Môr Leidr
@bartiddu.bsky.social
Prof of Child Health (retired)
Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴.
🏳️⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights
Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror
Profile: the other channelling Rousseau’s tiger🐅
No DMs (I can’t access) 🙏🏻
Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴.
🏳️⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights
Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror
Profile: the other channelling Rousseau’s tiger🐅
No DMs (I can’t access) 🙏🏻
I worked promoting the rights of the child
I felt childhood was valuable as itself; it wasn’t merely a preparation for something else
So argued we should strive to make childhoods as happy as possible (& that eradicating child poverty was fundamental)
#TomStoppard nailed it in this speech
Beautiful
I felt childhood was valuable as itself; it wasn’t merely a preparation for something else
So argued we should strive to make childhoods as happy as possible (& that eradicating child poverty was fundamental)
#TomStoppard nailed it in this speech
Beautiful
November 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I worked promoting the rights of the child
I felt childhood was valuable as itself; it wasn’t merely a preparation for something else
So argued we should strive to make childhoods as happy as possible (& that eradicating child poverty was fundamental)
#TomStoppard nailed it in this speech
Beautiful
I felt childhood was valuable as itself; it wasn’t merely a preparation for something else
So argued we should strive to make childhoods as happy as possible (& that eradicating child poverty was fundamental)
#TomStoppard nailed it in this speech
Beautiful
Just found this gem of an exchange on Reddit
Indeed separated by a common language
Indeed separated by a common language
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Just found this gem of an exchange on Reddit
Indeed separated by a common language
Indeed separated by a common language
I am not generally supportive of long prison sentences but corrupt politicians really deserve harsh measures Honestly don’t believe he was the only Reform MEP taking bribes like this
They were all supportive of Russia
They were all supportive of Russia
November 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I am not generally supportive of long prison sentences but corrupt politicians really deserve harsh measures Honestly don’t believe he was the only Reform MEP taking bribes like this
They were all supportive of Russia
They were all supportive of Russia
It’s not December yet and I am already dreaming of Spring
November 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s not December yet and I am already dreaming of Spring
Two very relevant quotations here, from Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the British NHS, which the political right and corporate lobbyists in the UK are trying very hard to destroy
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Two very relevant quotations here, from Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the British NHS, which the political right and corporate lobbyists in the UK are trying very hard to destroy
We have a tiny front lawn that’s covered in the spring
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We have a tiny front lawn that’s covered in the spring
For Remembrance Sunday
As well as the heroism, the pointless, pitiless waste of life
A photo of my great Uncle Bobby, much mourned by my grandmother, who had this taken with her just before leaving for France
A week later he was dead
Below: One of the best few minutes of television ever made
As well as the heroism, the pointless, pitiless waste of life
A photo of my great Uncle Bobby, much mourned by my grandmother, who had this taken with her just before leaving for France
A week later he was dead
Below: One of the best few minutes of television ever made
November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
For Remembrance Sunday
As well as the heroism, the pointless, pitiless waste of life
A photo of my great Uncle Bobby, much mourned by my grandmother, who had this taken with her just before leaving for France
A week later he was dead
Below: One of the best few minutes of television ever made
As well as the heroism, the pointless, pitiless waste of life
A photo of my great Uncle Bobby, much mourned by my grandmother, who had this taken with her just before leaving for France
A week later he was dead
Below: One of the best few minutes of television ever made
Banksky strikes again
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Banksky strikes again
As did Caerphilly on Thursday
October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
As did Caerphilly on Thursday
Perfect letter in the Guardian today
October 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Perfect letter in the Guardian today
I’m late to the party but isn’t “Colin from accounts” a work of genius?
October 21, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m late to the party but isn’t “Colin from accounts” a work of genius?
Kier Starmer is a raging philosemite
It’s unhelpful & a manifestation of discrimination against Jews
It explains his “unequivocal” support for the Israeli state, & his resistance to acknowledge war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide in Gaza
See jewishstudies.rice.edu/branches/win....
It’s unhelpful & a manifestation of discrimination against Jews
It explains his “unequivocal” support for the Israeli state, & his resistance to acknowledge war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide in Gaza
See jewishstudies.rice.edu/branches/win....
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Kier Starmer is a raging philosemite
It’s unhelpful & a manifestation of discrimination against Jews
It explains his “unequivocal” support for the Israeli state, & his resistance to acknowledge war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide in Gaza
See jewishstudies.rice.edu/branches/win....
It’s unhelpful & a manifestation of discrimination against Jews
It explains his “unequivocal” support for the Israeli state, & his resistance to acknowledge war crimes, crimes against humanity, & genocide in Gaza
See jewishstudies.rice.edu/branches/win....
A variation on this one from a few months ago
October 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
A variation on this one from a few months ago
And it literally does say admissions on your own website the link above takes us to
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
And it literally does say admissions on your own website the link above takes us to
This is an incredibly powerful poem by Warsan Shire about why people seek asylum
No one ever really wants to leave their home
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
No one ever really wants to leave their home
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is an incredibly powerful poem by Warsan Shire about why people seek asylum
No one ever really wants to leave their home
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
No one ever really wants to leave their home
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”
Even at eye level they can be confusing
My local hospital 😃
My local hospital 😃
October 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Even at eye level they can be confusing
My local hospital 😃
My local hospital 😃
I don’t usually quote Tories but now and again one of them says something really worth listening too.
Here’s Rory Stewart on Trump
Here’s Rory Stewart on Trump
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I don’t usually quote Tories but now and again one of them says something really worth listening too.
Here’s Rory Stewart on Trump
Here’s Rory Stewart on Trump
It is absolutely scandalous NHS England, despite the mountain of evidence for aerosol spread, is still giving advice on preventing Covid29 infection in infants as if it is droplet spread
Nothing about avoiding crowded poorly ventilated indoor spaces
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@sheencr.bsky.social
Nothing about avoiding crowded poorly ventilated indoor spaces
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@sheencr.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
It is absolutely scandalous NHS England, despite the mountain of evidence for aerosol spread, is still giving advice on preventing Covid29 infection in infants as if it is droplet spread
Nothing about avoiding crowded poorly ventilated indoor spaces
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@sheencr.bsky.social
Nothing about avoiding crowded poorly ventilated indoor spaces
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@sheencr.bsky.social
This was true on the Titanic, where men were less likely to survive But that was a cultural norm of the time, more about male honour than anything else
Doesn’t apply now
But being rich also meant you were more likely to survive!
Doesn’t apply now
But being rich also meant you were more likely to survive!
October 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This was true on the Titanic, where men were less likely to survive But that was a cultural norm of the time, more about male honour than anything else
Doesn’t apply now
But being rich also meant you were more likely to survive!
Doesn’t apply now
But being rich also meant you were more likely to survive!
Not a fan of the MI6 building
Not a fan of any of those humongous buildings raised along the riverside in the last 40 years, cutting the city off from the Thames
Actually I really hate that this has been allowed
A momentous failure of city planning
I mean look at these👇🏻
Hideous
Not a fan of any of those humongous buildings raised along the riverside in the last 40 years, cutting the city off from the Thames
Actually I really hate that this has been allowed
A momentous failure of city planning
I mean look at these👇🏻
Hideous
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Not a fan of the MI6 building
Not a fan of any of those humongous buildings raised along the riverside in the last 40 years, cutting the city off from the Thames
Actually I really hate that this has been allowed
A momentous failure of city planning
I mean look at these👇🏻
Hideous
Not a fan of any of those humongous buildings raised along the riverside in the last 40 years, cutting the city off from the Thames
Actually I really hate that this has been allowed
A momentous failure of city planning
I mean look at these👇🏻
Hideous
We must do all we can to save the #NHS
But the way current NHS management & #WesStreeting treat NHS staff is scandalous
Something not discussed by the MSM
I wrote this to the @theguardian.com recently in response to an article on violence to NHS staff
They didn’t publish so I’m putting it up here
But the way current NHS management & #WesStreeting treat NHS staff is scandalous
Something not discussed by the MSM
I wrote this to the @theguardian.com recently in response to an article on violence to NHS staff
They didn’t publish so I’m putting it up here
September 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
We must do all we can to save the #NHS
But the way current NHS management & #WesStreeting treat NHS staff is scandalous
Something not discussed by the MSM
I wrote this to the @theguardian.com recently in response to an article on violence to NHS staff
They didn’t publish so I’m putting it up here
But the way current NHS management & #WesStreeting treat NHS staff is scandalous
Something not discussed by the MSM
I wrote this to the @theguardian.com recently in response to an article on violence to NHS staff
They didn’t publish so I’m putting it up here
Another thing
Why is this described as 100,000 people?
Actually it’s about 99,000 men and a few women
NO ONE ever comments on this
The far right is not wholly but largely a problem with men
I’ve looked at several images of the crowd “protesting” today
Haven’t yet found a single woman
Why is this described as 100,000 people?
Actually it’s about 99,000 men and a few women
NO ONE ever comments on this
The far right is not wholly but largely a problem with men
I’ve looked at several images of the crowd “protesting” today
Haven’t yet found a single woman
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Another thing
Why is this described as 100,000 people?
Actually it’s about 99,000 men and a few women
NO ONE ever comments on this
The far right is not wholly but largely a problem with men
I’ve looked at several images of the crowd “protesting” today
Haven’t yet found a single woman
Why is this described as 100,000 people?
Actually it’s about 99,000 men and a few women
NO ONE ever comments on this
The far right is not wholly but largely a problem with men
I’ve looked at several images of the crowd “protesting” today
Haven’t yet found a single woman
Hello Kier Starmer
Hello Yvette Cooper
This 👆🏻is terrorism
Not this 👇🏻
Hello Yvette Cooper
This 👆🏻is terrorism
Not this 👇🏻
September 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hello Kier Starmer
Hello Yvette Cooper
This 👆🏻is terrorism
Not this 👇🏻
Hello Yvette Cooper
This 👆🏻is terrorism
Not this 👇🏻