Tim Nicholls

Trump will reportedly link Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical Some studies have suggested an association between the two, but experts say there is no causal relationship.

Experts aren't "sceptical". They know these claims to be wrong and harmful.

BBC News - Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical
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Wrote this analysis on the asylum hotels court ruling yesterday morning for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social.

It’s mostly held up but for one thing: the pressure on the councils has come even more quickly than I thought, and among those inflaming it is Kemi Badenoch, who’s urged Tory councils to act.

Textured black background. Text in the centre of the poster reads "FIGHT FOR ORDINARY" in black font with green, lilac and white background. White text below reads "Join the Fight for Ordinary and let's fix the SEND system".

It’s time to fix the SEND system. A whole generation of disabled children and those with additional needs are being let down by a broken education system.

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#FightForOrdinary

There's nothing "special" about wanting your child to thrive at school. Getting the right support for your disabled child should be as ordinary and un-special as possible. So pleased to see @dcpcampaign.bsky.social's blueprint for SEND reform out in the wild.

@janeharrislondon.bsky.social talked to @lbc.co.uk this morning about @dcpcampaign.bsky.social’s #FightForOrdinary campaign, highlighting what’s needed in any SEND reforms to ensure children and their families don’t have to fight for ordinary things that everyone should expect.
 
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Blaming the parents is easier than fixing Britain’s special educational needs system Families don’t want to exploit the system, they just want a fair outcome for their children

Last week, The Telegraph carried an opinion piece by Annabel Denham, calling the SEND system a "racket". It was inflammatory, snide and wrong. I'm grateful the paper gave us at the National Autistic Society a chance to respond. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Troubling that later in the article they view the answer as "give people time to realise what we're trying to do."

Deliverism is not a vision.

The inability to craft a clear, understandable political narrative that ties together policy achievements and ambitions always starts at the top.

There's an obvious progressive case for the goal. But they're right to have pause over some of the details of how (e.g. leaks of scrapping EHCPs). Glad to see the shift to being more in listening mode. With good stakeholder and party engagement, there's potential to do something genuinely good.

Is there a full list of the 201 NHS-adjacent bodies that are being cut?

Friends fear he is once again boarding the 'radical candour' bus, etc: but I do think they would be better off if their line to take had just been 'it was this or raise taxes', if nothing else because it would a) concentrate minds and b) be some useful advocacy for raising taxes and c) is true.

If he were to face a defeat, it would demonstrate the biggest unforced error of the Government so far. That's completely avoidable.

The definition of madness Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again

As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up.

Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else.

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Back down or not, the numbers are the numbers.

Also, who are all these people discussing the Arctic Monkeys? They haven't been cool since Gordon Brown pretended to like them.

We Millennials once shunned beach holidays too. But then we got tired and wanted a lie down.

Cold, hard take: It's not an absence of identity, it's an absence of vision. You can't solve issues of strategy with comms.

What a great way to look at it, from Cat Eccles MP

"Let the bears pay the Bear Tax. I pay the Homer Tax."

Picture shows path blocked by three standing rental bikes and one lying on its side.

The accessible route into East Finchley tube station.

If you don't think it's a "realistic outcome", then the really courageous thing might be to not waste everyone's time on it.

Main thought after the last 10 days of news... After a decade of perma-crisis, has Big D Discourse lost the ability to react non-hysterically?

A privilege Truss is no longer able to avail herself of, because of aforementioned economy crashing.

Damning double whammy of defence of truth and parliamentary privilege.

The thing with Facebook is that it no longer serves any of the purposes for which I joined it, so I just... don't use it. Zuckerberg can decry virtue signallers as much as he likes, but the atrophy of the platform will the quiet-quitters, not the ones making a noise.

Thank god for YouTube and the ability to find New Year's fireworks before bath time. Happy New Year... Omsk maybe?!

Screenshot of Jason Cowley with headline beneath reading "Even Labour veterans are calling it the worst start by a government in a lifetime."

Imagine writing this sentence in a world where Liz Truss' government existed.

The framing around this as the only goal that doesn't have a target is, therefore, more than a bit disingenuous. Setting a goal where there is no consensus on what good actually looks like (and that it looks different to just about every person) is just unfeasible.

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper won't set timetable to reduce small boat crossings The home secretary says illegal Channel crossings are “far too high” due to previous government’s failed migration pledges.

Labour faces a catch-22 here. There isn't a *realistic* timetable that would also be *politically* palatable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

Imagine saying the sentence, "I'm sorry for declaring martial law".