Tim Leighton PhD
@TimLeightonCATS
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Everyone in the entire UK MUST resign immediately!
Warminster, Wiltshire, UK
Joined June 2011
“The condemnation of this spraying of red paint on to planes as expressed by the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, does not appear to be matched by any equivalent condemnation by her of red blood sprayed on to the tented walls of Gaza.” https://t.co/rKZMKab1fB
theguardian.com
We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is ministers complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent, says actor Juliet Stevenson
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Compare how the brave & outspoken @haaretzcom reports this story, compared with the ever-spineless @BBCNews. Its very hard to understand the BBC headline as anything other than a shameful shielding of Israel from blame & a deliberate obfuscation of the true story. Its not
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An excellent explanation of why cheaper drug prices in Europe have nothing to do with the U.S. “effectively subsidizing socialist healthcare systems in Germany, in all parts of the EU."
@BehizyTweets There are 5 factors that affect pricing in US: 1. No Central Price Negotiation. In Europe, national health authorities negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies. In the US, private insurers can’t centrally negotiate. 2. Patent and Market Exclusivity. US allow
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If it's LED they are at least saving on the electricity bill
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fuck's sake people need to learn to recognise parody. Have you not looked at Flo's posts before?
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essentially the framework you are working in contains your work in a way not the case in human sciences or humanities.
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a natural science PhD is more demanding than a humanities one are not aware that most (e.g.) physics PhDs involve an apprenticeship in an established lab, where every aspect of your research is set down in advance. Yes you might well add to knowledge but . . .
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Brilliant insightful article by @GeorgeMonbiot on why conspiracy fantasists show no interest in real conspiracies, while obsessing about entirely fake ones. https://t.co/ti7gY9ABOa
theguardian.com
Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer
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To addiction experts in the UK: would you say the name Betty Ford is well known in this country in relation to addictions treatment or recovery?
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@alexphughes @CarrotApple123 @markoftheD @OoblesK @marginletter “Rabbits in the pre-Cambrian”. No evidence analogous to that has ever been found.
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I am working on a sequel to my novella about Donald’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. Provisional title is Three ducks Redux.
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I have said recently that there is far too much use of emojis and other symbols, but I was immediately accused of being antisemiotic.
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Love @chrisgreybrexit's description of Brexit as a mug's eyeful. That is, a shoddy product dressed up with superfluous, superficial features that are all useless and break within days, like his first boombox. #mugseyeful
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A problem with having an eminent scientist with the same name is that I get messages like this from Academia: Tim Leighton ✏️ Did you write "Sonoluminescence from the unstable collapse of a conical bubble"? I now have to spend time wondering what a conical bubble is.
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It's a shame this man never became PM. But what he said here is as true today of the current govt. and PM. https://t.co/jBu4qVCBa6
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No 10 says it will produce ‘emergency’ bill to show Rwanda safe country ‘in coming weeks' - why not emergency legislation to show our rivers are sparkling and pure or to show that food prices are steadily falling?
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I'm always in Cannock. I know my town better than anyone. Anyone. From local government to national representation. You know when Cannock people should have started paying attention? Not when people fleeing war stay in 2 hotels. We should have started paying attention when the
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The reason Hamas publicised their deeds and the Nazis didn’t has nothing to do with their psychology it is to do with the purpose of their action.
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