Andrew Grey

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; ...and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”

— Thomas Paine

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?

Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

If MPs aren't 100% convinced that safeguards for vulnerable people are watertight, their obligation is to vote against the #TerminallyIllAdults Bill today. #AssistedDying

just saw a headline about "Britain's most woke roundabout" and I think I'm done

Please can we go back to those days?

Farage has made at least nine trips abroad, including eight to the US, since last year’s general election, with many of them either funded by donors or undertaken for paid employment such as speeches.

Just realised the 2015 UK general election was *10* years ago this week.

Wild that we dodged the bullet of chaos with @edmilibandmp.bsky.social and enjoyed a decade of uninterrupted stability and growth.

If you’re curious about why this is, I wrote about it for @theprogressivemag.bsky.social:

progressive.org/latest/insid...

Exactly this. If people object to Blue Labour, then articulate an alternative philosophy and vision that incorporates those values. Otherwise there's just a vacuum, and it shouldn't be a surprise if people are drawn to a movement that at least attempts to fill it.

Not sure it’s the time to start impersonating someone, but I guess if it’s going well…

Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows Exercise such as aerobic and resistance training and yoga found to reduce heart and nerve damage and brain fog Exercise can counter the detrimental effects of cancer treatment, according to the most comprehensive review of its kind. Several studies have evaluated how physical activity affects the health outcomes of patients with the disease, but significant gaps in the evidence have remained until now. Continue reading...

Exercise can counter side-effects of cancer treatment, biggest review of its kind shows

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today.

This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.

Another annual myth, just like the ‘Winterval’ one that’s been circulating since I was a kid

💯 this!!!

Not just for this administration, but for the next. If you're a Trump supporter or Republican, do you really want the next Democratic administration to defy court orders whenever they feel like it?

👨‍⚕️🏥 ❤️‍🩹 This Labour Government is fixing our NHS ❤️‍🩹🏥🧑‍⚕️

Wild that Londoners have collectively accepted that being served a glass of soda water with a teaspoonful of aperol and a thimbleful of prosecco should cost £12. All served by someone whose entire body language tells us they loathe every part of our being.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

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what a visual

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

Some very bad news:

New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Wouldn’t that technically mean he’s pro Trump, as he hates people who are anti-Trump?

#PedanticPoint

Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change

Kemi Badenoch, who just declared Net Zero is "impossible" to reach, received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group that campaigns against the target

One donor, who chairs 'Net Zero Watch' hosted her campaign HQ in his home
bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials A bubbling dispute broke into a dramatic standoff that ended with police involvement and the Department of Government Efficiency taking up residence at the independent agency.

Who seriously believes these people will ever hold a real election ever again?

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

This is why we must always protect the BBC above all else (whilst obviously continuing to enjoy our national pastime of criticising it from all perspectives)

the sound of all my English professors crying out at once

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils

Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

All this Reform drama and not a single 'Lowe Will Tear Them Apart' headline

We used to have a newspaper industry in this country #smdh

This is all we had and, you know what? We were happy weren’t we