John Robinson

@SGriffin_Lab @chrischirp My sister died of polio in 1950 just five years before Salk's vaccine a year before I was born. My father never really recovered from his grief. I think about what he would have said to any anti vaxer.

Such a sad state of affairs... Please protect your child with a #MMR vaccine, and in so doing, protect others, including u1's that can't have it yet. No, MMR does NOT cause autism. Measles can kill. The antivax movement should hang its head in shame. bbc.com/news/articles/…

@Bonn1eGreer He's trying to play the victim now. No forgiveness until he makes amends, viz John Profumo. Let's be rid of the whole rotten lot.

#RishiSunak-: Only a person without a ❤️ or somebody who weighs up stuff to see what matters to & for HIM, would leave the #DDay celebration. Leave those British vets & their families.These are very old men. Your instincts (political & maybe even human) should have stopped you

@GrammarUpdates Reach out - contact

Avoiding Wordiness #1 #writing

@sophiamcoutts @HeleneBismarck @Telegraph Trust me it's worse in Uruguay, they dance in athlete's foot powder and payday loan ads

@JMPSimor 'I told them I'd lost them, and they believed me, how stupid must they be!'

Not a good look.

@CarolineLucas There is no depth to which the Tories will not sink in their moral turpitude.

Govt's last shred of moral authority in tackling #climateemergency has been obliterated. Our cowardly Climate Minister has walked away from #COP28 negotiations at the most critical moment, because the PM wants him to vote for his immoral Rwanda Deal in order to save his own skin.

@NickCohen4 I have pensions paying me £32k. My wife has a £22k pension from the UN. A guaranteed income of £54k. She will not be able to get a spousal vise. Someone earning £39k can get a spousal visa for someone earning nothing, and even lose their job the next day. Performative cruelty.

We have gone from EU membership, where we could marry any European we pleased and live with them where we wished, to the Conservatives smashing up our families and ordering partners to leave the country. Brexit has been a huge blow to our freedom.

@JamesHarrisNow @NickCohen4 Performative cruelty. A Tory speciality.

Since UK has gone from a country whose citizens could live all over Europe to one where only the richest can afford to live in their own country with their own spouses. I struggle to see that as progress

Congratulations to Daniela Solá for successfully defending her Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Antonio Cabrales, Ana Tur and Noam Yuchtman for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Daniela’s advisors Paula Bustos and @monicambravo

@Dr_D_Robertson @chrischirp An example of the commodified view of knowledge and education. Such a depaupurate view at a time when multidisciplinary methods are becoming essential. Such ignorance is depressing.

One of the things about being in a university is that you are surrounded by very bright people with diverse educational backgrounds. That's how knowledge is created. And impact made. And value created. Shutting down humanities degrees, as with shutting down libraries, isn't good.

@redhistorian @david_colquhoun The culture of deference is still strong among the British middle classes. The upper class, or faux upper class in the case of Johnson and Mogg, benefit from an almost inate acceptance of hierarchical authority, with little critical analysis of any real ability.

I agree with Anthony Seldon about the damage Boris Johnson has done and his unfitness for public office. But there's a question he doesn't address here, which needs more attention. It troubled me about his book, too. So let me try to explain... 🧵 thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…

@AdamRutherford Sailing back from N.Brittany to Cornwall, maybe 30 years ago, we passed through maybe ten miles of these covering the water as far as the eye could see. An unforgettable experience.

What are these pls?

Nurses are under attack. The government have decided they will take them on and break them if needed They are the same people who kept this nation going through the pandemic They are the backbone of society RT if you stand right behind them and will back them whatever it takes

@HeleneBismarck @anneapplebaum Thank you for this. Just read the chapter on the last days pre WWI. Excellent writing and much to think about. I love his European vision. Cooperation, collaboration, mutual aid, cultural celebration. The EU, despite its flaws, stands for this. How could we throw all that away.

@herdyshepherd1 Uruguay's national library is holding a homage to WH Hudson. Spanish and English presentations m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

Number one requirement for anyone working with our livestock is are they steady, calm and sensible I wouldn’t have anyone rough or who is gung-ho and racing about… my grandad was obsessed with thinking through a job first to do it the best way, and I try to be the same

Amazed how much stressy behaviour I see online among sheep - At our place you do it calm and steady and no stress, or you’re sacked Walk tup in to the corner of a field among the ewes and gently get hold and apply raddle whilst having a bite of feed I hate stressy shepherding

@EdwardGLuce @anneapplebaum It all goes back to the UKIP/Tufton St. cults. Brexit was their plan and this is what Brexit has done, but nobody will say so. Idealogical madness.

As a public servant Mark Carney declines to offer a 'value judgement' on Brexit. He's happy to give a neutral valuation though: “Put it this way, in 2016 the British economy was 90 per cent the size of Germany’s. Now it is less than 70 per cent." Boom. ft.com/content/f1f0a6…

@spinicist @BullslandBugle The pandemic showed us whose jobs are essential, and very few of them were well paid.

@g_gosden @david_colquhoun Welcome to Tory Leadership Bingo! Just waiting for the return of the death penalty to shout house.

Sunak says he wants completely open borders between Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU, and would achieve it via a Northern Ireland bill that the EU is already suing us over. Completely bonkers unless we join the customs union and/or the S. Market

@_johnbye @dgurdasani1 ..stitch up with a sympathetic judge during a time when the main courts weren't sitting. Hopefully, this week it will be overturned.

The court case trying to block 5-11 year olds from getting vaccinated against covid, launched by Bev Turner and the HART front group "Children's Covid Vaccine Advisory Council", has been thrown out and judged as "totally without merit". And they owe DHSC £14,683 in defence costs.

@_johnbye @dgurdasani1 That's good news. I live in Uruguay and there is currently a judicial ruling to prevent vaccination of 5-11 year old on the grounds that people don't know the exact make up of the Pfizer vaccination. The anti vaxers were literally dancing in the street. It seems to have been a...