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I feel compelled to write a review thread 🧵 for The Liz Truss Show because in the madness of the content, other aspects - vital aspects - are being missed.

1. The Aesthetics

Unless they were aiming for "Harley Street urologist waiting room circa 1992" this interview area is just unacceptable. 1/
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Hello 👋 thanks for the article & esp. the closing question 🙏👍

I also have Q’s to Wes Streeting to add to the list. Why doesnt his review refer to recent NHS England AdHD taskforce & Lords autism act select committee reports, both stating under diagnosis & under funding 👇

bsky.app/profile/levi...
Re: Wes Streeting’s review into mental health and Autism & ADHD… The Lords & NHS have released major review reports in November 2025 stating clearly that both Autism & ADHD are UNDER diagnosed & under resourced in the UK/England. I am shocked Wes Streeting doesn’t appear to have read them! 🧵👇

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December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right’s callous overdiagnosis bandwagon is rolling. Wes Streeting should not be on it | John Harris
Thankfully, we now know more about conditions such as autism and ADHD. The health secretary must not be part of this attempt to turn back the clock, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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THREAD.

3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.

We decided to call him Jim.

This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“Her opening monologue was nothing more than a laundry list of Maga stereotypes about the British. The woman longs to become Donald Trump’s Lord Haw-Haw…”

I don’t know whether Truss is broken from loosing the PM role or just a grifter, but it’s not a good look.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The Liz Truss Show review – hapless ravings from a cupboard
Britain’s briefest PM kept her fans waiting before launching her latest plea for Maga attention in the form of a ham-fisted YouTube talk show
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Watch out -lots of flu is about!
Basically, wear a mask if you have any cold or flu like symptoms & need to go out & about, and also wear a mask sitting in unventilated spaces near lots of people (eg public transport) if you are vulnerable or just don’t want to get sick

inews.co.uk/news/health/...
Wear a face mask if you feel ill, public told as hospitals face record flu surge
Ministers urged to offer free flu jabs to those aged 50 and above, amid spread of 'nasty' H3N2 strain
inews.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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If Nigel Farage claims he was just a teenage racist but grew out of it, here's what he had to say about Shamima Begum in 2019.
He was happy to judge her harshly as an adult for her teenage behaviour + beliefs even though she'd been groomed: "She clearly from these comments is a convinced jihadist."
December 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Main purpose of the journey was to visit the Quaker Tapestry Museum.

A great display of the embroided panels of the history of the Society of Friends, although sadly closing next week.

Disappointing, and I do the decision is reversed. It's a cracking little place.
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-...
Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
iandunt.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is a good article - it’s well worth the time to read it! 👍🤩
I fixed a desk and understood public service reform.

A post about problems, innovation, demand signalling and picture hooks.

open.substack.com/pub/howtorun...
Problem first thinking
How to unlock innovation, productivity gain and social value
open.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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It is really easy to scold on socials. It is really hard to tease out subtleties of opinion. I think this inhibits a lot of the left, many of whom fear causing offence - and for good reason.
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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The Government's Child Poverty Strategy begins to turn the tide on child poverty.

As a result, child poverty rates will fall next year – the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic).

But other child poverty headwinds remain.

Read our full statement 👇
buff.ly/Tnqasir
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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In over 14 years that should read! 😅 Deffo most progressive since Gordon brown.
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Anyone saying Labour are same or worse than Tories on the economy has amnesia 😳 The budget wasn’t perfect but was most progressive in 14 yrs

“The biggest budget winners in terms of net income, the Resolution Foundation thinktank notes, were the poorest 10%; the biggest losers were the richest 10%.”
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This identifies a huge part of UK’s productivity gap. Seriously. & part of the reason many neurodivergent ppl find the energies required for life management more than their executive function capacity. -Organisations outsource admin & problem solving load onto citizens whilst refusing accountabioity
Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Website Task Flowchart

xkcd.com/3175/
December 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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This chart is about tactical voting, but looking at it from the perspective of ‘would it be easier for labour to get voters back from Reform, or from literally anyone else’ is quite revealing
If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Someone needs to tell Morgan Mc-HiltonTimothyCummings-Sweaney that Reform voters are NOT Labour’s friends & a most sizeable majority would vote AGAINST Labour in a heartbeat, & chasing them is damaging to both the country & the party. MMcS is an example of ‘the Peter Principle’ if ever I saw one. 🥹
If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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In our world, fishing is one of the most dangerous jobs. In the cat world, those who go out on the waters are considered exceptionally brave. The International Fishercat Union supports these cats on the water and the land and helps coordinate eco-stewardship. #art #union
December 4, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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In 2014 Farage defended a comedian who appeared at UKIP conference and made a string of offensive "jokes" about Polish, Somalia, Muslims and Asian people.

The BBC by contrast banned the Black and White minstrel show in 1978
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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And here we are
ITV are now asking Farage about his schoolboy comments and Farage is talking over the correspondent and instead ranting about Bernard Manning and how Manning appeared on ITV in the past. This is all quite odd.
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“This is the most detailed genetic map of ME to date, reinforcing that it has a clear biological and genetic basis and is a serious chronic disease affecting multiple systems in the body”

Take that failed PACE study - it was wrong then & it is wrong now. me/CFS was never “all in the mind” 😳
Good news for the circa 400 million people around the world suffering from #ME and #LongCovid.

em.precisionlife.com/hubfs/01%20K...
em.precisionlife.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Re: Wes Streeting’s review into mental health and Autism & ADHD… The Lords & NHS have released major review reports in November 2025 stating clearly that both Autism & ADHD are UNDER diagnosed & under resourced in the UK/England. I am shocked Wes Streeting doesn’t appear to have read them! 🧵👇

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December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM