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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How many of us would have survived this level of public humiliation? Not sure I would have. So help me, Racism is a cancer and it’s eating away at our societal bonds.

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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It’s all been a bit much for Bao.

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Ben McKennaaaargh @benmckenna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One thing that really stands out as a Covid memory was when I was speaking to a Councillor friend who told me that they’d requisitioned the local leisure centre to act as a makeshift morgue. But sure, keep saying how people “loved lockdown”.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Remember, in January 2021, after the govt lost control of Covid infections for the second time, a thousand people a day were dying in the UK. Without lockdowns, we still had no means of slowing that explosion. And that’s apart from all the other ways this claim is just stupid.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Two things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Brexit, just one of the most unhinged things I have seen in my lifetime. Just an absolute xenophobic car crash from day one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So if I'm reading this right a quarter of a MILLION people died of COVID in this country and somehow someone still thinks the mitigation measures were too harsh

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

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David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”

The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Feed palette cleanser, post drama. Our cat Bao, prowling at dusk.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

And still most schools remain unmitigated for an airborne vascular virus. Why?

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I also think that the learning for a future pandemic is how to keep schools open as long as possible and how to mitigate harm if closures are necessary. Not hard to imagine a virus that e.g. is more virulent in children. A blanket "never close schools" policy in future pandemics makes little sense.

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Karl Byrne @kjcbyrne.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Which scientists Lewis? Just the antivaxxers you've quoted? This is some shoddy reporting.

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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The dead children represented on the children's panel of our national covid memorial will never have any life at all. ❤️

Too many red painted hearts on the children's panel of the memorial wall.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Long COVID is "disputed" in the same sense that evolution is "disputed" - i.e. not disputed by anyone with any scientific credibility. Pretending otherwise just happens to be attractive to the Dunning-Kruger brigade whose negligence caused it by allowing COVID to get out of control.

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support.
3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection.
4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection.

5. The economic and social welfare costs of long COVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation. The limitations in activities experienced by long COVID patients, including dropping out or reducing their participation in the labour force, as well as direct medical care costs, can have dramatic implications on their financial well-being. Costs to health and social protection systems may also be high over time.
6. Long COVID could further exacerbate inequalities: The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to longstanding socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in health. Evidence from some countries suggests that certain groups – including populations with lower education attainment, and those living in more deprived areas – may be at risk of developing long COVID, and of experiencing more severe symptoms.
7. Patients have played a critical role in bringing attention and action to long COVID: Throughout the pandemic, countries deprioritized many key aspects of person-centred care in exchange for rapidly implementing policies intended to contain the virus. While the need for rapid action was clear, the lack of patient voice in the process was notable. In contrast, patients and patient groups have been at the forefront of advocating for both a recognition of long COVID as a legitimate condition, in articulating their care and support needs, and in spearheading research into the condition. In many cases, countries have responded by actively working together with patient groups to disseminate information and develop patient-centred support services.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/08/2026

As we recall the trauma caused by COVID in 2020, we should not forget COVID continues to harm. Many still suffer from Long COVID, people who mask are often harassed, and we haven’t scaled clean air infrastructure. If we truly acknowledge past harms, we should be working to create a better future.

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lizziec.bsky.social @lizziec.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@thenewsagents.co.uk please can you ask Lewis Goodall to retract and apologise for this statement. There are thousands of peer reviewed papers detailing that LC is a physical disease. It’s not disputed if it’s destroyed your life, as it has done for millions of people.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hey @lewisgoodall.com here is our Lancet article on Long COVID. Happy to chat. www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh dear oh dear. Does anyone with more knowledge and energy than me want to deal with this ignorance? @longcovidkids.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social

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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Oh dear, @lewisgoodall.com of @thenewsagents.co.uk is quoting Dr Vinay Prasad. A dr in the NR piece said “What also worries me a great deal is his attitude toward patients and vulnerable populations; he has made multiple disparaging remarks toward patients with chronic illness.”

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My Dad was a London bus driver who contracted Covid and died, because he had no PPE or modifications on his bus. So it breaks my heart to have it confirmed that £10bn was wasted on PPE that was not fit for purpose. How many deaths could have been avoided had the Conservatives used proper channels.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The facade is cracking

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Watching #haveigotnews and shocked to see Michael Gove laughing about miss-sold PPE. I was soon in tears. My Dad died of Covid, so you can understand my upset. Politicians like Gove should be on trial for profiteering off of the death of our loved ones, not being rehabilitated.

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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 15/05/2026

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Highly irritated by this list. How on earth is The God of Small Things higher up than Heart of Darkness or A House for Mr Biswas, Wolf Hall, or The Handmaid’s Tale?! I've read 56 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5

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The 100 best novels of all time

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I think Samuel Pepys would have liked cacio e pepe.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

one of the best things ever

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Jack Blackburn @hackblackburn.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors

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Sean Kenny @sean73.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

In Saravana Bhavan in Southall listening to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy turned into a desified Christmas song. And they say Britain can’t integrate its minorities.

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Andy Stevens @itsandystevens.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

So many of our loved ones should still be here. I'm glad the enquiry said this yesterday, it confirms what we all felt, but there should be consequences for those that failed our loved ones 💛

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Leshie Chandrapala @leshiechandrapala.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My Dad was on the frontline trying not to catch Covid, ferrying passengers on his unsafe London bus, from Ealing hospital through Brent, where Covid levels were high. He washed his hands so much they bled. He had no PPE. He died of Covid 03 May 2020.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our statement following the publication of the Covid Inquiry Module 2 report into Core UK decision-making and political governance:

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