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We're pleased to see The Times picking up this story. Beth has given another strong interview, speaking so clearly about what it's like to have ME and representing others with the disease. And there's a quote from this new little charity too!
ALT Beth Dobbin continues to make an impact! Image from Times with the headline "I represented Team GB at the Olympics. Now I'm in bed 22 hours a day."
ALT This is a life-debilitating, life-decimating illness. I know people with ME who are tube-fed, who have to be turned. It’s disgraceful not to have anywhere to go on the NHS. Beth Dobbin Olympic Sprinter
ALT Karen Hargrave, co-founder of charity ThereForME, said: “Beth has shown great courage in speaking out about severe ME. We urge the prime minister to meet her and commit to fair funding for ME research, starting with making up the £15 million shortfall facing the Sequence ME and Long Covid project. “ The Times 30th October 2026
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Elbit factory targeted in Palestine Action raid was set to deliver 'immediate shipment of drones' to Israel, court hears
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If Courtney worked for a mainstream news organization she would be hailed as one of the most courageous journalists in the world.
She is, without them.
No western journalist is even attempting what she does daily.
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🔥Powerful words by @BethDobbin in The Times.
We agree 💯 with Beth. It's time to radically change the outdated, demedicalised, bps clinics that do not meet clinical need.
ALT Dark navy graphic from Long Covid Advocacy featuring a large turquoise quotation mark and a quote published in The Times, 30 October 2026. The quote condemns the lack of doctors in NHS ME clinics and highlights the devastating impact of severe ME, including patients who are tube-fed and require assistance turning in bed. A photograph of a blonde woman wearing blue appears in a circular frame with a blue-to-purple border at the bottom right. The Long Covid Advocacy logo appears at the bottom left.
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Prof. Ron Davis and colleagues have published a paper proposing that problems with the body’s waste-removal and recycling systems could contribute to both ME/CFS and Long COVID.
Find out more: bit.ly/4zifTGz
Link to the paper: meres.uk/47O9mHE
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For years, @the_andrey_x has been a target of Israeli forces and settlers because of his work documenting settler pogroms and Israeli apartheid.
He has been beaten, detained, and threatened several times. Now, he’s facing what Palestinians endure daily in the West Bank. He was brutally beaten and is being denied medical care.
Many Palestinians die waiting for ambulances blocked from reaching them by Israeli forces and settlers.
This is an alarming escalation that threatens to further silence reporting on the ethnic cleansing the Israeli occupation is carrying out in the West Bank.
Andrey X and several other activists and journalists use their privilege, which allows them to enter areas that Palestinian journalists cannot, to report on Israeli atrocities against Palestinians.
SILENCE BREEDS VIOLENCE!
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Hi, I'm free.
Beat up but fine. Police stole my phone. Settlers punched me in the face several times, likely broke @AdeleShoko's wrist and gave @the_andrey_x a concussion. They threatened to shoot us with an assault rifle over and over.
Will tell the full story later, but for now, I just want to be clear about what happened. We witnessed two settlers locking a military gate in Umm al-Khair, blocking the only way to more than twenty Palestinian communities: trapping families inside, preventing students from reaching school and workers from their jobs, blocking delivery of food and access to ambulances, etc.
It's a crime that the military has this ability at all--but last night, we discovered that random settler terrorists also have the key. We confronted them and began asking questions on camera, and they nearly murdered us for it. When the police finally arrived, they arrested Andrey and me and charged us with assault.
The gate is still locked.
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It's started.
novaramedia.com/2026/10/23/n…
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Horrifying: As a result of Israeli bombardment, 35,000 children and adults in Gaza have lost their hearing, according to a field survey conducted by the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children over the past two years.
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Clearly things will have to change after this.
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Hundreds of NHS websites offline after provider goes into administration 'without warning'
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🚨 URGENT: @the_andrey_x is in very bad shape. He has a concussion and lost consciousness several times while being detained.
Settlers blocked the ambulance from evacuating him. He is now being held ALONE in the ambulance inside the settlement and is being denied transfer to a hospital.
HAPPENING NOW🚨🚨: @the_andrey_x @infinite_jaz and I were attacked by settler-terrorists in Umm al-Khair!!
They beat us, threatened to shoot us, stole Andrey's phone and my glasses and pepper-sprayed Jasper.
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Gaza is under random gunfire right now. We don’t understand what is happening here. Gunfire is literally everywhere.
Tanks and military bulldozers are firing randomly at tents and homes, while aircraft are flying extremely low, making terrifying sounds that are impossible to describe.
Don’t stop talking about Gaza. Don’t let the world become numb to what is happening here.
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Excellent, very well balanced article written by Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees on the pro's and con's of Public Inquiries.
She speaks from a position of knowlege & authority, following her extensive involvement with the UK Inquiry.
A key ally of CATA - very grateful for her support.
The question is not whether Wales should have an inquiry simply for the sake of having one. It is whether the process chosen is capable of answering the questions that remain and delivering the outcomes required✍️ Anna-Louise Marsh-Rees wp.me/p8Mk4U-1w3R
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Our petition for a public inquiry into Britain’s role in Gaza has hit 10,000 signatures.
Now, let’s get it to 100,000 to force a debate.
The public deserves to know the full scale of Britain’s complicity in genocide.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petit…
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One of the most helpful things you can do for yourself as a patient is to begin to understand the biological mechanisms underlying the dysfunctions and symptoms you are experiencing.
Remember!! Treating symptoms and treating disease are not the same thing. Taking benzos or LDN or LDA or beta-blockers can help control symptoms of MECFS for some people but they cannot correct the dysfunction that is giving rise to the symptoms. For that we need an entirely different approach.
The first step to understanding how you can begin to take a bit more control of your condition is the right information. A little bit of knowledge can go a long way once you realize what is important to understand.
Bite size visual lessons are a great way of learning the basics. One of the biggest stumbling blocks I see in how patients approach treatment protocols is that they don't have any understanding of what is needed to start to address dysfunction.
In the end this means most people waste years following protocols with little real chance of moving the needle - just controlling symptoms is NOT enough.
We are not getting enough help from the medical community. Patients need clear options but we also need to understand the theory - not everything is right for everyone and complex protocols really are going to be essential. As much as we all wish for a major bullet - it is not going to be how people recovery from these types of conditions.
I think this is a great project and one that has the potential to really help patients. Excited to see where it goes. Amazing initiative @manruipa
🧬 Your immune system is full of incredible secrets… and we’re just getting started!
💡 Follow @immunothings to discover more ImmunoThings!
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🚨 New PolarWx Model Viewer is live 🚨
It's been a while since my PolarWx model page got an upgrade - so today I'm releasing a new model viewer with a fully interactive and customizable layout, many more plots & models, and many new features.
polarwx.com/models/
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AI chatbots may worsen psychosis symptoms, especially early in illness: about 6 in 10 patients with documented worsening were experiencing their first psychotic episode. @JAMAPsych medicalxpress.com/news/2026-…
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It was maliciously treated as a fishing expedition by little people who had no way of changing the outcome. Funded by the taxpayer the cover up began. Lives have been lost. Lives could have been saved by a number of people listening to the few. I hope that is never forgotten.
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One of the highlights of my time in Jordan was visiting UNWRA archives and examining the index cards and other records of the 750,000 Palestinians kicked off their land at the Nakba in 1948. They used to be kept in Gaza and were airlifted out at the beginning of the genocide- Israel has destroyed all the archives that remained. They form the best evidence for some form of reparations in the future and are now being scanned and digitalised
غزة ومنعطف التاريخ: الشرق الأوسط قبل وبعد النهضة (أرض) تنظّم زيارة للمؤرخ ويليام دالريمبل إلى أرشيف الأونروا وحواراً رفيع المستوى حول فلسطين
Gaza and the Turning of History: The Middle East Before and After ARDD Organizes William Dalrymple’s Visit to UNRWA Archives and High-Level Dialogue on Palestine
نظّمت منظمة النهضة العربية للديمقراطية والتنمية (أرض)، من خلال مركز النهضة الاستراتيجي، وتحت عنوان «غزة ومنعطف التاريخ: الشرق الأوسط قبل وبعد»، زيارة إلى أرشيف الصور والأفلام التابع لوكالة الأمم المتحدة لإغاثة وتشغيل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين (الأونروا)، بمشاركة المؤرخ والكاتب البريطاني البارز ويليام دالريمبل، إلى جانب لقاء عمل حواري رفيع المستوى جمع دبلوماسيين وأكاديميين وصنّاع سياسات وخبراء إقليميين، لمناقشة التطورات في غزة وفلسطين ضمن التحولات التاريخية والسياسية الأوسع التي يشهدها الشرق الأوسط.
وخلال الزيارة إلى أرشيف الأونروا، التي نُظّمت بالتعاون مع الوكالة، اطّلع دالريمبل على سجلات ووثائق تاريخية توثّق تهجير الفلسطينيين وتجارب اللاجئين وذاكرتهم الجماعية منذ عام 1948. ويُعدّ هذا الأرشيف، المدرج ضمن برنامج ذاكرة العالم التابع لليونسكو، مرجعاً تاريخياً مهماً يبرز ضرورة الحفاظ على التاريخ الفلسطيني والهوية الوطنية وتجارب أجيال متعاقبة من اللاجئين. للمزيد: ardd-jo.org/news/%d8%ba%d8%b…
The Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), through its Renaissance Strategic Center (RSC), organised, under the theme “Gaza and the Turning of History: The Middle East Before and After,” a visit to the UNRWA Photo and Film Archives with renowned British historian and author William Dalrymple, alongside a high-level working lunch bringing together diplomats, academics, policymakers, and regional experts to reflect on Gaza and Palestine within the broader historical and political transformations shaping the Middle East.
During the visit to the UNRWA Archives, facilitated in cooperation with UNRWA, Dalrymple explored historical records documenting Palestinian displacement, refugee experiences, and collective memory since 1948. Recognized by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, the archives underscore the importance of preserving Palestinian history, identity, and the experiences of generations of refugees.
for more: renaissancestrategiccenter.c…
