Chrissie
@redbrighton.bsky.social
A dreamer and idealist , Loves gardening, the sea and the countryside. Art, history, travel and music. Retired Stretford End “legacy fan “ of MUFC . Still want to change the world But it’s getting really scary.
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Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/
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Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
December 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
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Beyond thrilled to hear this news about @daltmann.bsky.social and team receiving serious @meassociation.org.uk funding for an immunology project. Prof Altman has already been a great advocate, and I am thrilled this will enable him to keep working in the field.
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Imperial College London: £1.1m awarded to investigate links between ME/CFS and Long Covid
"A new landmark study funded by The ME Association will help scientists to uncover shared pathways between ME/CFS and Long Covid."
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ybhwv
#MECFSResearch #MECFS #pwME #LongCovid
"A new landmark study funded by The ME Association will help scientists to uncover shared pathways between ME/CFS and Long Covid."
https://tinyurl.com/mr3ybhwv
#MECFSResearch #MECFS #pwME #LongCovid
£1.1m awarded to investigate links between ME/CFS and Long Covid
A new landmark study funded by The ME Association will help scientists to uncover shared pathways between ME/CFS and Long Covid.
tinyurl.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Beyond thrilled to hear this news about @daltmann.bsky.social and team receiving serious @meassociation.org.uk funding for an immunology project. Prof Altman has already been a great advocate, and I am thrilled this will enable him to keep working in the field.
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Owned into the next millennia by that comment.
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Owned into the next millennia by that comment.
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The pressure to change Labour from being racist and xenophobic has to come from within. It’s the ‘sensible’ people in Labour that are in denial that are the heart of the failure to do this. Until they face up to what’s happening *and do something about it* we - and the Labour Party - are doomed.
December 10, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The pressure to change Labour from being racist and xenophobic has to come from within. It’s the ‘sensible’ people in Labour that are in denial that are the heart of the failure to do this. Until they face up to what’s happening *and do something about it* we - and the Labour Party - are doomed.
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All these attacks on the Greens would carry much more weight if Labour under Starmer weren’t a racist endeavour. Choosing between nuts and racists is hard, but I think I’ll lean towards the nuts.
Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde
Make a political hero of Zack Polanski if you want. Just don’t forget to engage your brain | Marina Hyde
The Green party leader is riding high in the polls. But across the political spectrum, uncritical adulation leads nowhere fast, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
All these attacks on the Greens would carry much more weight if Labour under Starmer weren’t a racist endeavour. Choosing between nuts and racists is hard, but I think I’ll lean towards the nuts.
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And anyone moaning about the Greens’ economic incoherence should note this. Labour prefer racism to economics.
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
And anyone moaning about the Greens’ economic incoherence should note this. Labour prefer racism to economics.
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Miami Mayor Results 2021
(R) Francis Suarez 79%
(D) Max Martínez 12%
Miami Mayor Results 2025
(D) Eileen Higgins 60%
(R) Emilio Gonzalez 40%
87% Swing towards the Democrat.
First Democrat elected Miami Mayor in 30 years.
(R) Francis Suarez 79%
(D) Max Martínez 12%
Miami Mayor Results 2025
(D) Eileen Higgins 60%
(R) Emilio Gonzalez 40%
87% Swing towards the Democrat.
First Democrat elected Miami Mayor in 30 years.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Miami Mayor Results 2021
(R) Francis Suarez 79%
(D) Max Martínez 12%
Miami Mayor Results 2025
(D) Eileen Higgins 60%
(R) Emilio Gonzalez 40%
87% Swing towards the Democrat.
First Democrat elected Miami Mayor in 30 years.
(R) Francis Suarez 79%
(D) Max Martínez 12%
Miami Mayor Results 2025
(D) Eileen Higgins 60%
(R) Emilio Gonzalez 40%
87% Swing towards the Democrat.
First Democrat elected Miami Mayor in 30 years.
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Home Office estimate £1.2bn hit mainly to Universities as we decide that exports in this area should be restricted. Even in the month leading up to Christmas, the turkeys are still voting for it.
"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this."
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Home Office estimate £1.2bn hit mainly to Universities as we decide that exports in this area should be restricted. Even in the month leading up to Christmas, the turkeys are still voting for it.
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I went to a school in New Cross where the most popular football team was Millwall. There was no fucking Hitler in the playground.
As someone just months younger than Nigel Farage, I can say that not only is it untrue that ‘all’ schoolboys were obsessed with Hitler, but *none* of my cohort were. None. Nada. Zilch.
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I went to a school in New Cross where the most popular football team was Millwall. There was no fucking Hitler in the playground.
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When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
When they want to increase public spending, every politician is asked how they will pay for it, but the same is not true (yet) for cutting immigration (because it is incorrectly understood as not having a cost.) I wonder if that will change as the impact on the economy becomes more visible.
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Meanwhile, an actually decent, not to mention popular politician 👇
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Meanwhile, an actually decent, not to mention popular politician 👇
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Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?
December 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Go on. It’s the biggest geopolitical pivot of the past 100+ years. It’s an existential moment of crisis for a set of political values that we hold to be the foundation of decent society. Would it kill you to show that you have noticed; to say, I dunno, *something*?
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
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As someone just months younger than Nigel Farage, I can say that not only is it untrue that ‘all’ schoolboys were obsessed with Hitler, but *none* of my cohort were. None. Nada. Zilch.
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
As someone just months younger than Nigel Farage, I can say that not only is it untrue that ‘all’ schoolboys were obsessed with Hitler, but *none* of my cohort were. None. Nada. Zilch.
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Special mention to Kemi Badenoch for being “still slightly traumatised” from wearing a mask during lockdown. I’ll give her the insight that post-viral illness - or fighting for breath in hospital - is a tad more traumatising than a piece of cloth on her face. Bloody snowflakes!
December 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Special mention to Kemi Badenoch for being “still slightly traumatised” from wearing a mask during lockdown. I’ll give her the insight that post-viral illness - or fighting for breath in hospital - is a tad more traumatising than a piece of cloth on her face. Bloody snowflakes!
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Good on NHS leader, Daniel Elkeles, calling for a revival of mask-wearing during the current “tidal wave of flu.”
That trying to save lives is going to be highly controversial - and No. 10 are already sitting on the fence - is deeply depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
That trying to save lives is going to be highly controversial - and No. 10 are already sitting on the fence - is deeply depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu
NHS Providers boss says those who are ‘coughing and sneezing’ should wear face coverings on public transport
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Good on NHS leader, Daniel Elkeles, calling for a revival of mask-wearing during the current “tidal wave of flu.”
That trying to save lives is going to be highly controversial - and No. 10 are already sitting on the fence - is deeply depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
That trying to save lives is going to be highly controversial - and No. 10 are already sitting on the fence - is deeply depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this."
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this."
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
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Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Streeting to next launch inquiry into “over-diagnosis” of left-handedness.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
“Never used to be like this,” he insists.
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this is insane
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
this is insane
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New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
December 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New Home Office impact assessment finds that cutting skilled and social care visas will cost the UK up to £10 billion with a central estimate of -£5.4 billion.
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
It would be good if this got even a fraction of the coverage devoted to the endless debate about boats, flags and Turkish barber shops
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Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.