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Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
Norway has rejected EU membership twice, in 1972 and 1994.
Today, it remains one of Europe's wealthiest countries, with a population of just 5.6 million.
A prosperous economy, enormous national wealth and control over major areas of its own national policy.
Norway is living proof that a country doesn't need EU membership to prosper.
And now even Norway's Prime Minister is warning Britain about surrendering too much control to Brussels.
That's a warning Britain should be discussing.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
So the Norwegian PM says that being a rule-taker from EU through EEA membership is a bad thing and the UK should avoid it at all costs.
Interesting that our government seem to think handing over control to Brussels is a good thing when the Norwegians don't.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
RFK Jr. says opioid overdose deaths are down 30%, opioid prescriptions are down more than 50%, and 20,000 lives have been saved.
But he says the mainstream media refuses to cover the Trump administration’s accomplishments.
“Literally nobody in the press has covered this.”
“Opioid prescriptions are down by more than 50%.”
“Opioid overdoses are down by around 30%.”
“We have saved 20,000 lives.”
“Prescriptions for Suboxone and naltrexone, which are opiate antagonists, are up by 218%.”
“What we’re doing in our various programs is working, and it’s working for the American public.”
“And there’s another fantastic accomplishment by the Trump administration that everybody said could not happen.”
“But it’s getting done and nobody’s covering it.”
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
Norway's PM warns Britain NOT to follow its example by joining the EU single market in Brexit reset because Brussels takes too much control trib.al/BlTNDPI
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
🔬 Countries with the most top-cited scientists per million people
1. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: 400
2. 🇩🇰 Denmark: 358
3. 🇦🇺 Australia: 330
4. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong: 280
5. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 272
6. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 264
7. 🇸🇪 Sweden: 258
8. 🇸🇬 Singapore: 242
9. 🇳🇴 Norway: 235
10. 🇫🇮 Finland: 227
11. 🇺🇸 United States: 217
12. 🇨🇦 Canada: 207
13. 🇮🇪 Ireland: 185
14. 🇧🇪 Belgium: 184
15. 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 184
16. 🇮🇱 Israel: 164
17. 🇦🇹 Austria: 164
18. 🇮🇹 Italy: 145
19. 🇩🇪 Germany: 131
20. 🇬🇷 Greece: 114
21. 🇨🇾 Cyprus: 113
22. 🇸🇮 Slovenia: 113
23. 🇶🇦 Qatar: 109
24. 🇵🇹 Portugal: 99
25. 🇪🇸 Spain: 90
Scientists in the top 2% most cited in their field, counted by country of current affiliation. Countries with at least 1 million people.
Source: Stanford–Elsevier top 2% list 2026 (Ioannidis et al.); World Bank
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
Occasional reminder that until very recently the telephone network was designed to continue running uninterrupted in the event of a mass power cut.
Choices were made.
🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
More scientists need to understand how modern science was a radical departure from the way nearly every other culture approached knowledge. From a classic textbook on the history of science, here are critical features that were missing before the 17th century:
Incredibly disappointing to see such unscientific nonsense still published on a regular basis in what is supposed to be one of the world’s top science journals.
This piece on “indigenous science” completely misunderstands what makes science successful.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
Nobody ever lay in bed at night wishing they'd eaten more ultra-processed food.
But plenty lie there wishing they'd taken better care of themselves.
Tomorrow's a fresh plate.
Fill it with real food.
MAHA
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
DeSantis was VERY smart. He put property taxes on the ballot in FL and that got the GOP vote out enough to save the state.
That's the kind of strategic thinking this party needs in 2028.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
If this is a sumptuous brand – cars named Cortina and Capri were trying to evoke it, because everyone longs for Italy in the end – it is ever more respectable. You will no longer find a sex-crazed car at Alfa Romeo. I looked.
They are more cautious: like Ben Braddock, they grew up – though I don't know if he took the job in plastics. I think he did.
The Alfa Romeo website offers many respectable cars, all sprayed red – a darker red than the classic Ferrari, hotter, more female and dangerous. (Ferraris are always male. You sit in one, and you know.
✍️ Tanya Gold
Article | spectator.com/article/alfa-r… | @TanyaGold1
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
If this is true, then the UK would lose an industry worth £28 billion, to slightly lower the import costs of UK supermarkets, including the privately owned German ones that operate in the UK.
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The UK's entire food and animal exports to the EU were only worth £12 billion in 2025. Why are we throwing good money after bad?
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Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
I had a little chuckle at the opening paragraph of Jacob Rees-Mogg's latest piece.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
I will end the unjust prosecutions of our veterans in my first 100 days in office.
If I fail, I will resign.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
The staff at The Manor CofE Primary School, Coalpit Heath, Bristol, are saints, including Emma & the reception team, & especially Lucy who drove me the last few miles to get me to the funeral of the Revd Canon Dr John Elford today. I was a stranger and you helped me. Thank you.
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
Election days come and go. But one thing remains the same: God is in control. No matter how you feel about the election results, we must remember that our fellow Americans are not our enemies. We share a common home and the future of our country depends on us. As the great President Abraham Lincoln once said, "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."
Now is not the time for division or despair. Let’s move forward with unity and a posture of hope. This is America. And our best days are still ahead of us. 🇺🇸
Dr Michael Copeman retweeted
"What has President Trump done for our country since beginning his second term?
Glad you asked 👇
- Signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law on July 4, 2025
- Made the 2017 tax cut rates and brackets permanent
- No tax on tips, up to $25K a year through 2028
- No tax on overtime, up to $12.5K ($25K for couples)
- Deduction for interest on loans for American-assembled cars
- Raised the SALT deduction cap from $10K to $40K
- Expanded the child tax credit
- Created "Trump Accounts," which give kids a $1,000 starter deposit
- Median household income hit a record $87,460 in 2025
- Poverty fell to 10.2%, and child poverty hit a record low of 13.4%
- The S&P 500 is up 28.6% and the Nasdaq up 34.6% since the inauguration
- GDP grew 2.5% in Q1 2026 and 2.2% in Q2
- The trade deficit is down 10.4% from 2024
- The private sector added more than 1 million jobs
- 72,000 manufacturing jobs added in 2026
- Investment pledges include $600B from Apple and $340B from Amazon
- "Most Favored Nation" drug-pricing deals and the launch of TrumpRx
- Price-cut commitments from major grocery chains
- Southern border apprehensions down about 91%
- 17 straight months with zero releases of border crossers
- Signed the Laken Riley Act, which requires detaining illegal immigrants charged with certain crimes
- Signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, which permanently classifies fentanyl-related drugs as Schedule I
- Designated Tren de Aragua and MS-13 as terrorist organizations
- Net migration was negative for the first time in 50+ years
- More than 175,000 visas revoked
- About 250 more miles of border barrier completed
- Violent crime fell 9.7% in 2025
- Murder fell 18.5%, the biggest one-year drop on record
- The 2025 murder rate was the lowest since 1900
- More than 17,000 arrests in the DC crime crackdown
- DOJ health care fraud takedowns charged nearly 800 people in more than $21B of alleged fraud in 2025 and 2026
- Nine fugitives from the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list captured
- All 20 living Israeli hostages freed under a US-brokered ceasefire
- Created a Board of Peace to oversee Gaza's reconstruction
- NATO allies committed to spending 5% of GDP on defense by 2035
- Nicolás Maduro captured and now facing charges in New York
- Struck Iran's nuclear enrichment sites
- Brokered a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan
- Brokered a peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda
- Brokered a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand
- Brought home more than 100 Americans held abroad
- Reached more than 20 new trade deals
- The military hit 103% of its 2025 recruiting goals, the best in 15 years
- Gave nine military bases back their original names
- Record US crude production of more than 13.8M barrels a day
- Record LNG exports of more than 100 million metric tons in 2025
- Crude oil imports down about 5.5%
- Revoked the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding" on greenhouse gases
- Confirmed 56 federal judges, leaving no appeals court seats vacant
- Cut the federal workforce by 328,000 (10.9%)
- Signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, bringing whole milk back to school cafeterias
On top of all that, he took a bullet for you and has worked his ass off every single day, including holding 30 rallies in one month ahead of the midterms."