Ally Brown

Can't wait to hear the "more to follow"

Teams could get 1 appeal per half (or 2 per game), activated by captain or manager. With that scarcity, has to be used wisely, team-mates have to be honest & certain if asking captain to make appeal. Also, could need to be specified (e.g. handball by no.3) not just general appeal to find a foul.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

How American politics were bought by the billionaire class.

Tired: The UK is a two party system (Lab & Con)

Wired: This is the age of political fragmentation

Inspired: The UK is a two party system (Green & Ref)

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This is basically supply side economics. Billionaires obviously cant spend their money on food and services so they will instead buy elections and install corrupt abusive racists because billionaires love that stuff

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Excellent piece this.

Points to the narrowing of our thinking when we focus on "public health" - the medicalising effects of 'health' makes PH seem so inadequate in the face of vast political challenges like these.

An alt measure that looks at lack of access to 14 amenities (a warm house, three meals a day) found 2m children living in “deep material poverty”.

Yet nearly half of them would not have been covered by the official poverty measure!

More in my column

www.thetimes.com/article/fb88...

Any Labour leader will get bad headlines. The right-wing media (not 'the country') will go mad regardless.

And "no-one" voted for Sunak or Truss (their party membership did), that argument was lost.

Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/

The Board of Governors decided, unilaterally, that no published textbook in the field of sociology could be used in compliance with the law for an Intro to Sociology class. None. Victor: There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law? Zachary: Correct. Victor: I'm sorry, that's kind of funny. Like, the absurdity of not a single sociology textbook getting past the censors. I mean, it makes me kind of proud of our colleagues, but...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.

Marina Hyde wrote about this technique of the guilty elite in her latest column. Steve Bannon suggested something similar to Epstein:

Useful graphs for when I teach the power of partisanship in a few weeks.

Here is a force which can get 20% of the US public to see Canada (!) as an enemy overnight, based on nothing at all beyond the brain farts of a deranged party leader

Exactly this. All these misjudgements blamed on the public are created by media and social media privileging bad faith actors and vested interests. We are all social creatures reliant on our media & culture to interpret what goes on around us.

Most of Westminster is still using a website that has been producing and distributing CSAM, maybe a bit of self-reflection is in order.

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Nigel Farage wants to cut price of beer by reinstating two-child benefit cap Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has pledged to reinstate the two-child limit on benefits to pay for a 5p cut off pints of beer to boost pubs.

How can the other parties not beat this? I mean, seriously? These people should be shouted down in roars of laughter the minute they say this. Just toxic. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Why Disease Isn’t Written in Our DNA What heritability gets wrong—and prevention gets right

open.substack.com/pub/blanphea... fascinating post about misleading research on genetic heritability

The same logic also applies to doping in sport

Political science profs: American government is a complex interplay of institutions, competing elites, organized publics, and historical inertia.

daily Epstein file drop: No. The absolute dumbest people you know are right about everything.

‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The value of an informed opinion – using deliberative methods to engage citizens on corporate influence - NIHR School for Public Health Research Blog by SPHR intern Sachin Weatherburn  Determinants of health  Within South Yorkshire, the gap in life expectancy between the least and most deprived areas is 8.7 years for men, and 7.6 years for wom...

Blog from our intern, Sachin, who worked on our project last summer. We are engaging Sheffield residents on corporate influence and the commercial determinants of health. Read below 👇

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3.8 million people in destitution.

That's more people than the entire population of Wales, or every city that isn't London.

Last week, we heard so much about the need to respect territorial sovereignty in relation to Greenland, and such strong words from world leaders.