Ruth H 💙

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄

Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇

So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves

Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage

🧵1/23

[Ruth H 💙 @cemycott]

@MonkEmma @threadreaderapp unroll please

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.

It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.

A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.

At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.

Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.

On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

No, of course not.

Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?

Yes, of course he was.

He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.

His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.

Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.

This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.

And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.

END RANT.

[Met Office @metoffice]

In 1976, the UK hit 35.9 °C during a summer that endures in UK memory as a benchmark against which hot, dry summers are measured.

50 years on, we look back but also consider the context of a changing climate.

Read more: https://t.co/muizIUxikB

[BWS/Jim NR Dale @BritWeatherSvs]

UK Spring 2026 was the warmest ever on record (despite a bunch of cold days). That’s records going back 367 years. Are you smelling the coffee yet? Ignore the anthropic climate change deniers in @GBNews & @reformparty_u, for they are lying!

[HENRY MORRIS @mrhenrymorris]

Pollen samples. Ice core measurments. Human-driven warming is happening 10 times faster than any other period of post-age warming.

Just because you took your top off in 1976 doesn't mean you're not a moron.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

Imagine trying to understand why a house keeps filling with water whilst refusing to acknowledge the tap is still running. To the point where anyone suggesting the tap needs turning off is deemed an extremist.

That is roughly the level of analysis being applied to COVID in 2026.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Hey @elonmusk, why did you cancel all of the global Ebola prevention programs?

[Lisa Oshima @lisawhelan]

Raw sewage in streets and cholera in drinking water once seemed normal. Now it’s unthinkable.

Yet we tolerate the airborne equivalent in too many indoor spaces, including schools, doctor's offices, work & more.

Clean, healthy air is the next public health and economic frontier.

[Kathryn @kadamssl]

“Don’t worry. Hantavirus is not like COVID!”

But you don’t seem to be particularly worried about the spread of COVID, either, *insert health officials,* so I’m a bit confused.

[aldebaran 🍉😷 CHECK PINNED @mdashaldebaran]

Epidemiologists saying "post-covid" is like if climatologists said we were post-climate change.

[Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav]

Friendly reminder that fixating on medical interventions for pandemics is an awful idea.

Our first lines of defense have to be air quality & epidemiology.

Having spent my career on drugs & vaccines- theyre not a sure thing, take years & can’t be deployed quickly at scale.

[tern @1goodtern]

There is absolutely no chance of an Andes hantavirus pandemic happening in a society where people understand airborne transmission, pre-symptomatic transmission, ventilation, masks, incubation periods, and isolation.

Sadly, that's not us.

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

Last week, I thought the pandemic potential for ANDV was small

Infinitesimally small

Less than 1%

[tern @1goodtern]

The same people who told you in 2020 that Covid didn't spread easily are now telling you that Andes Hantavirus doesn't spread easily.

They might be right this time.
But they were wrong last time.

[James Throt MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPath @JamesThrot]

Why do so many people think a few months at home in 2020 have caused insurmountable levels of damage to people’s health and wellbeing, but never the actual virus which killed & maimed millions?

The virus which still infects today, and continues to damage brains & immune systems.

[tern @1goodtern]

Don't ever forget that your government upgraded the air filtration in its main government buildings during an airborne pandemic, but not the hospital you attend or your mum's care home or your kids' daycare or prisons or shelters.

[tern @1goodtern]

How many times have you heard an official say "it can spread by close contact" this last week?

Just stop and think for a moment.

It *doesn't mean anything*.

It's not a scientific phrase with a clear definition, it's... it's... it's a fog machine.

[tern @1goodtern]

"Close contact" sounds reassuring. It makes you imagine intimacy or carelessness or some kind of obvious risk.

Something somehow avoidable. Something other people do.

[Arijit Chakravarty @arijitchakrav]

Literally, the same playbook. Again.

The issue is not whether or not this will be a pandemic.

The issue is: taking this calm-mongering approach pretty much guarantees that that only thing standing between us & the next pandemic is luck.

Public health deserves more than PR.