Watching Ruth Davidson’s excellent documentary on Footballs Gambling Addiction. Shows how our children are being led into addiction in order to fund the Premier League. “A parasite taking over the host”, we need to protect children. cap-2030.org
I’m proud that my team @MillwallFC has never had a shirt sponsored by a gambling company.
On average there is one gambling related suicide every DAY in the UK.
Aggressive marketing for gambling is impoverishing our communities, infringing our children’s rights not to be exploited, in order to make huge profits for mostly offshore companies.

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8 Jun
Modelling is very tricky right now. It's very difficult to predict the future given uncertainty about transmission of the delta variant, the impact of behaviour changes and levels of population immunity. I'm not a modelIer so here are some differing views (1)
The original Warwick model from the government SPI(M) committee gave a very pessimistic view of the impact of a 40% increase in transmission on hospital admissions...and many think the increase is now 70%. But they are currently revising their model. (2)
This latest thread from mathematician James Ward is interesting and expresses uncertainties clearly. (3)
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23 May
New Public Health England Report on variants shows people vaccinated with one dose are only 34% protected against B.617.2 (India). (1)
And that variant B617.2 is spreading rapidly. (2)
This new UK data fits with anecdotal experience in Delhi where many vaccinated people have become ill or been hospitalized requiring oxygen. Of 244 doctors in Delhi who have died, 3% reported to be fully vaccinated. (3)
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20 May
It seems virtually none of the £38 BILLION has been spent on local public health teams. So where has all the money gone?
£38 billion is equivalent to the entire England national spend on public health for the next TEN years, and almost seven times the current global commitment to the Covax scheme for global vaccination.
The outsourcing to Serco, G4S, and Sitel, employing 50,000 workers has had little public health impact, abuses employees rights, and makes use of mini-umbrella companies to avoid tax.
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Our thoughts and prayers are with all our colleagues and friends in India, Bangladesh and Nepal right now. This catastrophe means vaccine production MUST expand beyond the few companies who hold patents. Otherwise many MILLIONS of people across the world will die.
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World leaders have had a year to act, but done nothing on a patent waiver. Vaccines, oxygen, ventilators are a public good. They should not be provided through the highest bidders and black markets.
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Let us be clear on ten reasons why the Barrington group letter to...er... the Daily Express is profoundly wrong.express.co.uk/life-style/hea…
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2. This didn't age well did it....
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The European Super League appears to have been backed with $6 billion debt financing from JP Morgan Bank. Says it all...
This is corruption pure and simple. Stealing the heritage and the rules of football from the club fans.
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