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Stephen McGann
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Flesh, blood, and the kindness of brilliant strangers. A thread.Peeps who follow me might know that I’ve written a book on the history of my family, told through the medical
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I can see the difficulty with the impeachment. I can understand how likely it is to fail as a process. I see how bad the timing is for a new
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One of my very favourite perceptual illusions. Quite famous, so you may well have seen it. But it still deserves a minute to contemplate in these times. /1 Square A
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If the National Health Service was being formed this morning, there would be many who would mistrust it as a government plot. A means of control. A giant lab, submitting
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All too true. The idea that someone somewhere will do it under those terms is the leverage that keeps this kind of thing going. The heffalump in the room? If
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The constant lying in public life eventually erodes not only trust in those who do it, but any trust in the value of truth itself. This is a problem, because
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A thread about A Levels. I was once told a story by someone who’d previously worked as a City exchange trader. He described his trading floor in the heady, post-Big-Bang
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Poverty is chaotic. It's depressing, and distracting, and exhausting. It eats at one's concentration. It encourages nihilism, and fatalism, and addiction as a means of escape... One of the most
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