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Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵
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A statment from us.
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Thousands of people turned up on Trafalgar Square in London, UK, tonight, to show their solidarity with Ukraine and to protest against the Russian aggression, 12 years in the making, including 4 years of the full-scale war. 1/2
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Grok estimates with 75%-85% certainty that Trump is a Putin compromised asset. @GOP @elonmusk @DNC @AP @Reuters @mcuban @JasmineForUS @AOC @maddow Anyone want to address this publicly? xitter.cf/i/grok/share/WQepvCpIJ…
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A little thread about Georgian elections, especially evidence of fraudulence in 2024 and previous trends. #GeVote24 #Georgia #Sakartvelo 1/18
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The ongoing violence towards protesters and journalists by Georgian authorities is unacceptable and must stop. Today I am restricting UK cooperation with Georgian Dream until it halts its move away from European democratic norms and freedoms. gov.uk/government/news/forei…
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"There's nothing that provokes Vladimir Putin more than weakness"
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There is a lot going on in the news at the moment, but there is a story that is consistently being underreported: Russia. A 🧵 (potentially with 🖍️)
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Widespread voter intimidation & undue pressure on civil society do not comply with international standards. We support the findings of @osce_odihr on Georgia 🇬🇪 elections and call for further investigation. Georgia must reverse democratic backsliding ⬇️ gov.uk/government/news/georg…
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📧🚨 DRAX INTERNAL EMAIL LEAK 🚨📧 📧 Financial Times Investigation reveals that Drax is knowingly sourcing wood pellets from ecologically important areas which it has been denying! 🌳❌ 🧵👇📷
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This video is worth a few mins of your time. There is a scale model demonstration of just how tiny a 25 wks premature baby is in comparison to full-term, plus a discussion of Baby K by some experienced neonatal specialists. Yet more questions against Dr Jayaram's evidence.
#LucyLetby @Thirlwall_Inq must watch video by true experts on just how common accidental tube dislodgement is in premature babies. youtu.be/X0QI6GiA8ZU?si=XUdh…
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£22 billion for a machine that will capture carbon and store it? You've been robbed mate
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Things The Jury Were Told Which Don't Seem Correct Episode 2 How is it possible to create a timeline where an action happens in response to events which haven't happened yet? This is for the case of Baby E where Nick Johnson KC indirectly suggests the following timeline: 1. 23:00 Dr Harkness arrives and observes a deterioration in Baby E 2. 23:30 Neonatal nurse calls the midwife to let her know the situation (time verified by midwife's agreed witness statement) 3. The midwife speaks to the mother and asks her to contact her husband 4. 22:52 Midwife & mother call her husband to ask him to come (oops, we seem to have gone back in time). No problem, Nick Johnson KC can magic that up - he'll just shift the time Harkness arrives to a little earlier ("obviously he's not using a stopwatch"), forget to mention the time the midwife is called, add in a bit of misdirection and no on will notice. Here is what he said in his closing speech: "Just park that time in your head if you would, 22.52, and go to tile 128. Click on that, please, and scroll down. Just before 23:00 hours, here is doctor Harkness' note. He times it at 23:00 hours. Obviously, he's not using a stopwatch. This is the beginning of the final dramatic collapse of Child E, and it coincides, doesn't it, with that telephone call made by the midwife to the father of Child E and F." Umm... no it doesn't.
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Well, maybe the unearthing of this document (by SoT) helped him to rethink his ideas on murder by injection of air into the stomach via NG tube?
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Last week @TimMJoslin and I were looking at the timeline of events on 3rd August 2015 for Baby E and saw some glaring discrepancies: clinical notes and witness statements were out of sync with the mother's call log times. We concluded that the timings of the mother's phone calls to her husband had to be later than those given in the trial and that her phone company had supplied the call log times in UTC (=GMT) rather than BST, putting them an hour earlier than they should have been This was important to the case because the call logs were used to support allegations that Lucy Letby had lied to her, failed to call the doctor for an hour after Baby E suffered bleeding from his mouth, and then falsified clinical notes to cover for that. If the call log times were an hour out it proves Lucy Letby was innocent of those allegations. Today I've looked at Nick Johnson KC's closing speech regarding Baby E and it's clear to me in the way he distorted or ignored certain events that he was aware of inconsistencies with his version of the timeline. Here are the relevant parts of his closing speech with my comments: "The phone records prove that she made a call, don't they? They don't prove what's in the call. Of course, they don't. But they prove that she made the call. If I just remind you of tile 122, please. This is a call at 21:11, 4 minutes and 25 seconds. The mother of Child E and F told you what she said to her husband. The father of Child E and F told you what she said to him. Have the parents of Child E and F made that up to get Lucy Letby? Because that's the choice. Are they in on it? Are they a sub gang of 2? Or are they telling the truth? " Yes, of course they're telling the truth. There is no question a call was made but the timing of it is at issue and this is down to the phone company and Cheshire Police. The content of the calls cannot be disputed. "Is Lucy Letby telling the truth when she says that the mother of Child E and F came down at 22.00 hours? Well, the mother of Child E and F told you that after the 21.00 hours event, the next time she went down was when the doctors were working on Child E, trying to save his life. Is she wrong about that? Of all the things in your life that you remember, ladies and gentlemen, I hope none of you have ever been in that position. But you might just remember, might you, seeing your son in a terminal decline? And if the mother of Child E and F is telling you the truth, then Lucy Letby's notes are a lie. Her account is a lie." No, both the mother and Lucy Letby are telling the truth but the mother is mistaken about the timing of the phone call which was an hour later at 23.52 rather than at 22:52. I've concluded that her mobile phone company supplied her with the time in UTC (GMT) rather than in BST and that Cheshire Police failed to verify it. The timing of her next visit to the neonatal unit was much later per the midwife's agreed witness statement. She said she and the mother were together at midnight for 10 minutes in the neonatal unit corridor outside the nursery room. This is after Baby E suffered a sudden desaturation at 23:40 and doctors & nurses were attending to him. It's likely that they called her husband while there. "Do you remember being told that a message had come up from the labour ward and the mother of Child E and E was so upset by what she heard that she asked a midwife to use her phone to phone the father of Child E and F?" The midwife noted this call from the neonatal unit at 23.30 as stated in her agreed witness statement, I'd be surprised if Johnson wasn't fully aware of this. The mother was understandably upset because her baby had suffered a deterioration and the doctors were preparing to intubate at that same time, 23:30. "You can see it's a long call, 14 minutes and 30 seconds. Just park that time in your head if you would, 22.52, and go to tile 128. Click on that, please, and scroll down. Just before 23:00 hours, here is doctor Harkness' note. He times it at 23:00 hours. Obviously, he's not using a stopwatch. This is the beginning of the final dramatic collapse of Child E, and it coincides, doesn't it, with that telephone call made by the midwife to the father of Child E and F." This is where Johnson appears to be attempting to twist the timeline to fit his narrative. 1. Dr Harkness is recorded as being called over at 23:00 in response to a further bleed, not "just before". Even if it was a bit before 23:00 it doesn't allow time for him to assess Baby E, speak to the nurses, them to call the midwife, the midwife to find the mother, speak to her and then call her husband. 2. It was after 23:00 that Baby E deteriorated further and they were preparing to intubate at 23:30. 3. With the call to the midwife at 23:30 the mother's 2nd phone call had to be after this i.e. at 23.52. "If we look at tile 153, please, the family communication note is what I'm interested in. If you read down about 5 lines, it says, both parents present during resus, fully updated. There is in there a reference to having contacted the midwife called the midwife." Yes, at 23:30. There was a further collapse at 00:36 and resuscitation was commenced again. It was likely then or later that the father arrived. "So the bits of jigsaw all fit. As with all jigsaws, they only fit one way. And the image on the jigsaw corresponds to the account given to you by the mother of Child E and F. And it completely undermines we suggest Lucy Letby's version of these events. " Johnson has made the jigsaw pieces fit by leaving some out and cutting others to size, but the result is a mess. The only way to fit the pieces together correctly and resolve discrepancies is if the call log times are shifted an hour later. The end result of this is proof that Lucy Letby was telling the truth about what happened. See further details below of the corrected timeline with references. #LucyLetby
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This is the same timeline as above but I've added in more details and links to source material. 1/ Dr Harkness was initially called to Baby E at around 10pm. He told Letby to keep close observation on Baby E, and logged a medical note at 10.10pm. He doesn’t believe he would have left the unit after that. Dr Harkness – medical notes: Dr David Harkness records readings from 9.40pm, written at 10.10pm, 'asked to see patient re: gastric bleed' [note he wasn’t there personally for the 9.40pm readings] tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… Dr Harkness – trial testimony: He says for this night he was called over at 10pm, having been called over because Child E had blood in his vomit. The note 'close observation' is made, emphasising the designated nurse - Lucy Letby - was to monitor Child E closely in room 1. Dr Harkness says, from his recollection, he does not believe he left the unit as the bleed was 'something unusual' in Child E so he does not believe he went very far. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… 2/ Dr Harkness was called for the 2nd time, at 11pm. He was worried about Baby E’s condition, spoke to the consultant and they decided to intubate. Preparations for this were being made at 11.30pm. The nursing team decided to contact Baby E’s mother who was in the maternity ward. Dr Harkness – trial testimony: For the 11pm note, he says Letby called him into room 1, where 'Further GI blood loss and desaturation to 70%' is noted. Dr Harkness says he is planning to intubate Child E… Dr Harkness says he would discuss the result of the x-ray with surgeons at Alder Hey and seek advice from them. Dr Harkness said he would then have been preparing to intubate and get the equipment ready. Prescriptions are made from 11.28pm-11.30pm for a number of drugs. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… Daily Mail podcast: But doctor Harkness was called back again around 50 minutes later around 11 PM by Lucy Letby. When even more blood came up the tube, the court heard that the blood loss by this point was significant, and it amounted to a quarter of all the blood in his body… Doctor Harkness was worried, and he decided to call the consultant … to discuss baby E's worsening condition. They both agreed that doctor Harkness would give the baby fluids to help replace the blood loss and prepare to ventilate him.. The idea was to get him stable enough to see what was causing the problem. And the nursing team also decided at this point to contact baby E's mother upstairs. She was asked to call her husband. youtu.be/kO9sC8Nz4EI?si=Zpnw… 3/ The midwife received a call from the neonatal unit at 11.30pm asking for the mother to go down She went to ask the mother to contact her husband. Midwife – statement as read out in court: Her 'midwife notes' are presented to the court, showing the mum of Child E was 'post-natal well', and one of the twins had 'deteriorated slightly'. At 11.30pm on August 3 she had a call from the neonatal unit to ask Child E's mother to go down in 30 minutes as Child E had a bleed and required intubating - 'very poorly'. She said the mum was very upset and she thought the 30-minute was 'unreasonable' and asked to go sooner. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… 4/ Mother calls her husband and Midwife asks him to come to the hospital due to baby’s worsening condition. Call log shown to court & mother’s testimony puts this call at 10.52pmbut that doesn’t fit with rest of timeline. Mother - trial testimony: She was later told by the midwife and to ring her husband. The midwife called the husband at 10.52pm, telling him to come to the hospital, after the neo-natal rang the maternity ward. She said she does not know why the midwife rang, but assumed it was because she was "very upset" and "knew there was something wrong". tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… Father - trial testimony: ‘The second phone call was split between the midwife and his wife. He was told: "Don't panic, but get over here now.’ tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… Father - on Panorama: Quickly followed up by a second phone call with a midwife saying, you need to get here now. And there was a 3rd phone call telling me, where are you? The priest has been called. And I just knew. I knew at that point, you know, you don't call a priest unless someone's dying. youtu.be/yo13E3YwvBg?si=IziS… Mother - Inquiry Testimony : Q. When you went back, did you get a call later that night to go back to the NNU? A. Yes, yes. So I'd had a conversation with a midwife and I was upset, and I told her what I'd found, and I think she checked on me throughout the couple of hours, and she then asked me to -- she'd come in to the room and asked me to contact my husband, and ring him. And at that point I knew something really bad was happening, and she asked to speak to him and she didn't -- she wanted to speak to him and she told him to come to the hospital straight away and not to drive. To get somebody else to drive him. Page 11 line 9 of: thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/… 5/ At 11.40pm Baby E suffered a sudden desaturation. Dr Harkness – medical notes: Dr Harkness records, in clinical notes at this time, written retrospectively, 'Sudden deterioration at 11.40pm, brady 80-90bpm, sats 60%, poor perfusion, colour change over abdomen purple discoloured patches'. Lucy Letby – medical notes: Letby recorded, retrospectively: "11.40pm became Bradycardiac, purple band of discolouration over abdomen, perfusion poor, CRT 3secs. "Emergency intubation successful and placed on ventilator..." tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… 6/ Mother went to the neonatal unit with the midwife – they were both there at midnight The midwife stayed with her in the corridor for 10-15 mins at around midnight while doctors and nurses were working on her baby. The father hadn’t yet arrived. Mother - Trial Testimony: The mum was taken to the neo-natal ward and the medical team were 'working on Child E' and were unsuccessful in their resuscitation attempts. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… Mother - Inquiry testimony Q. So you go down, and what situation confronted you?Where were you when you went down? A. Sorry? Q. Where were you when you went down, where were you taken? A. So when I went down I was sat in that same corridor where I could first hear them crying and there were some chairs and the midwife was sat next to me and I think she was trying to talk to me, and I was -- I don'treally know what she was saying because I was watching what was happening through the window because I could see his incubator straight from where I was sat. And I could see -- or I couldn't really see -- I couldn't see Child E, but I could see the team around him working and it looked busy and it looked serious. Q. You say in your statement you had to sit outside in thecorridor for approximately 15 minutes? A. Yes. Q. And then: "A member of staff came out and asked if I wanted Child E to be christened and asked where my husband was." Page 11 line 25 of: thirlwall.public-inquiry.uk/… Midwife – statement as read out in court: At midnight, the midwife stayed with Child E's mother for 10 minutes in the corridor outside the neonatal nursery room where Child E and Child F were, and the mum was eventually allowed in once medical staff had stabilised Child E. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… #LucyLetby
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Not only did Cheshire police get the door swipe data wrong but analysis indicates that in the case of Baby E they got telephone call log times wrong too. When the events are examined in detail the only possible explanation for discrepancies in the evidence is that calls made to Baby E's father were actually an hour later than the Police and Prosecution stated. Could it be that the calls were logged in GMT and never adjusted for British Summer Time? You wouldn't think that this oversight would be possible but it seems to be the only explanation. (Please note I am in no way critical of Baby E's parents because what they went through is unimaginable) This was crucial evidence because Baby E's mother says she saw blood around her baby's face at around 9pm. She was understandably panicked and after going back to the ward she called her husband who was at home an hour away - the call log showed her call placed at 9.11pm, which was used supporting evidence. But Letby's notes recorded this event as happening at around 10pm and Dr Harkness's notes were recorded at 10.10pm having arrived a little before. The testimony given by Baby E's mother must have had a powerful effect on the Jury as she described horrendous crying (like screaming) from the corridor before entering the room and seeing blood around her baby's mouth. The Prosecution made the extraordinary allegation that Letby had attacked the baby before 9pm causing this bleeding and then sat on the situation for an hour whilst he suffered. In hindsight, the mother thought she had interrupted Letby in the process of murdering her baby, which is too awful to contemplate. It seemed the Jury believed this. After Baby E's condition worsened there was a later call from the midwife to the father logged at 10.52pm telling him "Don't panic, but get over here now." He testified that this call was split between the midwife and his wife, though his wife didn't remember it. From trial reporting of the mother's testimony: She was later told by the midwife and to ring her husband. The midwife called the husband at 10.52pm, telling him to come to the hospital, after the neo-natal rang the maternity ward. But clinical notes recorded that Baby E's condition didn't worsen until after 11pm and it was at 11.30pm that the midwife received the call from the neonatal unit at the time they were preparing to intubate. The midwife's statement from 2019 was read out in court. From trial reporting: "At 11.30pm on August 3 she had a call from the neonatal unit to ask Child E's mother to go down in 30 minutes as Child E had a bleed and required intubating - 'very poorly'. " "At midnight, the midwife stayed with Child E's mother for 10 minutes in the corridor outside the neonatal nursery room." The midwife was called by the neonatal unit at 11.30pm and was with the mother at midnight. The only way to reconcile the call log times with medical & midwife records is to shift the call log times 1 hour forward meaning that the mother's call to her husband was at 10.11pm rather than an hour earlier. Lucy Letby did not wait and do nothing while Baby E suffered but did everything correctly as she was supposed to and told the truth about it. Source of the above information was from the tattle.life website and also cross-checked with other trial reporting. tattle.life/wiki/lucy-letby-… #LucyLetby
On the evening (Aug 3rd 2015) when #LucyLetby is accused of murdering Baby E I now believe there are 3 prosecution timing assertions an hour earlier than the hospital records show. This suggests a systematic problem, perhaps misinterpretation of the phone call log. 🧵 1/9
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NEW - Letby’s conviction is unsafe says @AnEmergentI, Boris Johnson’s former science adviser The Lucy Letby conviction is unsafe and raises questions about whether juries should be allowed to try complex scientific evidence, the former science adviser to Boris Johnson has warned. removepaywall.com/https:/www…
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Cutting London’s housing target by 20,000 homes per year is a mistake. London can and must deliver many more homes to combat extreme levels of unaffordability. 100,000 homes per year is necessary and achievable. (Thread)
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