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Just as well that, apart from being a gobby knownowt, Tice doesn't vote in Parliament.

Man whose job is literally to make the laws fails to understand the basic concept of asylum seekers while siding with a criminal so stupid that he filmed the evidence of his own crime to make prosecution nice and easy. All in order to appease knuckle dragging morons. 👍

Can regard this Man City as unexpected... theguardian.com/football/liv…

Part 11 - Blood Stasis (Kell and Pretorius) @dbkell @resiapretorius The most important non-trial research is the work of Douglas Kell and Etheresia Pretorius, which explicitly connects the classical concept of blood stasis (血瘀, xuè yū) to Long Covid pathophysiology. Their central finding is that fibrinogen can clot into an anomalous "amyloid" form of fibrin that resists fibrinolysis, producing extensive fibrin amyloid microclots in the platelet-poor plasma of Long Covid patients. These microclots block capillaries, limit oxygen exchange, and may drive autoantibody production - underpinning breathlessness, fatigue, and brain fog. The same microclots are documented in ME/CFS (Nunes et al., 2022), establishing a shared mechanism across both conditions. The classical connection is made explicit in their 2025 paper (Pharmaceuticals): Blood stasis - the TCM state of stagnant blood - is closely related to microcirculatory disorders, and fibrinaloid microclots provide a simple mechanism for slowing blood flow. The corresponding treatment principle is to promote blood circulation, with formulas such as XueFu ZhuYu Tang and herbs such as Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) showing significant effects on the microcirculation. They have also shown that nattokinase degrades fibrinaloid microclots in automated microscopic measurement. This is the strongest mechanistic foundation in the for why blood-moving classical formulas are biologically relevant to Long Covid and ME.

"The Bank of England was set up by Tony Blair" It's easy to forget that Tony Blair had been in power since 1694 when the Bank of England was founded. Good job Brain of Britain Liz Truss is here to remind us.

Now would be a great time for a decisive leader to release the long-suppressed #RussiaReport

Russia is bombarding the U.K. information space with lies and misinformation. And Nigel wants it to carry on because it helps him. Like it helped them ten years again during the referendum. About time government took it seriously. Farage and his AfD pals in Germany have done enough for Russia already. His close pal Nathan Gill is paying a high price, wallowing in jail. Time for the rest of us to call it out.

Horrendous. Not even close to a civilised country now. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i…

I don't just like it... I love it.... 👏👏👏

Ken Baker! Where did they dig him up from? Same argument as the Brexit apologists - it just wasn’t done right. (Unlike all those really successful privatisations…)

Funny that… I blame the Tory Governments for not ensuring the Regulators were doing their job! Privatisation has failed in Tory hands! …a broken Party with broken concepts. The UK can’t afford them in ever again! The audacity of them to even open their mouths & make comment!

"Thatcher Minister Defends Water Selloff Despite Thames Crisis." Let's be clear about this renationalising the water industry does not force water company investment to compete with other demands on the public purse like the NHS or education. Frankly that's a lie. We, the consumer, the bill payer, we are already paying for all this today, upfront, now. EG over the next 5 years we the bill players are financing 99% of the so called investment, paying for it directly from our water bills, that's why they gone up so much, it's not coming from shareholders, not from govt, not from tax payers but from us, directly from our bills. When will they stop making this stuff up? @Jess_Shankleman bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Listening to the end of @BBCNewsnight before the cricket as ebver they simply fail that the solution to interest rate on debts is not to borrow but to print it yourself. Read "The Grip of Death" (needs reprinting).

Much enjoyed the gig by @MarinaHyde in Oxford last night. If you read these posts have a look at the economics chapter in my free Belief book at osf.io/pnxcs/.

If anyone wants to know the real Nigel Farage talk to the staff in the restaurants near his flat in Brussels where he lives most of the time. They loathe him, absolutely loathe him.

I’m still reeling from the @tom_watson / Palantir news. But I also think it will blow up in both their faces. It’s so transparently desperate. @andyburnham is going to have to respond to people’s disgust & anger at Palantir’s role in the UK state. Read the thread 🧵

Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.

Derby researchers studied 46 people with Long COVID and found that even mild exercise breaks large microclots into smaller ones, triggering inflammation and possibly worsening symptoms. Exercise may harm more than help without careful oversight. researchsquare.com/article/r…

Celebrating the opening of the Botley Rd Bridge after a mere 4y (longer than it took to build the Eiffel Tower)... piped.video/watch?v=Y_1ZjACH…

Seems like @PLOSONE now publishes papers without the slightest check on whether the authors make any attempt to cite (what in this case is our) extensive prior work. This one a very noticeable culprit doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…. It would be easy to run mss through AI and ask...