A rail worker is critically ill after confronting an attacker during an incident on an LNER service in Cambridgeshire. Eleven people were taken to hospital. A 23-year-old man was arrested and remains in custody as BTP investigates, with CCTV said to show the intervention.| Tomorrow's Papers Today!
The chancellor is weighing an income tax rise for the November Budget to plug a significant fiscal shortfall, potentially rowing back on a pledge not to lift headline rates. Options target higher earners and thresholds, with Treasury modelling revenue and cost‑of‑living impacts. No final decision yet.| Tomorrow's Papers Today!
In a tree outside St Albans Abbey, October 2025 Now over to all of you. Do come and join us in our Saturday six-word musings. I’ll admit that many of us openly break the numeric rule and share far …| Travel with Intent
Rx Kids is the first-ever community-wide cash prescription program for pregnant moms and babies. Rx Kids provides all pregnant moms in the City of Flint with no-strings-attached cash of $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 each month throughout a baby’s first year.| Rx Kids
Jack Thorne’s News of the World phone-hacking ITV drama dulls the astonishing scandal| New Statesman
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By David Tuller, DrPH Last week, The BMJ published a commissioned propaganda piece—er, “opinion”—written by confirmed members of the cognitive behavior ther ...| Virology Blog
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By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to th ...| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH October is a crowdfunding month at University of California, Berkeley. If you’d like to support my work, you can make a donation to th ...| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH *May is a crowdfunding month for Trial By Error. Donations (tax-deductible to US tax-payers) go to the University of Calinfornia, Berk ...| Virology Blog
By David Tuller, DrPH In a blistering take-down published on Tuesday, Guardian columnist George Monbiot indicted Professor Sir Simon Wessely, Professor Mich ...| Virology Blog
"A newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred. “Propaganda”, so called, by this means is hateful. The voice of opponents no less than that ...| UnCommon Sense
A Win for the Bees: EU Votes to Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides| www.stuartwilde.com
The Guardian have released this article about a document that’s supposedly been identified as Geoffrey Chaucer’s own handwriting. For one thing, that remains to be seen – the scholar making t…| The BS Historian
Three years ago, I asked an Afghan with ties to the Taliban what he had heard about captured Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. He replied that Bergdahl had briefly escaped, then been found hiding in a tree b…| Graeme Wood
