ccfears.bsky.social
Comms, publishing, policy and politics of global public health. London based, lucky to spend lots of time in Mexico City - the two greatest cities in the world 🇬🇧 🇲🇽
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Estonia won my heart for the silly song this year, I also found Switzerland quite sweet
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I just love that they're still trying
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Well, who could have predicted that this is exactly what would happen from the moment this was first announced? Next up, Morena's enemies using this system to punish them via the courts the minute their popularity with voters wanes. Just a very stupid policy all round really.
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If you find yourself in the UK some time, the Scott Polar Museum in Cambridge is great. One sad object is Oates' sleeping bag, cut open from ease the pain in his frostbitten leg. A visit will not in any way help with the existential funk
www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/catal...
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The fact that we're in a world where *the catholic church* is viewed as a beacon of progress because it lets some ladies read out loud is so fucking depressing
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Agree, though it's always going to be a stick to beat them when they inevitably break pledges. Again, they need to remember they're Labour & should just go for it. But going for it would entail a bit of a vision to go for. They're stuck tinkering, 'already sort of' breaking pledges to no real end.
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I wonder if they also forget they're Labour and there's different rules for them - the Tories are expected to be mean, but they 'balance the books' so it is permissable. Labour are expected to be less mean but financially irresponsible so any meanness doesn't equal balance, and so isn't permissable
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I liked this then remembered I live in the UK where a lot of stuff that really should be done in some kind of sensible modern manner is instead done via ancient symbolic acts and I'm not sure I still agree.
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I mean I doubt Ian Hislop is the booker on hignfy
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Oh this will be fun to follow! Congratulations.
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Same thought when I read this article! What a rock and roll little tardigrade, with its tattoos
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Yes! I thought maybe I just wasn't too observant but it did seem like a lot of stuff near my work which was quite noisy and happening is now just...not.
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Oh my so much to fit into two months but I refuse to accept that Hannan might be a brainless grifter so all these great deals must be just around the corner
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This is... what? As an academic publisher these are honestly heights I cannot hope to reach
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Yes. It does have that feeling of being an inevitable but still chilling step further along the road to authoritarianism
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I suspect. But also anything much worse could have happened in the hours since this news broke so 🤷
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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One of the many things I love about London is they're part of life here and make walking home at dusk a delight. Here's one who was surveying passers by a few months ago
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Come on now, the Lib Dems know what they're doing - if there's one thing a home counties voter likes it's the threat of a ban on a mildly irritating thing.
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Been quietly pondering this discovery afternoon and realised that a thing which struck me watching both films, unaware of the connection, is how he portrays a place with sound - a past CDMX & future LDN have familiar soundscapes. I'll have to rewatch Children of Men and look for Mexico in there.
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Oh wow, I had no idea he directed Children of Men, a movie I absolutely love. I only became aware of him with Roma. I think I just assumed the director was British because it captures the UK so perfectly, just like Roma captures some essence of CDMX - I guess that's the sign of a brilliant director!
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It's so true. I try not to be alarmist, but I'm re-reading Hannah Arendt today to confirm to myself that I'm not mad in being a bit alarmist, this has all happened before and we're lucky to have canaries like her to remind us
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(Invitation letter being the evidence academics show at the border, which you send after they've already agreed to present or have just booked tickets to the conference. That's probably pretty unclear!).
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Absolutely - I organise sessions at some fairly major scientific conferences and it's always a case of 'write carefully worded invitation letter, hope for the best...' with people from the global south, particularly LMICs. Which is frustrating and dreadful.
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I was fully on board with the idea you'd spend 5 mins a day on dragons
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At least the sub editors tried - 'This article was amended on 13 April 2025 to replace some words that were omitted during the editing process.'
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Beautiful.When I was 10 I visited a great aunt in Oklahoma. Saw a couple of guys chatting, wearing cowboy boots & stetsons. One was white, the other Native American. It never occurred to me before that a scene like that could actually exist or that grandad was from anywhere too different to Scotland
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I have recently been introduced to Mexican 80s pop girlies Flans, and can listen to nothing else currently youtu.be/Piy_IBvl9Ro?...