James A R Willis

This President talks as though the US nation will agree that loyalty to him by his Supreme Court appointees will trump their allegiance to the rule of law. Surely not in the America I know and respect.

This President talks as though the US nation will agree that loyalty to him by his Supreme Court appointees will trump their allegiance to the rule of law. Surely not in the America I know and respect.

Our goldfinches seem perfectly happy with plain old sunflower seed hearts, from an ordinary feeder. We get more than a dozen sometimes, taking turns. They share it with sparrows, robins, greenfinch, blackbirds and, unfortunately, the occasional squirrel.

As Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of the HPV vaccine.

A recent study found that cervical cancer deaths in young women have plummeted since the introduction of the human papillomavirus vaccine.

I was a schoolboy in Washington DC in the 1950s when the Salk polio vaccine first appeared. Desperate mothers queued to get their children protected. Everyone knew of someone paralysed or dead from this terrible disease.
And we were recently so close to global eradication.

I was a schoolboy in Washington DC in the 1950s when the Salk polio vaccine first appeared. Desperate mothers queued to get their children protected. Everyone knew of someone paralysed or dead from this terrible disease.
And we were recently so close to global eradication.

Important

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

City Hall, Bristol lit up in pink and purple.

A full house - audience applause at the end of the lecture.

l-r: Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Evelyn Welch, Vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol; Pat Kehoe, Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research.

Professor Trish Greenhalgh presenting her lecture on digital inequalities.

Huge thank you to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social for her thought-provoking lecture last night on digital inequalities. Fantastic turn out at City Hall in Bristol, with a light show to welcome everyone! We will be sharing a recording of the talk soon for those unable to make it in person.

And, of course, under the NHS there will be no charge to the patient. We share the cost as a nation.

Exciting

NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it

We cannot allow them to rewrite history.

If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

Yvette Cooper on Kuenssberg this morning refreshingly impressive on colossal societal problems.

The Guardian view on the Washington DC plane crash: Trump’s warped priorities | Editorial Editorial: The president is more concerned with attacking the federal government than with putting safety first

Here’s how to comment on psychopathic presidents.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'We've got to move on': Rachel Reeves rejects calls to negotiate UK-EU customs union - Politics.co.uk Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy. Speaki...

In other news the OBR report the government keeps quoting from says Brexit is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts

www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01...

Elon Musk admits cheating at video games, chat transcript appears to show Video posted by top gamer shows what he says is X conversation in which billionaire admits ‘account boosting’

What sort of person would pay people to play video games in his name and then claim to be one of the world's top players?
Astonishing read.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Xit Goodbye Twitter. RIP. You are now X Twitter. I’ll miss you. Honest injun. Opposite is my final tweet after many years. Posted a couple of weeks ago. And as usual, apart from from one or two o…

I saw the writing on the wall and left when he changed the name. My blog post at the time: jarwillis.com/2023/08/05/x...

Well said Wes

Bloody cheek !

This captures the kind of things I was so worried about towards the end of my career.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Why do other BBC departments continue to use Musk's malignant platform? It is a global menace.

Huge respect for what you do. A great friend was GP on the Isles of Scilly - not quite as remote, but huge responsibility deciding when it was necessary to evacuate acutely ill patients.

Thank you for these wonderful insights into your life. My visits in rural Hampshire were on a very much smaller scale, but often beautiful too. The only trouble was that you were constantly under pressure. (20 years ago now for me but I quess it's the same for you.)

I'm finding this comforting at the moment

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

The Guardian will no longer post its content to X

Xcellent to see The Guardian joining the Xodus. Let's see it on @bsky.app

Extremely important. Clear and readable.

I'm trying to look on the bright side, Trish. We are very lucky with our (small) practice. Of course I agree with what you say.

The key is to feel there is someone there – yes, a doctor – who cares about you.