Hugh Deeming

"...a fresh Gillette every morning..." has answered a question for me that, as a wet shaver, I have always wondered about.

And in respect to urine...as I only learned the other day after a lifetime of tacit 'belief'...don't use it on jellyfish stings either

Rupert...I can use this. Thank you!

Quite the discussion of NATO too...

Yes, it's noted by the pre-1850 downward trend identified by Mann, Bradley, and Hughes in their original (1998) 'Hockey Stick' (and replicated many times since)

We should have been getting colder, but we are not!

The Wargame News Podcast · Series · Russia knows our weaknesses. But do you?   A major five-part series from Sky News and Tortoise which imagines how a Russian attack on the UK could play out – and invites real-l...

Definitely worth listening to the Wargame Podcast on this:
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I've had a few queries about people running into danger in threatening emergencies, so here is a summary of the response. More information can be found in our practitioner guide:

@ukri.org funded

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This is from the CitizenAID pocket guide and has also been the official advice: run, hide, tell. But as we have seen in recent days, people caught up in attacks are also motivated to help others, including strangers.

Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency | BPS Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social

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Given the events of the last few days I think it's worth the reminder that rail staff (Northern) also acted with true professionalism in response to the Manchester Arena attack too.
#Huntingdon #Shap #Cat2

‘It felt like forever’: passengers recount mass stabbing on Cambridgeshire train Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding

'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:

'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'

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‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century

"...if there had been warning, that huge mass of water – that catastrophe; that apocalypse – would still have come down, and all those cars would have been swept away and all those houses would have been flooded. But there wouldn’t have been as many deaths."

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

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru

How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth

Pedantic I know, but there should have been an 'Unaffiliated/Other' group in the graph (i.e., mean 'Very Negative' for the groups shown is 48.2% not 41%)

Goodbye FEMA, Hello Disaster Consultants Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.

@zoeschlanger.bsky.social from the @theatlantic.com with an under appreciated dynamic in the discussions swirling around FEMA reforms - the role of private sector consultants. Read with this gift link:

Thousands evacuated in Spain amid deadly wildfires and new heatwave Temperatures of 44C predicted as blazes rage across Europe

When you see these pictures, remember that the exiting civil servant Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee said, not long back, that 2050 would be very much like today

As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

See my LinkedIn post Guy

😡😡

I visited the museum two weeks ago. The whole place was dark, tired, and uninspiring.

And to realise it was an actual body on display…I don’t know what to say.

…except, Yes! The answer is Yes!

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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

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Watching the shocking imagery of tourists running off the slopes of Etna ahead of a collapsing pyroclastic cloud is making me think of Galeras, Chouet's harmonic tremors...and most importantly, how we need to continue to develop effective warning systems to keep people safe...even adventurous ones

Alan. Great insight, thank you…that is going into a paper I’m writing right now (adding to @LucyGoBag’s ‘needs’ perspective)

My first word search in tomorrow's #SDR will be "Article 3"

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either ‘mass panic’ or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- v...

Other work I did with @profjohndrury.bsky.social on mass emergencies also found that people co-operate with each other & the idea of selfish 'panic' is a myth. This is shown in the way that #Liverpool has come together after this terrible incident
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Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) Detection Guidance This guidance is primarily focussed on Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) detection technology as part of NPSA’s wider Vehicle Borne Threats, HVM and MTA programmes of work

All I can take from this NPSA guidance, is the immense challenge involved in countering vehicle-as-weapon threats.

Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
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Come What May: Book Review When I first read Professor Lucy Easthope’s first book When the Dust Settles we hadn’t met, and yet I suddenly felt like I knew her so well. She wrote candidly and honestly about her life in disast…

It is a book I have been waiting for and here is my review of @lucygobag.bsky.social 's latest book Come What May.

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