Chris Willmott
@cjrw
Retired biosciences at University of Leicester, with a special interest in bioethics teaching.
Out NOW: Introductory #Bioethics text Where Science & Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at frontiers of medicine & bioscience lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/whe…
Time and time again, the Prime Minister says the situation in Gaza is intolerable… but he keeps on tolerating it. Palestinian statehood was literally in his own manifesto, so why won’t he recognise it now? I wonder if Donald Trump is stopping him.
We are seeking two human health-focused researchers to join Ireland’s AMR One Health Thematic Network, helping bring science into national AMR policy. Applicants must be based in Ireland.
ITV News reporting a Jewish Israeli protestor in Tel Aviv, "I am personally a grandson of a holocaust survivor" "My grandmother always used to say that starvation was the worst thing, the worst suffering" "So I feel a moral obligation to end it"
The IDF has killed starving Palestinian civilians trying to get aid. Settler terrorism and talk of imposing the illegal E1 settlement plan are flagrant attempts to prevent a Palestinian state. There is no justification for this. A two-state solution is the only path to peace.
The Prime Minister must act with immediate airdrops of much-needed aid into Gaza and get other countries to do the same. It is simply inhumane that Gaza faces starvation due to Israel’s aid blockade. Words alone won’t save lives.
This is something that is unforgivable and purely evil. When reintroducing the extradition cooperation, have you even thought of how many Hong Kong exiles in this country live in fear of transnational repression every day? The bill and explanatory notes legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/978…
Government plans to reintroduce extradition cooperation with Hong Kong are highly concerning. Why does the Government deem this reasonable when freedom of expression, political freedom and the rule of law in Hong Kong have been crushed by The National Security Law and the…
A month on from the Commons vote on assisted suicide, it’s clear that quite a few MPs were confused about the bill or influenced by misinformation. Here are 10 examples:
Farage on the BBC...again. And not a Green in sight. A reminder: Greens: 4 MPs 800+ councillors Reform: 4 MPs 600+ councillors When will the BBC give the Green Party the same amount of coverage as Reform? #BBCLauraK
Wait. Didn't @SKinnock claim again and again that the government was "neutral" on #assistedsuicide /#assisteddying? Now it has been declared one of "the Governent's major priorities". Did he mislead Parliament?
If the only way you'll ever hear someone call out Nigel Farage's destructive, divisive politics on the BBC is for me to do it, then so be it.
Watch @EdwardJDavey call out the BBC for their failure to hold Nigel Farage to account.
The business school over-expanded, and enrollments are lagging. So below are planned cuts in the College of Arts & Humanities. We are, after all, one university!
This is desperately sad news - #PalliativeCare needs proper funding in the UK loros.co.uk/about-loros/ne…
The #Conservatives have 120 MPs; the #LibDems have 72. The two parties' appearances should therefore be in a ratio of 5:3. Yet you feature the former every week, and the latter, hardly ever. Could you explain the editorial thinking behind this perverse choice? #Kuenssberg
Can the BBC do wall to wall coverage of the Lib Dem’s win from Reform because if it was the other way round it would be reported as a seismic shift & an excuse to invite Tice & Farage on to everything 😵💫…
❗ Liberal Democrat GAIN from Reform Benfieldside (Durham) council by-election result: LDEM: 28.0% (+17.0) LAB: 27.2% (+0.6) REF: 25.4% (-6.8) IND: 15.6% (-8.1) CON: 2.6% (-4.0) GRN: 1.4% (+1.4) +/- 2025 andrewteale.me.uk/previews
#Biodiversity #Bioethics #EnvironmentalImpact
The A14 trees and the hard realities of BNG: How a £1.5bn ‘wildlife-boosting’ bypass became an environmental disaster Environment - The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…
One of the many powerful points from @bathmatt 's excellent article. #assistedsuicide
‘For over sixty years, hospices have reassured patients: “We don’t kill you.” I personally don’t want this to change, because when the patient is admitted, they discover an even deeper truth: We cherish you.’ Important article from @bathmatt in the BMJ - blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/06…
First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities nature.com/articles/d4158… via @Nature
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… @HeartburnCancer #OesophagealCancer #Cytosponge
.@cactusclubcafe realised this T-shirt is thirty years old #NotTheOldestItemInMyWardrobe

