Snooker club vice-president, time zone activist and real doctor. IEA. Views my own.
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Bran flakes to be classed as junk food under Labour health plan telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…
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I was 17 and my memory of the ‘94 World Cup was that most of the games weren’t on insanely late. This schedule kind of bears that out. More early evening kick offs (UK time) but a lot of dead-of-night matches. independent.co.uk/sport/foot…
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I pray that heaven has a stack of Camel extra wide at the ready.
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‘He outlived four of his doctors’: David Hockney’s lifelong love of smoking – and the 2,000 cigarettes he kept at home ‘for emergencies’ theguardian.com/artanddesign…
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Despite claiming to be a football fan, Sir Keir Starmer has not replied to any of my emails asking him to simply move the clocks back five hours so we can watch all the World Cup games. His silence speaks volumes.
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£4.5 billion.
This is all very lovely, but it's hardly defence of the realm.
It is impossible to take seriously the idea that there is no money to take from public services when 'nice to haves' like this are announced on a weekly basis.
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Hugh is a silly boy who doesn’t understand the difference between an infectious disease and a self-inflicted, reversible condition.
It's just a different mindset. Hugh Fearnley-W. Arguing for Covid style interventions over obesity. Extreme end of something must be done ism.
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BBC: “What advice did David Hockney give to you?”
BBC Guest: “Enjoy life and fuck everyone.”
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There are thousands upon thousands of people like this being funded handsomely by the state to do essentially nothing. Drain the swamp.
'Our food system isn’t working – here’s how we fix it.’
Laura Miller talks to Scotland’s new ‘food tsar’ about bringing down prices and tackling obesity.
Listen to Scotcast: bbc.in/43vVGio
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I haven’t seen the evidence for either of these claims but I’d bet a pretty penny that it’s activist-driven quack science that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Incredible - dramatic improvements in air quality in London are linked to a measurable impact on Londoners' health:
9.3% drop in heart-related emergency admissions
5.1% drop in hospital admissions of all illnesses and health conditions
Cleaning up our air protects our future.
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A lot of people seem angry that Elon is now a trillionaire, so it’s worth reminding them that he didn’t achieve this by making anyone else poorer. Wealth isn't zero-sum. Paul Graham explained it well:
paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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Harry paid Musk for a blue tick, earns a lot of money for engagement farming and doesn’t care at all that his poll has backfired.
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Would you agree with confiscating all of Elon Musks trillion pounds in order to fix world hunger, provide the world with clean drinking water, and reforesting the Amazon?
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Pagel is kind of a fruitcake and it would be bad giving her a job in public health but what are her credentials for getting a job in the Ministry of JUSTICE?!
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Labour have appointed a new adviser at the Ministry of Justice.
And she has extreme views.
She called Henry Nowak's murder “useful” to the Right, and the public reaction to two-tier justice “dangerous”.
This is someone who should be nowhere near our justice system. 🧵
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‘Longevity shouldn’t be an aim in life; that to me seems to be life-denying. Smoking for me is a deep pleasure and 1.1 billion people in the world seem to agree… But we need more people to defend it, otherwise the bossy boots will win in England.’
RIP David Hockney
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David Hockney responds to a tedious Australian anti-smoking zealot (Simon Chapman) in the pages of the Guardian, 2012.
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Anti-Nanny State Campaigner David Hockney Dies Aged 88 order-order.com/2026/06/12/a…
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Words to live by. RIP David Hockney
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