Simon Martin

@WriterHannahBT @markruskell Fantastic! Well done x

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@FanJDVance No

Is it time for a Black female James Bond? YES or NO?

Er…anyone who wants to be “more social” is not an introvert. Just saying.

@drjamesdinic Care to do a cost breakdown?

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Vanja nails it youtu.be/F_9pHGqZ1U8

@jk_rowling 💯 JK. Cogent as ever.

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points. I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days. Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created. When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said. The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness. Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison? I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges. The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest. Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

@zoeharcombe Are you the top Brit though?

I’m gutted to only be #18. I would have thought showing the catastrophic nutritional deficiency of the EAT Lancet diet would have annoyed the plant pushers more!

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It is encouraging to see progress away from the amyloid theory. Alzheimer’s is a complex syndrome with dozens of contributing factors, from inflammation and insulin resistance to toxin exposure and, as this study shows, issues with cellular repair. news.mit.edu/2025/scientist…

@USATODAY You have got to be kidding. This is a joke, right?

Simone Biles shows her greatness again in standing up for transgender community | Opinion usatoday.com/story/sports/c…

@Simone_Biles @Riley_Gaines_ You are so out of order. Not to mention have no grasp of the issue.

bully someone your own size, which would ironically be a male @Riley_Gaines_

@eljeffe4ever @Mens_Corner__ Yes!!!

@Mens_Corner__ Even her explanation was exhausting, and she still managed to somehow make it about her 🤣

Good news boys. After hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, we have progress.

@mike_behr_ “His lung capacity is 1.2x larger than normal, and his heart pumps more blood per beat”, but “genetics aren’t everything” … 🤣🤣🤣

This is the fittest man in the world: • Fastest Ironman time in history (7:21) • Highest absolute VO2 max on earth • Olympic Triathlon champion Here's the training & mindset that turned Kristian Blummenfelt into a Superhuman:

@agingdoc1 “in progeroid DNA repair-deficient mice”. What exactly was the point of this study and/or its relevance to human health?

High protein intake causes gene-length-dependent transcriptional decline, shortens lifespan and accelerates ageing in progeroid DNA repair-deficient mice 🔎"Restricting protein levels beyond 80% improved various neurological health parameters, while a further reduction to 95% affected appetite and became distinctly detrimental. Conversely, a near doubling of protein intake and isocaloric compensatory lowering with carbohydrates significantly shortened lifespan in both sexes..." nature.com/articles/s4432…

@1080motion @OlaAthletic1080 @nih_physicperf Translation?

Research: Isokinetic Rehab for an Abdominal Strain in a Pro Tennis Player Overview -A pro tennis player partially tore their internal abdominal oblique during a serve -Researchers applied isokinetic resistance through kinetic chain exercises specific to tennis within 1 week of injury -Combining isokinetic resistance, objective force outputs, and subjective pain scales, the athlete improved, minimized asymmetry, and returned to sport in 5 weeks Methods -Athlete completed 8 sessions (~4 weeks) of isokinetic strength training targeting: trunk rotation, flexion, and lateral flexion -Exercises were performed at fixed concentric (ie isokinetic) speeds (0.5 m/s) with low loads (5kg) -Progression was guided by pain levels (NRS <3/10), and symmetry in both isokinetic force output and dynamic postural control were used as RTP criteria Results -Isokinetic force outputs in movements requiring the injured muscle improved by 166–296% -All exercises reached <10% side-to-side difference by the final training session (after starting at 32-71% asymmetry) -Athlete returned to sport in 5 weeks and remained pain-free at 2-year follow-up Takeaways -Isokinetic loading allows athletes to push as hard as they are subjectively able/instructed, under a controlled movement speed -Combining objective force data with pain-guided effort enables safe progression, even in early rehab -This approach provides a clear way to track readiness, asymmetry, and performance Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@Keir_Starmer Why can’t you get the French to stop them launching the bloody boats?

Working together with Albania, we will deter, detect, and return illegal migrants. By tackling illegal migration overseas and smashing the gangs at source, we're making our streets safer and easing pressure on public services. That's my Plan for Change in action.

You have absolutely NO way of knowing that “It is the normal healthy nutritional state that humans existed in for the last 2.5 million years until the agricultural revolution ~12,000 years ago.”. We’re not scared of ketosis, just the wild, unscientific and ill-informed claims being made for it.

Ketosis is not some fad health craze. It is the normal healthy nutritional state that humans existed in for the last 2.5 million years until the agricultural revolution ~12,000 years ago. Our metabolism evolved to be in this state. Why is everyone so afraid of ketosis now?