This is a massive scandal.

Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.

How can this even be legal?

The danger is to think of Reform as just another version of the Tory Party

They are so much worse

They have taken the worst Tories - the most power-hungry, racist, misogynistic MPs - and empowered them to seek authoritarian rule

They will decimate our rights and democracy

They will rule over us!

A new study raises serious questions about propaganda on 'X'? A powerful new study demonstrates that 'X' pushes right-wing supporters even further right, but has this bias now reached the threshold of propaganda?

A new study published in Nature has shown that the X algorithm pushes those on the right further right.

Critically, it is the algorithm itself that causes this change.

In this weeks essay, I review the study & ask whether X classifies as a propaganda platform

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Thanks, trying to give it a go!

So much calmer and less divisive.

Thanks, Harry. Back at you

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I entirely appreciate your view, Kerry. But from an evolutionary neuroscience perspective: the last 6,000 years has been an anomaly in human evolution. I’m writing a book about it, but the long and short is that we are intensely cooperative animals. Minority are cruel. Sadly they lead us just now!

Hey guys. Trying to re-engage on Bluesky.

I’m a medical doctor and neuroscientist.

I also do some health policy journalism.

Follow me if you want an honest, informed take on healthcare policy; some chat about brain health, and political commentary generally!

Vive la resistance!

Episode 10 - Consuming The News Doesn't Change The World Expanding on this week’s topic of news consumption, in this episode, I argue that we don’t need constant exposure to the news in order to make the changes to our societies that we need.

New episode just dropped

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Caring For Each Other Is The Resistance Most decent folk realise that success lay in how we treat each other.

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"...making connections w/ one another really does matter. Indeed, it is the antidote to the vitriol of the selfish mind. Each & every time we connect w/ one another we are defeating those who see no value in being human."

At what point does this become criminal? I mean seriously! As we all sacrificed they just focused on making money. It is disgusting.

It’s Easy For Us To Say Palestinians Should Stay; But Shouldn’t They Have The Choice? History teaches us that once the red mist of genocide descends it only ends when either another force steps in to end it (Rwanda, WW2) or the genocide succeeds and the people are essentially eradicate...

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It is not the State that has too much power

It is that the positions meant to execute the power of the State have grown beyond their intent

Leaders are public servants, not omnipotent citizens free to do whatever they want

It’s time we drafted new laws to enforce better behaviour from our leaders

To be absolutely clear, I will not vote for Labour if they continue to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians.

I won’t be voting tactically

I don’t care who that lets into power

I’m not voting for a Party that can permit the wilful starvation of innocent people.

The Streeting Premises Uplift Does it even touch the sides?

If anyone is interested in what Streeting’s announcement will mean on the ground, here is a great summary on Dr Triska’s newsletter.

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Does Supporting Current Right-Wing Policies Make You A Racist? Traditional conservativism is dying because conservatives are happy to support racist ideals. But does this make them racists?

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It’s hard to work out the racist Christian. I mean, beyond the whole love thy neighbour thing, someone’s told them that Jesus wasn’t white, right?

We are actually in the reverse situation, whereby the attempt to manage the smaller number of beds more efficiently simply makes the whole system unsafe. Imagine, rationing one bed per ward - who gets it. How you “manage” that one bed is negligible? Or, improving its management has negligible effect

Tens of thousands waited more than 24 hours for hospital beds in A&E last year Patients in England aged 65 or over made up almost 70% of long ‘trolley waits’, with some left for up to 10 days, data reveals

The only viable solution to these dangerous NHS waits is to put bed capacity back to what it was in 2010.

If you shrink your health service as demands for it increases then it is not surprising people have to wait longer.

It’s not rocket science.

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Ep 7. Manufactured Hatred (and why it will fail) Podcast Episode · The Antidote with Dan Goyal · 20/04/2025 · 24m

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Great piece, Lewis. Very helpful.

Again and again, Trump misunderstands the limits of American power. And as a result is taking us to a global financial precipice.

In economics, as in geopolitics, Trump fundamentally misunderstands the limits of American power. It is at the centre of everything he does. The markets, the only real impediment to him now, may be about to teach him how wrong he is.

New writing from me.

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Musk Defeated By The Collective Will(?) It’s hard not to be impressed by our collective humanity when the world’s wealthiest person is forced to retreat.

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Fair point

If one person in one country can make one economic decision that leads to global turmoil then we have fundamental problem with the economic system itself.

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Society Has Always Regulated The Greedy For as long as humans have existed, so have regulations to prevent the greedy from 'free-riding'.

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