Chris Baker-Beall

Senior Lecturer in Crisis and Disaster Management
Bournemouth University

[Chris Baker-Beall @BeallBaker]

@DrSusanOliver1 @gill1109 https://t.co/y1DBCF6iFC

[Michael Palmer @medic_southside]

/ and he said no.
But this is what wasn't presented to the jury -
1. Incorrect ventilator settings, which probably caused the abdominal distension they blamed on Letby
2. The x-ray showing the displacement of the liver
3. The fact that the cannula was placed on the right
/

[Long Covid Support @long_covid]

🚨 Astonishing evidence at @covidinquiryuk from @MattHancock on hospital testing & nosocomial infection:

“Some hospitals did not want to test their staff because they might find too many staff with #Covid”

‼️‼️‼️

#LongCovid
#WeNeedAnswers

[Jim Reed @jim_reed]

Matt Hancock was pressed by Baroness Hallett at the #covidinquiry this morning on his comments (on Thursday) that infection control guidance "took into account the factor of supply" of FFP3 masks. That's something other health officials denied in testimony. Here's full exchange.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

King Charles charges this RNLI lifeboat station to launch its boat because he owns the beach. And they’re not the only charity he’s rinsing

(Location: Sennen Cove, Cornwall)

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Trae Crowder explains BRILLIANTLY to Trump supporters why they shouldn't be spiking the football for voting against their own self-interests.

If you only watch ONE video today, make it this one.

[Chris Baker-Beall @BeallBaker]

@Bluebirdlouise @LucyGoBag Cabinet office briefing room (cobr)

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

These are the most horrifying 30 seconds I’ve ever seen in my life.

Vote Kamala Harris.

[MR. POP @MrPopOfficial]

In real time you can see Kamala realize that she may have found her campaign slogan:

“We’re Not Going Back”

[BUDMC @BU_DMC]

🧑‍🎓You've finished your Degree....now what?
Watch Lianna's story and turn your new knowledge into a multi-agency, multi-sector career in crisis and disaster management.
Join this year's MSc in Disaster Management:
Apply now: https://t.co/gb2qvIdBYG

[BUDMC @BU_DMC]

You've finished your Degree....now what?
Today we invite you to watch Dave's story and turn your new knowledge into a multi-agency, multi-sector career in crisis and disaster management. Join this year's MSc in Disaster Management: Apply now: https://t.co/Bus9gd0vfX

[Sir Godfrey Lawson 🇬🇧 @godfrey_lawson]

The Tory party have received unfair criticism this last few weeks. In the interests of balance,I’ve posted some charts below which show performance in various key areas such as life expectancy, the NHS, trade, immigration and the economy

🧵

#GeneralElection2024

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wow! Simon Case explains that test and trace worked in countries like Germany because they kept cases down, but because we had so many covid cases in the UK, our test and trace system was ineffective

Hugo Keith, "You knew the second wave was coming.. There was no vaccine.. Test and trace was ineffective"

Simon Case, "The problem went back to the unlocking in summer (Eat Out To Help Out)"

Hugo Keith, "By early September.. Anything you did, rules of six, circuit breakers, etc had to be applied for longer with a more severe effect because there were so many cases"

Simon Case, "Yes"

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak unlocked and encouraged people to eat out, that spread covid cases across the country, and instead of bringing in immediate restrictions to curb them, they kept delaying, and delaying, till eventually they did bring restrictions in, and instead of being for a short time, because they delayed so long, restrictions were there for a much longer time.

[David Yelland @davidyelland]

I have never seem a worse PR moment in British election history.... what a start.... !

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT:

He’s not wrong.

[Nick Tyrone @NicholasTyrone]

This is one the great comms f-ups of all time.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is undoubtedly the best analysis I've heard to date of the Iran strike on Israel. It's long-ish (about 10 minutes) but absolutely worth listening to.

The man speaking is Chas Freeman, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, very relevant to the topic, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

He's interviewed by @PLottaz, an Associate Professor at Kyoto University in Japan (this is the full video of the interview: https://t.co/zVxAFjDYlb).

What Freeman argues is that Iran's strike "changes all the rules of the game in the Middle-East". The biggest deal for him is that "the Saudis, the Emiratis and others informed the United States that they would not permit American operations against Iran from their territory and Iran warned those states that if they did, they would become targets. So in a sense, Iran has achieved the neutralization of American forces in the Persian gulf that it long sought. So from a tactical military point of view it was a 'nothing burger' - nobody was killed, nobody was damaged - [...] but from a strategic point of view, from a soft power point of view, it was a huge success. Iran accomplished its objective and it left Israel with an intolerable dilemma. Israel cannot continue to behave as though it can act with impunity."

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

On Iran’s strike:

At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.

One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:

He asked us:

“Say the US decided to attack Iraq with a new stealth jet it hadn’t used before that evaded all radars? The attack was a success. Was it strategic?”

Many in the class raised their hands to say “yes, it achieved its goal”. But the professor said: “It may not have been”.

Why?

“Because now your adversaries know your capabilities and it’s a matter of time before they find ways around them. If this attack could be done with conventional weapons, it’s better to keep your top weapons until you need them. Using them creates a disadvantage.”

My analysis is that the scale of Iran’s attack, the diversity of locations it targeted, and weapons it used, forced Israel to uncover the majority of anti-missile technologies the US and it have across the region.

The Iranians did not use any weapons Israel didn’t know it had, it just used a lot of them. But the Iranians likely now have almost a full map of what Israel’s missile defence system looks like, as well as where in Jordan and the Gulf the US has installations. It also knows how long it takes to prepare them, how Israeli society responds…etc

This is a huge strategic cost to Israel, while Arab regimes now are being blasted by their peoples, particularly the Jordanian monarchy, for not doing anything to protect Gazans but then going all out to protect Israel.

Crucially, Iran can now reverse engineer all the intel gathered from this attack to make a much more deadly one credible. While the US and Israel will have to re-design away from their current model which has been compromised. Its success in stopping this choreographed attack is thus still very costly.

Moreover, with the threat of a regional war that neither the US nor the Arab regimes want feeling nearer, it’s likely their pressure on Israel to back down will increase, making a ceasefire more feasible.

Anyone assuming this is just theatrics is missing the context of how militaries assess strategy versus tactics. Theatre is an important factor, but gathering intelligence of the “enemy’s” posture is more valuable, especially if one believes they’re in a long war of attrition.

Netanyahu and the Israel government prefer a quick hot and urgent war where they can pull in America. The Iranians prefer a longer war of attrition that bleeds Israel of its deterrence capabilities and makes it an ally for Arabs and the US that’s too costly to have.

Lastly, if you are a person who hates war, if you want peace, the best and only way to get there in the region is to support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and dignity.

There is no sustainable peace possible as long as Palestinians live under an oppressive system of apartheid.

[Prof. Carl Sagan @ProfCarlSagan]

Do you Remember this Voice?

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

Privatised in 1989 with zero debt, Thames Water now has £14.7 billion of debt, 80% of its value. Ten billion accrued by Australian Macquarie bank before it sold out in 2017, most used for dividends/loans. Debt faces high interest. Current owners:

[Frankie Boyle Updates @frankieboyle]

Anti woke seems to mean embracing far-right ideas without admitting it to yourself