NickVWright

@IHPower Ha ha!

There appears to be less pedants on Twitter these days.

@Bbmorg Starmer has been as nice as pie to the USA, far more than many of our European allies. I don't know what more he can do for you. From now on you can stew in your own juice and you're welcome to it!

The UK has never experienced a more toxic, malignant and hostile US President as Trump.

@ceecryder35 Donnie sounds completely nuts. Can't they look after him better? Or are they accelerating his demise so they can take over?

He's got Dementia. He don't even know the Queen Elizabeth is deceased.

@VinoNStrosGal I'm so glad you've had that positive experience. They are, indeed, rare.

@VinoNStrosGal That's a brilliant and truthful piece.

Yesterday, something happened to me in an ER that almost never happens to complex patients. There is nothing simple about chronic pain. We know this. Our specialists know this. And ER doctors, the ones who see us on our worst days, definitely know this. But what nobody really prepares you for is what happens after the word “complex” gets attached to your name. Once you’re labeled complex, something shifts. Appointments get shorter. Explanations get thinner. You can feel the quiet calculation in the room before anyone says a word. You start to sense that your body isn’t just hurting, it’s inconvenient. Not long ago, I wrote about that. I wrote about how once a patient is labeled complicated, medicine often steps back instead of stepping in. And I meant it. That experience is real. I have lived it. A lot of you reading this have lived it. But yesterday reminded me that the story doesn’t end there. Yesterday I ended up in the ER after another fall. Multiple injuries. The kind of fall where your body already feels unstable and one wrong movement turns everything into a chain reaction. I remember trying to explain it the only way that made sense in my head. My knee felt like a game of Jenga, one shift and the whole thing could collapse. Imaging meant they had to move me. Moving me meant pain. Real pain. The kind your body reacts before your mind even has time to process it. Tears began rolling down my cheeks. Not sobbing. The involuntary kind. The kind that just happens when your nervous system is overwhelmed and you physically cannot stop it. And something happened that almost never happens. The PA came back into the room. Not because she had to. Because she saw what was happening. Along with the radiologists, she helped reposition me. She stayed with me until imaging was complete. She apologized for my pain. Not the automatic clinical apology, the human one. The kind where someone’s face actually shows they understand what you’re going through. Earlier she had told me someone close to her lives with Ehlers-Danlos. That it’s hard. That it’s scary. That she knows the road isn’t easy. And for the first time in a long time, I didn’t feel like I was explaining my body to someone who thought it was theoretical. Later, her attending came in. He didn’t rush. He sat down. Twenty minutes. In an ER. Anyone who has ever been in emergency medicine knows what that means. Twenty minutes in that environment is not routine. It’s intentional. We talked through everything. The injuries. The instability. The mechanics of the fall. The immobilizer. The sling. The imaging. What the knee was doing. What the shoulder was doing. What the next steps would be. Real conversation. Not checklist medicine. Not five-minute dismissal. Real clinical reasoning with a real human being in the room. At one point I asked what I could realistically do for the pain. He thought through my situation, calibrated the plan, and explained it calmly. No suspicion. No interrogation. And while being wheeled out of the ER, something hit me. Nothing about my body was simpler than it was the day before. Nothing about my chart was lighter. Nothing about my condition was less complex. The difference wasn’t my diagnosis. The difference was that this team treated complexity as information, not inconvenience. Chronic illness shouldn’t feel like winning the lottery when someone listens. But yesterday, it did. And that says something bigger than one ER visit. It says the system may be strained, rushed, and inconsistent… but the humanity inside it isn’t gone. Sometimes, if you’re lucky enough to land in the right room, with the right people, on the right day, you remember that medicine is still practiced by humans. And for those of us living in bodies that don’t follow simple rules, that reminder matters more than most people will ever understand.

@Marilynrules1 @jahanzebwesa @unwomenafghan @FrontLineHRD @HRF @forum_asia @jk_rowling @TRobinsonNewEra @naomirwolf @WRNAfghanistan @HelenClarkNZ @SR_Afghanistan The last time these women enjoyed the freedom that women in the West enjoy, Afghanistan was being run essentially by Russia. The USA could not tolerate this Commie advance, so it supported a long and painful takeover by Islamic fundamentalists. And that is where we are now.

@jahanzebwesa @unwomenafghan @FrontLineHRD @HRF @forum_asia @jk_rowling @TRobinsonNewEra @naomirwolf @WRNAfghanistan @HelenClarkNZ @SR_Afghanistan Has the US pulled out of the UN? Wonder why.

#Heartbroken: Afghan women have the “right” to beg in the freezing cold, but not the right to education or work under the Taliban. Millions are raised in their name, yet hunger and suffering continue. Where is the accountability? Where is the UN? #EndGenderApartheid #FreeWomen

@SaulStaniforth Not counting blatant criminals, what does Huckabee think Nazis did after WW II other than stay in Germany?

Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel: "Any idea [Hamas] can stay in Gaza would be like saying that the Nazis could continue to stay in Germany after WW2 & have a role in the future of Germany" Huckabee should read a book about West Germany. And then a book about NATO.

@Johnbradfogy @ScaryEurope Hopkins here is decrying a custom that seems not to exist, then following up with a bill to ban it, which seems also not to exist. All a lot of fuss about nothing.

@ScaryEurope Good for Katie, we need another 1000 like her.

🚨🇬🇧🔥“H!TTING THE M0NEY PlPELlNE” - Katie Hopkins moves to stop Keir Starmer from secretly funding nationwide protests — a move that could send sh,0,ckwaves through the financial system overnight. One bill. One target. Katie Hopkins wants to classify protest funding as organized crime and Keir Starmer is the name that has left Washington silent. No warning. No flashy press conference. Just a bi|| placed on the floor of Congress and suddenly, all of Washington is buzzing. Katie Hopkins says she’s “going straight for the m0ney.” Keir Starmer’s name unexpectedly surfaces in closed-door discussions. If the bi|| passes, account freezes could happen within hours. And if this m0ney stream is cut, who will be the next name on the list?

@_iamblakeley Quoting Hitler in support of one's actions gives an unfortunately bad impression, though a very accurate one.

Yea, this was fucking insane.

@macpenfold @tedkel "Did the UK Government actually state that the US couldn't use Diego Garcia?" No, it negotiated something like a 99-year lease so that the USA could use it. Honestly, you people!

@tedkel Did the UK Government actually state that the US couldn't use Diego Garcia?

Trump is trying to get Iran to make a deal. He says he would much rather do it peacefully than not. Trump moves some aircraft closer to Iran to send a message, he's serious. Starmer comes along and says you cant use UK bases, weakening Trump's bargaining position, and making Iran more likely to resist the pressure to make a deal without military action. This Starmer does after begging Trump to support his Chagos Deal by saying its the only way to secure the Diego Garcia base so it can stay open. But, when Trump wants to use Diego Garcia, Starmer refuses permission. It was the same in Ukraine. Every time Trump tried to get peace talks going, Starmer would jet off to see his mate Zelensky and promise to support Ukraine even more.

@StoevVentzislav @tedkel "closer from"?

@tedkel As Pres. Trump has a very short fuse, he might close the US bases in UK and move them to friendlier countries like Poland. Middle East is even closer from Poland. Just saying.

@sb559532603708 @tedkel In fact the USA has some immensely long lease on the Diego base, so your fears (and those of many others) are mildly hysterical.

@tedkel I think trump could use Diego base regardless. The 1966 treaty states both can use the base for their defence. They just need to let Britain know. Besides I think we have about 20 personnel there. Are they going to stop the yanks?

@tedkel "Every time Trump tried to get peace talks going ..." Kel, that really doesn't work any more. We all watched Trump trying "to get peace talks going", and all it ever boiled down to was "Why can you just let Putin win?"

@bluepenguin_wss @EastEndJoe Well spotted! Send for the taste police!

@EastEndJoe 👀 "fine arts" 🙄😁

Young, blonde, good looking, shows legs. She meets all the requirements needed for any job in Trump administration.

@TomLondon6 For ...?

Has Mandelson been arrested yet?

@UjuAnya @nicksays_summer It's normal practice not to prosecute people on the basis of unproved and improbable accusations.

@nicksays_summer They went with what they can criminally prove and prosecute in a court of law beyond any reasonable doubt. Like Al Capone got got on tax evasion charges, not murder and racketeering.

This family is so vile, it’s not even the first time a Mountbatten was made to answer for raping and killing children. The IRA assassinated Andrew’s great-uncle Louis in 1979 for being part of yet another pedophile ring.

@FeelYouHappy This clip of a chivalrous guard is an A1 fake.

Kindness costs nothing. This Royal Guard horse proves it 🥺

@RonFilipkowski God, what a slimy bunch they are.

He has 3 sons.

@Chateausherrill @JoyceCarolOates I have. There was a proposal to remake the Robert Hamer film but nothing came of it, thank God. I'm sorry about the new one.

@JoyceCarolOates Everything Ealing Studios did was wonderful! Are you aware that there is a remake of this due to hit the theaters this month? The new title is How to Make a Killing. (And I am I the only person who has read the original book, Israel Rank. An Autobiography of a Criminal?)

highly recommend classic English comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets" with a very young Alec Guinness playing eight roles brilliantly. the title is misleading especially to US audiences; too bad, there is nothing quaint or stodgy about this acerbic comedy of chillingly cold-blooded murder ingeniously executed against a family of British aristocrats. Guinness was a remarkable actor, more subtle than Peter Sellers whom he resembles to a degree, in this film of the late 1940's from Ealing Studios, London.

@CattardSlim What an impressive young man.

There it is 🤬 Maga is now asking why it's wrong if Trump is a pedophile. We're past 5th avenue. These sick fucks are now defending child rape & torture.