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Simon Halstead

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Consultant Psychiatrist

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Superforecasters: Probably (2/3) no Russian invasion of Ukraine in the next few months.

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This is the most devastating betrayal - an utterly preventable catastrophe - with nine million on the edge of starvation

Devastating piece by @christinalamb "In my 35 years as a reporter, I have never seen anything of Afghanistan’s magnitude - 23 million people, more than half the population, face starvation and a million children may die" thetimes.co.uk/article/in-my-…



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If only, nobody had told him he was Prime Minister in the first place #nobodytoldme


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The Royal Portuguese Reading Room, Brazil.

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Michael Shermer reflects on his last Scientific American column, as it turned (as most institutions are turning) owrk. @michaelshermer michaelshermer.substack.com/p/scientific-a…


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Meet the man who thinks your gut instincts are always wrong (introducing Think With Pinker, the BBC Radio & podcast series debuting this week). telegraph.co.uk/columnists/202…


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BBC News just described FW De Klerk as “The man who ended white rule in South Africa”. I think Nelson Mandela among many, many others might dispute that.


Sudan 🇸🇩 and Ethiopia 🇪🇹 are both exploding, neighbours, 160 million people. Replay of just about 30 years ago. 1991 talks in London saved the day for Ethiopia but London is otherwise engaged with its navel and PR today


Has anyone worked through Pinker’s blue and green cab probability equation on page 155 of Rationality, help needed, please


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Honestly I despair. For crying out loud even if you don't care about standards which you should, perhaps try to see how this looks.

The review would have 8 backbenchers, 4 of them Tory. Whittingdale, as the chair and 9th member, would have the casting vote. So a Conservative majority to change the standards system in response to findings against Paterson, one of their own Huge dustup coming tomorrow💥



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We went to see Richard Ratcliffe on day 9 of his hunger strike. The ongoing torment of this innocent family is a failure of British democracy in its core aim: to protect its citizens. Nazanin must come home. How on earth will we reverse climate change if we can’t even fix this?

VictoriaCoren's tweet image. We went to see Richard Ratcliffe on day 9 of his hunger strike. The ongoing torment of this innocent family is a failure of British democracy in its core aim: to protect its citizens. Nazanin must come home. How on earth will we reverse climate change if we can’t even fix this?

Isn’t the fishing licence dispute between UK/Jersey and France and ideal opportunity for arbitration rather than sabre rattling? I completely independent expert review the applications and say if they are fair?


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NASA Juno’s view of Jupiter’s South Temperate Belt!

totalspace360's tweet image. NASA Juno’s view of Jupiter’s South Temperate Belt!

Anoosheh is a retired father who has been imprisoned in Iran for over four years. He is at daily risk of COVID-19. Help get him free amnesty.org.uk/actions/help-g…


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Hello Mercury! 🤩 One of our first views of #Mercury, taken ~10mins after close approach. More details and images to follow later today! esa.int/ESA_Multimedia… #MercuryFlyby #ExploreFarther

BepiColombo's tweet image. Hello Mercury! 🤩

One of our first views of #Mercury, taken ~10mins after close approach. More details and images to follow later today! 

esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

#MercuryFlyby #ExploreFarther

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POW! The Sun just served up a powerful flare! ☀️ 💥 At 11:35 a.m. EDT today, a powerful X1-class solar flare erupted from the Sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught it all on camera. 📸 More on our Solar Cycle 25 blog: go.nasa.gov/3nA3OsJ

NASASun's tweet image. POW!  The Sun just served up a powerful flare! ☀️ 💥 

At 11:35 a.m. EDT today, a powerful X1-class solar flare erupted from the Sun. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory caught it all on camera. 📸 

More on our Solar Cycle 25 blog: go.nasa.gov/3nA3OsJ

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'Deemed Appropriate' "The matter has been referred to the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Professional Standards Department, and CCTV footage of the incident reviewed. The officer’s actions were deemed appropriate in the circumstances." thecomet.net/news/crime/pol…


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This remarkable development is not just an increase in saying socially acceptable things to a pollster: people are MARRYING people of other races more (15% of new marriages, vs 8% of existing ones). One of many declines of racism, overt & implicit

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To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go.

jk_rowling's tweet image. To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go.

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