#Published

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆:The Chair of UK Government Senior Salaries Review Body, Martin Read, is Chairman of a company awarded a £15m Lateral Flow Device distribution contract. He was previously on the Cabinet
Read more
Got a few DMs after @happyaano asking if I am open to freelance video assignments. Yes, I am actually a freelance video producer and multimedia journalist. Been producing videos since
Read more
How on earth did Boris Johnson screw up so badly, despite having an extensive and well-funded spy system (MI6) operating in China? There are accusations that Johnson wanted to sneakily
Read more
It’s #EarthDay2021 ! Here’s a quick thread of picture book choices to share with kids Vermont author and illustrator @authorjasonchin has a range of nonfiction books that celebrate
Read more
Just finished "Heart of the Race" and it is mandatory reading for ANYONE organising, period.Particularly the sections on the distinction between identity politics, the politics of identity, and collectivist politics.
Read more
Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support in the West for Syria’s political and armed opposition,every anti-Syrian campaign, interview of opposition
Read more
A woman with great hair is fleeing a gothic house. This is a signal to the reader that this is one of ‘those’ books – not a historical romance or
Read more
Yesterday, at #ucustrike we were talking a little bit about the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, which can offer compensation to students if their university has not adequately mitigated the
Read more
With @vanessachughes on @ABCClassic Drive to spill the triple T: Travel Tales & Tunes, just after the 6pm news. This week: Ignatius Sancho! First African to vote in the UK
Read more
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel would have turned 250 today. I enjoyed this story about his stint as a journalist from three new biographies published this month. It’s March 1806. Hegel
Read more
Gaelic influence hides in plain sight everywhere in #Iceland: placenames, beehive huts, folklore, encoded in the sagas and above all in Icelanders' DNA. Key to the mystery is a system
Read more
In 2019 we wrote a modelling paper predicting that ‘digital first’ would increase GP workload. https://www.jmir.org/2020/6/e18203  By the time it was published, digital first was the norm, and our assumptions
Read more
my day job involves reviewing COVID research to come up with public health messaging. i’m wary of telling people what they should or shouldn’t do, but since toronto comedians are
Read more
A thread on homosexuality in the Romanov dynasty: Cousin to Nicholas II, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich hid his homosexuality his entire life. He recorded his feelings in diaries, which were
Read more
1/ The investigation of Missouri hair stylists who cut hair while infected + masked published todayOf 139 exposed clients, 67 agreed to PCR testing- 0 positive.Stylist A's husband, daughter, son-in-law,
Read more
A final thought on the Sir John A Macdonald controversy. Steve Paikin published an essay condemning the toppling of Macdonald statues and calling for "more debate" and problematically (in my
Read more