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🛟🧪💉 health minister Steven Kinnock on R4 Friday announcing new chickenpox vaccine refused to condemn RFK Jnr’s anti-vax policies said he wouldn’t comment US policy. He should’ve said - anti-VAX policies represent a clear and present danger to UK & world 🌍 already killing children. Spineless Labour!
What Labour government? They seem on a course to merge with Reform as Starmer allows Farage to dictate immigration policy. Open the floodgates, let them all in legally and see how our productivity and economy improves. Oh yeah and rejoin the EU too.
Should have added my mother a non observant Christian farmer’s daughter! But you can’t edit posts on here.
My father was a devout atheist Jew, his parents non observant Jews other than bar-mitsva, weddings and funerals. But when anyone ever told me I wasn’t really Jewish she said: “Just remember by Hitler you are a Jew!” www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Reposting this as it’s so uplifting and it’s so good to see that there still some good stuff happening in the USA 🇺🇸 Running on Sunshine 🌞 oh yeah Too right!! youtu.be/8MgKB34-yDw?...
Running on sunshine ☀️ oh yeah 👍🏼 Absolutely fabulous ✌🏽 & ❤️
lol 😂 love it. By 2019 the US 🇺🇸 / French 🇫🇷 alliance had just de facto divided the country. Agadez and Arlit completely no go. Conversations over a cold Flag with Americans in Niamey bars - what do you do? I’m a cholera expert for unicef. What do you do? I’m a pilot 🧑✈️ oh what do you fly? Drones!
Exactly and if i didn’t feel a possible target for kidnapping before that in a simple unicef vehicle I certainly did with that escort racing against the early morning Niamey traffic and with soldiers patrolling the village as I’m trying to talk to health workers and community women.
Even when I was in Niger 🇳🇪 for unicef during the west African cholera epidemic in 2012 we had a « police escort » of two Toyota mechanicals, 12 gendarmes with AKs and a cannon just to go to Tilaberi - not ideal for community engagement on sensitive issues: sanitation and hygiene. 2019 no better.
Well this puts paid to any ideas of retracing my trans-Sahara journeys of the early 80s Algiers to Maroua Cameroon 🇨🇲 via Niger 🇳🇪 and Nigeria 🇳🇬 So I’ll be looking closely at the Western Sahara 🇪🇭 Mauritania 🇲🇷 route to Conakry Guinea 🇬🇳Freetown Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and beyond.
@boghuma.bsky.social Can you please tell me what the normal de-worming schedule is for children with Ivermectin? I thought it was every six months - sadly one of the cheapest interventions for child health recently cancelled in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and elsewhere by Trump closing USAID!!!
Interesting, presumably the kids were also worm 🪱 free too. But that’s a much more frequent dose of ivermectin than normal deworming isn’t it?
I hope you’re having a laugh 😹 it’s in East Africa innit, know what Amin?
Phenomenal. Hatsoff to them in Roubaix. The area has seemingly good community relations various interest groups got together to save the canal which is close to navigation and highly polluted and that was anglers boaters and walkers et cetera and they were that was the canal de Roubaix.
Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July
Comme l’académie Francais pour example. But si on a plusieurs patois en France 🇫🇷
I knew it was a GMT problem! 😜
That’s the wonder of English it’s malleable and absorbing cf French for instance which is excluding of other languages. There are many Englishes and all the better for it!
Are we talking about misunderstanding GMT here - Greenwich or Ghana 🇬🇭 ?
How long have you got ? - also shuts them up 🔝
Love this Femi : music.apple.com/gb/artist/fe...
Other!
Oga, na London, New York and Paris u fit chop Jollof rice, outside city dem e no deh! Na McDo you get for eat!
But the Ugandan 🇺🇬 and South African 🇿🇦 kids could tell you much more about the Premier League Manchester United, Arsenal and the Euro league Barcelona and the rest!
We should “ Celebrate our differences, And Act on our our commonalities” There’s only one race, and we’re all in it together, it’s the human race. Peace ✌🏽 and Love ❤️ Brothers and Sisters wherever you are from and however you identify. 🌈🎶💥🙏🏽
So I’m a JewISH Londoner - a chameleon - an invisible ethnic minority- it’s amazing what you hear about Jews when people don’t think you are one! I’ve lived and worked in African countries, USA, Middle East and S Asia. A traveler 🧳 from my teens, I’ve embraced my inner Nomad I believe:
My mum an English farmer’s daughter who parents had never met a Jew. Granny famously said after meeting dad for the first time “ he seems quite normal really” where upon my mum said what did you expect? A tail?
I identify as a Londoner and European 🇪🇺 my father was 2nd generation Jewish his parents from Latvia 🇱🇻 & Russia / Poland who fled pogroms and turfed up England.
Not to mention all those 19C Jewish refugees fleeing the pogroms who ended up in Dublin and Belfast (often believing that they had arrived in New York 😜) Divide and rule is alive and well, mores the pity!
It’d be good to have some feedback on this piece from voices usually ignored!
There’s a massive distinction between antivaxxers, vaccine sceptics and as importantly the vaccine hesitant. The latter 2 can accept vaccines and promote them in the community given the facts about vaccines 💉 to protect ourselves and our children. Or become antivax given deliberate disinformation
You may be interested in this amazing piece, these voices are so rarely heard in mainstream media: www.theguardian.com/p/x2abbc?CMP...
Pleased to read this today in NYT www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...
That’s it in a nutshell. Anyone who has actually been to Palestine 🇵🇸 and Israel 🇮🇱 and really talked to people knows that Muslims and Jews have far more in common than divides them. Religion and ethnicity are used as a pretext for divide and rule - from Northern Ireland to Kashmir, Darfur and beyond.
Obviously 🙄 there’s tautology there !
Totally 💯 he’s an evil 👿 brain 🧠 🪱 worm addled bastard. Along with His bossman Trump And that other shit 💩 Musk together they are responsible for countless deaths ☠️ suffering and debilitating disease for the world’s children across the globe 🌍 🤢 nasty 🤮 people (to use a trumpian expression)
“Bibi and I just went through HELL together, fighting a very tough and brilliant longtime enemy of Israel, Iran, and Bibi could not have been better, sharper, or stronger in his LOVE for the incredible Holy Land,” Trump’s delusional ego and hubris has no bounds! What a disgusting 🤮 man he is!!!
open.substack.com/pub/dearlste... Thank you D Earl Stephen’s 🙏🏽 for this enlightening article. As a Brit who has visited the city of Frank Lloyd Wright Madison and partied with other flyboys at the Oshkosh EAA fly in ✈️ I feel your pain. 🥯
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... And yes in my name too. ✌🏽 ❤️🩹
This is why most illegals in the USA 🇺🇸 contribute far more than they take out. And generally fear of deportation makes them otherwise far more law abiding than other citizens! Facts not rhetoric!!
From personal experience having worked illegally in Texas restaurants for a year when I was a student pilot, I paid tax and social security which was deducted at base rate from my wages and applied against my fake SS number which I could never claim back and was not entitled to receive any benefits
Maybe this is the real heart of the matter- RFK Jnr, Trump, Musk have never wanted for anything in their lives. Denial of anything then becomes a breach of their entitlement!
His treatment of Cyril Ramaphosa - a true Statesman - a real fighter for his cause, people and country, was truly the behaviour of a spoilt, arrogant, ignorant and immature bully. Cringeworthy what a fuckwit ! I feel for y’all and us all.
💯 great piece thank you 🤩 for speaking out so powerfully.
You better get that Polio shot asap, it’s definitely coming back following measles and the rest of vaccine preventable diseases that are reemerging thanks to the cretins that are systematically destroying Public Health in the USA and across the world 🌍 Viruses 🦠 don’t respect borders.
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Unwell!!!! Surely an under statement? Ramaphosa did well not to laugh in his face. Call it out, Trump is a racist sociopath and if that gets me banned from the USA so be it fuck y’all who voted for him. Jozi is more fun than DC any day.
How did this even happen that such an imbecile became head of health in the USA 🇺🇸 Why do you not need qualifications for such a position? The mind boggles as the USA willingly reintroduces deadly 🦠 diseases to the world that had been almost eliminated! It’s a Global Public Health catastrophe.
Funny 🤣 but on the money 💴
Totally 💯 that’s parenting with love ❤️
Or her or them (Bluesky where’s the edit button? )
Besides I don’t want AI to think or decide or write for me - unless it’s something totally mundane - but I’m finding Claude a very bright, personable assistant.
Why not just take him and a couple of close friends to the zoo or a museum and a pizza 🍕 - the problem has nothing to do with AI 🤖 but the tyranny of your child’s peers’ parents expectations of each other! It a viscous cycle. I say this only with hindsight as the parent of 2 kids in their 30s.
From Ireland 🇮🇪 no doubt 🧐
This is Hebron in 2005 referred to in this must listen Guardian podcast: www.theguardian.com/p/x2abbc?CMP... Listen to this from Israelis campaigning to stop the war in Gaza. #notinmyname #stopthegenocide it’s time for the UK government and EU to call out Netanyahu for the Nazi he is.
They have been cutting World Service for years. Despite it having been the best ambassador Britain has ever had around the world 🌍 If you have ever been in a rickshaw in India 🇮🇳 and said you worked for the BBC or watched as people ran to listen to Focus on Africa in war torn Liberia 🇱🇷 you’d know.
He’s part of the problem. A total waste of space trying to our Right the Right. A total failure at every level. If he listened to the people and not the RW press we’d be back in Europe. Tosser.
PS does anyone ever check how much coverage Reform gets in proportion to its actual representation?
Fuck them. The beeb is a shadow of its former self. It’s populism that rules. Lord Reath will be spinning in his grave. What happened to “Educate, Inform and Entertain” ? With a few exceptions like Broadcasting House on Sundays, most of its output is from jornos who couldn’t define 5Ws&H!
What’s next for US 🇺🇸 children- and the rest of the world’s kids if we don’t reject RFK Jnr’s lunacy - Polio - for sure - AWD / cholera, rickets TB, pneumonia, stunting .. need I go on?
Eh Anthony that’s what Thatcher said 😜
My post earlier: #notinmyname #genocide as a person of Jew(ish) heritage I continue to be revolted by Israel 🇮🇱 under Netanyahu. He is a flag bearer for antisemites everywhere. Sowing seeds of hatred that make life more dangerous for us all. Peace ✌🏽 shalom, salaam alecum brothers and sisters.
Thanks for the clarification. I agree ☝️
This is fascinating 🧐 I wonder if Hirschfield researched traditional attitudes to gender identity in other cultures too?
Which media are you referring to? As a Jew(ish) 3rd generation London refugee (19thC) I have been aware of nazi persecution of Roma, homosexuals communists etc for as long as I remember. But your point is well valid.
#notinmyname #genocide as a person of Jew(ish) heritage I continue to be revolted by Israel 🇮🇱 under Netanyahu. He is a flag bearer for antisemites every where. Sowing seeds of hatred that make life more dangerous us all. Peace ✌🏽 shalom, salaam alecum brothers and sisters.
Where is your picture?
There’s a 30s travel 🧳 poster for Corsica that’s very similar. Beautiful 😻
Thank you for the clarification. The point was indeed that “this can happen to anyone “ as you say. Pretty sure that this story was cited when vaccines 💉 were introduced. ❤️🩹
Old enough to remember MMR parties pre-vaccines especially for girls and German measles as we called rubella then. Paul who sat next to me in primary school wore callipers after polio! Vaccines WORK Of all the shit 💩 from this administration personally I find this as murderous as anything military
I seem to recall that. It became a very powerful vaccine promoter at the time across Europe I think 🤔 like a celebrity endorsement of vaccines ❤️🩹 didn’t it?
Once it’s endemic in the USA 🇺🇸 the rest of the world will follow. (We do need to introduce vaccine 💉 mandates for travel 🧳) This is a policy made measles outbreak 😷 #infanticide
Yeah you do but the rest of the world 🌍 doesn’t!!!
Oh I forgot DRC which is in the same shit 💩 as when I worked there 24 years ago despite or probably because of a 1/4 C of “peace keeping” !
Totally 💯 most of the world’s media seem to think Gaza & Ukraine are the only wars that matter. But Sudan 🇸🇩 is dire, the Sahel increasingly dangerous and autocratic and splitting from ECWAS vulnerable to increased Wagner & Chinese 🇨🇳 influence especially into the void left by destruction of USAID.
Having spent much of my working life in and out of armed conflict zones in West and Central Africa - initially as a traveler then in conflict transformation and humanitarian organisations. I’ve seen how much has changed in the last 50 years, good to have a window on this region though your posts 🙏🏽
Cool, kinda Naija pop meets the Red Sea 🌊
Yeah Why? BBC is a shadow of its former self! I remember when Today would set the day’s news agenda (RIP Brian Redhead). Now what do we get ? Leading questions, Sun derived editorials. I’m pretty sure Fagage (love it) gets far more coverage than entitled to under editorial guidelines.
Powerful words! Totally 💯 on point !
This work is vital to inform “infodemic management” and stop children particularly dying from mis & disinformation.
Thoughtcrime - Having thoughts that questioned the Party or Big Brother. Even facial expressions that suggested skepticism could constitute "facecrime." I can’t imagine that Trump studied 1984 but someone in his circle has !
And Doublethink - The ability to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accept both as true. This cognitive dissonance was essential for party members who had to accept frequent revisions of history. Beginning to sound familiar? /2
Free speech to these idiots is what Orwell describes as: Newspeak ..official language of Oceania, designed to limit freedom of thought by eliminating words that could express dissent or individualism. It systematically reduced vocabulary to make certain thoughts literally impossible to formulate.
Should I book Air France 🇫🇷 or KLM 🇳🇱 Bet the weather’s great 😊
Support for Netanyahu and his unrepresentative Israeli 🇮🇱 government has made life immeasurably more difficult for ordinary Jews everywhere. Their racist attacks on critics of the Gaza genocide under the guise of fighting anti-semitism even more so. Don’t be fooled they are coming for us next!
Famine on the Wind: Plant Diseases and Human History Shared via the Google app g.co/kgs/AD5uQm1
Bella Donna - deadly nightshade great for dilating eyes 👀 and for angina but will also kill your kids if they eat the berries. I could go on and on and on… 😜
Fly Agaric mushroom 🍄 trips fuelled the Vikings raping and pillaging across Europe because they make you go “berserk” !
But surely “natural” is safe? Like ergot it’s fungus that grows on cereals and when you eat it you hallucinate before dying of gangrene. If it wasn’t for ergot we’d all be Russian 🇷🇺
Double speak 🗣️ (1984) 1) immigrants commit less crime than natives. 2) they contribute more in SS than they take. This last i know from my time in Texas in the 80’s working on a fake ss number contributing but not claiming, nor could I!
Burying people is cheaper than treating them!
FFS I feel for you guys in 🇺🇸 BUT more afraid of the consequences for the rest of our planet’s children. Not apologising for repeating that vaccination certificates should be required for international travel! Un vaccinated Americans shouldn’t spread vaccine preventable diseases around the globe 🌍
Fair enough- he looks so young it might have been mid 70s when I was studying Agriculture at Reading!
John Peel ! What year was this?
Then we voted the Tory bastards out of power!
Ultimately the UK’s agreement never materialised as our judiciary managed to block it through numerous challenges and perseverance. Happily maintaining the separation of powers - legislature, executive and judiciary - this is really under attack in Trump’s America 🇺🇸
Americans get your country together! “Trump says he is 'entitled' to deport people without trials”
While I’m delirious to see him Musk 🐀 getting his, it’s a shame 😳 that a good product and the good people, indeed friends, that work for the company should suffer. But the muskfuckwit is not interested in a sustainable future so next electric ⚡️ car 🚙 anything but Tesla.
Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are falsely claiming that the measles public health crisis in Texas is caused by a “bioweapon” targeting the Mennonite community.
What the fuck is wrong with these people and how ignorant are they that anyone could believe this nonsense? In the UK 🇬🇧 and European 🇪🇺 countries marketing of these “cures” would be criminal.