Maureen Preston

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A Qatar-based professor has pioneered a non-invasive eye scan to detect neurodegenerative diseases years before symptoms appear. The technology uses AI to analyse the eye and can identify early signs of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and other diseases within minutes.

@BeatlesPraise My parents gave me With The Beatles LP for passing my 11+ exam in ?1965. Smitten!

@BeatlesPraise True. And the Byrds were pretty cool too..

"[My housemate] Clem walked in one afternoon with that first Beatles album, Meet the Beatles!. He put it on, and I just didn't know what to think. It absolutely floored me — 'Those are folk music changes, but it's got a rock and roll backbeat. You can't do that, but they did! Holy yikes!' "I ate it for breakfast. Most new musical forms are created that way; the synthesis takes place by two disparate streams of stuff, you know, hitherto unrelated, being mushed together. They did synthesize a new music. ‘Cause rock 'n' roll didn’t have those kinds of chord changes and melody-to-chord relationships prior to the Beatles. It just didn’t. "Up to that point, rock 'n' roll had been pretty much four chords — almost entirely, as a matter of fact. That was the standard thing that came out of the Brill Building. Well, here were these guys from England, they were playing much more complex chord changes — much better musically, but with that backbeat. And there was room to do harmonies. Good ones, interesting ones. That was a mixing of two streams that created a new thing. "I was amazed by the sheer musicality of it, and also the Beatles' ability to project what a confident, joyful and beautiful band they were. I'd never seen anything like them before — or since. "You know, it's always about the music. Those guys could really play and sing. They had the goods. And they really had the songs. Up till then, I was a devotee of Pete Seeger's, bless his soul. I wanted to be a folkie. But seeing the Beatles made something else click. It changed my life. They changed my life. Let's be very specific about that." --#DavidCrosby #TheByrds #CSN #CSNY #Songwriters #FolkRock #HallOfFame #TheBeatles #Influence #GOAT

@Glen_Binnie @si_rubinstein Burnham

@si_rubinstein Which Andy?

Funnier than every Dennis Skinner Quip combined.

A short history of the great British improvement. They came for beef dripping. We got margarine, then seed oils, then a cardiac ward in every hospital. They came for butter. They told your grandmother it would kill her husband. The replacement was a tub of palm oil emulsified with rapeseed and a yellow dye, and her husband died of a heart attack in 1989 anyway. They came for full-fat milk. We got skimmed milk, a vitamin D deficiency epidemic in children, and a cereal aisle fortified to plug the gap. They came for mutton, the meat that fed every shepherd, miner, and mill worker for six hundred years. We got a chicken breast injected with water and a turkey twizzler. They came for the kipper. We got a Findus boil-in-the-bag, dyed orange, and a fish oil capsule sold at the chemist to make up for the omega-3 nobody is eating. They came for wool. We got polyester fleece, and microplastics in human placentas. Every one tested. Sixty-two out of sixty-two. They came for leather. We got synthetic shoes that delaminate in eighteen months, and a high street with no cobbler. They came for the cotton nappy. We got the disposable, and a landfill that will outlast the child wearing it. They came for the cast iron pan handed down three generations. We got Teflon, and a forever chemical now found in 98% of British rivers. They came for the wooden bowl your grandmother kneaded dough in. We got Tupperware, then BPA, then "BPA-free" plastic containing compounds we have not yet bothered to measure. Now they are coming for the cow herself. The replacement is a textured pea isolate, extruded in a factory in the American Midwest, packaged in plastic, and marketed as the ethical option by a company called Cargill, who happen to be the third-largest meat processor in the United States. Every traditional material we have been told to give up was working perfectly, for free, for centuries. Every industrial replacement has been worse for the body, worse for the land, and considerably better for the shareholders of the company that sold it. The pattern is not subtle, and the people running it are not embarrassed. Your great-grandmother is no longer here to call it. You are.

Would you be over the moon if Reform UK got hammered in the 7th of May elections?🤔 Repost after voting please.

@jmelotz @FoxNews I agree. I don't know his politics, history or personal details but he's a human who did a heroic thing in a terrible situation so let's be humane about this. So much hatred.

@FoxNews It never ceases to amaze me how comments toward someone who is critically ill can turn into hatred. Rudy is a human being regardless of his political status and views. Those of you who continue to spew nasty remarks should think twice. What goes around comes around

BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani spokesperson reveals the former New York City mayor is fighting pneumonia and remains in critical but stable condition in the hospital. "He is now breathing on his own, with his family and primary medical provider at his side." "On September 11th, Mayor Giuliani ran toward the towers to help those in need, which later led to a diagnosis of restrictive airway disease. This condition adds complications to any respiratory illness, and the virus quickly overwhelmed his body, requiring mechanical ventilation to maintain adequate oxygen and stabilize his condition," spokesperson Ted Goodman says.

A man marching forward, blinded by a flag. It's Banksy’s new statue appeared overnight in London’s Waterloo Place.

@Donna_Dean @Deirdre40316145 @Jan_Leeming 😖

@2021Poppy @Deirdre40316145 @Jan_Leeming A new member of our senior team ‘reaches out’ in emails, messages and conversations all the time

Noticed how many 'Americanisms' are creeping into our language? 'Thank you for reaching out to us' - instead of 'Thank you for contacting us'. I cannot bear being addressed as 'Guys' in restaurants! 'What can I get you guys' when my sister and I are obviously female😡

Who is more popular?

@bbclaurak Starmer is never going to win a Mr Charisma contest or set the heather on fire but hey after seeing the UK dragged into the gutter by Boris Johnson I'm rather relieved. Why is the BBC so determined to undermine him and give the Reform fascists an easy ride?

@MiaForTrump @JohnCleese No doubt. It takes a very unstable and insecure person to pretend that they have been attacked for their own personal gain. Just saying.

It’s been 20 months since Trump’s staged assassination attempt in Butler, PA. Many say it misled voters & helped him win. Lives lost, yet he rarely mentions it— HE PERSONALLY SHUT DOWN THE INVESTIGATION !!! Do you think it was staged?? Yes or No?

@rshereme @campbellclaret There's no cure for stupid. Who voted this guy in ?

“Ukraine should not have started a war against russia. When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war. You don’t start a war against somebody who is 20 times your size.” Donald Trump

"Not flat, we checked" -- NASA

@piersmorgan As clearance seems to be a two-step process, was he appointed prior to final clearance?

He can visibly rage all he likes, but I’m not buying this claptrap. How can someone as controversial as Mandelson, fired twice from previous Govts, fail a security vetting to be Britain’s top diplomat, and NOBODY in Govt or No10 is told about it? This defence will unravel.

@chiky_handlr We don't want them here in the UK thanks

Trump supporters are threatening to leave the US if Trump is sent to prison. 🫨 Do you agree with them?

Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist? Like if he is. RT if he is a traitor.

@chiky_handlr @ciabaudo Yes

A massive social media movement is demanding the removal of Donald Trump and his entire cabinet.The web is on fire in 2026: is it time for a total reset at the white house? Do you support the removal of all members of the trump administration?

"I couldn't care less what Trump thinks about me. He's the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he'd be consigned to the trash heap of history!" - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Do you agree with Springsteen?