Richard Smith. Makes words, soup, marmalade. porridge, and trouble. Was once editor of the BMJ.
Clapham
Joined April 2008
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2 years ago, my medical school colleague Seamus O'Mahony told me about his longevity book project. Just published, as Richard Smith says in his review, "The Longevity Delusion" is brilliant, sobering, informative & funny @nntaleb @EricTopol @hjluks
Richard Smith reviews Seamus O’Mahony's book "The Longevity Delusion: Money, Myths, and Bad Science"
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
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Richard Smith reviews Seamus O’Mahony's book "The Longevity Delusion: Money, Myths, and Bad Science"
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
Financial fraud is a criminal offence. Could this fraud be criminal?
BBC does not appear to have a single reporter or editor capable of putting the @ManCity guilty verdict into its proper context: it's a £900 million fraud that means the elite division of the national sport was rigged for nearly two decades and must inevitably have involved ..1/2
I hoped that a speech that was going to put the issues that Westminster has neglected would major on the climate and nature crisis. Disappointing.
Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Just the same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to North Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out #Rosebank & Jackdaw now @fossilfreeLDN
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As the GREATEST EVER mayor of Balham I shall now be renaming ALL the pubs in Balham the Arfur Arms
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There’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more North Sea oil & gas. The planet is already on fire. How many times do we have to say it will do nothing for energy bills or energy security - but would send a terrible message to the rest of the world? theguardian.com/environment/…
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Fifteen weeks into 2026, and wildfires have burned more than twice as much land (4.71 million acres) than the second-worst season at this point in the year (2.31 million acres in 2016).
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81 years ago today my dad (with pipe) got home after 2 and a half years as a POW
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Today is a beautiful day!
The UK has officially signed its return to Erasmus+.
British students will once again study across Europe, feeling closer to our shared continent
A wonderful victory for all who believe in the bond between the UK and EU
Erasmus+ welcomes the UK home
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Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa
That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children
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UN Delegates just voted to recognise the Transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. Britain abstained.
This refusal to support this motion only places our government more at odds with the global majority.
The call for reparatory justice is only getting louder.
Doctors in fascist regimes bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s469
A tale of two (make that three) bitches richardswsmith.wordpress.com…
The joy (even ecstasy) of my morning’s reading richardswsmith.wordpress.com…
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Time for Tolstoy I think. Prince Andrei to Pierre who's doing a spot of war tourism on the eve of Borodino.."war is the..vilest thing in the world and we must understand that and not play at war. We must take this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. That's the whole point, to cast off the lie and if it's war it's war and not a game. As it is war is the favourite pastime of idle and light-minded people.." Not wholly confident Trump is about to read War and Peace, though.
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Significant acceleration of global warming since 2015, finds news PIK study with @rahmstorf
Recent warming: around ~0.35°C per decade.
1970–2015 average: just under 0.2°C per decade.
➡️Current rate is higher than in any decade since records began in 1880.
pik-potsdam.de/en/news/lates…
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Regime change involves two elements: 1, you decapitate the old regime; 2, you create a new one that suits you better. Air power can achieve the first, but it can’t achieve the second. How do the US and Israel get a better regime in Iran — better for them, better for Iranians?
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👏 Great to see Climate and Nature Crisis Caucus Vice-Chair @pippaheylings' introduce a Bill to protect chalk streams today in Parliament. We urge the Government to support her plan before we irreversibly harm these globally rare habitats.
👇 Hear more about Pippa's Bill below.
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Doctors cleared in the courts of breaking a window at JP Morgan, which is a massive funder of fossil fuel companies, thedoctor.bma.org.uk/article…
