Causal Inference
@statsmethods.bsky.social
Statistical Epidemiologist, Leeds Beckett University, UK - constantly wondering what's wrong with humanity. Perhaps more focused on the crazy world of politics right now, but also interested in data science methodology.
There's a TV advert for the RNLI featuring a real volunteer answering a call on a foul evening. Silent Night is sung in the background. These guys are wonderful and the best of us. Shame on their critics.
Cooper & Starmer started this Orwellian nonsense. They chose to act against ANTI-genocide protesters rather than act against perpetrators of a genocide. They put arming Zionist killers above stopping the slaughter. Burnham & Mahmood could end this idiocy. Why haven’t they? @kevinbonavia.bsky.social
Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸@bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · last wk.Some of those arrested were carrying blank placards, some weren’t holding signs…Even saying nothing is an act of terrorism now “Where do we draw the line?” “It’s McCarthyite nonsense to protect a state that’s committing genocide with weapons made in our country” open.substack.com/pub/councile...
Some of those arrested were carrying blank placards, some weren’t holding signs…Even saying nothing is an act of terrorism now “Where do we draw the line?” “It’s McCarthyite nonsense to protect a state that’s committing genocide with weapons made in our country” open.substack.com/pub/councile...
The UK is now a ridiculous authoritarian hellhole
The Metropolitan Police have started arresting peaceful protesters outside the US Embassy in London.
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The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?...
Why the UK does not have a welfare crisis
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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👇 Another example of policy made by folk who can barely count; total misinterpretation of data on such a basic level. But the reality is that of selfish prejudice - a statement of our global times it seems, though retaliation has begun.
Richard Murphy@richardjmurphy.bsky.social · last wk.The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?...
OFWAT hands EY £15m contract to supervise Thames Water. EY implicated in the Post Office, Thomas Cook, NMC Health, Kaloti gold, Made.com, Covid, other scandals rewarded A firm that delivers dud audits, can't put its own house in order chosen to supervise TW.
Ofwat hands EY £15m contract to monitor troubled Thames Water
The water regulator has picked EY to act as independent monitor of Britain's biggest water company, which remains locked in talks aimed at averting its collapse, Sky News learns.
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And yes, that is from the same Baroness Falkner who has argued such delightful things as that trans individuals never had human rights to lose. These are people who have adopted the term "sex realists" in the same way the far right uses "race realist" to try and normalise their hate and bigotry.
If you ever wanted the perfect example of how utterly deranged "Gender Critical" ideology is it is the number of its proponents campaigning against a ban on what is recognised to be a form of torture because it would stop them abusing trans individuals into hiding who they are.
We're in the High Court right now to make the government come clean on Palantir 🚨 Take part 👇 https://goodlaw.social/o9zr
Private equity Poundland staff could be out of work for years if retailer collapses. 12,000 direct jobs + thousands more in supply chain will go. PE destroyed high street, owns Morrisons, Asda, care homes, housing, vets, dentists. What next? Govts besotted with finance industry court disaster.
Poundland staff could be out of work for years if retailer collapses, founder says
Steve Smith calls on owners to accept proposed buyout as 12,000 staff face uncertain future in run-up to Christmas
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If you replace the word "people" with "racists" this works much better.
It's the sunk cost fallacy. When the likes of Mason & Kuenssberg have pissed away their credibility boosting Farage, they'll keep going as long as they can.
Why, as Reform UK's chances of winning the next general election drift away, the BBC still seems determined to give them an outsized level of attention adambienkov.substack.com/p/how-the-bb...
How the BBC Is Propping Up Nigel Farage
As Reform UK’s chances of winning the next general election drift away, the national broadcaster is riding to their rescue
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Children are starving to death in Cuba due to Donald Trump's illegal blockade. We need to get Trump and Netanyahu on trial for Genocide.
NEW: How the Trump administration is undermining the health of Americans. Since Jan 2025 I’ve logged >400 actions against health. Vaccines are the most obvious front, but the attacks include research, the environment, access and misinformation. christinapagel.substack.com/p/how-the-tr...
How the Trump administration is undermining the health of Americans
A map of over 400 actions across six directions of attack, from vaccines to research to the environment
christinapagel.substack.com
“If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.” ~Dolores Huerta, who died today at age 96. Image: El Malcriado, University of California San Diego Library.
A damning UN report underscores how major Western broadcasters and publications routinely reproduced unverified belligerent claims by the IDF, while suppressing Palestinian voices. www.un.org/unispal/docu...
Going to be very funny to repost this when Yo Sushi goes under in 3-5 years time
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w agoYeah, bad news folks: you know how everything in Britain has been increasingly generous, functional, rational, pleasant and generally awesome for the last twenty years or so? Well I’m afraid the party is over for you greedy pigs: it’s time for you to suck up some real pain. Thanks
Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoRFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."