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If you change #Digital worlds in ways that make them #inaccessible to some people you #exclude them & will #lose them.
John Jackson retweeted
The elephant in the room...
Pre-Brexit we had a returns agreement
Unauthorised migrants could be returned to the first safe EU country they entered
Brexit ended that
Traffickers spotted a new gap in the market:
Take people to Britain where they could no longer be sent back
John Jackson retweeted
The Prime Minister has just posted a new video - telling us with a big fat smile on his face that his plan is working. Tell that to the 14 million people now living in poverty & the kids eating out of bins!
If you share my rage RT this widely
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The Prime Minister is still saying he’s ensuring the only way to come to the UK for asylum will be through safe & legal routes
Imagine his shock when he finds out there are currently NO SAFE & LEGAL ROUTES by which to travel to the UK for the purpose of claiming asylum
John Jackson retweeted
Conservatives say they can’t afford the Pension Triple lock because it's too expensive.
The UK has the lowest State pension in Europe, the oldest retirement age in the world and is the 6th richest nation in the world.
You'd have to be damn stupid to believe that lie
#newsnight
John Jackson retweeted
If you are worried about
Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £58bn.
Or immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.
Or NHS potential pay rises £3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.
You are buying their lies.
John Jackson retweeted
I don't think a lot of people in Britain realise how much higher GDP per capita is in Ireland than in the UK - more than double. Also, in 2010 the GDP per capita of both countries was comparable, but since then it's more than doubled in Ireland and stayed almost flat in the UK.
John Jackson retweeted
We shouldn’t have a health secretary with no background in healthcare. It makes no sense. You only understand the complexities if you’ve been responsible for patients’ care and their well-being.
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A small gift can make a big difference in these hard times. Donate once a month to help children in the UK and around the world.
John Jackson retweeted
Real Suffering: Long COVID
We must do more to discover scientific answers & medical treatments for LONG-COVID
In our recent Neuro #LongCOVID paper in @LancetRespirMed…read 🧵👇
We had permission to present the true story of this 32-year-old father, husband, firefighter, and emergency medical technician who developed mild acute COVID-19 in October, 2021, despite being fully vaccinated. The patient was healthy, fully functional, and employed before infection, but showed symptoms consistent with cognitive impairment, post-traumatic stress disorder, and precipitous hearing loss after the acute disease, with resultant loss of employment.
He had hearing evaluated as part of employment screening in 2014; the picture on the left, taken 8 months after acute COVID-19, shows hearing loss since the previous evaluation.
His profound sensorineural hearing impairment as part of long COVID necessitated bilateral hearing aids, appears to be permanent. The picture on the right shows him in June, 2023, 1 year and 8 months after the acute disease; he has now received the first of 2 planned cochlear implants & he receives social security disability funds that make up about 50% of his previous income.
1/🧵Long COVID Brain Problems are a global disaster
📌Hiding in plain sight
📌Too often ignored by doctors
📌Read our new Lancet-RM article
📌On the intersection of #LongCOVID & #PICS
📌I’ll unpack below
Link gives 6 weeks of open access:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1hR8b…
John Jackson retweeted
He passed away yesterday, at the age of 37.
“He had been suffering from LongCovid, a condition that causes persistent symptoms after Covid-19 infection, for more than three years.” mcphagwara.com/articles/bran…
John Jackson retweeted
Thank goodness for Woke Watch 😂Some woke hippy from Grantham (Margaret Thatcher) here saying “the environmental challenge which confronts the whole world demands an equivalent response from the whole world” 1989
Gosh what a Leftie 🤔🤔 @ProfRayWills
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Yet another radical speech by some #woke socialist, leftie tree-hugging hippy & her watermelon anti-capitalist calls to tear down society
And for what?
A future?
Bloody hippy
Margaret Thatcher. 1989
PM UK 1979-90
Leader, Conservative Party
#ClimateCrisis
John Jackson retweeted
The way British conservatism has drifted from its roots over the last decade can be highlighted in no better way than that they inflicted Brexit on us and then proceeded to blame all of its negative effects on everyone else but themselves.
