Ian Wacogne
@ianwac.bsky.social
Husband, dad, paediatrician, ex-editor, CCIO Ride a bike too. Take your pick. Don't like these opinions? I've got plenty of others.
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
It must be so deeply worrying for the US medical and scientific establishment at the moment. Like watching a car crash.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It must be so deeply worrying for the US medical and scientific establishment at the moment. Like watching a car crash.
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Cardboard advent calendars are so much better than chocolate advent calendars. I didn't even like chocolate advent calendars as a kid. Give me some fantastic artwork of a robin and I'll a small square of shite chocolate some other time, thanks.
November 16, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cardboard advent calendars are so much better than chocolate advent calendars. I didn't even like chocolate advent calendars as a kid. Give me some fantastic artwork of a robin and I'll a small square of shite chocolate some other time, thanks.
I reckon you could dump me in a decade and I'd be able to work out the approximate date based on the veggie option on menus.
90s - lasagne
00s - nut roast
10s - risotto
If I go to a good place I get choice paralysis because I've got so used to "Oh, the veggie option"
90s - lasagne
00s - nut roast
10s - risotto
If I go to a good place I get choice paralysis because I've got so used to "Oh, the veggie option"
It's like going back in time 20 years. Pub menus, for very highly rated pubs, with only one vegetarian main course (the least imaginative thing on the list). The world is changing. Diets are changing, and eating meat can't still be the default. Catch up!
* yes, not all pubs, but still most of them.
* yes, not all pubs, but still most of them.
November 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I reckon you could dump me in a decade and I'd be able to work out the approximate date based on the veggie option on menus.
90s - lasagne
00s - nut roast
10s - risotto
If I go to a good place I get choice paralysis because I've got so used to "Oh, the veggie option"
90s - lasagne
00s - nut roast
10s - risotto
If I go to a good place I get choice paralysis because I've got so used to "Oh, the veggie option"
This isn't a daft idea to be honest, although the international sign up will be the kicker!
However, from experience with Easter, holidays that always coincide with weekends still need folk to work...
However, from experience with Easter, holidays that always coincide with weekends still need folk to work...
Christmas Day should always be the Thursday of December that falls from 24th to 30th. That way, St Stephen's Day / Boxing Day is the Friday and you get the weekend as well. This year will prove me right when you all have 4-5 days off together and use no holidays.
November 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This isn't a daft idea to be honest, although the international sign up will be the kicker!
However, from experience with Easter, holidays that always coincide with weekends still need folk to work...
However, from experience with Easter, holidays that always coincide with weekends still need folk to work...
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It is genuinely staggering that there isn't mandatory software in cars/phones to prevent drivers from looking at their fucking phone screens and/or texting while driving. It's something I see every day from almost all drivers and it's a largely unacknowledged disgrace.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It is genuinely staggering that there isn't mandatory software in cars/phones to prevent drivers from looking at their fucking phone screens and/or texting while driving. It's something I see every day from almost all drivers and it's a largely unacknowledged disgrace.
I've not moved to the right in my politics but I am getting a bit worried by how often I hear some of the Tory elder statesmen making more sense than nearly everyone else..
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I've not moved to the right in my politics but I am getting a bit worried by how often I hear some of the Tory elder statesmen making more sense than nearly everyone else..
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
8
CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
9
CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
10
HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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The irony is that some things don't need any editing to be awful.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The irony is that some things don't need any editing to be awful.
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Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
November 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.
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incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
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All I'm saying is, what if during a colossal cost of living fiasco, every supermarket entered an unprecedented pact to completely sack off ALL Christmas advertising, and instead put the collective £400m (more? Less? Who knows) into giving millions of households a free Christmas 'big shop'.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
All I'm saying is, what if during a colossal cost of living fiasco, every supermarket entered an unprecedented pact to completely sack off ALL Christmas advertising, and instead put the collective £400m (more? Less? Who knows) into giving millions of households a free Christmas 'big shop'.
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You should lose your licence after 6 points, rather than the current 12. You should also have to take your test again to get it back after the ban ends. We've got too many shit drivers on the roads, this might go some way to getting rid of them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
You should lose your licence after 6 points, rather than the current 12. You should also have to take your test again to get it back after the ban ends. We've got too many shit drivers on the roads, this might go some way to getting rid of them.
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Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Genuinely brilliant from Private Eye.
I have the one on the left proudly on my wall.
Buy one. You know you'll love it.
Buy one. You know you'll love it.
Available with real or fake swearing!
The fake swearing is in the form of 'grawlix', which is a great word for something familiar, if you are unaware of it.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
The fake swearing is in the form of 'grawlix', which is a great word for something familiar, if you are unaware of it.
www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...
October 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I have the one on the left proudly on my wall.
Buy one. You know you'll love it.
Buy one. You know you'll love it.
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Damn. RIP the absolute titan of British acting that was Prunella Scales.
I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it.
Shared in her memory.
I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it.
Shared in her memory.
No Pasarán
Some debts you can never repay Terry stepped out of the kitchen door into the cold, winter air. It was dawn. The sun was slowly rising over Torquay, casting beams of fresh sunlight across the façade o...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Damn. RIP the absolute titan of British acting that was Prunella Scales.
I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it.
Shared in her memory.
I wrote this Fawlty Towers short story a while back as a tribute to her performance in it.
Shared in her memory.
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I'm not sure if I truly prefer my pasta al dente or I'm just a bit impatient.
October 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm not sure if I truly prefer my pasta al dente or I'm just a bit impatient.
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Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)
by Richard Horton
bit.ly/3IPC0PD
by Richard Horton
bit.ly/3IPC0PD
October 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya)
by Richard Horton
bit.ly/3IPC0PD
by Richard Horton
bit.ly/3IPC0PD
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
Sad to hear of the death of Brian Patten.
This poem, shared with me when I was at Uni, might seem a bit trite but really spoke to me, and got me to read some poetry, probably for the first time I didn't "need" to for study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This poem, shared with me when I was at Uni, might seem a bit trite but really spoke to me, and got me to read some poetry, probably for the first time I didn't "need" to for study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Sad to hear of the death of Brian Patten.
This poem, shared with me when I was at Uni, might seem a bit trite but really spoke to me, and got me to read some poetry, probably for the first time I didn't "need" to for study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This poem, shared with me when I was at Uni, might seem a bit trite but really spoke to me, and got me to read some poetry, probably for the first time I didn't "need" to for study.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know it has been said many times by people more eloquent than me, but if you are anti-antifa, then aren't you, um, fa?
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I know it has been said many times by people more eloquent than me, but if you are anti-antifa, then aren't you, um, fa?
I recently spent the day with my Dad and didn't have to fix a single IT thing.
Was surreal.
Was surreal.
One day with my parents at home and I have already successfully closed three tech support trouble tickets 💪🤓
September 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I recently spent the day with my Dad and didn't have to fix a single IT thing.
Was surreal.
Was surreal.
Some stats.
375 km in 3 days.
Average speed a bit over 24 km/hr.
About 11,500 calories burned - but I suspect the day 3 cake replaced most of them!
7 counties crossed..
Hundreds of birds - at one point there were 6 buzzards.
Lots and lots of smiles...
375 km in 3 days.
Average speed a bit over 24 km/hr.
About 11,500 calories burned - but I suspect the day 3 cake replaced most of them!
7 counties crossed..
Hundreds of birds - at one point there were 6 buzzards.
Lots and lots of smiles...
Day 3, Melton Mowbray to home.
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb
September 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some stats.
375 km in 3 days.
Average speed a bit over 24 km/hr.
About 11,500 calories burned - but I suspect the day 3 cake replaced most of them!
7 counties crossed..
Hundreds of birds - at one point there were 6 buzzards.
Lots and lots of smiles...
375 km in 3 days.
Average speed a bit over 24 km/hr.
About 11,500 calories burned - but I suspect the day 3 cake replaced most of them!
7 counties crossed..
Hundreds of birds - at one point there were 6 buzzards.
Lots and lots of smiles...
Day 3, Melton Mowbray to home.
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb
September 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Day 3, Melton Mowbray to home.
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb
Tail winds, but I took it slow the first half as I was meeting a friend for some lunch. So much to see...
strava.app.link/6oS8GXeCVWb