New study from my colleagues at Leeds showing the extent of plastics pollution from poor waste management. Some staggering amounts of plastic pollution enter the environment each yearđ§Ș www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...
This study covers the XBB.1.5 vaccine that has just become available in NZ yesterday - www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...
Recent research indicates that updated COVID-19 vaccines have high effectiveness against severe results like hospitalization.
Luxon is the very definition of wet whiny and inward looking. Blaming Labour, scapegoating the poor and beneficiaries, and wrapping it all up in the abusive language of his fundy church. Awful awful almost Trumpian stuff www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The prime minister laid out his vision for the country, promising a "tough love" approach to welfare and to fix an economy that's "gone backwards".
I still check the RNZ Covid stats page regularly - this graph is horrifying. Cases in some age groups have reached a 100% reinfection rate. Lots of these people will become disabled in the upcoming months/years. Weâve fucked ourselves as a society and it was all preventable.
đš Piece in The Guardian: âThe number of people saying they are inactive due to long-term sickness is now 2.8 million â an increase of more than 200,000 in the past year and of 700,000 since the pandemic started in 2020â #LongCovid#CureLongCovidwww.theguardian.com/business/202...
Years of austerity, followed by Covid, have left Britain with unhealthy workers and businesses struggling to recruit, but the road to recovery, of all kinds, will be long
This article is essential. "The appeal of issues like Brexit, gender and conspiracy is that they elevate cultural divisions over economic ones, while the influence of millionaires and billionaires over our politics is relegated from the conversation." www.theguardian.com/media/2023/o...
UnHerd has quickly become one of the biggest sites for political commentary in the UK, and now the hedge fund founder behind it â who also funds GB News and donates to the Tories â is trying to add th...
michaelwest.com.au/sydney-bomb-...
The victim of Sydney bomb threat was doxxed by Israel government supporters, and the investigation was handed to a junior constable at the local police station who went on leave, rather than Counter-T...
Some of the largest donors to Australia's "No" campaign have links to the fossil fuel industry and tried to hide their involvement behind holding companies. It was a well-funded, coordinated attack on indigenous rights, and the same network is already gearing up to do the same in Aotearoa.