Doesn’t help that the new parliament’s composition has a higher corporate bootlicker ratio
“I know there is lots of fear and anxiety”
This is classic psychologising. Branding others concerns as “anxiety” is not only medically false, but is used in order to belittle those criticising.
If you genuinely care about trans people then Streeting, how are you going to prevent the increased suicidality this decision will surely cause?
++ disabled folks.
never heard of the source but url looks dodgy
This summary says “he” as if it’s her father but “he” is an ME expert who worked on the government guidelines who is criticising how the hospital is mistreating Carla.
I think one of the first things you’ll be interested to hear is modern definitions of ME/CFS don’t note fatigue as the most disabling symptom but a disease process called post-exertional malaise, wherein a person’s entire disease can worsen (sometimes permanently) based on the amount of energy they use.
It’s really fascinating, A recent study by Wust et al. found muscle clotting and abnormalities following exertion in people with ME/CFS.
Also people with ME are the only known disease group to preform markeldy worse in specific markers on a 2 day CPET. Which would serve as a biomarker if it were not for the fact doing the test can worsen people’s disease permanently.
I highly recommend this summarising article on the issue: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/long-covid-patients-exercise-bad-medicine
If you are genuinely curious, I’d invite you to join a community of Long Covid and ME/CFS patients and researchers online, and ask any questions you have.
I understand.
For a while I had blindness and was partially paralysed because of a disease. The only thing we had at the time that I could really do was a CD of harry potter audiobooks so I listened to them on loop for months. It’s very engrained in me. Needless to say was very disappointed when I heard JK was a TERF.
I hate JK Rowling too but no need to be rude. I’m unable to read books anymore due to aquired physical disability.
Oh no. The tory party is like the Ministry of Magic, evil, but not crazy. Reform UK is like Voldemort. Teaming up is no good idea. (For anyone who wants a good future for the UK).
If you spend a long time scrounging through different polls and opinion surveys, you can find quite a bit to patchwork together.
Everyone’s sick and tired of hearing about Brexit. A big reason the conservatives won the last election is they campaigned on “Getting brexit done”.
Labour also hadn’t won for 14 years, so they played basically the safest campaign possible. Imagine if the GOP had had 4 presidents in a row, the democrats would have campaigned on a super centrist campaign, because thats the only way they can gain voters. Same here. Labour barely proposes any “big” changes, because they were very careful in order to not fuck it up again.
Having read the article, this is unfortunately a pretty poor summary. Copying just the headings of the sections and subsections would have shown much more light.
I actually wrote my thesis on analysing the 2019 election results and extrapolating vote choices for other systems and seeing how that would affect the balance of power in the UK .
Geniune question, what happens if PM is allergic to cats.
Nigel Farrage’s party is almost certainly far right compared to the status quo.
its not about 13 seats. They got more than half the vote share the conservatives had. If the conservatives wanna win that voteshare back, they are gonna need to move even further right, which is worrying.
I’m not talking about SNP loosing seats but about reform winning seats.
And I’m talking about the prospects of the citizens of the united kingdom, not a political structure.
The center (slight left leaning) party won by a landslide because everyone was fed up with the right wing party who’d been in charge for 14 years.
The far-right party went from 0 to 13 seats in a single election (think the MAGA of england basically). Since the center-right party lost so bad, people are scared the far right party will have more influence on the right and ultimately lead to the center right party either merging with the far right party or being more radical to “meet them”.
One could make the parallels to when Macron won the election with a centrist coalition a couple years ago, but in the process heavily weakened the center right party, which ultimately lead to the rise of the far right.
Ignoring that though. The center-(left) government will be much better than the government we had before.
More like suggesting there is no reliable evidence.
As the law of funding bias says, only research that corroborates powerful interests will get the funding necessary to create a reliable body of evidence.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_bias