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The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.

Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.
UK loses measles elimination status
Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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One from a few years back.

A Little Rain.
33x55cm.
January 15, 2026 at 9:15 AM
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The barriers are finally down! The Bazalgette Embankment next to Blackfriars Bridge is pen, following years of work on the supersewer. For the first time in London's history, it's possible to walk along the north bank from Westminster to Tower without straying more than a few metres from the river.
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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Vaccines, the most impressive public health intervention in medical history, and where we could be headed if there was not efforts to negate truth, facts, and evidence
A great, open-access, review and perspective by @scientificdiscovery.dev
January 7, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Most of the London-crime chat is just code for racism. They don't really mean that an area is dangerous. They mean that it contains black people/Muslims and want to insinuate that this entails danger.
January 7, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.
Elon Musk’s “Grok” is undressing women and showing them in swastika bikinis
One woman targeted is a Jewish Holocaust survivor
decoherence.media
January 7, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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Sickening. 5000 illegal abuse images a day and still no action.
Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day
January 7, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Mary Somerville - the person for whom the word scientist was coined by William Whewell in his 1834. She was a polymath, an intellectual tour de force at a time when teaching women to read and write let alone think deeply was frowned upon or ignored ⚒️🧪🌊
www.geological-digressions.com/mary-somervi...
January 5, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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This morning chilly #London starting 2026 in all kinds of blue!
January 2, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Happy New Year 🎆 🥂
January 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM
At Piccadilly Circus #London
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Ladt night, approaching The Royal Albert Hall #London 👍
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Good. Let’s not let it go away. This man wants to be Britain’s next PM. His denials and obfuscations around his long history of repulsive behaviour show that he is utterly unfit.
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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What is it like to find a fake video of yourself promoting supplements on TikTok?

A Full Fact investigation, published exclusively by @theguardian.com, reveals how wellness products are being endorsed on social media by fake AI versions of real experts.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The draft legislation is crackers. It would fail immediately if we stayed in the ECHR but it disappears the human rights act. if passed after that it would involve mandatory loss of ILR for up to 400,000 people + refusal of 2-3 million others, though without no credible means to identify or remove
Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
October 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Roman & Imperial Fora #Rome
October 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Colosseum #Rome
October 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM