Julie

All views my own, but with a bias towards handbags, jewellery, darts, United, the Shots and real ale.

[tern @1goodtern]

Covid infections damaged brains, and still do.

[Dr. Sean Mullen @drseanmullen]

Doctors are wiring athletes up with sensors, running every test imaginable, trying to explain why elite performers can’t do the things they used to do.

Meanwhile, the answer is standing right in front of them, bare-faced.

“Diabetes after COVID?”

Gee, I wonder where we’ve heard that before.

It’s almost like there are thousands of published studies showing COVID can affect metabolism, insulin regulation, cardiovascular function, cognition, and physical performance.

They’ve spent years pretending a virus linked to hundreds of long-term complications is “just a cold.”

The experiment is ending. The data are arriving.

Reality doesn’t care about the narrative.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

If the press and telly ignore this one as much as they have tried to ignore so many of his other scandals we will know for sure we live in a two tier media country

[tern @1goodtern]

Shock news.

[Labour Press @labourpress]

Nigel Farage pocketed a £5m “gift” and hid it from the public.

Now he may be lobbying to help keep lining the pockets of his billionaire Thai-based crypto backer.

The stench of this scandal grows by the day.

https://t.co/JoyTgFQW8v

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Happy to share that after a prolonged peer-review process, our review covering the major Neuroinflammatory events in #LongCovid was accepted today for publication at @Transl_Psych from the @NaturePortfolio! Coming soon, but preprint available here: https://t.co/Pa1ME9eRpT

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

If you’re a mid-life woman, please read this:

[tern @1goodtern]

The only way they can not put this together is to wilfully not put it together.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A group of women who took a contraceptive injection called Depo-Provera are suing the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer after suffering serious health issues.

Sky's @ConnorGillies reports ⬇️

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

CNN just cited a New York Times estimate saying Trump has reportedly profited $1.4 BILLION from the presidency.

And the wildest part?

One panelist said Trump made MORE MONEY in the last year than in the rest of his life combined.

Think about that.

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

The recently published Covid Inquiry Module 3 report clearly states that:

“In the short-term [until all hospitals can be equipped with effective ventilation systems], the use of HEPA filters should be PRIORITISED within healthcare across the UK.”

https://t.co/q3Ii1oboco

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

This is a flat out lie. We haven’t lifted Russian sanctions. In fact we’re introducing the sanctions you failed and refused to introduce

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

This ⬇️ is your essential listening for today!

In just 4:30 mins, Baroness Linforth perfectly sums up why every school needs clean air:
▪️less sickness
▪️improved pupil focus
▪️reduced supply teacher costs

…and all for less than £10 per child per year.

Please watch & share!

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Illuminating piece on how Nige really has got himself into a spot of bother…that he might not be able to wriggle out of

[Cat in the Hat 🐈‍⬛ 🎩 🇬🇧 @_CatintheHat]

Incredible speech delivered by Baroness Linforth in the House of Lords today calling for clean indoor air in schools.

“It would cost less than a tenner per child per year to provide pupils and staff with clean air - about the same cost as a coffee and a cake.”

☕️🧁

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: The number of asylum seekers being housed temporarily in UK hotels stood at a low of 20,885 to the end of March 2026.

This is down 35% year-on-year, Home Office figures show

Politics latest: https://t.co/RjZcBLFwbN

📺 Sky 501 and YT

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

This is utterly misleading. We haven’t relaxed an existing sanction on Russian oil products refined elsewhere. We’ve introduced a sanction for the first time. We’re strengthening sanctions not weakening them.