Skerral
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Skerral
@snoopdougiedoig.bsky.social
Politics, science, economics, cross-Europe holidays by train and ferry, beer, bread, and regrettably life-altering Long Covid (3.5yrs).

🏡🌐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Crieff/ Glasgow/ Bute
Love it as a program.
And the celebrity version works just as well as the ordinary one because no one is a celebrity after a 1 star hotel, and an overnight bus.
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The Electoral Calculus model (not my favourite but easy to use) would give a Westminster result of Lab 2, LibDem 6, Con 4, and the rest SNP, ie 45.

Frankly, I'm not convinced Ref would win no seats on that share of vote, but that's what that model spits out.
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The key surprising figure there I'd say is the green list vote. If it was that high, there would be a lot of green MSPs.
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We routinely turn off lane assist. Without that the car will randomly pull to the side often.
I've also had the car pull semi emergency stops on me driving up and down the main road in the town (where parked cars make it narrow, and the car decides the oncoming car in the other lane is a collision)
December 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Yeh that's the kind of stuff I'm talking about.
I grew up on a hill sheep farm on the west coast of Scotland, ecologically very similar to his area, so I know exactly what Eoghan is talking about.
Our farm was massively overstocked (due to subsidy policy mostly) and trees only regenerated in nooks.
December 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Even so, would you rather have Blair again or Starmer?
Much as I don't like Blair, the choice isn't even close.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Or even, pay them not to have sheep in well fenced-off areas. In strips and patches of the ground less useful to the sheep.

I feel you can combine, the sheep farmers livelihood, and much better nature.
December 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Will you be mentioning the link between Covid and increased symptoms?
(Plenty of emerging science on this if you know where to look, some of it still speculative but highly suggestive, some of it solid.)
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Oh yeh totally agree.
But when I spent a few months living with Guatemalans (volunteering for an NGO), they felt justly aggrieved by that. Even the ones who recognised that the claim on Belize wasn't serious. (Most didn't. Guatemalan maps show no border.)
Also feels like Perfidious Albion again.
December 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Indeed. Can't see any problems or foregone conclusions there.
December 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
There was a wrinkle with Belize - Britain promised Guatemala they'd build a road in the country from the capital to the Caribbean in return for Guatemala accepting British Honduras, but they never did.
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
But he appointed Simon Wessely to his review, who famously did a lot of harm by denying ME was real.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Good thread thanks. Do you have a book recommendation for someone to understand their own autism after not being aware of it before?
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I think he also features in more than one of the good music documentaries that used to be on BBC 4.
December 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Twitter's part of it, but there must be more to it than that.
December 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'd love to read a detailed interrogation of how much size increase over recent decades is actually due to in-car safety measures, because I suspect it's mostly not.
I subscribe to the theory that it's largely due to the manufacturers' desire for higher profits, eg by withdrawing smaller cars.
December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Skerral
One of the people leading this likely farce is Simon Wessley whose previous work includes a reasonably well debunked study of ME which was used to make it harder for sufferers to get support or recognition. Streeting knows exactly what outcome he wants from this
meassociation.org.uk/2018/02/gove....
Government-funded ME/CFS trial 'one of greatest medical scandals of 21st century' | 20 February 2018 - The ME Association
A controversial medical trial part-funded by the Department of Work of Pensions will emerge as “one of the greatest medical scandals of the 21st century” an MP today claimed.
meassociation.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM