John Robinson

Retired Naval Architect

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@SGriffin_Lab @chrischirp My sister died of polio in 1950 just five years before Salk's vaccine a year before I was born. My father never really recovered from his grief. I think about what he would have said to any anti vaxer.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@Bonn1eGreer He's trying to play the victim now. No forgiveness until he makes amends, viz John Profumo. Let's be rid of the whole rotten lot.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@GrammarUpdates Reach out - contact

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@sophiamcoutts @HeleneBismarck @Telegraph Trust me it's worse in Uruguay, they dance in athlete's foot powder and payday loan ads

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@JMPSimor 'I told them I'd lost them, and they believed me, how stupid must they be!'

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@CarolineLucas There is no depth to which the Tories will not sink in their moral turpitude.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@NickCohen4 I have pensions paying me £32k. My wife has a £22k pension from the UN. A guaranteed income of £54k. She will not be able to get a spousal vise. Someone earning £39k can get a spousal visa for someone earning nothing, and even lose their job the next day. Performative cruelty.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@JamesHarrisNow @NickCohen4 Performative cruelty. A Tory speciality.

[CEMFI @CEMFInews]

Congratulations to Daniela Solá for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Antonio Cabrales, Ana Tur and Noam Yuchtman for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Daniela’s advisors Paula Bustos and @monicambravo

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@Dr_D_Robertson @chrischirp An example of the commodified view of knowledge and education. Such a depaupurate view at a time when multidisciplinary methods are becoming essential. Such ignorance is depressing.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@redhistorian @david_colquhoun The culture of deference is still strong among the British middle classes. The upper class, or faux upper class in the case of Johnson and Mogg, benefit from an almost inate acceptance of hierarchical authority, with little critical analysis of any real ability.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@AdamRutherford Sailing back from N.Brittany to Cornwall, maybe 30 years ago, we passed through maybe ten miles of these covering the water as far as the eye could see. An unforgettable experience.

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Nurses are under attack. The government have decided they will take them on and break them if needed

They are the same people who kept this nation going through the pandemic

They are the backbone of society

RT if you stand right behind them and will back them whatever it takes

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@HeleneBismarck @anneapplebaum Thank you for this. Just read the chapter on the last days pre WWI. Excellent writing and much to think about. I love his European vision. Cooperation, collaboration, mutual aid, cultural celebration. The EU, despite its flaws, stands for this. How could we throw all that away.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@herdyshepherd1 Uruguay's national library is holding a homage to WH Hudson. Spanish and English presentations

https://t.co/3WGvl6ohML

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum It all goes back to the UKIP/Tufton St. cults. Brexit was their plan and this is what Brexit has done, but nobody will say so. Idealogical madness.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@spinicist @BullslandBugle The pandemic showed us whose jobs are essential, and very few of them were well paid.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@g_gosden @david_colquhoun Welcome to Tory Leadership Bingo! Just waiting for the return of the death penalty to shout house.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@_johnbye @dgurdasani1 ..stitch up with a sympathetic judge during a time when the main courts weren't sitting. Hopefully, this week it will be overturned.

[John Robinson @johninuruguay]

@_johnbye @dgurdasani1 That's good news. I live in Uruguay and there is currently a judicial ruling to prevent vaccination of 5-11 year old on the grounds that people don't know the exact make up of the Pfizer vaccination. The anti vaxers were literally dancing in the street. It seems to have been a...