Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History
@brianwernham.bsky.social
🔶 Lib Dem Councillor for Stanwix Urban Ward, Cumberland Council
📍Carlisle, Cumbria
Proud to be British 🇬🇧
Proud to be a Lib Dem 🔶
Proud to be an internationalist🌍, not a xenophobe
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, London
📍Carlisle, Cumbria
Proud to be British 🇬🇧
Proud to be a Lib Dem 🔶
Proud to be an internationalist🌍, not a xenophobe
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, London
Second World War
Unless you have marine superiority, the bigger the ship, the more of a burden it is to maintain and the less use it is
Tirpitz was Hitler's Death Star and just like the Death Star it was destroyed with a single well-placed bomb ('Tallboy')
Unless you have marine superiority, the bigger the ship, the more of a burden it is to maintain and the less use it is
Tirpitz was Hitler's Death Star and just like the Death Star it was destroyed with a single well-placed bomb ('Tallboy')
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Second World War
Unless you have marine superiority, the bigger the ship, the more of a burden it is to maintain and the less use it is
Tirpitz was Hitler's Death Star and just like the Death Star it was destroyed with a single well-placed bomb ('Tallboy')
Unless you have marine superiority, the bigger the ship, the more of a burden it is to maintain and the less use it is
Tirpitz was Hitler's Death Star and just like the Death Star it was destroyed with a single well-placed bomb ('Tallboy')
"Cancelling Biden’s executive orders” refers only to policy directives
Executive orders govern operation of executive branch (regulations, agency priorities, immigration policy etc.)
They do NOT include pardons, commutations, or clemency decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Executive orders govern operation of executive branch (regulations, agency priorities, immigration policy etc.)
They do NOT include pardons, commutations, or clemency decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump says he will cancel all Biden executive orders signed by autopen – as it happened
In social media post Trump claims baselessly that Biden did not sign off on the orders himself, escalating longstanding campaign against his predecessor
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Cancelling Biden’s executive orders” refers only to policy directives
Executive orders govern operation of executive branch (regulations, agency priorities, immigration policy etc.)
They do NOT include pardons, commutations, or clemency decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Executive orders govern operation of executive branch (regulations, agency priorities, immigration policy etc.)
They do NOT include pardons, commutations, or clemency decisions
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Radiation vulnerability rising → because transistors are shrinking
Moore’s Law slowing
→ because transistors cannot shrink much further
Vulnerabilities will start to hit integrated circuits being used in everyday lives
→ we all not be able to miniaturize further
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Moore’s Law slowing
→ because transistors cannot shrink much further
Vulnerabilities will start to hit integrated circuits being used in everyday lives
→ we all not be able to miniaturize further
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data
The issue is thought to affect 6,000 planes, which will need to undergo an urgent software update or have computers replaced.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Radiation vulnerability rising → because transistors are shrinking
Moore’s Law slowing
→ because transistors cannot shrink much further
Vulnerabilities will start to hit integrated circuits being used in everyday lives
→ we all not be able to miniaturize further
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Moore’s Law slowing
→ because transistors cannot shrink much further
Vulnerabilities will start to hit integrated circuits being used in everyday lives
→ we all not be able to miniaturize further
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reposted by Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History
Russia has released its latest peace plan
by u/Chewie83
by u/Chewie83
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Russia has released its latest peace plan
by u/Chewie83
by u/Chewie83
"(Prostate Cancer UK) submitted evidence that showed routine testing for men at highest risk, black men & those with family history would save lives
"Today, the committee has decided we don’t yet have enough evidence"
Someone's wrong then…
prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/new...
"Today, the committee has decided we don’t yet have enough evidence"
Someone's wrong then…
prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/new...
It’s a “no” to mass screening today – but our vital research will lead the way to routine testing for every man
The UK National Screening Committee has rejected prostate cancer screening for the vast majority of men. But we won’t give up. We’re on the right path to secure routine testing for every man – and our...
prostatecanceruk.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"(Prostate Cancer UK) submitted evidence that showed routine testing for men at highest risk, black men & those with family history would save lives
"Today, the committee has decided we don’t yet have enough evidence"
Someone's wrong then…
prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/new...
"Today, the committee has decided we don’t yet have enough evidence"
Someone's wrong then…
prostatecanceruk.org/about-us/new...
"Prostate Cancer UK’s TRANSFORM Trial should answer how & who to screen
"Research funded by Cancer Research UK into lethal prostate cancer should answer who to treat"
Why has it fallen to charities to fund the research on why so many British men are dying of the most common cancer?
"Research funded by Cancer Research UK into lethal prostate cancer should answer who to treat"
Why has it fallen to charities to fund the research on why so many British men are dying of the most common cancer?
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"Prostate Cancer UK’s TRANSFORM Trial should answer how & who to screen
"Research funded by Cancer Research UK into lethal prostate cancer should answer who to treat"
Why has it fallen to charities to fund the research on why so many British men are dying of the most common cancer?
"Research funded by Cancer Research UK into lethal prostate cancer should answer who to treat"
Why has it fallen to charities to fund the research on why so many British men are dying of the most common cancer?
"Current prostate cancer testing by geography, literacy, anxiety & affluence is inequitable & ineffective
"It risks entrenching disadvantages of black men/deprived groups & regions
"A political decision is needed to fix this inequality"
Ben Lamb, QMUL
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
"It risks entrenching disadvantages of black men/deprived groups & regions
"A political decision is needed to fix this inequality"
Ben Lamb, QMUL
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
expert reaction to the draft recommendation from the national screening committee on prostate cancer screening | Science Media Centre
www.sciencemediacentre.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Current prostate cancer testing by geography, literacy, anxiety & affluence is inequitable & ineffective
"It risks entrenching disadvantages of black men/deprived groups & regions
"A political decision is needed to fix this inequality"
Ben Lamb, QMUL
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
"It risks entrenching disadvantages of black men/deprived groups & regions
"A political decision is needed to fix this inequality"
Ben Lamb, QMUL
www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
How to cover up and make sure that your recommendations quietly slip through
a) make the announcement late Friday afternoon
b) don't tell the broadcasters or mainstream media that there is a 12-week consultation 👇
view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...
a) make the announcement late Friday afternoon
b) don't tell the broadcasters or mainstream media that there is a 12-week consultation 👇
view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...
Prostate cancer - UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) - GOV.UK
view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
How to cover up and make sure that your recommendations quietly slip through
a) make the announcement late Friday afternoon
b) don't tell the broadcasters or mainstream media that there is a 12-week consultation 👇
view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...
a) make the announcement late Friday afternoon
b) don't tell the broadcasters or mainstream media that there is a 12-week consultation 👇
view-health-screening-recommendations.service.gov.uk/prostate-can...
Patronising and arrogant
"...the anxiety that could be caused to men by being diagnosed"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
* Slightly paraphrased but you be the judge
"...the anxiety that could be caused to men by being diagnosed"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
* Slightly paraphrased but you be the judge
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Patronising and arrogant
"...the anxiety that could be caused to men by being diagnosed"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
* Slightly paraphrased but you be the judge
"...the anxiety that could be caused to men by being diagnosed"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
* Slightly paraphrased but you be the judge
Black?
"We haven't had many black men in trials so far so we really don't know if he can help them, so we're not going to"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
I have somewhat paraphrased that but that really is what he has said. He promised 5 years ago to revisit this.
"We haven't had many black men in trials so far so we really don't know if he can help them, so we're not going to"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
I have somewhat paraphrased that but that really is what he has said. He promised 5 years ago to revisit this.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Black?
"We haven't had many black men in trials so far so we really don't know if he can help them, so we're not going to"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
I have somewhat paraphrased that but that really is what he has said. He promised 5 years ago to revisit this.
"We haven't had many black men in trials so far so we really don't know if he can help them, so we're not going to"
- Prof. Mike Richards, Chair of National Screening Committee*
I have somewhat paraphrased that but that really is what he has said. He promised 5 years ago to revisit this.
Prostate cancer screening not going ahead
David Cameron's reaction 👇
David Cameron's reaction 👇
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Prostate cancer screening not going ahead
David Cameron's reaction 👇
David Cameron's reaction 👇
Prostate Cancer UK CEO
"The Government must change The guidelines to allow doctors to have proactive conversations with patients (so they don't get turned away as Paul said)"
"The Government must change The guidelines to allow doctors to have proactive conversations with patients (so they don't get turned away as Paul said)"
November 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Prostate Cancer UK CEO
"The Government must change The guidelines to allow doctors to have proactive conversations with patients (so they don't get turned away as Paul said)"
"The Government must change The guidelines to allow doctors to have proactive conversations with patients (so they don't get turned away as Paul said)"
Prostate cancer spokesman (Paul Lythe) just now👇
"I spoke to a mate last night at football practise and he said his doctor had asked him what did he want to have a prostate cancer test for?"
"I spoke to a mate last night at football practise and he said his doctor had asked him what did he want to have a prostate cancer test for?"
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Prostate cancer spokesman (Paul Lythe) just now👇
"I spoke to a mate last night at football practise and he said his doctor had asked him what did he want to have a prostate cancer test for?"
"I spoke to a mate last night at football practise and he said his doctor had asked him what did he want to have a prostate cancer test for?"
Prostate cancer screening?
Not for black men
Not for those with family history
Only a few where there is an NHS record of the rare BRCA gene in the family
Sir Chris Hoy's statement:
Not for black men
Not for those with family history
Only a few where there is an NHS record of the rare BRCA gene in the family
Sir Chris Hoy's statement:
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Prostate cancer screening?
Not for black men
Not for those with family history
Only a few where there is an NHS record of the rare BRCA gene in the family
Sir Chris Hoy's statement:
Not for black men
Not for those with family history
Only a few where there is an NHS record of the rare BRCA gene in the family
Sir Chris Hoy's statement:
NHS decision at 3pm
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Prostate cancer screening not expected to be made widely available in UK
Expert advisers likely to recommend only a few thousand men with genetic variant should be eligible for tests
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We’ve just hit 50 council by-election wins since May 1st, winning more than the Conservatives, Labour, and the Green Party!
The momentum is with us, this is your party 🔶
The momentum is with us, this is your party 🔶
November 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
We’ve just hit 50 council by-election wins since May 1st, winning more than the Conservatives, Labour, and the Green Party!
The momentum is with us, this is your party 🔶
The momentum is with us, this is your party 🔶
Well done to @timfarron.bsky.social and team
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Well done to @timfarron.bsky.social and team
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
Lib Dems take a seat from Labour in Penrith with a stonking 55% of the vote and fend off a strong challenge from Reform
Don't want Reform?
Then vote Lib Dem
NHS decision at 3pm
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Prostate cancer screening not expected to be made widely available in UK
Expert advisers likely to recommend only a few thousand men with genetic variant should be eligible for tests
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
NHS decision at 3pm
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some risk based screening for prostate cancer:
a) 𝗡𝗢𝗧 going to screen black people
b) 𝗔𝗥𝗘 going to screen w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶,̶ ̶m̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶c̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ people who already have had genetic testing for BRCA genes (or parents have*)
*Shame if you're an immigrant
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
In 2 hours time the NHS is expected to announce A very limited and risk targeted prostate cancer screening program.
This is obviously timed so that they can run away from their computers after they press the send button and hope that they can't avoid direct fallout from the controversial decision
This is obviously timed so that they can run away from their computers after they press the send button and hope that they can't avoid direct fallout from the controversial decision
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In 2 hours time the NHS is expected to announce A very limited and risk targeted prostate cancer screening program.
This is obviously timed so that they can run away from their computers after they press the send button and hope that they can't avoid direct fallout from the controversial decision
This is obviously timed so that they can run away from their computers after they press the send button and hope that they can't avoid direct fallout from the controversial decision
It always was all about the ming vase...
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It always was all about the ming vase...
Rachel Reeves is the continuity Conservative chancellor.
November 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Rachel Reeves is the continuity Conservative chancellor.
Post-operative opioid withdrawal titration off?
Pain control, compliance & comfort?
"There is no randomised, controlled clinical trial that compares
1. exponential curve decay
2. linear reduction
randomises postoperative opioid users into those two taper shapes"
Thus saith ChatGPT+
True?
Pain control, compliance & comfort?
"There is no randomised, controlled clinical trial that compares
1. exponential curve decay
2. linear reduction
randomises postoperative opioid users into those two taper shapes"
Thus saith ChatGPT+
True?
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Post-operative opioid withdrawal titration off?
Pain control, compliance & comfort?
"There is no randomised, controlled clinical trial that compares
1. exponential curve decay
2. linear reduction
randomises postoperative opioid users into those two taper shapes"
Thus saith ChatGPT+
True?
Pain control, compliance & comfort?
"There is no randomised, controlled clinical trial that compares
1. exponential curve decay
2. linear reduction
randomises postoperative opioid users into those two taper shapes"
Thus saith ChatGPT+
True?
So this 'scientific diagram' has been published in a peer-reviewed journal having gone through two rounds of peer review with two expert peer reviewers.
Journal editor blames human error
Maybe they should have used AI rather than human beings...
bsky.app/profile/jack...
Journal editor blames human error
Maybe they should have used AI rather than human beings...
bsky.app/profile/jack...
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
So this 'scientific diagram' has been published in a peer-reviewed journal having gone through two rounds of peer review with two expert peer reviewers.
Journal editor blames human error
Maybe they should have used AI rather than human beings...
bsky.app/profile/jack...
Journal editor blames human error
Maybe they should have used AI rather than human beings...
bsky.app/profile/jack...
Reposted by Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History
If you can read this and not laugh until it hurts you have never spent time with the hard Left. Corbyn and Sultana are both loathsome and incompetent, just in completely different ways.
They deserve each other.
We deserve neither of them.
They deserve each other.
We deserve neither of them.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
If you can read this and not laugh until it hurts you have never spent time with the hard Left. Corbyn and Sultana are both loathsome and incompetent, just in completely different ways.
They deserve each other.
We deserve neither of them.
They deserve each other.
We deserve neither of them.
Quiz
Federal agents going into every state even where they're not welcome and arresting and disappearing black people even if they are free citizens:
a) 1850
b) 2025
c) 1850 and again in 2025
bsky.app/profile/bria...
Federal agents going into every state even where they're not welcome and arresting and disappearing black people even if they are free citizens:
a) 1850
b) 2025
c) 1850 and again in 2025
bsky.app/profile/bria...
Thrilling!
The story of heroine Harriet Tubman, who went back many times into US slave territory to rescue over 300 slaves and take them to Canada
You may be aware of her but this is a really engaging description
David Olusoga & Sarah Churchwell present Journey Through Time Goalhanger podcast
The story of heroine Harriet Tubman, who went back many times into US slave territory to rescue over 300 slaves and take them to Canada
You may be aware of her but this is a really engaging description
David Olusoga & Sarah Churchwell present Journey Through Time Goalhanger podcast
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Quiz
Federal agents going into every state even where they're not welcome and arresting and disappearing black people even if they are free citizens:
a) 1850
b) 2025
c) 1850 and again in 2025
bsky.app/profile/bria...
Federal agents going into every state even where they're not welcome and arresting and disappearing black people even if they are free citizens:
a) 1850
b) 2025
c) 1850 and again in 2025
bsky.app/profile/bria...