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Having been accused of being ‘virtually anonymous’ by a respondent accusing me of making Twitter arguments (🤷‍♂️): I’m a retired hospital pharmacist in Yorkshire. My wife was a GP so we think we have a little insight into health care. Probably a bit woke.
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It’s well worth a listen to this, especially the coverage of the pandemic, how getting messages over to the public had to happen and to understand why the lockdown/pandemic deniers are able to exploit our ignorance at the time in order to try to impose their continuing ignorance on the rest of us.

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Millions of pensioners will receive as much as £470 more a year added to their State Pension from today, thanks to the government's' ironclad commitment to the … Described as a ‘huge income boost’ As a pensioner, I don’t want to be ungrateful, but “huge”? Really

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Anyone heard which countries are begging the White House for a deal yet? Or even if any admit to ring them up at all? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How to “determine the cause of autism by September”: Step 1: decide you already know the cause. Step 2: skip all the typical study design, ethics review, and data collection steps. Step 3: cherry-pick, p-hack, and fudge your way to data that declare “success”.

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Tommy Robinson appeals for early prison release www.bbc.com/news/article... To be fair, if he’s actually complaining about -rather than celebrating -the fact he can’t get GBNews on his TV, he must be pretty mentally disturbed.

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Does Trump really *believe* his tariff policy is doing great things for the US and ‘ the world’? Seriously?

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Anyone seen the published list of countries that have called Trump, begging for a deal yet? Anyone at all…..?

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MAGA Caps now available in special ‘USA is winning again’ sale at an *EXCLUSIVE* discount of +1.45 x original marked price. Buy now while stocks laugh, sorry, last.

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I will just leave this one here!

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I wonder how long it will take the US electorate (probably just the MAGA subsection) to realise that the $millions Trump says are pouring into his treasury because of his tariffs don’t exist and that what money is going in there is actually from their own pockets.

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I suppose it might be a bit churlish to suggest that those who claimed Brexit got us a better tariff rate from Trump than the EU might need to revise their argument?

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