Economics (environmental, behavioural and happiness) at @SussexUni. @mappiness_app creator. Coder. School governor. Bass 1. @jawj.prof on Bluesky.
Brighton, UK
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George MacKerron retweeted
Tim Davie was privately educated, went to Cambridge and was a Tory candidate and deputy chair of a local Conservative Party Association. Clear case of left-wing bias. If the left wing rot's gotta stop, then we need to start with private schools, Cambridge and the Tory Party.
George MacKerron retweeted
Postgres hackers:
We open-sourced Elephantshark, a Ruby script that acts like a Postgres-specialized Wireshark for encrypted traffic
neon.com/blog/elephantshark-…
George MacKerron retweeted
Greene: What country are you from?
Reporter: The UK
Greene: We don’t give a crap about your opinion.. why don’t you go back to your country. This is an American journalist.
Second Reporter: I’d like to hear your answer to what she’s asking
George MacKerron retweeted
The UK must not be an #AllyToAtrocities.
@Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy, the UK must do everything in its power to end the siege of #Gaza, and act now to prevent Israel’s atrocities in Gaza from being repeated in the West Bank.
Go to ow.ly/YsH750Vk6qY to find out more.
George MacKerron retweeted
Brilliant. 👏
"I understand why you're doing it but for heaven's sake...
...and then you see the scenes in Spain."
It's a relief to see @mrjamesob connecting the dots. So few journalists are. Direct action from ordinary people is needed more than ever to force those in power to act.
George MacKerron retweeted
On Oct 12, the usually excellent @nickmmark (and @PulmCrit reposting) made an extremely grave accusation against US medics who volunteered - at considerable personal risk - in Gaza. Namely, that they faked X-rays of children being shot by taping bullets onto them then imaging 1/3
George MacKerron retweeted
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This is, I believe, unprecedented in the history of UK medicine.
28 eminent UK doctors have written publicly to @LaylaMoran, the new chair of @CommonsHealth, to report something nothing less than scandalous.
Read their letter here (1/n) 👇
bmj.com/content/386/bmj.q198…
Just arrived at @Gatwick_Airport with the family overnight from Montreal. Kids are struggling with heavy cases, but no trolley because we don’t have a £1 coin. Utterly braindead.
George MacKerron retweeted
New post: If Labour is serious about defeating right wing populism, it needs to reform large parts of the media
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/202…
Labour cannot let the media landscape become increasingly the plaything of very rich individuals wanting to push a right wing populist agenda.
George MacKerron retweeted
What’s happening isn’t ‘protests’ & ‘counter protests’.
It’s ‘violent, fascist riots’ & ‘people who think violent, fascist riots are wrong’.
Both-sides at this point is figuratively & literally like saying the fire brigade & the arsonists have a point.
News feeds - do better.
George MacKerron retweeted
I feel stupid and ashamed. In May, an expose came out on CNN detailing the abuses in Sde Taiman. Then, the NYT released their own article on it. Both were backed up with Israeli sources, crossed with Palestinian ones.
I dismissed them because my government sources and Israeli media denied them. My whole life I was told that the international media was out to get Israel. That they were all antisemites.
But today, I realized how much I was lied to. By my country. By my friends. By my media. Today, many of the people I talked to who denied these allegations admitted they were true.
And the worst part? None of this is coming to light because the IDF and government have changed their hearts about it. Its coming out because the pressure from the UK, ICC and ICJ was getting too great to ignore. This would get Netanyahu, Gallant and the Chief of Staff in serious trouble. So they finally said the truth. That Israel is routinely torturing inmates. That sexual abuse is fairly common there. That people have been tortured to death.
Worst of all, many of the people in this facility were innocent. Rounded up by accident. But there was no real verification process before they were subjected to this hell on earth.
This can't go on.
George MacKerron retweeted
I wrote about HS2. Why it needed building. Why it got cancelled and why it won't get reinstated. And what we might expect to happen now. tomforth.co.uk/hs2/
George MacKerron retweeted
Mike Pence says he won’t support Donald Trump and explains why.
His own Vice President won’t vote for him. What else does it take?
George MacKerron retweeted
I undersigned this letter today. I urge @DavidLammy to take the points into account.
Read more here: theguardian.com/world/articl…
@ProgIntl
George MacKerron retweeted
I know that parties must campaign in lies: such is the state of the media. But with a 174-seat majority, Labour should be able to govern in truth. Reeves doesn't seem to realize that when you've caught the bus you should stop running.
George MacKerron retweeted
Destroying water treatment plants is a war crime in its own right. Doing so in full knowledge that it will contribute to the spread of polio is evidence of genocidal intent.
George MacKerron retweeted
The story of one day in the life of a British government: The latest tranche of NAO reports document catastrophic Tory failures on the NHS, rail, roads, homelessness, benefits, education and even space itself tiny.cc/k9wazz
