Helen Style
@helenstyle.bsky.social
Intellectually curious and open minded - I hope! Finding comfort in the natural world away from destructive human behaviour. Londoner. Recent grandmother.
Wasn’t that the whole idea? Vaccines make you much less likely to die of the thing they’re against?
December 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Wasn’t that the whole idea? Vaccines make you much less likely to die of the thing they’re against?
It’s not Christianity.
December 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
It’s not Christianity.
I was in Calais in late October and it all seemed perfectly nice and clean. In fact the centre was surprisingly buzzing on a Sunday night. We walked along a deserted beach. It’s a nice town.
December 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
I was in Calais in late October and it all seemed perfectly nice and clean. In fact the centre was surprisingly buzzing on a Sunday night. We walked along a deserted beach. It’s a nice town.
I thought there had to be a unanimous positive vote by EU countries and some of them needed a referendum first? It’s not just up to the Commission to give an administrative nod, anyway.
December 13, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I thought there had to be a unanimous positive vote by EU countries and some of them needed a referendum first? It’s not just up to the Commission to give an administrative nod, anyway.
Eat fresh food, not too much, mainly plants. No alcohol or industrial drinks. Good luck.
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Eat fresh food, not too much, mainly plants. No alcohol or industrial drinks. Good luck.
Quick, buy shares in Avis, sell airlines.
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Quick, buy shares in Avis, sell airlines.
We’d certainly need rationing of food and fuel in the U.K.
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
We’d certainly need rationing of food and fuel in the U.K.
I don’t know they still made that stuff !
December 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I don’t know they still made that stuff !
Yes. Perhaps pandemic has a specialised definition, but clearly covid is still killing people, still mutating, not going away.
December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Yes. Perhaps pandemic has a specialised definition, but clearly covid is still killing people, still mutating, not going away.
Chicago has about 20 times the homicide rate as London. New Orleans has a rate of about 33 times London and 81 pc in NO are from guns. Feels violent to me. England averages less than 28 gun deaths a year.
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December 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Chicago has about 20 times the homicide rate as London. New Orleans has a rate of about 33 times London and 81 pc in NO are from guns. Feels violent to me. England averages less than 28 gun deaths a year.
This doesn’t sound like bad behaviour. Just unfamiliarity with a dish. I wonder what they thought it was? But it’s not that weird. Most meat eating cultures must have some kind of blood sausage.
December 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This doesn’t sound like bad behaviour. Just unfamiliarity with a dish. I wonder what they thought it was? But it’s not that weird. Most meat eating cultures must have some kind of blood sausage.
There’s a very interesting discussion of pain management from an expert on MS on a podcast called ‘Ologies’ and the episode is called Neuropathoimmunology. I found it at random and it was uplifting.
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
There’s a very interesting discussion of pain management from an expert on MS on a podcast called ‘Ologies’ and the episode is called Neuropathoimmunology. I found it at random and it was uplifting.
You need to get rid of the guns.
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You need to get rid of the guns.
My friend booked a ten day cruise without realising it went into US territorial waters. Cost of insurance for her plus husband: £3000 Sterling. Too late to change cruise.
December 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friend booked a ten day cruise without realising it went into US territorial waters. Cost of insurance for her plus husband: £3000 Sterling. Too late to change cruise.
Cancer is normal. Death in childbirth is normal. That doesn’t mean we wouldn’t prefer to avoid them.
December 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Cancer is normal. Death in childbirth is normal. That doesn’t mean we wouldn’t prefer to avoid them.
He seems to think that doctors owe a moral duty to the NHS not to inconvenience it. I could understand that if they didn’t have to pay for their own training.
December 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
He seems to think that doctors owe a moral duty to the NHS not to inconvenience it. I could understand that if they didn’t have to pay for their own training.
Serious question. Even if you can get into the US, how much will travel insurance cost to cover the risk of being randomly arrested and sent to a concentration camp
In ? Ecuador?
In ? Ecuador?
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Serious question. Even if you can get into the US, how much will travel insurance cost to cover the risk of being randomly arrested and sent to a concentration camp
In ? Ecuador?
In ? Ecuador?
I imagine the Farage kids are bilingual as their mother is German
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I imagine the Farage kids are bilingual as their mother is German
Apart from anything else, the cost of extending your insurance cover to the US is incredible.
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Apart from anything else, the cost of extending your insurance cover to the US is incredible.
None of them will be able to provide the required info, so they won’t be there
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
None of them will be able to provide the required info, so they won’t be there