Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology tweeting about behavioural science, addiction, smoking and political issues.
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Just a note to say that I'm moving over to BlueSky with the handle @robertjwest I'll use it to share info on behavioural science, nicotine and tobacco use, research methods, AI and ontologies.
Arguably, the biggest triumph of the ruling class in the UK and US has been to pull the teeth of social democratic parties so that their natural voter base is disillusioned and won't vote for them - leaving the field clear for very powerful right-wing minority rule.
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📢 Announcing our next #BCConf2025 keynote... @robertjwest will discuss how to plan communications to achieve behaviour change, using the COM-B model. Including deciding what to target, techniques, how to develop specific 'messaging' & how AI can help.
👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/b…
I've just seen this short documentary on Long-Covid by @GrantWakefield4. It's very powerful and, if you are not currently taking simple precautions to reduce how often you get infected with Covid, you should definitely watch it vimeo.com/1017483971
AI and the future of behavioural science | LSE Event youtube.com/live/x1hojUoNbFM… Thanks to everyone who took part and who organised this stimulating discussion.
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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: ‘Lobbyists worked in heart of Labour’s election campaign: Lobbyists described work for Labour – which was not declared to authorities – as ‘great for future relationships’ opendemocracy.net/en/labour-…
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Reeves asked:
‘Do you think privatisation of water was a mistake’
She doubles down on how ‘better regulation’ can control private monopolies
Of all the policies to expose Starmer & Reeves as Tories, it is their ideological refusal to nationalise water
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Why is the EU funding Israeli arms companies complicit in genocide?
The EU's Framework Research Programme is one of the world's largest R&D budgets, aiming to boost European industry. Yet, since 1996, Israeli companies have benefited hugely from these funds. Why is EU public money flowing to Israel? 🧵
#StopArmingIsrael
Tickets are now available for Live Music: Jamie West + Aliyah Kim Keshani + Dan Hoyes at Metronome Coffee House, Morden. ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…
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The CIA put a huge amount of effort and particularly money into fixing the results of the Venezuelan election.
I am delighted to say they seem to have failed.
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Neo-austerity, as promised. Every pound spent by the UK government is created from nothing, backed by the strength of our institutions and labour. It is criminal negligence to not use our public money to provide the infrastructure and services we need.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c724…
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‘Will the kids eat or not?’ In Keir Starmer’s constituency, families struggle with poverty: Alongside prosperity in Holborn and St Pancras are thousands of households for whom lifting the two-child benefit cap could mean an end to hunger’
theguardian.com/society/arti…
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BREAKING: Israeli soldiers gang rape Palestinian detainee.
Torture was so severe the detainee had to be hospitalised with "a serious wound in his rectum area".
Israeli police raided the Sde Teiman prison in the Negev desert where the abuse took place.
Israel's Finance Minister called the rapist soldiers "heroic warriors" and demanded their immediate release. Israel's Security Minister called them "our best heroes" & the arrest "shameful".
Protests are currently taking place outside the prison to show solidarity to the rapists and call for their release.
This comes after a Washington Post investigation found that Palestinians are subjected to deadly abuses in Israeli prisons, including a prisoner who died from a spleen rupture and rib fractures after being beaten by prison guards and other cases where prisoners have died from neglect, torture and/or mistreatment.