Mark Elliott @MarkElliott@qoto.org
A medical degree gave me working enjoyment , the Open University allowed me to develop maths and physics because we know the rest is (essential) stamp collecting .A lifelong learner , it’s fun .We need less men in suits in charge.
Joined Nov 2022
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Everyone else is throwing Dominic Raab under a bus. Not me. Here is my impassioned defence 👇
https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/raab-confirms-he-is-innocent-of-the
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The National Trust has joined forces with the RSPB and WWF in a unique campaign to urge everyone to come together to halt the destruction of UK nature
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/national-trust-joins-forces-wwf-29768797
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I love the way that people who spent decades spouting proven bilge about the European Union insist that people should now stop telling the unvarnished truth about the irrefutable realities of the Brexit they ‘won’. It’s so sweet.
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When my mum was a nurse, the NHS was her livelihood. When she fell ill, the NHS was her lifeline.
I will always treasure our NHS - and my Labour government will ensure it is fit for the future.
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Biochemist Marie Maynard Daly, who studied correlations between heart attacks and cholesterol, and between smoking and lung disease, was born #OTD in 1921. Daly was also part of the team that established the primary nucleic acid bases.
She was the first Black woman to receive a chemistry PhD in the US.
Image: National Institutes of Health
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"Aintree Racecourse warned that the actions of protestors could 'endanger the horses they purport to protect, as well as jockeys, officials and themselves.'"
Three horses are dead, and this is nothing to do with the protests.
Solidarity with the 118 arrested.
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Snakes head fritillaries growing in a grassy bank. Possibly my favourite flower 😊 #flower #nature #photography
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I’ve never even taken part in office sweepstakes for this vile event. 🤬
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Only during "heavy rain"?
Funny that last year most of the country was in a drought and yet water companies still managed to spend 2,291,055 hours dumping sewage into the environment.
Ho hum.
RT: https://bird.froth.zone/users/WindrushWasp/statuses/1647200471411556352
To find demonstrable lies, go to @defragovuk 's dodgy video explanation of 'storm' overflows: "as they only operate during heavy rainfall, etc" - 3...
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CORRUPTION & SUNAK
Sunak is not an innocent. He threatened judges to stop lawyers challenging the govt re corruption. Without
@goodlawproject we wouldn't even know VIP PPE LANES existed.
None of us are giving up the fight.
Even more determined now
Stay with us 💪🏼
@jolyonmaugham
RT: https://bird.froth.zone/users/jolyonmaugham/statuses/1647151409211555840
Rishi Sunak very explicitly threatened judges that unless they stopped @goodlawproject bringing court challenges to corrupt pandemic awards he woul...
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On this day in 1941: Michael S Brown born, won 1985 #NobelPrize for working out metabolism of cholesterol #ThisDayInBiotech
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This is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy
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This brings me great joy.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as director of Goddard Space Flight Center.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy (right. April E, 2023, Mary W. Jackson NRER Headquarters building, Washington.
Instead of a Bible, Dr. Lystrup's hand rests on a hardback copy of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot.
Bottom text: Look again at that book...
#Secular #Humanism #SecularHumanism #atheist #science #nasa #CarlSagan
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@barnetcouncil @fofwos @canalrivertrust awful litter and pollution in the water at the brook in Windsor Open Space N3. So damaging to local wildlife, action needed
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Suella Braverman is listed as a speaker at the upcoming "National Conservatism" event.
Natcon is a radical Christian nationalist movement which demands immigration moratoriums and opposes the “grave threat” of “ever more radical forms of sexual license and experimentation".
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"Alarm as regional levels of sewage pollution among worst in England and Wales
Seas, rivers and waterways in Ceredigion and Gwynedd endured some of the highest levels of sewage pollution in England and Wales last year".
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Scots Lib Dem leader @agcolehamilton accused Scottish ministers of “neglecting our waterways” as he warned sewage spill figures likely a “significant underestimate”.
Scottish Water and SEPA said 1000 more overflow monitors will be installed by next year. https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/swimming-pools-sewage-scotland-rivers-29583848
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I was in a shop yesterday and the very wonderful lady behind the counter asked "Aren't you that environmentalist bloke?"
Guess that's my music career over then.
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A medical degree gave me working enjoyment , the Open University allowed me to develop maths and physics because we know the rest is (essential) stamp collecting .A lifelong learner , it’s fun .We need less men in suits in charge.
Joined Nov 2022
