Jax

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

I think it's fair to say that Andy Burnham has performed very well in his first appearance as PM at the Commons dispatch box today.

He didn't really say very much of any substance but many voters will like his nice friendly style and his talk of doing things differently and avoiding political point scoring.

His Labour backbenchers seemed to like it too and he was exceptionally conciliatory to other parties, especially the LibDems, which suggests he's looking to appeal to left wing tactical voters at the next election.

That said, Kemi Badenoch also performed well, asking specific questions on all the tough issues. Almost none of which got any serious, substantive response from the new PM.

And that's going to be an ongoing theme for this Burnham government. TikTok videos and fine words don't actually change anything in the real world.

That's why Burnham's approach can't - and won't - last for long. Voters who like Burnham's non-partisan style will quickly tire of his platitudes when the cost of living continues to rise, when growth doesn't improve, when jobs continue to disappear and when the big ticket issues like mass immigration, Net Zero, welfare dependency and our woeful national defences remain untouched.

The PM espouses fine sentiments but he has yet to suggest he has any actual plan to deliver anything real that will change the country's fortunes - and, no, I'm afraid a cap on bus fares and No10 North aren't going to do that.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

If the migrant crime data exists it must be published.
It belongs to the British people.

[Jax @JaxEverett]

@BOOSTkdv @Gruzzly Same here! It was absolutely brilliant in the first few seasons especially the Gordo & Tracy storyline

[Post United @postunited]

🚨😳 UN NIÑO DEL AJAX HIZO 3.085 TOQUES SEGUIDOS… Y TUVIERON QUE PARARLE

⚽ Syb Zeldenthuis, de la Sub-11, convirtió cada toque en 1€ para la Ajax Foundation

💰 Terminó recaudando 3.085€ y solo paró porque empezaba el Ajax-Sion de Conference League

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A woman one month into a new job at the FDA was handed an application to approve a sleeping pill. It looked routine. They gave it to her because she was new and it seemed like an easy one to start on.

She read the file and something was missing. No evidence at all that the drug was safe in pregnancy, and it was being sold as a remedy for morning sickness. The drug was thalidomide, and West Germany was getting through a million doses a day.

Frances Kelsey asked for more data. The company sent representatives to her office, then telephoned her at all hours, then went over her head to her supervisors. Between them they contacted her and her boss around fifty separate times. She later said most of what they called her could not be printed. Ten million tablets were already sitting in warehouses waiting for her signature.

She said no six times. And while she held the line, doctors in Germany and Australia were piecing together what was happening to babies whose mothers had taken it. Limbs that had never formed, hands and feet attached directly at the shoulder and hip, in at least 4,000 children across Europe. The company withdrew its American application in 1962.

Seventeen cases turned up in the United States, all from free samples doctors had handed out before any approval. Without her it would have been thousands.

Congress passed a new law that same year requiring companies to prove a drug is both safe and effective, and requiring informed consent from anyone in a trial. Those rules are now used worldwide. Kennedy gave her the highest civilian award in the country and she was the second woman ever to receive it. She stayed at the FDA another 45 years and died in 2015 at 101.

Every American woman handed a pill in pregnancy is downstream of one woman refusing to sign a form six times while men shouted at her.

https://t.co/Xx4rbkh2gH

[Mumin Humayun @Mr_H1978]

When Grease came out in 1978, it was set in the summer of 1959.

If Grease came out today it would be set in the summer of 2007.

2007 is now as much a period piece to 2026 as 1959 was to 1978. Let that sink in. 😭

But 2007 was only last week...

[Jacqueline Pond @chiefcashier]

If my state pension is supposedly a benefit why am I taxed because my state pension due to my contributions exceeds the tax threshold. Benefit claimants don’t pay income tax no matter what their income is. Either state pension is tax exempt or benefits are taxable.

[Siant1963 @SPT1603]

🚨BREAKING: A UK judge has ruled that a Gazan refugee and mother of three must be allowed to bring 18 family members to Britain.

Upper Tribunal Judge Gemma Loughran upheld a decision that refusing entry to the extended family would breach the European Convention on Human Rights, citing the woman’s mental health and the right to family life.

The relatives approved to come include:
- Her parents
- A brother, his wife, and their four children
- A sister and her four children
- Another sister, her husband, and their three children

The woman only has space to house her parents. The remaining 16 family members will require taxpayer-funded housing and will be eligible for welfare support.

The Home Office fought this decision but were overruled. The power seriously needs to be taken away from these judges.

[Jo E @Superjomax]

The law: medicine cannot be added to food supply.

Government: folic acid is a vitamin

NHS government website:
“Folic acid is a medicine that's”

Also see list the NHS say cannot take it
“You have cancer” is only 1 of approx 12 other big things

That one line and 3 words represents 3.5 million people alone.

It is a synthetic medicine by the NHS health description. It is harmful to millions.

This is illegal as there are no actual numbers that could positively demonstrate what the government says ‘saving 200 babies’
It is illegal to medicate people without choice. We have no choice - it is medicine by own admission. It is harmful to millions own admission, it violates our freedom of choice and human rights.
@ClareCraigPath
We must build momentum and ensure everyone is aware and get it removed immediately.

https://t.co/aAE3frzR91

[The Internet Remains Undefeated @WebUndefeated]

This is why it’s important to let kids be bored.🏴‍☠️😁

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Sicily has a four-legged early warning system for Mount Etna. It has a beard, it eats gorse, and it is beating several million euros of monitoring equipment by half a day.

The shepherds have known this for as long as anyone has kept goats on that mountain. The herd tells you. No drama about it, no bleating, no rearing up and pointing at the summit. They simply decline to go up the hill that morning, and if the goats will not go up, neither do you. Oldest volcano warning system in Europe. Costs nothing. Runs on scrub.

For most of history the scientific response to this has been a polite nod and a change of subject.

Then in 2011 a German turned up with a box of trackers.

Martin Wikelski of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour has an unfashionable habit of asking local people what they already know before deciding they are simple. He collared goats living year-round on the slopes and started logging where they went, and when, and how fast.

On 4 January 2012 the data went peculiar. The animals turned down the high pastures they use every day of their lives, all of them, and headed for the trees. The seismometers were quiet. The gas monitors were quiet. In a control room in Catania, a great deal of very expensive equipment was reporting a perfectly ordinary Wednesday.

That evening Etna started throwing lava and ash into the sky.

Six hours.

The same signature has now turned up before eight major eruptions, and at the extreme the goats move fourteen hours ahead of the mountain. Ahead of the tremor. Ahead of the gas. Ahead of everything the volcanologists are paid to watch.

Nobody knows how they do it. The best guess is sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide venting beforehand at concentrations no human nose could ever find, which would mean the animals are smelling the future and declining to comment. Wikelski's own summary is that they know in advance, we have no idea how, but they do.

The institute says there is not yet enough data for a formal warning system. More eruptions, more animals, more species. Which is the correct scientific answer and a very funny one, since the shepherds reached sufficient confidence somewhere around the Bronze Age and have been acting on it every day since.

Rome had geese who saved the city by making a racket when the Gauls came over the wall, and honoured them for it every year afterwards.

Etna has their spiritual successors, doing the same job by refusing to walk uphill.

We have a word in English for a man who behaves like a goat. It means he eats anything, wrecks anything, and understands nothing.

The goat currently outperforms a seismograph.

[max tempers @maxtempers]

We could've avoided weeks of drought by just scheduling test matches earlier.

[Darren Johnson @DarrenJohnson66]

When my mum remarried in the mid 70s her new home had the novelty of a serving hatch and me and my sister would re-enact the Generation Game conveyer belt with one of us sliding objects along the kitchen work surface while the other sat in the dining room trying to remember them.

[German Simply 🇩🇪 @GermanSimply_]

Honestly the best way to do it.

[Garrett Hughes @Garretthughes]

Contractor came by this morning, shook my hand but not my wife’s.

Brother, I cannot emphasize enough how badly you have misidentified the decision maker in this transaction.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

The unspoken male road trip leaderboard is very real. Nothing ruins your day like getting back on the interstate and seeing the same semi-truck you passed 20 minutes ago

[El Zurdo de Moron ⭐️⭐️⭐️👑 @ZurdoDeMoron]

Kim Basinger esta a una inyección mas de botox, para poder desbloquear el iPhone de Mickey Rourke...

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Sometimes you have to help out just to get some peace and quiet! 😂🤣

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

My mornings are exactly like this... minus the yacht...