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Where are the Farage\Tommy Riots for him:
Hero Teacher Maysum Abdullah, 27, was stabbed in the neck while protecting kids at School in Manchester from a stabber.
Maysum is in hospital with a neck wound after the horror at Co-op Academy Manchester.
https://t.co/HjteLyUEmY
Yaxley Lennon, Farage, Lowe and others, hang your heads in shame.
An immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home after saved her uniform so she could still work.
Do you feel proud?
@Iburntthepizza@OrevaZSN It's more likely she has a medical problem, like you said she looks well fed, which is less likely with someone with a drug problem....but whatever her situation a bit of compassion wouldn't go amiss! Life can change for the worse for Anyone at the flip of a coin.
Owen Jones: Racists now think they're legitimate.
Because Farage gave them a script. Tommy gave them a signal. Musk gave them a platform.
Now Belfast burns. And they're acting surprised.
Don't be. 🎯🔥
Ladies, if your fingernails are completely bare (no polish, acrylics, etc.) give this a “like”. My daughter is convinced that “everyone” has fake nails or a manicure and I’m the odd man out. She’s 12. 😄
George Finch, the Reform UK leader of Warwickshire County Council, has been accused of bigotry and censorship after suggesting LGBTQ+ books should be removed from local libraries.
But where exactly does this end? Libraries hold books on socialism and capitalism, atheism and every religion under the sun, evolution, the monarchy, and countless other contested ideas. That’s the point of a library: a place where people encounter perspectives that challenge, stretch, and broaden the mind.
Finch is only 19, and it shows. He may simply not have read enough to grasp how books cultivate critical thinking, empathy, and a more informed, more tolerant society.
Who on earth keeps voting for people this determined to stay ignorant?
#ReformUK
#tiptoe It’s a very powerful piece of television as powerful and as gripping a series ive seen in a very long time. The message is a warning about how our society is going and how it will get worse with the rhetoric of those on the Far Right in this country. Morrisey and Cumming give an outstanding performance each. Very harrowing, scary but needed doing. Great script.
Tip Toe hit hard. As a gay man, it reminded me that prejudice doesn’t begin with violence—it begins with the things people excuse, ignore, or stay silent about. A powerful reminder that equality requires vigilance, allyship, and courage from all of us. #tiptoe#pride
Today on @JeremyVineOn5 Mike Parry states that the welfare bill is bloated & needs to be cut! 🙄
Talking of bloated, piggy-Parry often boasts of his indulgent lifestyle, earned by being a payed gob shite, nice work if you can get it!
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I'm a cardiologist. Let me tell you about the bravest and most reckless experiment in the history of medicine.
In 1984, a 32-year-old junior doctor in Australia walked into his hospital laboratory on a Tuesday morning, picked up a glass beaker containing one billion live bacteria suspended in beef broth, and drank it.
He told no one. Not his wife. Not his ethics committee. Not his hospital.
He had a theory that the entire global medical establishment had been treating one of the most common diseases on earth incorrectly for nearly a century.
He had run out of other ways to prove it.
His name was Barry Marshall. This is the story almost nobody tells you — and the reason I think about him every day in my own practice.
Horrific footage of a barbaric, evil and horrifying stabbing attack and what appears to be attempted beheading yesterday in North Belfast.
Everyone I know in Northern Ireland are not only horrified but also deeply shocked & fearful.
I'm also deeply concerned about the backlash. An evil man stabbed and attempted a person multiple times, gouged their eye, and attempted to behead them. We are left asking how this happened and what state our broken system is in, with multiple failings on the part of various agencies, for something this horrific to happen.
At the same time, I see that far-right figures are all over this horrific attack. They're sharing images and footage without any consideration for the victims family or the local community. They are whipping up fear, tensions and pure racist hatred against the many vulnerable families, and particularly individual men, who have rightfully & lawfully claimed asylum here in the UK and in Ireland.
Northern Ireland has historically been a place where minorities have faced their share of oppression & racism, but also a significant amount of solidarity.
But I am extremely concerned, especially given the presence of active paramilitary and vigilante gangs, that those who live in north Belfast will now face the consequences of an evil barbaric man, his horrific actions, and the subsequent far-right reactions.
It's also qwhite interesting that a stabbing, a brutal one at that, only catches the attention of figures like Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson when the perpetrator is a person of colour and allegedly an immigrant/asylum seeker. Nobody ever gives a damn when the perpetrator is a white gang member or a white drug lord.
I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2