by a super-rich cognitive elite.
March 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thiel's money and influence has propelled Vance into the White House. Thiel is a billionaire associate of Elon Musk. He wrote the forward to the book "The Sovereign Individual" co-authored by William Rees-Mogg which forecasts a takeover of power by a super-rich cognitive elite.
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Peter Thiel represents a significant far-right neoliberal threat to US/UK relations, the future of the NHS, the future of the UK's public sector, and the future of Western democracy.
Palantir was awarded a £75mn contract with the Ministry of Defence in December 2022
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Palantir was awarded a £75mn contract with the Ministry of Defence in December 2022
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UK refuses to release details of Peter Thiel’s meeting with former minister
Government argues disclosure could ‘prejudice diplomatic relations’
www.ft.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Peter Thiel represents a significant far-right neoliberal threat to US/UK relations, the future of the NHS, the future of the UK's public sector, and the future of Western democracy.
Palantir was awarded a £75mn contract with the Ministry of Defence in December 2022
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www.ft.com/content/b7ed...
Palantir was awarded a £75mn contract with the Ministry of Defence in December 2022
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www.ft.com/content/b7ed...
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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent…
A relentless, ruinous stupidity.
(Private Eye)
A relentless, ruinous stupidity.
(Private Eye)
February 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent…
A relentless, ruinous stupidity.
(Private Eye)
A relentless, ruinous stupidity.
(Private Eye)
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Forget the nonsense about which month Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England.
This is the real CV fiddling story.
This is the real CV fiddling story.
Reform deputy who mocked Reeves over CV found to have exaggerated on his own CV
Exclusive: Richard Tice has repeatedly mocked Rachel Reeves for having allegedly embellished her CV, but The Independent can reveal the Reform UK deputy leader has in fact exaggerated his own…
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February 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Forget the nonsense about which month Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England.
This is the real CV fiddling story.
This is the real CV fiddling story.
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The majority of the public is unaware of Sunak and Starmer's free zones rollout, they're less aware of what the next step is, I'm talking about charter cities. A charter city is a type of city in which a guarantor from a developed country would create a city within a developing host country. Brexit
January 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The majority of the public is unaware of Sunak and Starmer's free zones rollout, they're less aware of what the next step is, I'm talking about charter cities. A charter city is a type of city in which a guarantor from a developed country would create a city within a developing host country. Brexit
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Not only does this actively de-incentivise conversion to heat pump and electricity - which is insane- it also affects competitiveness with other nations as industry/ business activity is more expensive.
So it is both an environmental and a productivity issue.
So it is both an environmental and a productivity issue.
The UK has some of the highest energy prices in the world.
Why?
Because our wholesale electricity price is set by the most expensive source.
So even if 99% of energy used was wind or solar, and 1% was gas, we’d still pay the gas price for all of it.
Graph from the Times.
Why?
Because our wholesale electricity price is set by the most expensive source.
So even if 99% of energy used was wind or solar, and 1% was gas, we’d still pay the gas price for all of it.
Graph from the Times.
January 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Not only does this actively de-incentivise conversion to heat pump and electricity - which is insane- it also affects competitiveness with other nations as industry/ business activity is more expensive.
So it is both an environmental and a productivity issue.
So it is both an environmental and a productivity issue.
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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
December 14, 2024 at 2:21 AM
I heard RFK Jr. is floating the banning of the polio vaccine so seems like a good time to remind folks that RFK Jr. was vaccinated with this same vaccine & therefore is at no risk of harm himself
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
Kinda like when he publicly was against the covid vaccine yet privately required his guests to have it🙃
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Going the wrong way, but still not above “this centuries high”.
One record I’m keen not to see broken, but unless we stop stuffing up our T cells with C19…
www.gov.uk/government/n...
One record I’m keen not to see broken, but unless we stop stuffing up our T cells with C19…
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Tuberculosis levels in England increased by 11% in 2023
Reported notifications of TB in England increased by 11% in 2023 compared to the previous year.
www.gov.uk
December 8, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Going the wrong way, but still not above “this centuries high”.
One record I’m keen not to see broken, but unless we stop stuffing up our T cells with C19…
www.gov.uk/government/n...
One record I’m keen not to see broken, but unless we stop stuffing up our T cells with C19…
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.”
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘Brexit problem’: UK tap water safety at risk after testing labs shut down
Exclusive: EU countries will share laboratory capacity but UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:27 AM
“But UK rules mean products cannot be tested abroad; they have to be tested in the country in a certified lab of which there are now none.”
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I mean… ffs…
Brexit never gets any less idiotic or ruinous, does it?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Royal Mail
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Royal Mail fails to deliver about a quarter of first-class post on time
Deterioration in delivery times adds further pressure on bosses just as takeover deal nears completion
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Royal Mail
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
Long COVID: a clinical update
Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms
persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple
organ systems and lead to sever...
www.thelancet.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Reproducing my thread from the Other Place on our Lancet paper 'Long COVID - a clinical update'. Coauthors Manoj Sivan, Alice Perlowski, Janko Nikolich. 1/
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...?