Mark Burnley
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Mark Burnley
@drmarkburnley.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Blue plaque review series: A.V. Hill, athletic records and the birth of exercise physiology
Abstract figure legend Depiction of the world running records from 1925 studied by A. V. Hill and those of 2025 up to and including ultradistance events on a semi-logarithmic plot. These records, in ...
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The world did have A.V. Hill, so that’s something to be grateful for in spite of current affairs. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Ask yourself, how long would Keir Starmers premiership, or political career last, if this was "his" history?
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Ask yourself, how long would Keir Starmers premiership, or political career last, if this was "his" history?
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Then ask why the media still use every opportunity to promote this vile human Farage, as our next PM...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No contrition for this despicable behaviour. And crucially, no honesty, even now. It's an old and familiar truth, but it bears repeating: bullies are cowards.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
No contrition for this despicable behaviour. And crucially, no honesty, even now. It's an old and familiar truth, but it bears repeating: bullies are cowards.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Freezing income tax thresholds doesn’t “drag more people into higher bands”, people get paid more as a function of time, which is… good? Tax revenue reflects a well-paid workforce.
November 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Freezing income tax thresholds doesn’t “drag more people into higher bands”, people get paid more as a function of time, which is… good? Tax revenue reflects a well-paid workforce.
New EV tax will cost me about £300 a year. Nothing vicious.
November 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New EV tax will cost me about £300 a year. Nothing vicious.
My first day at Bluesky monitoring accounts claiming to be head of the OBR was dead quiet until 12 pm.
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My first day at Bluesky monitoring accounts claiming to be head of the OBR was dead quiet until 12 pm.
That “be ready at 12 for a 12:30 release” email has probably ended the existence of the OBR.
Looks like the OBR panic deleted the document.
The good news is that I don't think anyone noticed.
The good news is that I don't think anyone noticed.
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
That “be ready at 12 for a 12:30 release” email has probably ended the existence of the OBR.
Farage is just utterly vile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Farage is just utterly vile. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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"Between now and the next election, there will be more scrutiny on Farage than ever before."
"He seems to me a bit like the bully who might just have a glass jaw when he gets hit himself"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
"He seems to me a bit like the bully who might just have a glass jaw when he gets hit himself"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
Farage fails to address racism claims: ‘He’s thin-skinned, and it’s getting thinner all the time’ | The News Agents
Nigel Farage, who is facing resurfaced allegations of making racist comments at school, now says he “never directly racially abused” anyone – following a previous outright denial by Reform UK. What…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"Between now and the next election, there will be more scrutiny on Farage than ever before."
"He seems to me a bit like the bully who might just have a glass jaw when he gets hit himself"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
"He seems to me a bit like the bully who might just have a glass jaw when he gets hit himself"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/fara...
It’s Tuesday.
Trump ignores questions from reporters while leaving the White House for a long Thanksgiving weekend
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s Tuesday.
Farage being fundamentally dishonest shocker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Farage being fundamentally dishonest shocker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Y’know, believing there’s a kind of racism that isn’t hurtful or insulting is itself quite revealing.
“They’ve got good memories”: I can remember almost every insult hurled at me from school, 40 odd years ago.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
“They’ve got good memories”: I can remember almost every insult hurled at me from school, 40 odd years ago.
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As much as he would like to be, Farage is not our Trump so he can’t just brush this off or abuse journalists asking him questions without there being consequences. I hope the media really step up for once and start to hold this nasty piece of work account.
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As much as he would like to be, Farage is not our Trump so he can’t just brush this off or abuse journalists asking him questions without there being consequences. I hope the media really step up for once and start to hold this nasty piece of work account.
“Gas ‘em all!”, I said. I didn’t single anybody out. Except Hitler, who I agreed with.
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“Gas ‘em all!”, I said. I didn’t single anybody out. Except Hitler, who I agreed with.
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Oh Farage actually used the "banter" defence.
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
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He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
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ITV Evening News had another few seconds of this interview, where he says it’s “banter on a playground”
Farage starts to say “But, isn’t it funny…”
ITV: “Okay, so you did say stuff to these people then?”
NF: “I've never directly racially abused anybody. No.”
What was funny, Nigel? 🤔
Farage starts to say “But, isn’t it funny…”
ITV: “Okay, so you did say stuff to these people then?”
NF: “I've never directly racially abused anybody. No.”
What was funny, Nigel? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Oh Farage actually used the "banter" defence.
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
He's quite literally copying the Bernard Manning playbook
bsky.app/profile/raks...
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When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
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BBC News: Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims.
So not only is he a racist, he is a coward as well? Is that what we are to take from this statement?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
So not only is he a racist, he is a coward as well? Is that what we are to take from this statement?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
BBC News: Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody' after school racism claims.
So not only is he a racist, he is a coward as well? Is that what we are to take from this statement?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
So not only is he a racist, he is a coward as well? Is that what we are to take from this statement?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87lx0981nro
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My “We’re not ENRON” press releases are raising a lot of questions already answered by the press releases.
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”
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www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My “We’re not ENRON” press releases are raising a lot of questions already answered by the press releases.
There’s nothing like fire discipline. And that’s nothing like it.
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
There’s nothing like fire discipline. And that’s nothing like it.
He sounds extremely rattled here, the slippery turd. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage says he's 'never directly racially abused anybody'
The Reform UK leader was responding to reports he made racist remarks to his peers in school in the 1970s.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
He sounds extremely rattled here, the slippery turd. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pleased, but it’s unlikely DJT would ever have been president without Comey’s actions in late October 2016.
Comey: "I'm grateful the court ended the case against me, which was a prosecution based on malevolence & incompetence... I was inspired by the career people who refused to be part of this travesty. It cost some of them their jobs, but it preserved their integrity, which is beyond price"
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Pleased, but it’s unlikely DJT would ever have been president without Comey’s actions in late October 2016.
There’s nothing on TV, and that’s Ben Stokes’s fault.
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
There’s nothing on TV, and that’s Ben Stokes’s fault.
If they don’t rename a bar in the Perth Stadium The Doggett and Duckett, it’s a missed opportunity.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If they don’t rename a bar in the Perth Stadium The Doggett and Duckett, it’s a missed opportunity.
You shouldn’t need to invest the equivalent of the Apollo project, the Manhattan Project, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam combined to have something spew out inaccurate information and cat videos.
"If the data is accurate...it would call into question the business model of OpenAI and nearly every other general-purpose LLM vendor" www.ft.com/content/fce7...
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
You shouldn’t need to invest the equivalent of the Apollo project, the Manhattan Project, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam combined to have something spew out inaccurate information and cat videos.