Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA

Moving over to to the blue Bird @ProfRhys

[Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA @rhysthomas]

As I have been inundated with requests for advice on how to do these i thought i would put this guide up.
The HEPA filters i created with the children are based on the CorsiRosethal Box. @CorsIAQ 👍 These have to be adapted for UK. (Fans only use 110v) (1)

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

This is an amazing article about how the Israeli lobby took over the Labour Party and imposed Starmer on the UK - full well-knowing he wasn't going to do any of his promises, but was going to serve Israel and the powerful donors instead. https://t.co/VXIkcNYTbi

[Liz Saville Roberts AS/MP @LSRPlaid]

PM Starmer talks of his love for UK as he prepares to resign

But scant signs of Labour’s love for Wales since 2024

His government valued centralised command & control over devolution

Constitutional reform & fair distribution of wealth are key for hope https://t.co/4dsoDUhjng

[Rhun ap Iorwerth @RhunapIorwerth]

I wish Keir Starmer well as he prepares to leave office.

The chaos in Westminster has made it difficult for Wales to get the engagement we need.

The next PM must commit to a new relationship with Wales - with a focus on greater powers, fair funding and respect for our mandate.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

In the 1970s and 1980s, over 30,000 people in the UK were infected with HIV and hepatitis C via contaminated blood products.

When Andy Burnham became Health Secretary on 5 June 2009, terminal patients and activists targeted him immediately. They staged a protest outside his constituency office on 19 June.

Instead of acting, Burnham's department blocked statutory public inquiries, signed off letters denying government liability, and left the archives un-declassified under the standard 30-year rule.

Yet in 2017, conveniently on his very last day as an MP before becoming Manchester Mayor, he went on TV calling the scandal a 'criminal cover-up'.

His speech went viral. The media and victims' groups praised his passion, completely forgetting he himself had sat at the top of that 'covering-up' department. He chose to stay silent until there was zero political risk.

And this is not the only instance.

The Mid-Staffs Scandal (2005–2009), one of the worst care failures in NHS history, saw up to 1200 NHS patients die from systemic neglect. Patients were left in filth and drank from dirty flower vases.

Who was the Health Secretary tasked with handling the aftermath?
Andy Burnham.

His administration ignored 81 separate requests from grieving families, MPs, and health organisations for a full public inquiry, opting instead for a highly restricted, private independent review.

Why?
To protect Labour from an NHS crisis right before the 2010 election. The full statutory public inquiry was only granted after Labour lost— by the incoming Conservative Health Secretary.

Burnham didn't cause the scandals, but he did choose how to handle them. He suppressed the truth when he held power, then played the hero once he left office.

The ultimate political opportunist.

[Reality Check Marker @RealCheckMarker]

@vipintukur @CatchTheBaby If anyone is curious to know, we would use IL4R expression as a biomarker to determine the stage of progression of SARS persistence through the GI.
https://t.co/AuTYI07r5m

[Reality Check Marker @RealCheckMarker]

@vipintukur @CatchTheBaby Can you imagine someone saying, "the HIV patient suffered an AIDS death because they had a poor immune system"? We don't disagree with the findings of this research, only with the interpretation that they were dealing with a control group that was free of SARS persistence.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Private equity has devoured UK town centres.

It controls airports, seaports, hospitals, care homes, football teams, housing, GP surgeries, vets, dentistry, pubs, restaurants, energy, water and more.

Everything financialised.

What future for the UK?
https://t.co/I0XaUBp0QC

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

@givenupdad Poland owns their Water, Mail, Rail, most of their Energy and Oil, they even run most of their Banks.

All the TRILLIONS that go into these go to the Government and not Billionaires.

So Poland can afford pensions.

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

Drwy fuddsoddi i ddechrau ehangu prydau ysgol am ddim o fis Medi i’r disgyblion uwchradd sydd ei angen fwyaf rydym yn dechrau sicrhau chwarae teg i bob disgybl.

[James Leighton @Leightonauthor]

I’ve never seen Cardiff City Centre stop dead for an amateur band like this! Sensational! Apparently they’re called Zac and The New Men!

[Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA @rhysthomas]

@AlistairCarns I couldn't agree more. Our defence budget is considerable larger than Ukraines yet Ukraine has 130+ Brigades. We have 10-11 and only 4-5 are deployable and based around expensive assets like tanks and AFV's which are defenceless to drones. FUBAR

[@YesCymruRhuthun @yescymruruthin]

Tell us something new!

Broadcasting must be devolved.

Better still... independence and nothing less.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

Europeans really do look at American work culture like it’s a mental illness

[Cymru am Byth #FBPE @Penyrheolgerrig]

@ArchRose90

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Billionaires and Trillionaires are limiting everyone else's potential.

[Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA @rhysthomas]

Having a full stomach and clean air to breath are the two easiest ways to better school results for both children and teaches....According to the Lancet...Da Iawn am yr un cyntaf!

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

We're investing an extra £15 million to begin expanding free school meals from September to secondary pupils who need it the most.

Plaid Cymru will always support our young people's learning, health, and well-being.

[Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA @rhysthomas]

Cael bola llawn a Air Glan yw y ddau peth gorau i cael canlyniadau gwell yn ysgol i plant a athrawon!

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

Rydym yn buddsoddi £15 miliwn ychwanegol i ddechrau ehangu prydau ysgol am ddim o fis Medi i'r disgyblion uwchradd sydd ei angen fwyaf.

Bydd Plaid Cymru wastad yn cefnogi dysgu, iechyd, a lles ein pobl ifanc.

[Prof Rhys Thomas MBBS MD FRCA @rhysthomas]

@JeremyBrookman2 They get strength from seeing us weak and dependent Unionism=Colonialism

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Zelensky blew a bombshell declaration

The myth of unlimited power.
For decades, the world lived under two opposite myths.
One was that Russia possessed an almost unstoppable military machine.

The other was that American power was virtually unlimited.

Reality has been cruel to myths.

Russia spent years projecting the image of the world’s second army.

But when it stepped forward in Ukraine, the world discovered that propaganda, corruption, and nuclear threats had concealed profound weaknesses.
Much of what looked like overwhelming power proved to be an illusion.

Now another uncomfortable reality is emerging.
President Zelensky revealed that the United States produces only about 60–65 PAC-3 anti-ballistic missiles per month. During the first day of the Middle East conflict, roughly two years’ worth of production was consumed in just 24 hours.

This does not mean America is weak.
It means that even the world’s strongest military-industrial power has limits.

Factories have limits.
Stockpiles have limits.
Supply chains have limits.

The lesson is not that the United States is declining, just as the lesson from Ukraine was never that Russia was powerless.

The lesson is that dependence itself is a vulnerability.

Europe cannot build its security on the assumption that America will always have enough missiles, factories, political will, or enough attention to fight multiple crises simultaneously.
As Zelensky put it:

“We need our own European independent strong system. And we will build it.”

Because sovereignty is not a speech.

It is the ability to defend yourself.

#StandWithUkraine