COVID + THE BRAIN 🧠 There’s been a flurry of new studies published in recent weeks about Covid’s detrimental impact on the brain. This is the aspect of Covid which concerns me most, but which many people seem to be blissfully unaware of. So let’s dig into what we know… 🧵

💚CLEAN AIR FOR KIDS I’m so excited to see this website fully up & running. It’s an absolute goldmine of useful information about indoor air quality in our children’s schools. Please do check it out at this link 👇🏻 cleanairforkids.co.uk …and give Clean Air for Kids a follow!

Yet more unwanted balloons arriving on Rathlin in the last few days, at opposite ends of the island. One disintegrating into shreds after flapping around the barbed wire in strong winds #BalloonsBlow #WashedUpOnRathlin

I'm going to be a bit vulnerable in this thread, which is for the people who care & have been failed by public health. I care deeply about people, and it saddens me to see masks with an apparent poor fit, especially when I know the person is trying their best to stay safe 1/12

The graphic you never see in the welfare debate. Funny how the clearly most privileged panel members say we can’t afford it. #bbcqt

Covid in England 'Weekly A&E Attendances for Covid-Like Illness in England' Data to Week 40, ending 05 October 2025. (UKHSA data, Gwladwr chart)

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was

Tragic. Preventable. Final. The Slender-billed Curlew is officially extinct, declared today by the IUCN. On our watch. We are technically brilliant and carelessly blind. Sit with the silence. Then fight for what remains. #Extinction #BiodiversityCrisis #Curlews David Gray

England: Covid hospitalizations were 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu last week "The last time we had more recorded Covid hospitalisations was two years ago, and this wave isn’t over yet." Christina Pagel christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is-n…

Covid in England The SARI Weekly Covid Hospital Admission Rate for England by Region offers insight into regional variation in SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence. In Week 40 2025, the highest rate was in the West Midlands, the lowest in Yorkshire & Humber and the South East...

⚠️Prof Christina Pagel reports on "significant Covid wave" in her substack (🔗 on nxt) "The last time we had more recorded Covid hospitalisations was two years ago, and this wave isn’t over yet." Wes Streeting you are gambling with our lives & health. 1/ #KeepCovidBoosters

I missed this when it came out. Review of organ damage from covid and long covid pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 and a Freddo was 10p. Meaning that one hour of work got you 50 Freddos. Fast forward to 2025, minimum wage is £12.21 and a Freddo is 35p. Now one hour of work will only get you 34 of them. That's a 142% rise in pay but a 250% rise in frog shaped

Please don't buy those ridiculous fake cobwebs that trap and kill our precious wildlife.

This is an extremely disturbing study. According to new research reported here, the probability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) collapsing due to climate change is much higher than previously believed. One author said: "We found that (on our current

Can we have Novavax in the UK now?!?! 🤯 What are you waiting for Wes Streeting ??? #Novavax

👇👇👇👇👇 theguardian.com/environment/20…

"The Treasury....plans to gut green rules with amendments to its planning and infrastructure bill – ditching the precautionary principle, slashing species protections and curbing legal challenges" Indefensible This must be fought tooth and nail theguardian.com/commentisfree/…