Phil Thompson

@dorfman_p At £74/year that's a lot of years to save £1100

Analysis: How ‘plug-in solar’ can save UK homes £1,100 on energy bills carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-p…

@1pluseipi @EssexPoliceUK @SaferEssexRoads Loadsaroom

At least they listed this for NFA very quickly. @EssexPoliceUK @SaferEssexRoads can you please explain why this frightening high speed close pass might not warrant follow up? I told you the reg plate, as per your instructions. #ClosePass #WomenCycling

@paullewismoney Affordable means "built for a housing association". Usually costs more than an open market house.

£16bn state housing bank. What could possibly go wrong? And how will it protect builders from war driven rising prices? Also a reminder that ‘affordable’ does NOT mean affordable except in the trivial sense that if a house is sold someone has afforded it.

@blaiklockBP There's a land mine in front of mine.

Oil is being stolen from houses in the countryside. Put a lock on your tanks.

@ScottAppliedSci "76% of newborn babies had ketonaemia" fn.bmj.com/content/109/6/…

Keto fans point to infants as proof that humans are “naturally ketogenic.” This sounds clever right up until you know any physiology. In utero, foetuses depend mainly on glucose crossing the placenta, and glucose is their primary fuel. Not quite the carnivore origin story. 🧵

@snevinoj @guardian "invest as much every year policing the roads as we do maintaining them" - fuck all then.

Could not agree more with every word of this. And we should invest as much every year policing the roads as we do maintaining them. From @guardian: Too many drivers see road safety rules as a personal affront. It’s time to tighten up UK laws | Sally Kyd theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@BasilTheGreat Nick his headphones

This is the UK now Thieves just take things while on camera and the security do nothing for fear of losing their job or losing their life Crazy

@premnsikka What's their household income. Losing a "top up" tells me nothing.

UK disability benefit cuts New applicants for the health top-up to Universal Credit to receive half of the current rate whilst cost of living rises. If you lose your benefit and reapply, you get the lower rate. Thousands will be pushed into poverty. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@mindpsience @MohammedAlo Exactly, and why do none of them use LDL-C ? American Cardiology is a failed State, listen to the French instead.

@MohammedAlo What evidence do you have that calculators like PREVENT underestimate risk?

The risk calculators severely underestimate risk. They are designed to keep more patients off medicine. As cardiologists, we see the reality. The calculators and guidelines take many years to catch up to the science. If your LDL-C is over 60, you are probably building plaque. That's why we want be super low. My LDL-C is 41 on crestor and zetia. And I would like to keep it that way. I would rather never have calcium, never have a stroke, never have a heart attack, never have any of these things. Do it now before it becomes irreversible! 💪🏻🫀🩺

@NutritionMadeS3 That's a shit ratio of LDL/apoB. Good luck.

I thought my LDL of 50 and ApoB of 55mg/dL were solid but a lot of these folks have me beat 🤣💪 Loving this new trend of #LowLDLPride

@chatswithem £1.20 per litre from oil club at the weekend.

Heating in the U.K. is a luxury item People in villages are absolutely hostage to the oil companies Here we don't have gas . To heat your homes and water , it's all oil. January the price of 500l was 62 a litre £310 Today it is 1.45 a litre 500l~ £761 ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ How are people expected to pay this on top of everything else!!!!!! The people who use oil need HELP! @Ed_Miliband @RachelReevesMP @Nigel_Farage @RupertLowe10 @BackBrexitBen

@Gumdrop844 @MEslamdoust £12m on £8.2bn revenue. Clearly profiteering LOL.

@MEslamdoust Royal Mail profit 2025: £12 million

£1.80 for a stamp and we’re still pretending privatisation “keeps costs down”? It keeps profits up for shareholders. My Christmas/birthday cards cost less than the stamp to send them.

@MEslamdoust Denmark's **state-run** postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@London_W4 Spokes meet stick.

DO NOT TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT IN PUBLIC IN CENTRAL LONDON! Was stood waiting to cross the road at corner Marble Arch and Oxford Street just now and turned to see bloke on very fast electric bike heading up behind me. I turned and he turned away. I stood and watched as it was obvious what was going to happen next and sure enough, he snatched the phone of a young woman stood at the bus stop. Then off down Oxford Street for more. Face fully covered. If we had a police force in London this could easily be stopped, but instead, dozens of people a day have their lives made shit by these vermin. I’m in a shop writing this. Put your phone away on the streets. Take care. Be safe.

@David__Osland "Life expectancy at age 65 years was 21.2 years for females and 18.7 years for males in 2022 to 2024 in the UK." So if you make it to 65 you're expecting to make it to 83 on average. ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

Liz Truss wants to raise the state pension age to 80. Life expectancy for British men is 79.

@premnsikka Profit is a dirty word, Britons prefer "savings" over "investments". They pay the price.

Ownership of UK quoted shares. Foreign owned, 58.8% UK individuals, 11.6% Unit trusts, 8.2% Banks, 3.6% Pension funds, 1.6% Insurance companies, 1.2% Other financial institutions, 12.4% Despite privatization giveaways, Britons not keen on share ownership ons.gov.uk/economy/invest…

@trikomes Minnesota is all about the Corn oil - "Serum cholesterol lowering diet that replaced saturated fat with linoleic acid (from corn oil and corn oil polyunsaturated margarine). Control diet was high in saturated fat from animal fats, common margarines, and shortenings."

Mozaffarian et al. (2010) is a meta-analysis of clinical trials that looked at the effects of saturated fats vs. PUFAs on cardiovascular disease. It is considered among the strongest pieces of evidence that dietary PUFAs, including n-6 PUFAs, are heart healthy. The main result, across 8 RCTs, is that increased PUFA intake is associated with a reduction in risk of cardiovascular diesease/death (Image 1). When you look at the meta-analysis and dig into the RCTs themselves, there are some intriguing things to note, including: - They include trials where "PUFAs" replace saturated fats, but these can include n3 or n6 PUFAs. The trials vary in what the experimental group actually consumes (seed oils, fish, etc). - The two largest trials, Minnesota CS and DART, do not show a significant reduction in CHD deaths (Image 1) - Some trials involve replacing animal fats (saturated) with vegetable/seed oils (n-6 PUFA), while others involve advising people to eat fatty fish (n-3 PUFA). In some trials, intake isn't really controlled; patients are "advised" on what to eat. - The Minnesota CS trial (n=9057; Image 2) shows no reduction in CHD deaths from increased PUFA intake. No difference in cardiovascular deaths or total mortality. Not clear what the sources of PUFAs were, but presumably some n-6 PUFA was included. - The DART trial (n=2033) did not appear to explicitly alter n-6 PUFA intake. Patients were men recovered from myocardial infraction and "advised" on diet. Subjects advised to eat fish had a 2-year all-cause mortality reduction (Image 3), which presumably would have meant an increase in n-3 PUFA intake. It could be fun digging into the other trials, and noting what kind of PUFAs were measured and how carefully intake was tracked.

@drterrysimpson they always seem to calculate LDL, if they bother at all. It isn't used in the risk calculator anyway. So I conclude it is irrelevant.

Your doctor measures cholesterol because it predicts who gets carried out of the hospital. Insulin, by contrast, mostly predicts who will buy a glucose monitor on the internet. LDL has causal evidence, randomized trials, and therapies that reduce heart attacks and death. Insulin has influencers, fasting curves, and arguments about what “optimal” even means. We don’t ignore insulin—we measure its consequences: glucose and HbA1c. Because medicine prefers endpoints over vibes. If insulin were as actionable as cholesterol, it would be on every lab panel already. It isn’t. That’s not a conspiracy—it’s a clue.

@DrNeilStone Is that the mean or the median or another statistic ?

Yes humans did indeed live without vaccines for thousands of years Just not for very long Life expectancy was 30

@jonburkeUK Ah Norway, remind me of their population ? Bit of a disparity between UK and Norwegian annual energy demands.

Sorry Catherine, these are the facts: 🛢️ 93% of North Sea oil & gas has been drained by private companies. 🛢️ Production peaked in 1999. 🛢️ Norway’s state-owned Statoil managed reserves well. That’s why have some left. 🛢️The Tories used ours to halve income tax for the rich.