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I really hope politicians take just a couple of minutes to read through the thread below…
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🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
vicswift retweeted
I wonder how many MPs know about tunnelling nanotubes?
I’d love to hear from you if you are an MP and you do know about them.
And I’d love to hear from you if you are an MP who doesn’t know about them and would like to.
Research study below…
Neurological manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection represent a major issue in long coronavirus disease.
How SARS-CoV-2 gains access to the brain and how infection leads to neurological symptoms are not clear because the principal means of viral entry by endocytosis, the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor, are barely detectable in the brain 🧠
Tunneling nanotubes provide a route for SARS-CoV-2 spreading
via @dbdugger
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3585…
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The vast majority of Britain’s establishment is so devoid of ideas beyond punching down at sick and disabled people.
With the Tories, Reform and Labour, the most unhinged Facebook community groups have become political platforms.
Predictable, depressing and grim.
Tories pledge to restrict benefits for children with ADHD bbc.in/4sZqZ0U
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"Which means that the more times you get [Covid], the more ...chance that you're going to at some point have experienced a really negative consequence of having COVID-19."
We knew this back in 2022. Nothing's changed. But public health is keeping it quiet.
abc.net.au/news/2022-06-24/r…
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It’s fair to say the so-called flatten the curve strategy had a crushing effect on how governments and the public see public health and healthcare.
I wrote this thread in 2023, based on a John Snow Project paper. Nothing at all has changed since then, so it's worth publishing again. Retro🧵
vicswift retweeted
I don’t think this is well-judged
The world’s greatest fireworks show returns to the banks of the Thames this New Year’s Eve.
Get your tickets before they sell out, exclusively from Ticketmaster.
london.gov.uk/events/london-…
ALT Pink and white fireworks over the Thames and London Eye
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On the upside, the £36bn the Tories plan to take away from the sick and disabled will just about cover the £37bn they gave Dido Harding to run the Test and Trace XL spreadsheet
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Using Badenoch's rationale, why isn't she an Olympian or world renowned astrophysicist?
Kemi Badenoch cites a double amputee who ran a marathon and an autistic man who runs a company as justification for cutting disability benefits. There are 268,965 people on PIP whose main condition is autism and 106,087 whose main condition is ADHD. Only around a third of working-age autistic people are in employment. Using two exceptional cases to withdraw support from hundreds of thousands of others is not good policy. It’s people’s lives. This is morally outrageous and shows the utter contempt she has for the most vulnerable.
❤️💫
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Imagine your job was to make the public doubt Long COVID. You wouldn't try to prove it isn't real. You'd just make it look unsettled, forever. That's the playbook that kept tobacco and climate science "debatable" for decades. Here's what it would look like applied to Long COVID:
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🚨 BREAKING: Piedralaves, a town of more than 2000 people is being evacuated over fears the Horcajo dam could overflow following heavy rainfall.
Residents have been sent emergency phone alerts telling them to evacuate to a local school and sports hall.
Southern Avila is under a RED rain warning with schools closed across 32 towns.
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On the Mayoral pollution alert - the monitors show low levels (1/2) now compared to the weekend when there was a pollution episode (9/10) due to fireworks /wood burning. The salient point is why the alert wasn’t issued at the weekend? AQ campaigners want a national alert system.
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As a Palliative patient, I will die on the hill that Palliative and Hospice patients are worthy of protection from avoidable infections wrecking remaining quality of life because clinicians don’t mask
It’s no longer just an idiom, with so many nosocomial infections fatalities
About five days late.
I’m triggering a high air pollution alert for London on Tuesday 10 November.
I urge everyone in the capital, especially those most vulnerable, to stay safe and follow health advice to minimise their exposure.
Please switch off engines when idling and avoid burning garden waste, which contributes to pollution.
london.gov.uk/mayor-london-i…
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Many disabled people became disabled because of the workplace, access needs not met, overwhelming stress couldn’t continue to work. Many are not reaching retirement age because of these factors, it’s important to stress this. #Disability #DWP
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We are currently experiencing very high air pollution in London today.
Everyone should reduce physical exertion, and those more vulnerable to pollution should avoid strenuous activity.
tfl.gov.uk/corporate/about-t…
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With an N95 mask, at least 95% of the viruses and bacteria in every breath you take are filtered out. With an air purifier, it takes three air changes for 95% of the viruses and bacteria to be filtered out.
The advantage of an N95 mask is that you don’t have to wait for three air changes, and it can block droplets, which an air purifier cannot do directly. Of course, you don’t have to choose one or the other—you can use both at the same time.
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Why, despite a lengthy article, can't the @metofficeUK or the @UKHSA find the space to warn the public about the high PM2.5 and PM10 levels that we have seen alongside dense fog this weekend? Meanwhile @DefraUKAir gets no attention at all, & where is @DHSCgovuk?
@CleanAirLondon
Met Office issues weather warning amid ‘perfect recipe’ for fog
itv.com/news/2026-11-08/met-…
