Simon Cooke

Carlson is a Nazi. There is no other explanation for this nonsense.

Some people say that Dave is just hungry for fame and has found a biddable audience, but Occam’s Razor says that he is simply an idiot.

@DespoticInroad It worked for Liz Truss why not Ange?

Are Gilt yields spiking because Rayner questioned the OBR's accounting for long-term returns on public investment on a Teams call? Or could it be something to do with Iran War piling stagflationary pressures on our highly exposed, energy-dependent open market economy?

‘Fairies are part of the rich history of human experience, and I do not see why belief in them or claims of encounters with them are any less worthy of respect than, say, religious beliefs or reports of religious experiences.’ Fairies: A History by @DrFrancisYoung is out today in the UK! See more: politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

@DrFrancisYoung You can tell the age of the ring (it is one organism) by its diameter, a bit like tree rings. Some on the South Downs and in Normandy are over a thousand years old.

Checking in on my local fairy ring

And the first great mycogist, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke first-nature.com/fungi/~biog-co…

Oh no! Dutch anti-nicotine activists are upset that heated tobacco, which is a less harmful alternative to cigarettes, is being described as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes! 😱 #NotAboutHealth nltimes.nl/2026/03/19/ban…

this is art

@DrFrancisYoung @victoriamoul Wrote this about fairies donkeys years ago. "Why I believe in Fairies" theviewfromcullingworth.blogspot.com/2009/11/wednes…

@SimonMagus @victoriamoul There's plenty on Cottingley!

I've just read this on kindle. Didn't realise it wasn't actually out yet! It's fascinating, and a great read.

@CamillaTominey @graemeburton "putrid dog" is a top class insult though. Quite an achievement to bring a new one to Australia where it is almost an art form.

Progressive stuff... Australia’s PM called a ‘putrid dog’ and chased out of mosque telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

"So you want the UK to join the EU?" "Yes" "So you want to give up the Pound and accept the Euro" "No" "So you want to join the Schengen area and allow completely open borders" "No" "So you want to be part of the EU Migration Pact, another 100k illegal migrants to the UK a year" "No" "So you want to re-introduce the testing of cosmetics onto animals, required by EU law" "No" "So you want to re-introduce live exports of animals for fattening or slaughter" "No" "So you want to give control of UK fishing waters and quotas back to the EU" "No" "So you want to reverse the protections of UK marine birds like puffins, who were endangered due to EU overfishing of the main food source" "No" "So you want to give up the better trade relationship the UK now has with the USA, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, and countless other countries" "No" "Well it sounds like you don't want to join the EU then"

Let me guess, it will be about how the housing crisis was caused by Thatcher declaring neoliberalism in 1979 and actually we don't need to build any more if we just institute rent control.

The damage caused to blood vessels by smoking has been shown to be reversed by swapping to vaping, in a new study by researchers at the Centre of Excellence for the acceleration of Harm Reduction planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/vaping-ne…

@DrFrancisYoung @victoriamoul I am so looking forward to reading this. All those years representing the fairies as a councillor makes them definitely my favoirite thing.

@victoriamoul I get the impression that publication dates are more symbolic than real these days tbh

Australians are now suffering from secondhand bullets thanks to anti-smoking fanatics.

This feels very much like what the left call cultural appropriation when white people adopt styles or cultures associated with, for example, Native Americans

I’ve just submitted my consultation response on Vape-free public places. There is no evidence that vaping harms people in the vicinity and equating vaping with smoking makes people less likely to switch, undermining the government’s own policy on stopping smoking.

Laos a country in which nearly 50% of men smoke has a ban on the most effective quitting tool (E-Cigarettes)! Could they be working any harder to encourage smoking?

In our needs based country, independence from the state is treated as a punishable vice while dependence on the state is treated as a rewardable virtue.