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Colin Gordon's avatar

Thank you, Christina and team.

Belinda Phipps's avatar

What you are doing will make a huge difference when it comes to learning from it and unpicking it. That the USA ‘democracy’ can allow this means we are going to have to have a major rethink.

Nancy Bermon's avatar

Thank you for your inspiring commitment and work. Here in New York these last days have highlighted contrasts occurring in our country. Sharing my post from today, with the intentions of both bearing witness and spreading hope:

Stark Choices

War on Venezuela

Peace in New York City

Centralized power in Washington DC

People power in NYC

Hate in the White House

Love in Gracie Mansion

Fear surrounding us

Hope within us

Stark choices

Point guns at one another or

Hold hands

More about this poem:

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says President Nicolás Maduro Has Been Captured nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani's first full day as NYC mayor: subway rides, new offices and backlash from Israel apnews.com

Simon Noble's avatar

Massive thanks for continuing to keep us informed Prof, you and your small group are doing an amazing job. Best wishes for 2026.

Berni Cavanagh's avatar

The Trump machine of bullying greed and killing will not last forever. Many thanks to you and your team for shining a clear bright light on the process for us.

Felicity Page's avatar

More accurate and a better analysis than the political commentators on R4 who are paid to follow and make pronouncements on this stuff.

sarah martin's avatar

Thank you for all the work you and your volunteers are doing. It underlines how we can never take peace and security for granted. You were great during Covid, now you’re shining a light on another kind of pestilence.

Bronwen Knox's avatar

You are doing amazing work - & all the better for being a scientist & health services researcher rather than a ‘political As you did with colleagues from different disciplines in Independent Sage during the Covid pandemic. Please keep going.

Michaela Kesenheimer's avatar

Thank you for all the vital work you and your team are doing.

Elisabeth Marnik, PhD's avatar

Thanks for your work. As an American I appreciate it.

Robert Campbell's avatar

It seems insufficient just to say thank you for your work, and for your team over the last year but thank you ❤️

And wishing you all the best in the new year.

Diana Brighouse's avatar

Thank you for standing up for what is right. I fear that too many institutions in the UK are doing exactly what is needed for evil to prevail - that is, nothing. We, the citizens, need to realise that perhaps we (particularly the better off) have to be prepared to suffer some hardship by encouraging the government to stand up to Trump.

Keep up the good work - I'm not sure that a retired doctor & poet can be of any help to you, but the offer is there!

E.G. MOULDS's avatar

So grateful for your vitally important work; living in the midst of it can be overwhelming, and your analysis and record help keep it from getting normalized. Keep it up! (I can’t help but think how proud your dad would be of your undertaking, despite how dismayed he’d be by its necessity.)

Kris's avatar

From Australia, this looks less like collapse and more like a system discovering what it’s prepared to tolerate. Turns out, quite a lot.

The worrying bit isn’t Trump’s behaviour. It’s how quickly institutions, markets and allies adjust to it. Normalisation is doing most of the work.

Your tracker matters because it keeps the receipts. Without that, this all gets waved away as noise, personality, theatre. And that’s how it spreads.

Anne Lidwell's avatar

Immensely grateful that you keep going. You are an inspiration.

Peter Criticos's avatar

So grateful to you all for making it so clear what we are going to have to fight for .