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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 15d

A quick post about the whole paracetamol thing, and can people stop saying there is 'no evidence'.

There is, but the balance of evidence and the strongest studies don't show a link.

www.anthonycox.uk/p/you-say-ac...

You say acetaminophen , I say paracetamol

Let's call the whole thing off

www.anthonycox.uk

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 22d

Excellent piece in the BMJ on the Assisted Suicide bill. I use that term because of this text in the piece. blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 23d

What a bleak view of the lives of others. It perhaps says more about the inner life of the writer than the wider world.

When reading how anti-human movements like eugenics became normalised in the past, you wonder how people let it happen. But it can happen.

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 23d

There are no rules, the UK is now just following the law that was already in place.

Following the Equality Act 2010 to enable sex-based rights for women is not going to make global fascism stronger.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 23d

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger

my latest with @liberalcurrents.com

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing one without a vote

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 23d

Last I looked we had far too many people arrested for speech acts. The pendulum needs to swing to free speech, not further away from it.

Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 24d

Done, seems fine. I can now get live translations of Americans.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 24d

Have people read the replies and QTs to this post? bsky.app/profile/jay....

People should spend less time on X and Bluesky, because they are both causing brain rot and bubble thinking.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 25d

The best time to have left X was the instant he threw a Nazi salute. The second-best time is now.

Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 26d

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X

Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch.

📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 24d

OK, when Reform win do we get their hate speech laws?

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 24d

I feel like Mehdi may be taking the wrong lesson from this.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.

The modern American right in 2025, folks.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 24d

The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 24d

Well @jessesingal.com was right in the end.

'We should recognize that while we do, in a very real way, dominate most cultural and educational institutions (even if we’re pathetic at gaining political power), you never know who will control things tomorrow.'

jessesingal.substack.com/p/please-sto...

Please Stop Sharing This Viral But Misguided Free-Speech Comic (Unlocked)

xkcd is great but it really whiffs on this one

jessesingal.substack.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 26d

15 September 1931. | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Karel Vos, was born in Kempen.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 November 1942 in a transport of 709 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 667 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

A young boy riding a bicycle down a cobblestone street.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

Some e-bikes need to be called E-Motorbikes.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

There isn't a slippery slope with assisted dying, there's a ratchet. Once you cross the line, the line keeps being pushed.

www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

New Zealand shows why UK politicians must be wary of assisted dying reassurances

I strongly encourage British parliamentarians to look at what has happened in New Zealand since the introduction of assisted dying.

www.politicshome.com

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

Agree, although I have concerns that the condescending manner in which some of these people communicate about ‘the masses’ may radicalise people more.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

Seems that he may be from that community now. GIFT LINK. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Kirk Shooting Suspect Held ‘Leftist Ideology,’ Utah Governor Says

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

MPS: Stop doing stunts.

Ed Davey:

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

It was more a rhetorical point, than directed at your good self.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 26d

We spent 15+ years incentivising victimhood and sectarianism, and we are expressing surprise that the group who was never meant to use this tool is using this tool?

A return to classic liberal values (as part of a shared identity) would be a good idea, but I worry we are too far gone now.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 28d

Cal Newport on how to respond after events like the Kirk murder.

‘there’s often a public conversation about the appropriate way to respond. Here’s one option to consider: Quit using these social platforms.’

calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...

On Charlie Kirk and Saving Civil Society - Cal Newport

Many of you have been asking me about the assassination of the conservative commentator Charlie Kirk earlier this week during a campus event at Utah ... Read more

calnewport.com

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 28d

Doesn’t really matter, people have shown who they are by celebrating his death regardless of the motivation.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 28d

That sounds more reasonable now!

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · 28d

The EU destroying the Tower of Apple.

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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · Sep 10

I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.

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Anthony Cox @anthonycox.info · Sep 5

I hear Nick Clegg could help.