PhD, FRSA, TEDx Bristol speaker. We were born to connect. We were born to create. Determined to end generational stereotyping. Retired academic & art director.
Here's a happy-go-lucky 🎶 parody about the way that @RobertKennedyJr is now collapsing American healthcare - based off #PaulSimon's toe-tapping "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
It's called: "Measles and Polio Down in the Schoolyard."
Something very concerning is happening in Hull & East Yorkshire. The new Reform UK Mayor has launched a website for a “£1m Community Fund.” Here’s why residents should be worried 👇 1/10
Who’s behind the Centre for Migration Control? This so-called “research organisation” has been cited in The Sun, The Telegraph, The Times and Express - but it appears to be run by one man with a Brexit campaign past, publishing opaque and selective data and wild claims about migrants.
The Eye asked the Centre for Migration Control for more information regarding its employees, funding, research methodology and third-party validation, but received no response.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
Applebaum: Trump shows no empathy. He calls opponents vermin and says immigrants poison the nation's blood — language used by Hitler.
He’s immune to cruelty, unmoved by civilian deaths. 2/
Based on the questions you’ve presented, it appears you may be preparing to argue that the president has broad authority over immigration, perhaps in defense of Trump’s actions.
And while the executive does have wide discretion in enforcing immigration law, that power ends where constitutional checks begin—specifically, with compliance to lawful orders from the judiciary. I
n modern American history—post–World War II—no president has openly defied a direct federal court order in real time without appeal, compliance, or consequence; even Nixon complied with United States v. Nixon, surrendering the Watergate tapes under court order.
What happened on Black Saturday - March 15, 2025- was unprecedented: the Trump administration ignored an emergency injunction and carried out deportations anyway—a direct defiance of judicial authority and a rupture in the constitutional order.
I was a history teacher and I know we have to be documenting this moment. When we look back, I don’t want us to say we didn’t know what was happening.
Stephen Miller, probably the most joyless man in America, wants to take away one of our most foundational rights, habeas corpus.
In this episode, Alan Bernstein, the director of global health at the University of Oxford, discusses with David Frum how misinformation, distrust in science, and extremist rhetoric are fueling a deadly resurgence of preventable diseases in the U.S. https://t.co/E2qrs4738U
Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week.
The "cliff-edge” approach has inflicted cruelty on over 100,000 carers. Rules must change.
Govts need to divert focus to tax dodgers, corporate crooks, the City.
https://t.co/S0I5QQSlih
Trump’s First 100 Days Are a Flop -- Even Some Key Supporters Admit It: Donald Trump leaves negative balance: stock market is down, dollar weakened, foreign tourism fell, trade war threatens inflation (MH) https://t.co/0eDEig9QKg
U.S. Joins Human Rights Watchlist Over Trump’s Crackdown
In this video, we review how the U.S. has been added to a human rights watchlist—citing Trump’s crackdown on protest, media, and dissent. Freedom, CIVICUS warns, is suffocating quietly.
https://t.co/VBPN39H58K
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done: He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—& it’s hardly even a news story (tNR) https://t.co/4FaeKee0BV