Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research.
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This is extraordinary. Read the the account in the link. The editor in chief of the principal journal of the ADA is escorted from their national conference by police for handing out his editorial, in their journal, that criticises Trump biomedical research policy.
For the love of God, when will the labour right understand this? There is a right block and a left block. Voters move within their blocks but v little between them. Reform voters will not vote for Starmerish reform-light but he can massively piss off the left vote by trying to woo them.
It was not a carnival of democracy watching 0.25% of the public, who no one had elected & no one could hold to account, decide whether Boris Johnson/Jeremy Hunt, or Liz Truss/Rishi Sunak should wield the highest office in 2019/22.
It was a wrong turn, made with good intentions. It needs reversing.
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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How about:
a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but
b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and
c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so
c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.
One problem here is that members have been given powers they should not have (like picking prime ministers) and denied powers they should (like choosing local candidates).
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals.
Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
