Neil Trainis
@NeilTrainis
Journalist. Editor of @ICPmagazine. Views my own.
🚨: A 9,000-year-old skeleton in Somerset was genetically matched to a local man named Adrian Targett. Their mitochondrial DNA reveals an unbroken maternal lineage spanning 300 generations — the longest verified lineage in history.
Exclusive: @NPA1921 chair @OlivierPicardUK and Avicenna Membership Services MD @Brij_Valla call for @ComPharmEngland committee members’ votes to be made public. independentpharmacist.co.uk/news/1287263-n…
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. - Carl Sagan
Khatera Naimee, women’s rights activist and medical doctor: “August 15 is a black day in Afghanistan’s history. Since that day in 2021, we Afghan women have been banned from work, education, and basic freedoms. The world must not remain silent, it must stand with Afghan women.”
💔 TIME magazine’s latest cover spotlights the story of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia.
“That plane’s dustin’ crops where there ain’t no crops.” NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) Hitchcock’s superb thriller premiered in Los Angeles 66yrs ago today.
280 million year old fossil found in Western Australia, Photo by Tom Kapitany Those are sea creatures called crinoids, they still exist in the oceans today.
The wildlife photographer who took this photo wishes that it didn't exist.
Key point in Dan’s brilliant take down of fantasies of left on tax. Equivalent fantasy on right is huge painless spending cuts. We can have bigger state and more tax on average earners. We can have smaller state and real cuts in public services/benefits. Thats it. The choice
I worry that the Left has stopped making the argument for a more expansive state funded by most people paying more tax. Instead we're left with the false claim that Other People will always pay.
Questions about @UKLabour’s #nhs10yearplan from pharmacy viewpoint. Neighbourhood health centre staff will include pharmacists. How will they be funded? How much will they earn? Will they be newly qualified pharmacists, GP pharmacists or drawn from community pharmacy? @DHSCgovuk
Tragic news about Diogo Jota. He was a splendid striker, a natural finisher who reminded me of Robbie Fowler both physically and in the icy cool way he scored goals. #DiogoJotaRIP @LFC
The Government says London needs to build 88,000 homes a year. Last year, it started 3,990. My column today is on the urgent national crisis no one is talking about - the collapse of housebuilding in London (1/?)
Real terms spending on health related benefits for people of working age: - £36bn in 2019-20 - £52bn in 2024-25 - Without reform £66bn in 2029-30 - with cuts £61bn in 2029-30. May not like current proposals, but there are choices to be made here. ifs.org.uk/publications/g…
FULL METAL JACKET was released 38 years ago today. A classic Vietnam War film as well as one of Stanley Kubrick’s most popular works, the behind the scenes story is typically Kubrick… 1/39
Google Earth captures the stunning transformation of our planet over 3 decades
40% of all corporation tax owed by small businesses isn't paid. How has this happened, without anyone noticing or caring? Because nobody wants to talk about it. These reactions to the latest HMRC tax gap figures are typical:
The Benin artifacts previously delivered to Nigeria from UK and Germany have disappeared from public view. They are not on display in any museum. Some or all may have been sold into private markets. (Links in next tweet)
After a decades-long repatriation campaign, Nigeria has received 119 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands
On July 2, 2025, we’ll hit the exact midpoint of the year. And from that day forward, 2050 will be closer in time than the year 2000.