Martin Mariappan

Interventional Radiologist based in Bristol, UK. Views few and far between but all my own. Likes/follows/retweet ≠ endorsement beyond what is explicitly stated.

[Martin Mariappan @MartinMariappan]

@GreenSw13 @DailyMail @metpoliceuk When the police start behaving like goons for hire how much works than vigilantes are they. Greens, always fascists with inclusivity training.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Instead of outraging on a quarter of a million women being groomed and gang raped in Britain, these psychopaths at the @BBCNews, who admitted to evading tax in India, are instead outraging on one woman who claims she contracted a disease 19 years ago after her visit to India.

[Martin Mariappan @MartinMariappan]

@Fergie_CJ Yes of course, had it been left to the current crop of Scots politicians, they would have spent more than the cost of building a tunnel on two ferries that don’t work…

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

'The Scots, more than the English, were enthusiastic imperialists, as migrants, soldiers, rulers, businessmen and missionaries' ⬇️
https://t.co/H7QaDma0Q1

[Weronia 🇵🇱 @weronia_27]

Fixed it for you.

[Martin Mariappan @MartinMariappan]

@JohnDuncanS30 Don’t worry, Scottish culture is fast degenerating into pure loathing of the English and little else with your children being less educated than their forebears with every generation.

[Knitty Kitty @KnittyKittyWK]

As an English woman who has lived in Scotland for 30 years, I’ve found it’s the other way round & it’s nasty, really nasty.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The fix everything button is literally just to arrest criminals and keep them in jail

Bukele was able to do this in a matter of months

When you see the crime and rot in western cities and feel unsafe letting your wife walk around, know that it is a choice.

[I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 @ImMeme0]

Zevenor Gordon, a sexual predator, has been jailed for 16 months for sexually assaulting 6 schoolgirls and women in London.

Paul Powlesland, an environmental lawyer, is facing 2 years in prison for cleaning and removing garbage from the London river without a license.

British justice system is broken.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

And the regime and its NPC pundits are trying to persuade voters that @elonmusk is ‘the disinformation’, while they run these operations on the domestic voters as if they’re in Afghanistan

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Tampa General: sepsis deaths down more than two-thirds.

Parts of Westminster: yes, but is it aligned with our values?

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

The actual backlash is against the police, but some commentators are insisting the target is the Sikh community. It’s a weird sort of political shadow boxing against the opponent they would prefer to have, instead of the actual people.

[Shivani Misra @ShivaniM_KC]

I'll probably get cancelled for saying this, but as someone trained in clinical biochemistry who understands screening criteria and harms from unnecessary tests...

...I think we are in a new era of medicine where people want blood tests, want to understand their health and want to preserve their health more than ever.

In every other aspect of our life more data = good, but we tell people that for health less data = good

Really intelligent people don't understand this nor can they weigh up the evidence for harms and all that happens is that people that can afford it, go private driving health inequalities

Screening for prostate cancer is a classic example: by the book, it doesn't meet criteria for screening but ask a GP or a private doctor how often they check a PSA in men?? It is incredibly commonly checked. The men missing out are the ones who don't seek medical attention.

[Martin Mariappan @MartinMariappan]

@Being_Humor The guy is a meme

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

[Hannah @hannahchrstina]

this is incredibly sad tbh.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

I don’t think “41% of social housing tenants have jobs” is much of a rebuttal! This is hundreds of thousands of homes in inner London (Westminster, Chelsea, Camden) occupied by people who don’t work, while people who do work have to do long commutes to get to their jobs. That’s not defensible. Let them sell their tenancies and move further out with a big cash windfall so people who actually work can live in these homes.

[John Duffield @jfwduffield]

Modern Britain is a tyranny of organised, corrupt & self interested minorities. Why the majority of ordinary people are incredibly angry. British farming's interests subordinated to an obsessive children's TV presenter with Asperger's Syndrome. As mad as it sounds.