Dr Michael Copeman

Cancer specialist searching the world for better therapy

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@Rosylone Hospital nursing hit a high point some decades ago: Great camaraderie - essential to help all get through sad and difficult times; Superb attention to hygiene and personal care - that made patients happy to be in hospital; Adherence to protocol - but not unquestioning or blind.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@serialsockthief He will be a secret agent working for a foreign power. Write several meaningless phrases in a notebook, and watch how he starts to frown.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@zatzi In fact, if Britain HAD remained, Brussels had advanced plans to force the City of London to “share” its functions with a swathe of EU cities. Breaking up the City likely would have ended its usefulness - tied to deals occurring within one square mile on the shake of a hand.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@higgyboson Made my day! Nothing beats the amateur gentleman scientist on his personal quest for practical knowledge.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@tomfgoodwin Dr No

[Handre @Handre]

The 1920-21 depression was the sharpest economic contraction in American history, yet you've probably never heard of it. Industrial production collapsed 32%. Unemployment spiked from 4% to 12% in twelve months. By every measure, this downturn dwarfed the initial shock of 1929.

President Warren Harding faced enormous pressure to "do something." Labor leaders demanded public works programs. Businessmen begged for bailouts and trade protection. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon advised Harding to slash government spending and let wages fall. Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover (yes, that Hoover) pushed for massive federal intervention.

Harding chose Mellon. The federal budget dropped from $6.4 billion to $3.2 billion in two years. No stimulus packages. No bailouts. No alphabet soup of new agencies. Government employment fell 40%. When you let markets clear, they clear fast.

The recovery started in July 1921. By 1923, unemployment had dropped to 2.4% and industrial production reached new highs. The entire episode lasted eighteen months from peak to full recovery. Compare that to Japan's lost decade of intervention, or the European debt crisis that dragged on for years, or our own jobless recovery after 2008.

Most economics textbooks omit this episode because liquidating malinvestments and allowing price adjustments works exactly as free market theory predicts: a fact that destroys the Keynesian narrative that government must spend its way out of recessions. Politicians today claim they learned the lessons of the 1930s, but they studiously ignore the more important lesson of 1921.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@Demeter_Erinia A bus conductor

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@this_not_News Famous US neurosurgeon Prince Ayub Ommaya noted - when he studied at Oxford in the 1950s - what he admired most about Britain was seeing outside his window on a cold, rainy night a cyclist stopped at a red light, with no other traffic in sight.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@twink_death When you don’t have a written language, you don’t have a history. You have stories - and can sometimes patch together a so-called “oral history” using fairly independent accounts. But nothing can be cross checked and verified.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@edwinhayward Oblertone

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@itsme_urstruly The co-branding with high heels was especially astute.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@OrevaZSN They’re often already up to their neck in misdeeds… “Oh, what a tangled web we weave…” (Walter Scott)

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@JenniferTilly An alien abducted them.
But - if they don’t look tasty - they sometimes return them quick.
Then you can continue your conversation normally.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@Peston Doubt Starmer will fight. He doesn’t want any messy stuff dragged out during a leadership contest; His own “corner” may see their best chances in switching rapidly to a new leader; And “ten year Keir” was always a fantasy.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@MarcNixon24 Surely best for @MarkJCarney to move away from Canada - to secure as many new investments as possible. New York looks nice.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@benonwine Using eggs to hit Net Zero targets sounds good.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@UKLabour Actually to Union hands.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@SandyofSuffolk So, all Ed Miliband’s hard work is coming to fruition… He slayed the dragon of global warming.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@Vikings1759 He clutches at straw men.

[Dr Michael Copeman @drmcopeman]

@ZacGoldsmith And Polanski’s so naive he’d likely accept a personal invitation to a rooftop reception in Gaza.