Craig Winstanley

Gradually destroying everything that the UK excels at & is admired for.

Turns out that Brits excel at hurtling head first at great speed into the void, on a tea tray.

Explains a lot.

So much choice for swivel-eyed racist bigots, so little choice for the rest of us.

Still, mustn’t grumble…

In our lifetimes we’ve witnessed HIV, Ebola, SARS, MERS, Covid and others.
Hard to take that our learning point for the next ones is to close eyes and hope for the best…

One for the bourgeois townies.
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Yo! Bum Rush the Snow ❄️

What’s holding back clinical use of phage therapy in the UK?

Our workshop last year brought together international experts, biotech and regulators to find out

Meeting Report out now in Nature Microbiology with our take on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK phage therapy sector

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

The match officials in the Villa Newcastle game are clearly trying to peddle propaganda in favour of VAR. I’m not falling for it…

Steve Coogan from the Day Today, pulling an Unai Emery face.

Unai Emery showing concern as Villa go down to ten…

A man with short gray hair and glasses is shown from the chest up, wearing a dark blazer. Behind him is a blurred exterior scene with a building that appears to be a church.

Roses are red.
Violets are tender.

YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Bill Is Dead

The Fall could do love songs, sort of…

youtu.be/Opx3URKdc14

Kicking off massively between Canada & Sweden in the curling. Starting to think we are basically in the apocalypse…

The Quad God Crumbles is one of my favourite Prog concept albums…

Diagram showing data for solar power

Blimey. Actual solar power. Not enough to cover the heating, but still…

Currently indulging in the unutterable.
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Or the Torygraph, same difference…

Another fine advert for the Eton-Oxbridge elite…

(In The Times, I assume, an ex-newspaper)

Should have gone for ‘I prefer the Happy Mondays song Brain Dead’ staring straight at Goodwin whilst reciting the opening lines.

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Can confirm that I’ve been to London quite a few times & pre-Starmer, I never once saw anybody who looked tired.

Yes, fantastic idea. No way that this would make it much easier for Reform to do whatever the hell it likes to take out any opposition as speedily as possible…

Curling now going so badly that (being an expert now, obviously) I’m thinking it’s time to sack the manager & bring in an interim until the end of the season…

I’m thinking of Psycle Sluts by JCC, but a quick check suggests also used by Attila & possibly nicked by both from a 60s film

‘For you that's how the world could end
Not with a bang but a Wimpy’

Manchester Apollo, first three solo tours…

Happy Birthday to #PeterGabriel
My first live gig was his first solo album tour. Didn’t dress like this then …(though I remain unhealthily obsessed with the Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)

The US administration is going to kill its people while they cheer.

In January, Moderna’s announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: “You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.”

1/4

Oh so you CAN question a court judgement after all