Plz listen to Michael Spicer with a rare clear round. twitter.com/MrMichaelSpice…

EU proposes undoing harm Brexit has done to young people on both sides of Channel. No surprise this Government isn't interested, but what a miserable response from Labour. Neither party pro growth or the interests of our young people #depressing bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

The meter was very nearly defined as the length of a pendulum such that the period is exactly two seconds.

This would mean the strength of gravity, measured in meters and seconds, is exactly pi squared.

But it's not - a short thread on the importance of units🧵

We don’t pay our doctors or nurses any where near enough.

While the rest of the economy has seen at worst, stagnant pay, and at best, decent rises, doctors in particular have seen 20-25% pay CUTS

10/25

'We can't allow fraudsters to exploit the British people' says the leader of the Party that brought you the corrupt and unlawful VIP lane. And the man who won't answer questions about his own interests in Moderna.

But, of course, his wealthy friends get to play by different

And now, after the trauma of the pandemic, they want to remove the specialist mental health support for NHS staff, at a time when we need fit and fully functioning staff more than ever, if we’re to get this waiting list down.

What a mess 😔

15/25

And speaking of mental health - that’s been a big contributing factor to the rise in people off work.

With more vacancies in mental health than any other NHS department leading to waits like this 👇🏼, it’s not hard to see part of the issue

16/25

BBC Two is one of the greatest television channels of all. Informative, educational, smart, an incubator of new shows that then become much bigger elsewhere (from Bake Off to Line of Duty).

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Russia struck two food export terminals at Ukraine's Pivdennyi port today, one of which is owned by a Singaporean company. Agricultural products destined for Asian and African countries were destroyed in them.

Dear partners in the Global South, this is Russia's true attitude

The Founders did not want “a man unprincipled in private life,” “desperate in his fortune,” “despotic in his ordinary demeanor,”

Someone who scoffs at “the principles of liberty,” and “falls in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day.”

In short, they did not want you.

what are we doing here gang and why isn't it something like the french revolution

Russia has resolved to make Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city of one million, uninhabitable, but the mayor disagrees and vows not to give up!

This week I visited Kharkiv to see for myself how the city lives 1/

Perhaps there is more to this but it seems absolutely grotesque and wrong to be prosecuting this woman. What have I missed? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

This is quite something.

Sunak's cognitive decline means he's forgotten all about long Covid.

You boy! I've got Mark Menzies locked in here!

Come back with 5 grand and I'll give you a shilling. Come back with it in less than five minutes, and I'll give you half-a-crown...

Talking on NewsWatch about faked Iran/Israel propaganda videos with BBC Verify's Shayan Sardarizadeh. Fri 1130pm Newschannel/Sat 745am @bbcbreakfast BBC1 or iplayer here: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

This Financial Times piece is the best examination of US crash deaths that I've seen in ages.

The US is so bad at this: 'Even after adjusting for distance driven, US fatality rates remain 2x the rich-world average.'

Here's a quick 🧵 to share insights (paywall).

ft.com/content/9c936d…

Farrukh Bruce Married to a Tory and these far right johnson installations are controlling political current affairs and the news programmes : eg ref kuenssberg and they’ve nobbled Newsnight.