Dr David McNay

Scottish, Scientist, Socialist.

Doctorate in Pediatric Neuroendocrinology.

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Aye right enough Andy Cap

[The National @ScotNational]

NEW: Andy Burnham 'understands Scotland deeply' as he's from the north of England, a Labour MP has claimed

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Just another Red Tory.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Andy Burnham says that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is NOT a genocide.

The aspiring PM added that he "can't judge" Israel for what they have done.

(Via @guardian)

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Oh don't worry, we will indeed remember what the Jews did.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

❝I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.❞

- Genocidal antisemite, Israeli Minister, @GolanMay  (2024)

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

😡 the guy has spent years conning votes from the Manchester scene and now he’s decided that throwing queer people under the bus will earn him more votes.

He’d sell his soul for power.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Burnham has abandoned his support for trans rights in his latest u-turn, backing EHRC guidance and the 2025 Supreme Court ruling.

At a campaign launch, he said: "The time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it"

(Via @Telegraph)

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Labour really are a bunch of shits.

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨NEW | Labour appoints new chair of the EHRC in Scotland. He opposes abortion & gay marriage.

Alasdair Henderson has been placed in charge of the Equality and Human Rights (EHRC) in Scotland, despite his vocal opposition to gay marriage and abortion.

(Source: @GoodLawProject)

[The SNP @theSNP]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Congratulations to John Swinney on being elected First Minister of Scotland by the Scottish Parliament.

The SNP Scottish Government has secured a renewed mandate and will always be on your side.

Thank you to everyone who voted SNP.

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Absolutely brutal evisceration of Andy Burnham's rebrand of neoliberalism by economist @RichardJMurphy

If it looks like Blair, walks like Blair, talks like Blair and its Blairism.

https://t.co/ZZfqDJhEY0

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

You gotta love the perkiness of some of the new Fintech apps.

Every month I get the notification that "You’ve received an interest payment of ..."

Then I swipe and find out it's for "£0.05"

I still swipe every time😂

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

🇬🇧 at high risk of going down the toilet - pity we’re stuck on the sinking ship.

[Barchart @Barchart]

BREAKING 🚨: United Kingdom

United Kingdom's 30-Year Yield soars above 5.85%, the highest level this century 📈🇬🇧

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

I'm surprised he had a porn career when he is so quick to pull out.

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

Reform councillor resigns over adult film career week after winning seat

https://t.co/XXFBuEfnAN https://t.co/XXFBuEfnAN

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

There is a reason the policies of the Green party favour wealthy middle class families - They are from wealthy middle class families.

[The Daily Record @Daily_Record]

New Green Party councillor criticised over £270k Lamborghini video shared online https://t.co/1Zaixx0wHu https://t.co/1Zaixx0wHu

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Why it is so difficult for Westminster politicians not to be tax dodgers?

https://t.co/m3i40ceBzV

[Angus Robertson @AngusRobertson]

🚌 The SNP will cap bus fares at £2 to make travel cheaper and help with the cost of living.
🗳️ On Thursday, vote SNP and Angus Robertson for Edinburgh Central.

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

The SNP is always on your side.

On May 7th choose a Scottish Government that works for Scotland & for a fresh start with independence.

Make it both votes SNP.

#BothVotesSNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Stephen Flynn @StephenFlynnSNP]

Delicious to see Labour’s man in Scotland working himself into a frenzy, not knowing that the President messaged John Swinney last night to congratulate him on his role in the deal - followed by a call today.

The difference between a Scottish Leader and a Unionist follower.

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

I accompanied SNP candidate for Aberdeen Central, Jack Middleton on a visit to the Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Mosque today to speak to, listen and answer questions from the congregation.

#VoteJackMiddleton #BothVotesSNP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

It was over a century ago that Labour first pledged to abolish the unelected House of Lords & let’s face facts they never will because Westminster never changes.

It’s time to dump the unelected Lords, Westminster chaos & create a fresh start with independence.

#BothVotesSNP 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Kevin Stewart SNP @KevinStewartSNP]

A vote for Labour is a vote to save Keir Starmer & his cabinet of chaos.

Let’s end the Labour chaos, put Scotland first and vote for a fresh start with independence.

#BothVotesSNP #Independence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Plain lies and nonsense.

Rickets has only reappeared in children with darker skin from families with religious restrictions on eating "British" food. The supplemented "British" food is fine.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The British Vitamin D problem is not new.

Britain sits between 50 and 58 degrees north. London is on the same latitude as Calgary. Edinburgh is level with Moscow. From October to March, the sun does not rise high enough above the horizon for the UVB wavelength your skin needs to actually reach the ground. You can stand naked in February noon sunlight on the south coast and produce essentially zero vitamin D.

This is six months of the year, every year, for the entire history of human habitation on these islands.

The British have known this, in their bones, for ten thousand years.

Look at what was eaten in winter, before anyone had ever heard the term cholecalciferol:

Oily fish. Herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers. Three or four times a week from October to March. A single kipper carries roughly 250 IU of D3.

Cod liver oil. Spooned into every British child between 1850 and 1980, a teaspoon at a time. Distributed free by the Ministry of Food in the war on the explicit understanding that British children needed it through the dark months. Rickets fell by 90 per cent between 1940 and 1960. Cod liver oil was the reason.

Liver. Eaten weekly in working households until 1985.

Egg yolks from hens that had been outside in the summer.

Grass-fed butter, made from cream from cows on summer pasture, the fat-soluble vitamins banked into the cream and eaten through the winter.

The British solution to the British problem, evolved over centuries by people who could not articulate the biochemistry but knew, with absolute certainty, what kept the children growing through the dark months.

Then between 1955 and 2010, the British removed almost all of them.

Cod liver oil reduced to a niche supplement. Liver dropped from weekly to never. Oily fish consumption halved. Eggs rationed by the Department of Health on cholesterol grounds since retracted. Butter replaced with margarine carrying no fat-soluble vitamins at all.

Result, by 2020: roughly half of all British adults are vitamin D deficient by the end of winter. A third of children. Rickets has reappeared in British paediatric wards. The NHS now recommends every adult take a supplement from October to March.

This is the NHS recommending in 2026 what the British diet was doing automatically in 1926.

The geography has not changed. The latitude is the same. The sun is still inadequate from October.

The food used to handle it.

The kippers are still being smoked at Craster. The cod liver oil is on the chemist's shelf. The liver is at the butcher. The butter is in the dairy aisle, behind the spreads.

The sun was always seasonal.

The food was the backup.

The backup got thrown out.

Get it back.

[Dr David McNay @SNPdavie]

Hurrah keys move all those offices and company HQs to England.

Scotland is so well served by branches offices after all.

[The National @ScotNational]

The Scottish Greens have pledged to introduce a new 'banker tax' on business properties worth more than a £1 million 💷 https://t.co/UbWjgU7IEx