Researchers are overwhelmingly worried. What impact will Trump have? Negative, negative, negative... Dark Age 2.0. See: Will US science survive Trump 2.0? nature.com/articles/d4158… via nature

Reform councillors in Kent are now telling the BBC they can't do anything about it.

Great from Sam Lowe on the fake outrage about national insurance exemptions in the India deal: open.substack.com/pub/mostfavour…

Ahead of today’s assisted dying Bill debate, I thought I’d do a thread of FALSE FACTS. You know… campaigning soundbites, PR spin. That come up again and again. And are persuasive… but wrong.

this is crazy - hospices for 60 years have been saying 'we don't kill you' - if this bill goes through they cannot have a legal structure to opt out? why? This is going to destroy palliative care.

Very timely piece from David Oliver (also on Blue Sky) on how myths and misinformation can hamper provision of good palliative and end of life care. I am seeing this more and more in clinical practice - fear that palliative care means hastening death. Very worrying. bmj.com/content/389/bm…

As ever Prof Katherine Sleeman explains things so calmly. Many people want AS/AD because of a profound fear of loss of control. Pain is not the main reason. At the moment, the wishes of this small group of people are being prioritised over the safety of the unheard, the voiceless:

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Despite all the damage Brexit has done, despite all the lies told and the promises broken by the charlatans who led the fight for it, despite all the bullshit fake patriotic coverage in the right wing rags over decades, the broadcasters continue to take their lead from the same

It sometimes feels like ‘The Richard Tice show’, no matter which news channel you switch on to - and that’s without his party propaganda channel- GB News. No wonder Reform are making headway - they are always the headlines.

Heartbreaking evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry this morning. The government delayed adding loss of smell & taste to list of symptoms because data 'came from an app'. Prof. Timothy Spector says this 'undoubtedly' led to preventable transmission. Criminal negligence.

Let's start with what's been agreed: EU boats will continue to have access to UK waters until 2038. That's the same access they've had since the 2020 Brexit deal, which was a reduction of 25% for the EU on the previous arrangement.

Most fish eaten in the UK is imported and most fish caught in UK waters is exported. That sounds silly but it reflects what we like to eat (and what we don't). We import cod, tuna, prawns and salmon. We export mackerel, herring, scallops and whelks seafish.org/insight-and-re…

That's key because it means we need access to other fishing waters to catch fish we do eat and we need our fishermen to be able to sell what they do catch that we don't want to eat to the EU. That's why we have to do a deal in the first place.

The biggest waste of money in the EU was Nigel Farage. The biggest waste of money in the UK is Nigel Farage.

Speaks for itself.

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Right now the real question is not why the Republicans are moving so slowly but why they are moving so quickly—and what they don’t want you to see. thebulwark.com/p/how-to-take-…