Sitemap - 2025 - Making sense... of evidence, data, and the stories they tell
Personal reflections on a Trumpian 2025
Beyond the Headlines: Corruption, Coercion and Power in Trump’s First Year
Three ways Trump followed the authoritarian playbook
Is it really a super flu year?
What's happening to the CDC's views on vaccines? | Beyond the headlines
Immigration, nationalism and Europe
How much should the NHS worry about this winter's flu wave?
Three things you might have missed this week in American news
Trump vs Venezuela, Trump vs MTG, RFK Jr vs Science
Authoritarian echoes: how America is mirroring Egypt and Russia
Epstein, Nationalism and Attacking science
The erosion of evidence: how to counter disinformation when the state is spreading it
3 ways Trump has undermined civil rights since Monday
Information underpins Democracy – why the BBC must be defended
9 Nov: attacking enemies, helping allies, cowing institutions and purging the military...
6 Nov 2025 - what's happened in the US since the weekend
2 November: "Being Anti-Trump is probably illegal"
Six things you should know have happened in America since Monday
England's Covid wave recedes but is replaced by flu
10 things you should know about that have happened in America this weekend
The Trump Action Tracker has had an update!
What's happened in America since Monday
What happened in America this weekend...
Eight things that have happened in Trump's America since Wednesday
Very quick update on Covid in England
Change of name for this newsletter...
Five authoritarian things since Monday
What happened this weekend in Trump's America?
Last two days in Trump's America as of 10 Oct 2025
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Top 10 authoritarian things Trump has done since Sunday...
Trump's authoritarian actions - Sunday 5th October 2025
Trump's authoritarian actions - Sat 4th October 2025
Trump's authoritarian actions - Fri 3 October 2025
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Top 10 Trump authoritarian actions - Thurs 2nd Oct 2025
1 October 2025 - 3 Trump authoritarian actions
30 September 2025 - 13 Trump authoritarian actions
29 September 2025 - nine Trump authoritarian actions
ARCHIVE 12 August 2021: Thread on SCHOOLS
ARCHIVE 9 August 2021: Quick thread on Vaccines and Delta
ARCHIVE 8 August 2021: Quick Thread on English Covid situation
How vulnerable is our vaccine programme to a potential vaccine sceptic Health Secretary?
Trump’s war on his perceived enemies is escalating: faster, broader, harsher
Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world
The research trying to improve health and social care services
Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
America’s retreat from science has far-reaching implications for global research and innovation
Covid update in England - new variants are dominant but are NOT causing a wave
Is it "Fit for the future"? The NHS 10-year plan and the social determinants of Health
Guest Post: "You made my Dad British"
America’s descent into the suppression of dissent
Latest Covid variants and outlook for UK summer
The path to citizenship the UK has choked off - to our detriment
Warning signs realised: Trump’s war on science and the fight to save American academia
Quick update on Covid & state of the NHS in England, April 2025
Don't get used to it - it's what autocracies rely on
“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy
A new resource for searching official SAGE documents from Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores
We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown
Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity
Current Covid situation in UK and what might be coming
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
A dystopian but possible future: the Fall of British Science 2028-2033
How to fight back: charting opposition to the actions of the Trump administration
Latest Covid, Flu & NHS situation in England as of 6 Feb 2025
A reminder about substack sections...
"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks
December was bad for NHS, but the Flu wave has thankfully (just) peaked