Paul Pharoah
@paulpharoah.bsky.social
Jack of some trades, master of none: public health, epi and genetics mainly. Arsenal supporter, hiker. Live in LA. If home is also where the heart is England, South Africa, Papua New Guinea. Photos are my own. Views expressed are my own.
What is the point of asking the public questions like this that they are unable to answer in an informed way? The effects of this tax will be complex and it is unlikely that respondents will have much idea what those effects will be.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
What is the point of asking the public questions like this that they are unable to answer in an informed way? The effects of this tax will be complex and it is unlikely that respondents will have much idea what those effects will be.
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Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
Believing that it is cruel to be be deprived of a large sum of money you have done absolutely nothing to earn is entitlement extraordinare. The cruelty is to those who don't inherit and are disadvantaged as a result.
I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?
We were hit with a £148k inheritance tax bill when mum died at 97 - it's disgusting
Jill Lemon has labelled inheritance tax as 'cruel', 'horrible' and 'unfair'
inews.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Believing that it is cruel to be be deprived of a large sum of money you have done absolutely nothing to earn is entitlement extraordinare. The cruelty is to those who don't inherit and are disadvantaged as a result.
I have a problem with this use of the term elite, which means a select group that are superior in terms of qualities. These people are not superior in most ways that matter. Replace the term with overrated and it makes much more sense.
Lame Duck à l’Orange.
November 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I have a problem with this use of the term elite, which means a select group that are superior in terms of qualities. These people are not superior in most ways that matter. Replace the term with overrated and it makes much more sense.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's nice to see how ridiculously worked up some of the MAGA people are.
It's nice to see how ridiculously worked up some of the MAGA people are.
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley
The outrage a J Crew jumper has provoked shows that the US right’s sense of masculinity is far more fragile than it would care to admit, says freelance writer Ellie Violet Bramley
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's nice to see how ridiculously worked up some of the MAGA people are.
It's nice to see how ridiculously worked up some of the MAGA people are.
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We are looking for a new Chair of our Department of Imaging. Please RP! www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/940419/c... #imaging #radiology
Chair of the Department of Imaging - Los Angeles, California job with Cedars Sinai Medical Center | 940419
Cedars-Sinai Health System seeks a collaborative and strategic leader to serve as chair of the Department of Imaging
www.nejmcareercenter.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We are looking for a new Chair of our Department of Imaging. Please RP! www.nejmcareercenter.org/job/940419/c... #imaging #radiology
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This isn’t institutional capture. It’s a parallel epistemic system built outside medicine, using influencer dynamics, curated anecdotes, and spiritualised autonomy to replace verification, deliberation, and accountability.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This isn’t institutional capture. It’s a parallel epistemic system built outside medicine, using influencer dynamics, curated anecdotes, and spiritualised autonomy to replace verification, deliberation, and accountability.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Why does someone not sue these charlatans for damages for peddling lies and misinformation.
Why does someone not sue these charlatans for damages for peddling lies and misinformation.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Why does someone not sue these charlatans for damages for peddling lies and misinformation.
Why does someone not sue these charlatans for damages for peddling lies and misinformation.
A brown football kit (Brentford) just looks wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A brown football kit (Brentford) just looks wrong.
Do people eat mints any more?
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Do people eat mints any more?
There goes my bonus.
Aren't you supposed to go into the office and not hang out in the local restaurants?
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There goes my bonus.
I generally enjoy reading The Onion, but joking about suicide is utterly tasteless.
Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I generally enjoy reading The Onion, but joking about suicide is utterly tasteless.
I've just realised that this is my first first-author manuscript for 9 years.
1/2 Our update of the PREDICT breast prognostic and treatment benefit model is now published by BMC Research Notes.
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
PREDICT breast v4.0: an update to the PREDICT breast prognostic model
rdcu.be
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I've just realised that this is my first first-author manuscript for 9 years.
One of endless moments...
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of endless moments...
Labour have managed to achieve in 18 months something that took the Tories a decade of lies and corruption. Spectacular incompetence.
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Labour have managed to achieve in 18 months something that took the Tories a decade of lies and corruption. Spectacular incompetence.
Saying 'canc instead of 'tin' is done by someone who thinks using an Americanism makes them sound more erudite.
'Tracey, who has seen numerous REF cycles over a nearly 30-year career at Oxford, said: “I’ve been very clear that the REF has to do what it says on the can. It’s about research excellence and that has to be the predominant thing it’s trying to measure."'
When did the tin become a can? 1/3
When did the tin become a can? 1/3
Oxford VC says REF ‘must do what it says on the can’.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
November 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Saying 'canc instead of 'tin' is done by someone who thinks using an Americanism makes them sound more erudite.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Epstein files show us a "world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences".
In short they tell us nothing that we did not already know.
The Epstein files show us a "world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences".
In short they tell us nothing that we did not already know.
The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him
Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Epstein files show us a "world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences".
In short they tell us nothing that we did not already know.
The Epstein files show us a "world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences".
In short they tell us nothing that we did not already know.
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So proud of our flagship Kent Council, who cut wasteful spending by painting yellow lines outside a school that has been closed for nine years.
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
So proud of our flagship Kent Council, who cut wasteful spending by painting yellow lines outside a school that has been closed for nine years.
Good summary of the issue. It highlights the important point that excess mortality requires assumptions about the counterfactual and those assumptions need to be sensible. But, MAGA manipulators are not interested in anything sensible.
NIH directors have pointed to below estimates as evidence that Sweden was 'best in the world at protecting human life' for COVID (www.city-journal.org/article/nih-...). But plot doesn't show what they apparently think it shows - and there is a big red flag that immediately jumps out... 🧵
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Good summary of the issue. It highlights the important point that excess mortality requires assumptions about the counterfactual and those assumptions need to be sensible. But, MAGA manipulators are not interested in anything sensible.
1/2 Our update of the PREDICT breast prognostic and treatment benefit model is now published by BMC Research Notes.
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
PREDICT breast v4.0: an update to the PREDICT breast prognostic model
rdcu.be
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
1/2 Our update of the PREDICT breast prognostic and treatment benefit model is now published by BMC Research Notes.
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
rdcu.be/ePXTJ
It's tipping down in West Hollywood. Feels about right for watching and enjoying the rugby (England v All Blacks).
November 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
It's tipping down in West Hollywood. Feels about right for watching and enjoying the rugby (England v All Blacks).
Of all the depressing things going on in the world, the disastrous efforts of Labour to govern sensibility are right up there.
"This is a government that, thanks to its own mis-steps, has burned right through the political capital its landslide election victory earned it just 16 months ago". www.ft.com/content/3128...
Labour has shredded its claim to competence
A chaotic week has raised the risks around this month’s crucial Budget
www.ft.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Of all the depressing things going on in the world, the disastrous efforts of Labour to govern sensibility are right up there.
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Why do you need someone to commission crime? Are there not enough criminals already?
I think this might be the first story I have ever seen where every quote post is some variation on 'Good'. And there is a reason for that!
Police and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Why do you need someone to commission crime? Are there not enough criminals already?