Samuel Karlin

Physicist, exoplanets & photons. Fond of pretty buildings and pretty landscapes. Labour. 🌹 He/him. These days, I'm mostly on Bluesky: @samuelkarlin.bsky.social

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

3. Millions of extra appointments

The NHS has delivered more than 3.1m additional appointments since July 2024.

That’s *way* higher than Labour’s manifesto commitment of 2m a year.

[Luke Pollard MP @LukePollard]

5 things the Labour Government announced recently that you may have missed 🧵

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

WOW. Here in Oxfordshire if you vote Reform you're literally voting for a paedophile apologist.

Not a surprise it's the same party that stood an MP candidate who thinks we were wrong to fight the Nazis; and when people were upset, the party said his opinion "is probably true".

[Sean Woodcock MP @SEANLWOODCOCK]

So @reformparty_uk have opted to put forward, in the area I grew up, someone who thinks that Jimmy Savile was "an innocent man, a real working class hero" as a potential @OxfordshireCC councillor?

[Sean Woodcock MP @SEANLWOODCOCK]

So @reformparty_uk have opted to put forward, in the area I grew up, someone who thinks that Jimmy Savile was "an innocent man, a real working class hero" as a potential @OxfordshireCC councillor?

[The Labour Party @UKLabour]

Reform talk the language of workers’ rights online – but look how they act. They voted against banning Fire and Rehire. They voted against sick leave and against maternity pay. And they want to charge people to use the NHS.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

The 2 million extra appointments, that's huge news. It should have been a front page headline on every paper in the country. But the media won't let it.

Either they're actively supporting the hard right, or they just hate showing you good news. Fear & outrage = more clicks.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

Did you know? Because, until today, I didn't:
(1) Labour promised 2 million extra NHS appointments in their first year in power. They met that target half a year early.
(2) Approved more solar & wind in the last 6 months than in the previous 14 YEARS under Tories and Lib Dems.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

I'm pretty political, and I had no idea of any of this.

The media won't tell you. They'll put loads of emphasis on every right-wing attack line. Every unpopular thing about Labour, they'll put under a microscope. But any good things Labour does, they carefully avoid the subject.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@DrMaxHarper @DJ_Essexboi @Parody_PM My country is a pretty normal country where normal people live our normal lives. It's nothing like the hellpit that the weirdo obsessive far right propagandists too scared to step outside would have you believe.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@DrMaxHarper @DJ_Essexboi @Parody_PM Hitler bombed British civilians first.
Amazing that in the year 2024 some people still haven't figured out that Nazis are bad.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

Gosh. I didn't realise the difference was quite this extreme.
https://t.co/99D3GeUdg8

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@owenjonesjourno @AaronBastani There genuinely are! Loads of overconfident far-right accounts like this:
https://t.co/GqiCkjtPPV
I agree of course that they aren't serious people.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@PenguinLiberat2 @Dorianlynskey Alternatively, if you not-so-secretly think the wrong side won it.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@ElliotElinor Counterpoint: what ISN'T?

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@lokiscottishrap Nobody serious thinks Led By Donkeys are far left.
Liz Truss does, but as I said, nobody serious.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@owenjonesjourno @ByDonkeys Exactly the same line as the right-wing supporters are taking.
Personally I'm not keen to forgive the Conservative Party everything! Which is what you're doing, if you redirect all blame to Labour and tell people not to talk about the Tories' many failings.
You do you, though.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@GlynLewisWebMan @David__Osland Scapegoat? She is no scapegoat. No-one forced her to choose the crazy economic policy that crashed the country. She did that hersrlf.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@abrahamson_ed @ByDonkeys She absolutely deserves it and worse. She inflicted economic misery on so many people and is completely unrepentant.

[Samuel Karlin @Samuel_Karlin]

@trussliz It was very, very funny.

The idea that people making fun of you = "suppressing your free speech" is ridiculous. They weren't "intimidating" at all. They just made fun of you. The only one who silenced you was yourself, when you ran off like a petulant child.