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Recently retired Consultant in Palliative Medicine, working out what to do next, but currently enjoying having more time to travel, read, walk and cook, while trying not to get too upset about politics. Sto imparando l’italiano
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Vaccines were developed to stop children from dying from measles. To stop children suffering from the lifelong impact of measles. There is no need for kids to be catching the measles at all. RFK is a dangerous man. This is criminal neglect on a governmental scale. #Measles #VaccinesWork

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

filling time on air until the new pope is announced is known as "pontiffication"

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

And I wish were still part of it 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Well that was entertaining for a neutral #INTBAR #UCL Sommer incredible when it really mattered

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

100%.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

“There’s a growing, tribe of MPs & pontificators who mock Net Zero without suggesting any alternatives. This is just climate denialism in a posh suit. If the best you can do for our grandchildren is shrug your shoulders, history will not be kind.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/con...

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

submitted 12 days ago • 1546 comments

Happy days www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

🆕 'Supporting medical science in the USA' Read the latest Lancet Editorial: tinyurl.com/2ra3r7e8 📖 Full issue: tinyurl.com/5n74jjn7

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

This is a terrible terrible destructive decision. These sorts of long running research programmes take decades to build and their insights accumulate over decades too - the longer they run, the more valuable they become. This is knowledge vandalism. Nothing new and shiny can replace it.

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

Oh dear…

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Definitely worth reading. I think it’s quite restrained really. And I can think of a few other applications for ‘Do better, Americans’.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

submitted 37 days ago • 383 comments

"the value of your investments may plummet as well as fall, please consult an independent financial advisor if you can find one who's still answering the phone"

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

It's called the Nasquack.

submitted 37 days ago • 15 comments

It's one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

submitted 37 days ago • 44 comments

Nobody

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

581 days to the midterms...

submitted 42 days ago • 23 comments

Whereas they seem to have gone back to 1938 in some places

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This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

submitted 46 days ago • 80 comments

Need more outraged people posting like this

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www.bmj.com/content/388/... Irene Higginson has published a thoughtful piece on the palliative care commission. I have added my response here. www.bmj.com/content/388/... #inequality #mindthegap

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Disappointed that a British groupchat scandal is like ‘a Tory MP you have never heard of was quite rude to another one you’ve never heard of on WhatsApp’ but the Yanks are just straight up ‘texted WW3 plans to random journo’. Do better, British security liabilities.

submitted 51 days ago • 49 comments

RFK is spreading misinformation

submitted 63 days ago • 32 comments

They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing

submitted 69 days ago • 32 comments

I constantly hear/see journalists, commentators & interviewers asserting how easy it is to get incapacity & disability benefits despite clearly having no real understanding of how the process actually works or having spoken to someone who's been through it. Completely distorts public understanding

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

🤦‍♀️

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Hard to overstate quite how badly this kind of comment goes down with US allies in Europe – whose own troops fought and died in America’s wars, not least those that followed the USA triggering NATO article 5 after 9/11.

submitted 71 days ago • 46 comments

@gerisoc.bsky.social quoted extensively here by Jenny Russell www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

These people claim to defend free speech - but only when people agree with their bizarre interpretation of facts

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

christiane amanpour, what a woman!! #BBCLauraK

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

Ramadan Mubarak to all those marking it. Wishing you peace and joy.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem

submitted 74 days ago • 99 comments

“Zelenskyy found himself ambushed by Trump and his serpentine vice-president, JD Vance. He was expected to sit back and take a beating from Nurse Ratched and Miss Trunchbull. He refused”. Superb piece by David Smith. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments