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@MrMenApocalypse @CampaignNhs @charlie444b @NHSuk I developed AF after decades of following NHS advice to ignore my symptoms and get more exercise. This is what happened after I was diagnosed:

@ChrisGPackham @Helen_Whately She makes it sound like a new handbag, or an ornament for the mantlepiece.

On BBC Question Time, @Helen_Whately just said ‘we can’t afford Net Zero’ . She is a human health hazard and grossly misinformed or lying . Time to call out the lunatics leading us to hell . No facts , no truth , no integrity - no hope.

I believe we are standing on the precipice of the most profound, intentional collapse of human civilization in recorded history. The trigger isn’t a meteor, a supervolcano, or even a world war in the traditional sense. It’s the potential destruction of a single industrial facility: the Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in Qatar. Modern civilization doesn’t just run on energy; it is fundamentally architected on a steady, massive flow of natural gas, supercooled and shipped as LNG. This isn’t an abstraction. Our global food supply, our industrial chemical production, and the very stability of nations are tethered to this flow. That tether is frighteningly thin. Qatar's Ras Laffan is the heart of this system, a nexus of technology and geography that is effectively irreplaceable. Its 14 processing 'trains' and the critical Main Cryogenic Heat Exchangers (MCHEs) that chill gas to -260°F are marvels of engineering, but they represent a catastrophic single point of failure. As noted in energy literature, the specialized machinery for this process is made by only one or a handful of companies globally. This infrastructure isn't just important; it is singular. Its loss would not be a temporary market disruption. It would be a decade-long severing of the global energy artery. The recent, deliberate sabotage of critical infrastructure like the Nord Stream pipelines has shown us that such attacks are not theoretical. They are tools of geopolitical warfare. When you understand that over half the world's food depends on fertilizer made from natural gas, the picture becomes horrifyingly clear. We have built a world of astonishing abundance on a foundation of shocking fragility. One facility, in one volatile region, now holds the key to whether billions eat or starve. Two of QatarEnergy's 14 LNG trains have now been destroyed. The rebuild time is 3-5 years. If all 14 trains are destroyed, 25% - 50% of the world's current population will starve. Trump did this.

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

This is deeply symbolic of the British Bureaucracy sickness we are suffering from. £179m spent, for literally nothing. World class waste.

@BBCSussex King visits seven sisters? Does Camilla know about this?

King Charles has visited Seven Sisters in East Sussex to inaugurate a new footpath stretching around the entire coast of England. More here: bbc.in/3Nzt8jx

A reason to ignore public pressure for relief at the pump economist.com/britain/2026/0…

Seven clocks are running. None of them negotiable. All of them counting down to the same weeks. The planting clock. Mid-April is the biological deadline for corn and soybean planting across the US Midwest. Every day that passes without nitrogen becoming affordable and available narrows the window for corn. USDA projects corn falling to 94 million acres from 98.8 million. Soybeans rising to 85 million from 81.2 million. The seeds that go into the ground in the next three weeks determine America’s grain harvest in October. The decision is irreversible. The USDA clock. March 31. Prospective Plantings. The report that converts farmer intentions into official data. Every acreage number, every corn-soy ratio, every nitrogen-dependent calculation becomes a published fact that traders, governments, and food agencies will use to model global supply for the next twelve months. The number arrives in twelve days. The FAO clock. April 3. The Food Price Index. The first global reading that captures post-Hormuz commodity prices across cereals, vegetable oils, dairy, meat, and sugar. The 2022 peak was 159.7 in March 2022 after Ukraine. This reading will incorporate oil above $100, urea at $610, LNG halted, packaging repriced, and freight surcharges of $500 to $1,500 per container. The number that determines whether the UN declares a food emergency arrives in fifteen days. The pharmaceutical clock. India’s API inventory buffers are two to three months, measured from the war’s onset on February 28. Late May is the depletion window. Methanol at 87.7 percent Hormuz exposure feeds the solvent chain for paracetamol, ibuprofen, metformin, and antibiotics. Once buffers deplete, the shortage becomes a patient access crisis for the 47 percent of US generics that originate in India. The China crude clock. FGE NexantECA confirmed China is drawing commercial reserves at up to one million barrels per day. The draw sustains refinery operations for four to six weeks from March 19. Mid-April to late April is the exhaustion window. After that, China faces three options: accelerate Russian pipeline imports, reroute at massive premium, or crack open the strategic petroleum reserve. The third option reprices every commodity on the planet. The helium clock. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Late May to early June is the depletion window. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. Ras Laffan is offline. If helium buffers deplete before alternative supply arrives, semiconductor fabrication faces rationing. The AI hardware supply chain hits a physical wall measured in months, not quarters. The insurance clock. Solvency II requires 30 to 60 days of zero incidents before P&I clubs can reinstate war risk coverage. Even after a ceasefire, the insurance normalisation takes six to sixteen months based on the Red Sea precedent of 26 months and counting. The logistics system lags the financial relief rally by the longest duration of any clock in this crisis. Seven clocks. The shortest expires in twelve days. The longest runs for over a year. The planting window, the USDA report, the FAO index, the drug buffers, the Chinese crude draw, the helium inventory, and the insurance cycle are all counting down simultaneously. None of them pause for diplomacy. None of them respond to presidential directives. None of them read sealed packets. The calendar is the only actor in this war that has never lost a negotiation. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@jdpoc So does 111

Well, I just learned that in the UK, if you dial 911 because you’re a tourist, or you watch far too much American television, it automatically redirects to 999.

@ReadThinkTweet2 @Boenau

@stendec6 @Boenau Step into the real world and see for yourself. It was madness in NYC and harsh penalties saved many pedestrians from hospitals and worse. A few ppl died from bikers, and many injured, the mayor had to take action. I was hit myself and threatened by a cyclist.

"more than 50% of drivers don’t view cyclists as fully human" This might be a problem if we're trying to eliminate traffic violence.

@ReadThinkTweet2 @Boenau 99% of pedestrian deaths whilst on the pavement are caused by motorists: citymonitor.ai/analysis/think…

@ReadThinkTweet2 @Boenau 99% of the pedestrian deaths are caused by motorists.

@ReadThinkTweet2 @Boenau A motorist has had me in a headlock, threatening to cave my head in with a hammer. Another has knocked me off my bike. Many others have endangered me with their impatient driving.

Bruh didn’t even flinch 😂😂

@UB1UB2 So what? The light's not a warning, it doesn't flash until you've already been caught.

Transport for London has just announced a trial for advanced, high-tech “stealth” speed cameras across the capital, and several West London boroughs are officially on the list. Unlike the old yellow boxes, these new cameras do NOT flash and do not require white lines painted on the road. Using advanced 4D imaging radar, a single camera can monitor speed, distance, elevation, and direction across five lanes of bi-directional traffic all at once. The trial is specifically targeting 20mph and 30mph zones across nine London boroughs: 📍 Ealing 📍 Brent 📍 Hammersmith & Fulham 📍 Haringey 📍 Tower Hamlets 📍 Havering 📍 Croydon 📍 Hackney 📍 Sutton TfL states this upgrade is “vital” for consistent enforcement and reducing road casualties. However, the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) pointed out that since average speeds in London are already below 20mph, the focus should instead be on catching drivers illegally using their mobile phones at the wheel #UB1UB2 #London #Ealing

We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.

Psychiatrists are increasingly concerned about the risk they face in terms of accountability, particularly in the context of patient safety incidents. They are worried about being held responsible for catastrophic failings that occur under their watch, where patients can take their own lives, many of which are related to coercive prescribing habits. Psychiatrists should be worried. They aren't restoring or repairing lives. They're damaging and destroying lives. Psychiatrists, their employers, and their membership body consistently ignore the paradoxical effects of prescribed drugs, effects such as suicidal thoughts and suicidal behaviour. Instead, they blame a patient's mental difficulties for a catastrophic failure, while also lamenting a lack of public funding to carry on their "work". This modus operandi creates a smokescreen designed to deflect attention away from psychiatric failings. Psychiatry should be no different from other professions which take public and/or patient safety in the highest regard. Any attempt to exonerate psychiatrists from professional liabilities relating to patient safety should be a red flag to discerning regulatory agencies. #mentalhealth #MentalHealthAwareness #mentalhealthmatters #psychiatry #rcpsych #psychiatrist #psychiatry

GOLD

@bushontheradio Yuk

About to eat a whole pack of beetroot. Your thoughts on this please.

@rushicrypto Trump's Depression

If the last one was named “The Great” Depression, what’s this one going to be called?