Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). was switched on in 1957 on this day. Built by Bernard Lovell, it was the only radar device that could track the carrier rocket of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik I.

TL;DR it'll be a plain text, one-minute read consisting of a list with 5-10 of the day or week's most important stories that are, in my professional opinion, flying under the radar or being overlooked otherwise—plus a sentence or two of context or analysis for each link. and that's it.

i'm going to be piloting a new, free public health newsletter in the coming weeks. if you've been wanting to benefit from my public health news addiction and analytic experience in peace without all the shitposts or tangents in between, this is for you! 😊

I'm generally not given to conspiracy theories - I think people are useless or unthinking rather than successfully evil - but if I was trying to destroy the long-term success of a democratic nation, then closing universities would be pretty high on my list.

Let me say more on this. The researcher has stated that she *knows* the hep B vax birth dose is proven to save lives. Her argument is that, since Guinea-Bissau is too low income to buy the birth dose, her trial at least helps to save lives among HALF the babies in her trial. That’s very problematic…

It's out. The book that brings together so much that I think about, and speak of. Do read it. Do share it. Do talk about it.

I received a letter from NHS England /Crapita asking me to confirm I was still a GP patient. I have NHS App, I had recently responded to GP communication - I didn’t see the need to respond to NHS Engl. Maybe I’ll be de-listed - but what about my family??

and now, young Jedi, witness the awesome power of fully functional health services and bureaucracy

I can't remember: when Thatcher wrote The Right Approach in 1976, did she also do this?

Firmus has been telling an obviously absurd environmental / efficiency story and because Business Men genuinely have no critical faculties they all just believed it unquestioningly

In my view, one of the most important innovations of the modern world.

Victory for diversity and inclusion in London by-election (Holborn & St Pancras): Labour 45.2%, Green 32.8%; rejection of far-right Reform 5.92% and Restore 2.52%