Paul

Aerodramaticist #GTTO I will block science deniers, antivaxxers, racists, and other idiots.

[Kez 🐺 @Kezarus1]

It’s like when Helen McCrory died. There’s just some actors who’s passing is absolutely devastating to you and you don’t realise it until it happens

[Paul @aerodramaticist]

@awk_ashleigh @AnthonySHead https://t.co/Il6Z5Ly3ed

[Paul @aerodramaticist]

@awk_ashleigh @AnthonySHead Such a great actor, so many great roles. Before Buffy made him famous he was Frank-n-furter in the Rocky Horror stage show and appeared in many British TV roles
https://t.co/WeSuLqeCK8

[Adam Scovell @AdamScovell]

Really sad to hear about Anthony Head. Usual array of series and roles will get rightly bring him praise, but he pops up in lots of good stuff and was often great. Recent watches included his fab turns in Secret Army, Enemy at the Door, Howards' Way and Love in a Cold Climate.

[Paul @aerodramaticist]

@awk_ashleigh @AnthonySHead Also, if you can find it, you might appreciate a radio comedy show he appeared in called Cabin Pressure. Alongside a promising young actor called Benedict Cumberbatch...

[tern @1goodtern]

I've not really had any reason to comment on the death of Henry Nowak, until I had a conversation with a local retired policeman that changed my view of the incident.
He gave me permission to share this.

He's a reform voter. He voted for brexit. I've found him to be casually racist at times. So hold that in mind while you read this:

He said he had put handcuffs on a thousand people and most would say absolutely anything to get you to take them off.
He said he must have heard hundreds of people in handcuffs say that they were injured and even dying.
Only one was actually injured, and yes, they were dying.

Exactly like Henry Nowak, they were wearing a dark top at night and bleeding abdominally both internally and externally.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak, he and a fellow officer called for emergency support and started first aid as soon as they knew there was a problem.
Exactly like with Henry Nowak the first aid wasn't enough and the young man died.
Unlike Henry Nowak, that young man was both a perpetrator of knife violence and a victim of it. His assailant also needed emergency care.

The policeman telling me all this stepped down from active duty two weeks later due to 'stress' and retired months later.
I knew about the death and the stress years ago, but didn't know about the details until yesterday.

He said he still has nightmares about pulling up the young man's shirt to see the sucking bubbling knife wound.

When he started talking to me yesterday, I thought he was going to complain about two tier policing and wokeness and reverse discrimination, but instead we just cried a lot.

I'm crying again as I write this too.

Sometimes a tragedy is just a tragedy, and that's all it is.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Henry Nowak’s family have lost their son and brother in the most appalling circumstances.

Nigel Farage is exploiting this tragedy to create grievance and division.

It’s completely unforgivable.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Let's get #ChargeFarage trending

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

This really is Two-Tier Britain. Those who know how to respect a grieving family’s wishes, and those who don’t.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Of course it is an inevitability, which makes the delay all the more frustrating and costly.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

For the umpteenth time:

Vaccines work.
Chemtrails do not exist.
mRNA is in everything you eat.
Everything is made of chemicals.
Natural is not a synonym for safe.
It’s the dose that makes the poison.

Most internet health scares collapse the moment you learn basic chemistry.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Current summary of right wing UK politics:

Conservatives - We've suddenly remembered lots of things we accidentally forgot to do during our 14 YEARS in government that we would definitely do straight away this time, promise

Reform - The Conservatives who messed the country up for 14 years were worried you wouldn't vote for them again so have made another party and are hoping you won't notice it's full of the people who messed up the country for 14 years

UKIP - We still think it's 1998

Restore - Led by a bore in need of a golf club. Been chucked out of Reform for being racist? We're the party for you!

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Not sure who's sillier on this site, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava.

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

NOT in today's Daily Mail, Telegraph, etc ...

[Derek Pakora @DeathlyAcorn]

This is shocking. Don't porn companies do any kind of vetting?

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

Reform
has some form.
Some in the Party
have a touch of the Nazi.

[sarah 🇵🇸 @sazza_jay]

shout out to this councillor who had to listen to a new reform colleague call for ufo monitoring at his first council meeting

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Nigel Farage has 5 houses.

Zack Polanski lives in a house share with 5 other people.

The media is trying to tell you Zack is the problem.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

If Farage had £5m in 2024, why did his girlfriend buy the Clacton house?

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

No politicians should tell museums or arts organisations what stories to tell or how to present our history.

[Dr F N. @boredtweeple]

When I finished my surgical training in the NHS (about 15 years ago), I went to the US for a fellowship.

The programme director liked my skills and offered a fast track to move to the US full time.

I was extremely torn, as with the private health insurance system I would make more than three times what I would in the UK.

I however found the way poor people were treated in the US and how they died from lack of basic medical care reprehensible and moved back to the UK.

With my experience now I will earn more than four or five times what I currently do in the NHS.

I however sleep easy every night knowing that all decisions I made during the day were based on what was best for the patient and not how rich the patient is.

The NHS has problems but it is a beautiful system where a homeless person is treated exactly the same as the prime minister.

Farage gets a lot of money from private companies in the US who have been eyeing the billions they can make in the UK for years. I will benefit from it money-wise but I still oppose it as I am not a monster like Farage.