Trevor McCarthy

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Conservative Party Conference Ventriloquist Act Goes Down Well …

“Gottle of Geer”

“Gottle of Geer”

“Who’s a racist boy then?”

The Global Story - The disgraced UK doctor behind autism misinformation - BBC Sounds How a British doctor created the vaccine myth behind Trump's autism announcement.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

an excellent contemporary telling of Wakefield

Pay for performance might embed inequalities Majeed and Molokhia provide an insightful assessment of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).1 But their focus on administrative burdens and diminishing returns may understate a more perilous cons...

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Pay for performance might embed inequalities

V v much so
Care needed in design

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

Not one word of this is written as justification for the war between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas. The people of Gaza have suffered beyond imagination

horrified by the decisions of the Israeli government … Hamas is not some benign agent of resistance
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate Misprinted wrappers pulled from Manchester goodie bags after derision on social media

You couldn’t make this 💩 up

Goody bag chocolate mis-spelling “Britain”

They missed a trick NOT having CVs with Dr Badenoch’s fake Stanford University offer

So few Tories there + she’s lied about it so often they could have had an original each

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

Conservative Party Sentence Completion:

It’s not that Honest Bob *unlawful by reason of apparent bias* Jenrick is racist but …

In a functioning democracy Honest Bob would be barred from standing for public office because …

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gisèle Pelicot returns to court to face one of men convicted of raping her The 72-year-old arrives for trial in Nîmes as Husamettin Dogan becomes only man out of 51 to appeal against conviction

✊🏻 🇫🇷

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Excellent (short) piece about the difference between experiencing only good feelings, and developing the capacity to experience all feelings. And helping our children to do the same.

Speaking at a fringe event at Tory conference, Andy Burnham says Manchester was the place for “24 hour party people until Downing Street took that crown off us during the pandemic”

CBI welcomes Tory shadow chancellor's calls for fiscal prudence but adds: “Business will however be concerned by reactionary proposals to scrap key pieces of legislation, like the Climate Change Act, that have done much to boost confidence and underpin investment in high growth sectors."

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"My work takes up the theoretical challenge first posed fifty years ago that reliance on agriculture is responsible for a Neolithic increase in disease"

Brenna is one of the most modest AND most sharp scholars I know - this project will be fantastic!

Did you see they thoughtfully do them in children’s sizes?

Most village cricket matches would attract a bigger crowd that the Tory conference rally for the countryside*

*ministerial replacement conference speech service

My inner bibliophile is doing the happy dance. Got this gorgeous bunch of items from the @terrypratchett.bsky.social kickstarter project. The graphic novel is beautiful and @colleendoran.bsky.social has outdone herself!

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

This evening, at 19:00, I'm delivering Christian Aid's Annual Lecture, 'Directing Economic Growth: A Common Good Approach’. I’ll explore how govts can combat our interconnected challenges on climate, health & biodiversity, if informed by a new economics of the common good.

caid.org.uk/AnnualLecture

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

Something significant people might have missed on Nathan Gill’s indictment for bribery… “conspired with Oleg Voloshyn, and with others”

Maybe sentencing in November will make this clearer

www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

A woman in a flowing, diaphanous green gown with leaves scattered about her and green energy flowing from her. She has swirling red hair.

I'm, at NYCC this weekend at Artist Alley Booth I-01, at the front of Artist Alley!

A recent commission, watercolor with ink and shell gold. The commissioner wanted me to dream up a “sandman Universe” version of Poison Ivy, so I imagined her as a fairy tale like denizen of Queen Titania’s court!

One in four UK people fear a loved one drinks too much, survey finds Poll of 2,000 people appears to underline experts’ concerns of growing ‘epidemic’ of addiction to alcohol or drugs

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www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’ Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

✊🏻 Gary Neville

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

👀 This 👇🏻

Sorry I keep talking about this but I’m genuinely alarmed by the growing narrative that poverty is a cause of racism. First it’s super insulting of people on low incomes. Second it normalises & excuses racist takes. And third it deters real action on racism by shifting the whole focus to economics.

“Don’t give up”

Impossible not to be moved by Jane Goodall’s gentle words of encouragement here (and she was right about gathering all the worst monsters on this earth and shooting them into space on one of Musk’s rockets)

From ‘Famous Last Words’ on Netflix

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

Power corrupts?

Shabana Mahmood in 2014 via X (x.com/ShabanaMahmo...):