Tony Ellis
@tonyellis.bsky.social
Healthcare comms. MCIPR. 2 kids 💰 2 cats 🐈 Sometimes cook 🍽 Love a show 🎶 Amo l'Italia 🇮🇹 Views my own (who'd want them?)
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I think we should shame parents who allow this to happen. It should be a social norm that if you haven't vaccinated your kids then you're a terrible dad/mum. On a par with drinkdriving with them sat in the back seat.
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
www.thetimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
I think we should shame parents who allow this to happen. It should be a social norm that if you haven't vaccinated your kids then you're a terrible dad/mum. On a par with drinkdriving with them sat in the back seat.
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It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
February 13, 2026 at 11:26 AM
It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea
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In honor of THIS particular take, here are a few of my favorite recent articles about the various perils we face from LLMs. 🧵
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
February 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
In honor of THIS particular take, here are a few of my favorite recent articles about the various perils we face from LLMs. 🧵
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
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Nigel Farage’s rant against working from home highlights a big problem for Reform: it knows how to pander to retirees but hasn’t the faintest idea how to speak to workers.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
What Farage fails to understand about working from home
Being chained to the office desk, going to the pub and only getting home once the kids were asleep might have been acceptable in the Eighties
spectator.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Nigel Farage’s rant against working from home highlights a big problem for Reform: it knows how to pander to retirees but hasn’t the faintest idea how to speak to workers.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
I discuss Farage’s faux pas over at @thespectator1828.bsky.social.
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Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!
February 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!
Let's hope she's OK but there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. It was irresponsible of her sports association to let her compete.
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in women's downhill final at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport share.google/EhU4dkaDYc2S...
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in women's downhill final at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport share.google/EhU4dkaDYc2S...
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in women's downhill final at Winter Olympics
Lindsey Vonn crashes in the women's downhill competition at the Winter Olympics nine days after rupturing her left anterior cruciate ligament.
share.google
February 8, 2026 at 12:14 PM
Let's hope she's OK but there's a fine line between bravery and stupidity. It was irresponsible of her sports association to let her compete.
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in women's downhill final at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport share.google/EhU4dkaDYc2S...
Lindsey Vonn crashes out in women's downhill final at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport share.google/EhU4dkaDYc2S...
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Today, Nazar Daletskyi, a Ukrainian Defender from Lviv region, returned from Russian captivity.
Nazar has been presumed dead for a long time. Today, his family had the happiest news and spoke with Nazar!
📹: Suspilne
Nazar has been presumed dead for a long time. Today, his family had the happiest news and spoke with Nazar!
📹: Suspilne
February 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Today, Nazar Daletskyi, a Ukrainian Defender from Lviv region, returned from Russian captivity.
Nazar has been presumed dead for a long time. Today, his family had the happiest news and spoke with Nazar!
📹: Suspilne
Nazar has been presumed dead for a long time. Today, his family had the happiest news and spoke with Nazar!
📹: Suspilne
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Friends,
We are so close to raising the whole amount to buy the vehicle for Defenders from the 104th Territorial Defense unit, currently in Sumy region.
Please help us reach the goal.
It's so cold in Ukraine, which makes the issue even more urgent.
We are so close to raising the whole amount to buy the vehicle for Defenders from the 104th Territorial Defense unit, currently in Sumy region.
Please help us reach the goal.
It's so cold in Ukraine, which makes the issue even more urgent.
January 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Friends,
We are so close to raising the whole amount to buy the vehicle for Defenders from the 104th Territorial Defense unit, currently in Sumy region.
Please help us reach the goal.
It's so cold in Ukraine, which makes the issue even more urgent.
We are so close to raising the whole amount to buy the vehicle for Defenders from the 104th Territorial Defense unit, currently in Sumy region.
Please help us reach the goal.
It's so cold in Ukraine, which makes the issue even more urgent.
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This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...
Alex Pretti, MAGA, And The Public Meaning Of Masculinity
If you'd rather be like them than like him, it's time to take a look in the mirror...
www.offmessage.net
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...
Great story about Sajid Javid. *Not* being in politics also seems to be an elixir of youth www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It could be a shoe or a stick’: Sajid Javid on being beaten by his father, petty crime – and turning his life around
As a young teenager, Javid and his brother were caught stealing from slot machines, arrested and held in a cell. His future hung in the balance. How did he get from there to the top of UK politics?
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Great story about Sajid Javid. *Not* being in politics also seems to be an elixir of youth www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.
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There's are some shocking numbers in this article.
Nearly a third appear to have never seen a book.
26% not fully toilet trained (36% in the North East).
28% of children started school unable to eat & drink independently.
So that's ⅓ of parents who can't be arsed.
news.sky.com/story/nearly...
Nearly a third appear to have never seen a book.
26% not fully toilet trained (36% in the North East).
28% of children started school unable to eat & drink independently.
So that's ⅓ of parents who can't be arsed.
news.sky.com/story/nearly...
Nearly a third of kids can't use books when starting school - and try to swipe them like phones
Staff also report around 28% of children started school unable to eat and drink independently, and 25% had difficulty with basic life skills.
news.sky.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:14 AM
There's are some shocking numbers in this article.
Nearly a third appear to have never seen a book.
26% not fully toilet trained (36% in the North East).
28% of children started school unable to eat & drink independently.
So that's ⅓ of parents who can't be arsed.
news.sky.com/story/nearly...
Nearly a third appear to have never seen a book.
26% not fully toilet trained (36% in the North East).
28% of children started school unable to eat & drink independently.
So that's ⅓ of parents who can't be arsed.
news.sky.com/story/nearly...
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Has he made his horse a senator yet?
January 19, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Has he made his horse a senator yet?
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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
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I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.
Honestly, no one is listening any more to your brain-addled babbling.
President Trump:
I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that.
I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that.
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Honestly, no one is listening any more to your brain-addled babbling.
Another banger puts Robert in pole position to win every sketch writing gong in the next round of awards.
January 15, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Another banger puts Robert in pole position to win every sketch writing gong in the next round of awards.
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Rest in Peace Anne, you magnificent soul.
Tonteg woman who got stuck in shop shutters in viral TikTok clip dies
When CCTV captured Anne Hughes being hoisted into the air by shop shutters, social media went into overdrive.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Rest in Peace Anne, you magnificent soul.
Reform are shysters but this is the future for many local authority assets. No capital to replace or repair them.
Reform UK Councillor John Baker threatened legal action when we said Reform UK’s Kent Council was selling the historic Folkestone Library building in Grace Hill.
They had promised to keep it open.
Well guess what? They’ve now sold it:
www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/n...
They had promised to keep it open.
Well guess what? They’ve now sold it:
www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/n...
‘This isn’t right’: Fury as historic library set to be sold off at auction
A historic library described as a town’s “most treasured community asset” is set to be sold off at auction, sparking fury among residents.
www.kentonline.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Reform are shysters but this is the future for many local authority assets. No capital to replace or repair them.
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In Tehran, regime buildings are reportedly being set on fire and massive crowds flood the streets. Unconfirmed reports also suggest the Radio and Television building in Isfahan may also have been torched.
January 8, 2026 at 7:52 PM
In Tehran, regime buildings are reportedly being set on fire and massive crowds flood the streets. Unconfirmed reports also suggest the Radio and Television building in Isfahan may also have been torched.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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Liverpool folks! (Especially, but also everyone else)
We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing.
Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...
We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing.
Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...
January 4, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Liverpool folks! (Especially, but also everyone else)
We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing.
Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...
We've had snow. Please could you help me out and fill in my survey on attitudes to snow clearing.
Pictured: my path, which I haven't done yet...