Trevor McCarthy
@mrtrevmccarthy.bsky.social
Independent consultant: mainly alcohol & other drugs issues. Failing to retire gracefully.
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Alcohol availability is one of the strongest drivers of harm.
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
December 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Alcohol availability is one of the strongest drivers of harm.
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
England & Wales have one of the most permissive licensing systems in the world, with soaring numbers of 24-hour and off-trade premises.
See our Availability page for updated info and charts: www.ias.org.uk/factsheet/av...
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🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Mathematics PhD – System dynamics modelling of services for children with complex health needs at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨PHD Opportunity 🚨
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Funded PhD place available from next autumn to work with me on a project improving services for children with complex health needs!
Calling interested graduates with degrees in a numerate subject.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.
"For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years."
This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA
time.com/7338791/chil...
This is the legacy of aid cuts. ~AA
time.com/7338791/chil...
For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise
The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.
time.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
this is a direct consequence of the decisions made by the US to slash foreign health aid. BUT many European countries (inc UK) have also cut aid.
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Want a copy of this dictionary … before it’s too late
www.the guardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic
Want a copy of this dictionary … before it’s too late
www.the guardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic
Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Want a copy of this dictionary … before it’s too late
www.the guardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic
Want a copy of this dictionary … before it’s too late
www.the guardian.com/science/2025/dec/08/linguists-start-compiling-first-ever-complete-dictionary-of-ancient-celtic
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?
Are Israel, Hamas entering the second phase of the ceasefire?
Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Israel has kept attacking Gaza during the first phase, so what will the second phase bring?
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How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. @deppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... £0 #OA
How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on narcotic drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitati...
Consensus in international drug policy has fractured. It would be useful to explain how and why this occurred.This exploratory study develops and tests theory and methods for describing and explain...
www.tandfonline.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
How and why consensus fractured at the 2024 session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs: an exploratory study of international drug policy constellations using social network analysis and qualitative comparative analysis. @deppjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... £0 #OA
Ironically for the EU and their decision to kowtow to lobbying from their farming industry …
Farmed meat for human consumption is, by definition, a plant-based foodstuff …
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Farmed meat for human consumption is, by definition, a plant-based foodstuff …
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Let it be: Paul McCartney urges EU to drop ban on veggie ‘burgers’ and ‘sausages’
Former Beatle argues use of terms for meat-free products ‘encourages attitudes essential to our health’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Ironically for the EU and their decision to kowtow to lobbying from their farming industry …
Farmed meat for human consumption is, by definition, a plant-based foodstuff …
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Farmed meat for human consumption is, by definition, a plant-based foodstuff …
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So I was considering joining Nigel Farage’s private company ‘Reform 2025 Ltd’ but was put off by the idea of having to learn the 🇷🇺 Cyrillic alphabet …
[… and all their other ideas, obvs]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
[… and all their other ideas, obvs]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
So I was considering joining Nigel Farage’s private company ‘Reform 2025 Ltd’ but was put off by the idea of having to learn the 🇷🇺 Cyrillic alphabet …
[… and all their other ideas, obvs]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
[… and all their other ideas, obvs]
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It’s amazing any student at Dulwich College ever passed an exam …
According to Farage, all of them have rubbish memory skills …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
According to Farage, all of them have rubbish memory skills …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
It’s amazing any student at Dulwich College ever passed an exam …
According to Farage, all of them have rubbish memory skills …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
According to Farage, all of them have rubbish memory skills …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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A free to read, with video, detailed overview of my studio art storage and where I got the stuff. www.patreon.com/posts/art-st...
Art Storage Spaces | Colleen Doran
Get more from Colleen Doran on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A free to read, with video, detailed overview of my studio art storage and where I got the stuff. www.patreon.com/posts/art-st...
Nigel Farage - a man who will literally sell you a signed blackshirt - has denied saying anything racist “with malice”
😂 be still my aching ribs …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
😂 be still my aching ribs …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC
Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Nigel Farage - a man who will literally sell you a signed blackshirt - has denied saying anything racist “with malice”
😂 be still my aching ribs …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
😂 be still my aching ribs …
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Please share this info. I cannot emphasise enough: all formulas are the same by law (*except prescription ones), you don’t need to spend £3-£5 more a tub for the branding. Spending more buys no extra quality and does not make you a better mama x
And where it comes to formula:
- all formulas are the same by law
- the cheapest is always Aldi Mamia at £7.50 or so a tub (only own brand on the market)
- follow-on milk is a marketing device to get round the ad ban - your baby doesn’t need it
- all formulas are the same by law
- the cheapest is always Aldi Mamia at £7.50 or so a tub (only own brand on the market)
- follow-on milk is a marketing device to get round the ad ban - your baby doesn’t need it
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Please share this info. I cannot emphasise enough: all formulas are the same by law (*except prescription ones), you don’t need to spend £3-£5 more a tub for the branding. Spending more buys no extra quality and does not make you a better mama x
👀 You won’t read about this in the Spectator, Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun etc
They’re too busy reporting a chess game Rachel Reeves played 32 years ago to investigate if a Reform council leader committed contempt of court breaching the council code
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
They’re too busy reporting a chess game Rachel Reeves played 32 years ago to investigate if a Reform council leader committed contempt of court breaching the council code
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
John Sweeney: Reform UK’s 'boy wonder' Warwickshire council leader has gone too far this time
John Sweeney takes a look at teenager George’s Finch’s recent controversial comments about the alleged rape of a child – and says he’s skating on thin ice
www.thenerve.news
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
👀 You won’t read about this in the Spectator, Times, Telegraph, Mail, Express, Sun etc
They’re too busy reporting a chess game Rachel Reeves played 32 years ago to investigate if a Reform council leader committed contempt of court breaching the council code
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
They’re too busy reporting a chess game Rachel Reeves played 32 years ago to investigate if a Reform council leader committed contempt of court breaching the council code
www.thenerve.news/p/john-sween...
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Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts.
@hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
@hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
Revealed: The Online Activity of Staffordshire Council Leader Ian Cooper – HOPE not hate
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts. When it comes to...
hopenothate.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts.
@hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
@hopenothate.org.uk
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
Small business owner desperately unlucky to have attracted yet another extremist to the cause …
How unlucky can the owner of REFORM UK 2025 be, and what is it about him that attracts so many hideous racists?
🤷🏼♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How unlucky can the owner of REFORM UK 2025 be, and what is it about him that attracts so many hideous racists?
🤷🏼♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council leader accused of racism after alleged remarks about Sadiq Khan
Ian Cooper allegedly called Khan ‘narcissistic Pakistani’ and made comments about lawyer Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Small business owner desperately unlucky to have attracted yet another extremist to the cause …
How unlucky can the owner of REFORM UK 2025 be, and what is it about him that attracts so many hideous racists?
🤷🏼♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
How unlucky can the owner of REFORM UK 2025 be, and what is it about him that attracts so many hideous racists?
🤷🏼♂️
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
December 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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Just published a book.
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
November 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Just published a book.
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
Think it's good.
People say it is.
But really need to sell more copies.
Please grab one. Cheap!
davidziggygreene.bigcartel.com/product/vint...
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Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a mass wedding for more than 50 Palestinian couples took place in Khan Younis as hundreds gathered to celebrate.
December 3, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a mass wedding for more than 50 Palestinian couples took place in Khan Younis as hundreds gathered to celebrate.
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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."
That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.
How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?
Such bad luck that public schoolboy extremist and active racist expenses fraudster Nigel Farage has so many crooked supporters and associates …
🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims
Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Such bad luck that public schoolboy extremist and active racist expenses fraudster Nigel Farage has so many crooked supporters and associates …
🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
🤔
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
MPs should not be investigating the Crown estate
They should be nationalising it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They should be nationalising it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
MPs to investigate crown estate after questions over Andrew mansion lease
Committee will examine value for money to taxpayers of leases of properties to members of royal family
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
MPs should not be investigating the Crown estate
They should be nationalising it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
They should be nationalising it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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In a statement, the South Yorkshire Police Federation criticised the IOPC report as “not fair or balanced”
The South Yorkshire Police Federation can, and I say this most sincerely, Fuck Right Off
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
In a statement, the South Yorkshire Police Federation criticised the IOPC report as “not fair or balanced”
The South Yorkshire Police Federation can, and I say this most sincerely, Fuck Right Off
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Hillsborough families decry ‘bitter injustice’ that no officers will face disciplinary proceedings
None of the former officers named by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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In a statement, the South Yorkshire Police Federation criticised the IOPC report as “not fair or balanced”
The South Yorkshire Police Federation can, and I say this most sincerely, Fuck Right Off
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
In a statement, the South Yorkshire Police Federation criticised the IOPC report as “not fair or balanced”
The South Yorkshire Police Federation can, and I say this most sincerely, Fuck Right Off
www.theguardian.com/football/202...