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Sep 27, 2023 94 tweets 20 min read
MISCELLANEOUS MULTICULTURALISM THREAD: ‘Most Britons believe that multiculturalism makes the country worse’ (2015)

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Sep 16, 2023 46 tweets 11 min read
CANCER THREAD: ‘Global cancer cases in people under the age of 50 have risen by 79 per cent between 1990 and 2019’

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Jul 16, 2023 34 tweets 8 min read
BRITISH ECONOMY THREAD (🇬🇧): apple.news/AGOjDEDeYRjuLR…
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Jun 15, 2023 13 tweets 4 min read
I wrote a thing.

open.substack.com/pub/postlibera… Image It was the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May 2022, that initially prompted me to start writing this. As a a Brit you are immersed in American pop-culture to such an extent that aspects of American culture which are alien to our own really jar.

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Jun 13, 2023 61 tweets 9 min read
Nottingham Forest have won as many European Cups/Champions Leagues as all the clubs from the capital cities of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the RoI, Belgium, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, Germany & Italy combined. Here’s another one, the last time Man UTD won a league title without Ryan Giggs was 56 years ago & counting.
Jun 12, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
For all the hifalutin talk about various formations, tactics & on-field metrics by football-data-nerds, its Berlusconi (alongside Rupert Murdoch & Jean-Marc Bosman) who has done more to change football in the last 50yrs than anyone (& not necessarily in a good way either.) We have Berlusconi to thank/blame for the Champions League & the Champions League has changed the face of not just European football but also world football in general

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Jun 11, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Jun 10, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
A club owned by the UAE & managed by a Spaniard, with a German captain, a Brazilian goalkeeper, a Norwegian forward, a Belgium playmaker, Swiss, Portuguese & Dutch defenders, a Spanish DCM & a Portuguese winger, have won the European Cup. What a great night for English football. I don’t think that all European Cup winning sides should be like the ‘Lisbon lions’ (Celtic in 1967,) when all the players were born within a 10 mile radius of Celtic park, but Man City are at the other extreme, whereby levels of English influence are bordering on the homeopathic
Jun 10, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
If Inter beat Man City tonight then that will have to go down as one of the biggest upsets in a European Cup final ever. Liverpool beating Milan was a bit of an upset in 2005 & Steau Bucharest beating Barcelona in 1986 too, but Inter beating City might just top both of them. What a topsy-turvy world we live in when Inter Milan (Im not calling them Internazionale bc Im not Italian nor a footy-hipster,) one of THE biggest names in European football, are huge under-dogs to Manchester City.
May 25, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
‘Murderer who stabbed victim 62 times among 200 Albanians to be deported’

telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/2… ‘Erlin Hasa, 35….is one of 15 Albanian murderers who will be removed to serve the remaining decades of their sentences in Albanian jails. The 200 criminals also include eight rapists and 17 criminals serving life sentences.’
May 24, 2023 10 tweets 3 min read
CANNABIS & CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT: ‘Current marijuana use was positively related to frequency of child physical abuse….Density of medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services was positively related to frequency of physical abuse.’

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May 23, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
May 23, 2023 80 tweets 23 min read
CANNABIS & PREGNANCY: ‘Reported cannabis use in pregnancy was associated with significant increases in the rate of preterm birth following adjustment for confounding.’

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Apr 10, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read
‘In 2022 alone, about one in 100 officers in England and Wales faced criminal charges, including for sexual assault’

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Mar 11, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Mar 11, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
CHILDHOOD SAFETYISM THREAD: ‘Kids play much less than they did even a decade ago, as their time is taken up by more school hours, more scheduled activities’

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Mar 10, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Here’s the thing, the ppl who watch MOTD don’t watch it to see Gary Lineker, or Ian Wright, or any other ex-pro-turned-pundit, pontificate, they watch it to see the football. Lineker, & all the other ex-pro’s-turned-pundits, are expendable. They would be wiser to realise that. This is, in effect, how many people watch MOTD anyway (& have done so for some time) by watching it on the BBC iPlayer & fast-forwarding the post-match, studio-based analysis, in between the matches. I don’t need Alan Shearer or Danny Murphy to tell me what I have just seen.
Mar 10, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL ILL-HEALTH THREAD: SELF-HARM bbc.co.uk/news/health-46… Image
Mar 10, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL ILL-HEALTH LGBT THREAD: theguardian.com/society/2018/n…
Mar 10, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL ILL-HEALTH: PSYCHO-SOCIAL FACTORS (miscellaneous) THREAD ‘Greater neighbourhood social cohesion appeared to buffer the effects of stressful life events on several domains of adolescent mental health’

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Mar 10, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
CHILD & ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENTS THREAD: ‘Despite the scarcity of high-quality evidence, fluoxetine (alone or in combination with CBT) seems to be the best choice for the acute treatment of moderate-to-severe depressive disorder in children and adolescents.’

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…