David Harding 🔶💙

Hours before peace talks in Geneva, virtually all of democratic Ukraine is under threat of attack by fascist Russia’s drones and missiles, yet Trump doesn’t criticize Kremlin dictator Putin - it’s “Ukraine better come to the table.”

America has fallen so very far, so very fast.

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

Remind me how Cövid is safe for Kids

🤬🤬💔

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Refuk's Braverman: "The working class has had it too good for too long. Leaving the ECHR will allow us to prioritise bosses over their workers."

If you’re working class and think that Farage and his employees in Reform UK ltd have your best interests in mind you can’t be helped. #UKPolitics

Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.

North London measles outbreak hits several schools with at least 34 children infected A number of children have been hospitalised as officials urge families to check they are up to date with their vaccines.

At least 34 children have been infected by a "fast-spreading" measles outbreak in several north London schools in the UK.

One in five children who contracted the illness had been admitted to hospital, all of whom "had not been fully immunised".

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay.

Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim.

Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

Labour have just handed an unbelievable prize to Reform by backing down on postponing local elections in May in the face of a legal challenge.

A volte face so large, it broke the u-turn klaxon.

How do they keep walking into upturned rakes like this? Should have gone to SpecSavers.

Starmer cancels plans to delay 30 local council elections Setback comes after weeks of controversy over the proposal

Starmer cancels plans to delay 30 local council elections ft.trib.al/fC51bUX

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The messages between the far-right former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and the late convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein reveal how Bannon worked with Boris Johnson and Farage to “overthrow” Theresa May at the height of the 2018 Brexit crisis in the UK

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

UK Covid-19 Inquiry This is the independent public inquiry to examine the UK’s preparedness and response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future. Help shape the Covid-19 Inquiry's investigations by sharing your experience during the pandemic. Visit our website and click on Every Story Matters.

Watch today’s hearings live from 10:30 (with a three minute delay) on our 📺 YouTube channel 👇
https://www.youtube.com/@UKCovid-19Inquiry

One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.

More than 60 children infected in north London measles outbreak Cases reported in seven schools and a nursery in Enfield amid concern over low levels of MMR vaccination in capital

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented.

It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

Matt Goodwin and ReformUK do not want to take us back to the past but to a dystopian future.
Women will never give control of their bodies back to a government.
Do not vote ReformUK
#GortonandDenton #ReformUK #MattGoodwin #byelection

“Seven schools and a nursery have reported more than 60 suspected cases of measles in an area of north London, and labs have confirmed 34 cases since January 12. Some children have been treated in hospital.”
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The UK was declared measles free in 2017.

Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.

Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Describes as 'one of the UK’s most influential cultural assets', it broadcast to millions.

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan called it:
“Perhaps Britain’s greatest gift to the world” in the 20th century.

I learned so much working there.
Yet, its end has been coming since I joined. So sad..

This is part of a bigger story that hasn't had much coverage about the FCDO being cut to ribbons.

Development funding has been slashed but foreign office staff are also being reduced by 20-30%.

I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage.
I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong.
Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole.
Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you...
(Photos AP)

Where "supply" just means "eventually deliver" after another, entrely different, country kindly pays for the weapons that the U.S. is selling, as needed by Uraine.
That's $15 billion dollars of cha ching.
These aren't being supplied after donation.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

What could possibly go wrong?

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages”

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

That the European establishment lept to their feet to give Marco Rubio a standing ovation at #MSC is a prime example of what I wrote about last week.

He insulted them and promised to break Europe apart. But they desperately sought comfort in his words about America & Europe sharing a common culture

'I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman': Meet the Reform team in Gorton and Denton Members of Reform's campaign team shared racist content online and aligned themselves with far-right groups

What a bunch of….
Nothing good comes from these people.
Nothing hopeful for the communities of Gorton and Denton.
Nothing to make anyone’s lives better.
It’s just an ugly pitch to boost Matt Goodwin’s needy ego.

Voting for this is voting for hatred and failure.
manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

The 5p Solution: How clean air is transforming attendance and learning in one Hampshire school Generations of pupils have learned in stuffy classrooms filled with recycled air, but a Hampshire school is now breathing new life into the way lessons are taught.

21% reduction in staff and student illness in this Hampshire school. The impact of clean air on student learning and well-being is significant. ⁦‪‬⁩
www.portsmouth.co.uk/education/th...

Don't you hate it when fighting age men flee their own country, leaving their families behind, then expect other people to give them a handout.

"The analysis evidenced that effective classroom air filtration costs pence per pupil per day, making it one of the most affordable health and attendance interventions available to schools." #school #education #workers #teachers #students #cleanair #CleanAirForAll #SafeSchools #covid

Surely some unsure?

London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Health officials are racing to contain a growing measles outbreak in London, which has struck down dozens of young children and affected 7 schools and a nursery.

UKHSA has warned an outbreak across London could see 40,000 - 160,000 cases:
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Good cop bad cop.

Do listen to the unpicking of the ReFuk Wales leader’s claims about living in Wales.