Kevin (Des)

Sound familiar folks?

Same here, looking forward to my atoms being free to make their way throughout the universe on a timeless adventure. 🙂

Wonder if they'll wheel out the old line of "We can't return everything we stole. If we did, we'd have nothing to display in our amazing museums"

I sometimes wonder how "we" would feel if someone came and dug up Queen Victoria and had her on display in the museum of Cairo, or wherever. I'm getting cremated so I won't have to worry about that!

We’ve written to the Independent Press Standards Organisation raising concerns about its refusal to investigate discriminatory press coverage of trans people. Our data shows 6,450+ UK articles in 2025 alone, with coverage surging around the April Supreme Court ruling.

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Several people are reporting that their wedding bands were not returned.

Trump: “The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Trump: “The UK, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That’s OK, PM Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

Iranian Attacks On Critical Missile Defense Radars Are A Wake-Up Call Iran's targeting of key and largely static missile defense radars in the Middle East highlight global vulnerabilities.

Iran took out a 1.5 billion dollar radar with a $35,000 drone. It will reportedly take about 7 years to replace the radar.

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A diabetic Norwegian woman who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has told Newsweek that she feared she might die in detention as her requests for insulin were repeatedly ignored. [link]

TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights]

Why was this story on the front page of the UK’s Daily Telegraph — but NOT America’s leading newspapers?

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

Article from BMJ. Excerpt here: I recently spotted a LinkedIn post titled, “Dress how you want to be addressed.” The accompanying image showed someone power dressed to perfection. It made me reflect on my own work attire as a GP. My default is more casual than smart. I know a generation of older doctors who would disapprove: I often hear GP trainers complaining about how casually trainees dress nowadays. But a recent consultation made me realise that my choice, although subconscious, is in fact deliberate. A patient and her husband described a hospital appointment they attended where they felt talked at, unable to voice their worries. They contrasted this with seeing me, saying that they could talk to me “like you are our friend or family.” That comment stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me that the way we present ourselves—our words, our body language, and yes, even our clothes—shapes the kind of relationship patients feel able to have with us. General practice, at its best, is defined by the absence of hierarchy. Yet doctors hold immense power: to label, to reassure, to prescribe, to withhold. Divesting ourselves of that power takes conscious effort. Listening more than talking is one way to do it. Choosing words that frame us as partners is another. And for me, part of that effort is dressing in a way that doesn’t command authority but instead signals approachability. I try not to look too different from the average patient who walks through my door. My clothes are one signal that I’m accessible. Some of my colleagues use their first names with patients, which works in the same way. I don’t do that—largely because mine is harder to pronounce—but I admire how it helps to level the playing field. These gestures may seem small, but they can be transformative. Patients need to feel able to bring their deepest fears to the GP, however minor, without fear of judgment.

As someone who has been a patient recently, and who has written blogs on this topic in the past, I strongly concur with Dr Rammya Matthew that we need to do everything we can to redress the power imbalances in healthcare.

From the @bmj.com.

Link:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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250,000 human remains.

Black Science Orchestra ‎– Strong (Move 2 The Knew Family) YouTube video by Cristian M.

A strong 10 minutes of groovin
#Raveyardshift

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Am sure you'll smash it!!!*

*At a suitably steady pace. 🙂

A map showing the UK and most of Europe, with pins on locations where capybaras can be seen

In case of emergency: A map of every capybara in the UK and France

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Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were taking additional hilltops inside Lebanon - a defensive operation, he said, to better protect Israel's northern communities. But there has been a significant military build-up here. On Friday morning we passed dozens of tanks and armoured bulldozers, newly-positioned right by the border, fuelling growing speculation that a full-scale ground invasion is planned.

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have been fleeing Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past few days, less than 18 months after a ceasefire ended the last conflict with Israel in November 2024. During that war, Israel fought its way house to house through many Lebanese border villages. Their crushed remains still litter the landscape. But some Hezbollah fighters have reportedly returned to these areas, and Israel is now fighting its way through the area again. Without those assaults on Hezbollah in 2024, which left a key Iranian proxy severely weakened, Israel would have found it much harder to launch its current war on Iran - or the previous one in June last year - without a much higher cost at home.

This is the language used by the BBC to describe Israel's war on Lebanon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cited: IDF Chief of Staff, Israeli living near the border, another Israeli, an Israeli politician and a Israeli commentator. No one else.

The Lebanese are just numbers throughout the piece.

Diesel jumping by almost $1 — in one week — should go over well in Texas. ⛽️

a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him Alt: a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him

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Labour is dead to me, but they did persuade me to do something I've never done before - I joined a political party for the first time.

At this point, Labour is synonymous with cruelty. And given your failure to stand up for the trans children affected by Labour's monstrous medical & DFE policies, why on earth would we believe you on this one issue?

This is how you do “being a country’s Prime Minister”.

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war https://aje.news/7hx1jp

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

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Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school After the school was bombed, eyewitnesses describe a second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in the prayer hall.

israelpalestinenews.org/iranian-girl...

On this day in 1965, peaceful marchers in Selma, including my friend John Lewis, were beaten by state troopers for demanding the right to vote.
The violence of Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act just months later.