Judith Watson

BA MA PGCE DPhil. Retired academic (education studies, geography). Reviews editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism. Please feel free to use pronouns liberally.

[Judith Watson @JudithWBrighton]

@_celia_bedelia_ Vaccines are a miracle. Anti-depressants are sometimes needed but are likely overprescribed. Modern medicine is good 95% of the time. Fluoride in water protects teeth but don’t give your children sugar. We can do nuance even if they can’t.

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@TerribleMaps When will you be bestseller in Inhuman Geography though?

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@calvinrobinson Pope Calvin. That’d be a turn-up for the books.

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@NewcoJoe72 We could have a bank holiday for Armistice Day and another for VE Day, like in France.

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@beaglebugle @ColourComing @calamityjane65 @kentish_made That was in London though.

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@beaglebugle @ColourComing @calamityjane65 @kentish_made I never had any of that. Certainly didn’t see an oncologist. Had laser treatment three times because of their incompetence, but was never told it was anything like cancer.

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@TerribleMaps Nope. Good map. Try harder.

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@shirlpuzz The whole point about monarchy is you and I don’t get to choose. It’s left up to the incumbents and their sprogs. That’s how we got Isabella, the She-Wolf of France, for example. Or Queen Caroline, washed her hair in turpentine.

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@PaulbernalUK We have failed to build online social spaces where children can be safe.

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@DonnaARees @SJLowe12 I saw it too, as an adult not a school kid. He was so good that I was blown away by Shakespeare, not him.

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@dieworkwear What was the influence of militarisation of society? Frederick the Great introducing uniform to the military and wearing it himself. School uniforms. Sailor suits.

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@RobertBohan Is it Wapsbourne Wood in West Sussex?

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@bertiewilber @chatswithem Bertram?

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@susie_dent What about an “engine tenter”, in my family tree in the Bradford area, late 19th century?

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@alfie_t8 Let him just learn about Christianity then. He can read Aquinas’s commentaries on Avicenna and Averroes.

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@_celia_bedelia_ Compare to saliva. I’m not ashamed of my saliva or disgusted by it, but I know I shouldn’t expose strangers to it. Pubs should wash their glasses! And toilets should have individual cubicles for anyone who needs them.

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@cashandcarrots @GuffyNicola @Otto_English @lunaperla @LBC That’s in the hands of the supermarkets.

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@cashandcarrots @GuffyNicola @Otto_English @lunaperla @LBC In the 1970s the British diet was rapidly turning to foods that can’t be grown in Britain, not economically year-round, anyway. We retained our taste for tea, chocolate, oranges and bananas.

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@speakoutsister @Seanchuckle Good article that refers to a traffic filter scheme in Oxford. https://t.co/2iCbyrPbZz

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@speakoutsister @Seanchuckle Mark Harper at Tory Party conf 2023, “the idea that local councils can decide how often you go to the shops and that they ration who uses the road and when, and they police it all with CCTV.” But he’s just referring to conspiracy theories already put into circulation.