Paula Mulvenna
@paula-mulvenna1960.bsky.social
Recently a UK clinical oncologist with avid interests in thoracic and brain cancers. Still interested but less involved (retired), discovering fly-fishing, non-violent direct action re the climate crisis.
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Today's protest by the Palestine Coaliton march in London vastly outnumbered a counter-protest by Stop the Hate and an unrelated march by Ukip, whose leader advertised it in a video wearing a...black shirt
Photos posted on X by the Met Police - 1. Palestine Coalition, 2. Stop the Hate, 3. Ukip
Photos posted on X by the Met Police - 1. Palestine Coalition, 2. Stop the Hate, 3. Ukip
January 31, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Today's protest by the Palestine Coaliton march in London vastly outnumbered a counter-protest by Stop the Hate and an unrelated march by Ukip, whose leader advertised it in a video wearing a...black shirt
Photos posted on X by the Met Police - 1. Palestine Coalition, 2. Stop the Hate, 3. Ukip
Photos posted on X by the Met Police - 1. Palestine Coalition, 2. Stop the Hate, 3. Ukip
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POLIO. Deadly, crippling, preventable.
My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.
My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, suggesting the public might want to reconsider the use of polio vaccines. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...
Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations
The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, questioning longstanding recommendations.
www.statnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
POLIO. Deadly, crippling, preventable.
My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.
My first tricycle was passed on by the next door neighbours, whose kid couldn't ride it any more because of polio. I was three years younger, caught the vaccine window.
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I think the Nobel Committee has got this covered.
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
I think the Nobel Committee has got this covered.
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The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 AM
The hunger strikers have ended their 73-day strike after forcing the cancellation of Elbit’s £2 billion contract. This is a people-powered victory—but it comes at a horrific, lifelong cost.
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I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.
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In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Another beautiful Shchedryk performance amidst ruins.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
It was set in what used to be a DTEK thermal power plant — now destroyed by russia.
The contrast between russia’s destructive nature and the Ukrainian will to create beauty even in the darkest times is palpable.
December 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
In English we know it as “Carol of the Bells,” but the melody arises from a Ukrainian folk tradition of songs welcoming the new year and summoning the forces of nature to meet human labor and bring prosperity.
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
Do listen.
I wrote about the history here: snyder.substack.com/p/o-generous...
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"Some of them have been on hunger strike for 48 days"
Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.
Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"Some of them have been on hunger strike for 48 days"
Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.
Well done to @adilray.bsky.social for covering the Palestine hunger strikers and reading out their names on #GMB.
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Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.
Palestine Action hunger strikers could die in prison: Families, lawyers
Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.
www.aljazeera.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Lawyers and relatives of the remand prisoners refusing food fear for their lives as they seek meeting with top minister.
Thank you @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for sharing this beautiful tribute to your late father. What an amazing man he was, he contributed so much to the world.
substack.com/@mehdirhasan...
substack.com/@mehdirhasan...
My Tribute to My Dad Who Passed Away
My father’s life story is a reminder of why the bigots and xenophobes are wrong about immigration, multiculturalism, and ‘identity politics.’
substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Thank you @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for sharing this beautiful tribute to your late father. What an amazing man he was, he contributed so much to the world.
substack.com/@mehdirhasan...
substack.com/@mehdirhasan...
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Useful summary
Covid inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided and other key findings
The long-awaited report is published into how well or badly the government handled the Covid pandemic.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Useful summary
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds of young people spell out demands to #TaxTheSuperRich on the eve of tax treaty negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya.
UN Tax Treaty talks are key to unlocking TRILLIONS for climate finance and nature protection.
#UNTC #COP30
UN Tax Treaty talks are key to unlocking TRILLIONS for climate finance and nature protection.
#UNTC #COP30
UN Tax Treaty talks key to unlocking trillions for climate finance and nature protection - Greenpeace International
500 Greenpeace Africa volunteers spell out demands for tax justice on the eve of UN Tax Treaty talks in Nairobi: Tax the Super-rich for People and Planet.
www.greenpeace.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds of young people spell out demands to #TaxTheSuperRich on the eve of tax treaty negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya.
UN Tax Treaty talks are key to unlocking TRILLIONS for climate finance and nature protection.
#UNTC #COP30
UN Tax Treaty talks are key to unlocking TRILLIONS for climate finance and nature protection.
#UNTC #COP30
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This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn
Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...
www.bmj.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.
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In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
October 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
In a historic first, working GP Patrick Hart has been suspended from the medical register for 10 months for his actions to sound the alarm on the climate crisis and its threats to health.
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
Read more here: healthforxr.com/historic-fir...
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If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
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This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This, this, this. If journalists don’t scrutinize this and explain it properly now then they have failed on their duty and will bear a share of the blame if such policies are enacted (most of the public oppose them and don’t I think realise what is being proposed yet).
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Our 60-day Gaza plan is delivering.
Since the ceasefire, we have been able to bring in much more flour, yeast, and fuel for machines. New UN supported bakeries are being opened every day.
Visited the latest, where 300,000 pieces of bread are already being produced daily. @wfp.org
Since the ceasefire, we have been able to bring in much more flour, yeast, and fuel for machines. New UN supported bakeries are being opened every day.
Visited the latest, where 300,000 pieces of bread are already being produced daily. @wfp.org
October 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Our 60-day Gaza plan is delivering.
Since the ceasefire, we have been able to bring in much more flour, yeast, and fuel for machines. New UN supported bakeries are being opened every day.
Visited the latest, where 300,000 pieces of bread are already being produced daily. @wfp.org
Since the ceasefire, we have been able to bring in much more flour, yeast, and fuel for machines. New UN supported bakeries are being opened every day.
Visited the latest, where 300,000 pieces of bread are already being produced daily. @wfp.org
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AP live feed of No Kings protests, just in case you can’t find anything on MSM:
LIVE: ‘No Kings’ protests against the Trump administration across the US
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
AP live feed of No Kings protests, just in case you can’t find anything on MSM:
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Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
October 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0
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Really love this. If the fash are about, we all need to counter
Newcastle says no to fascism.
The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.
Newcastle united.
The far right brought a hundred or so with them, bussed from far and wide. This city turned out 1000s, from local communities, estates and streets. Geordies of all backgrounds coming together and outnumbering the purveyors of hate by some distance.
Newcastle united.
September 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Really love this. If the fash are about, we all need to counter
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Please know that this is Trump scaremongering.
There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism.
A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism.
A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism
President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Please know that this is Trump scaremongering.
There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism.
A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism.
A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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#Trump says paracetamol in pregnancy causes autism. #RFK Jr. has long pushed similar myths about vaccines.
Both ignore what decades of research show:
🔹 Autism is mostly genetic
🔹 Valproic acid (not paracetamol) is the real medication risk
🔹 Fear spreads faster than science
Both ignore what decades of research show:
🔹 Autism is mostly genetic
🔹 Valproic acid (not paracetamol) is the real medication risk
🔹 Fear spreads faster than science
Paracetamol, Pregnancy, and Autism: What the Science Actually Says
Spoiler: Autism’s causes are complex—paracetamol isn’t one of them.
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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🔴Elon Musk Should Face ‘Full Force of the Law’ Says Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey
The Liberal Democrat leader tells Byline Times that Musk and his platform are inciting violence and breaking laws designed to protect children online
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/e...
The Liberal Democrat leader tells Byline Times that Musk and his platform are inciting violence and breaking laws designed to protect children online
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/e...
Elon Musk Should Face 'Full Force of the Law' Says Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey
The Liberal Democrat leader tells Byline Times that Musk and his platform are inciting violence and breaking laws designed to protect children online
bylinetimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🔴Elon Musk Should Face ‘Full Force of the Law’ Says Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey
The Liberal Democrat leader tells Byline Times that Musk and his platform are inciting violence and breaking laws designed to protect children online
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/e...
The Liberal Democrat leader tells Byline Times that Musk and his platform are inciting violence and breaking laws designed to protect children online
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/22/e...