I was hoping for IDS to be beaten, mainly for his part in the design of Universal Credit but it looks as if his constituency is, to quote The Thick Of It, built on a solid bed of cunts.

I think shame is her kink. Have you heard the one about her slave collar necklace?

Well, I agree that everybody is different in certain ways but one of the main lessons of being in group was the revelation that broadly speaking we all want the same things and a lot of the mis-aimed strategies we’d adopted was stopping us from getting that stuff. A lot of people came through that community throughout the course of a year and while some of the stories were absolutely horrific, the problems were much the same, person to person.

Yes, the therapy was less effective for some than others and drugs absolutely should be available as a first-aid but I think that people should be moved on to other therapy as soon as they can use it.

I’m particularly hopeful about the results we are now seeing from psychedelic research into treatment resistant depression as I think that there are people for whom talk therapy won’t work but if you look at recent research into SSRIs it seems that some are barely improving on the placebo effect.

So yes I’m in favour of multiple approaches but it seems that SSRIs are outcompeting other treatments because the decisions are being made on the basis of cost and that means that those other treatments simply will not exist in the future.

Worked for me.

The last decade has seen a particularly significant increase in depression in the United States, with prevalence rates increasing by 33% between 2013 and 2016, with the largest increase among youth and young adults

Back in the day we used to try to address depression with various talk therapies and group therapies. This wasn’t perfect and was also relatively expensive but at least it offered a sense of connection and tried to tie people back into society.

Now it’s all about pills, which are a huge money-spinner and are cheaper than talk therapy. When things make money you tend to see an increase in them.

I’m beginning to think that Homo sapiens sapiens are not the good guys.

You want to really help respiratory health you actually go after industrial polluters with a regulatory body with teeth and bite strength of several Rottweilers… but that’s none of my business. Sips tea

How lovely.

I think she’s going to continue to be an annoying talking head wheeled out to put the ‘libertarian’ case for decades to come. The grift never sleeps.

Give Liz Truss the spanking of her stupid submissive fantasies.

Downvotes?! There’s Liz Truss supporters here?

I predict that the UK will not, in fact, leave the ECHR.

Rishi is just saying this shit to stir up the Tory faithful.

Tin foil hat time, all of the Reform candidates have these skeletons in their closets but Reform have told the Tories that they can pay to have candidates investigated in the seats where the Tories still think they can get in.

Some decade and change ago I used to sell people Drupal installs at £200 a pop. They’d get a pretty secure codebase, the ability to add content through a gui and if necessary have customer accounts.

Pretty much what killed it as a business was everyone expected to be on the first page of Google because business advisers were telling them that sitebuilders should do SEO as standard.

I’d like to believe that but if my 14+ on reddit taught me anything it is that the general population are petty, hateful and conformist and so philosophically it’s the ‘One Nation’ Conservatives that they naturally align with.

There’s always been a strong dose of authoritarianism about the red team, they might purport to represent the working classes but they also seem to want to ‘improve’ them too. And as someone on the Alexei Sayle podcast pointed out, their Foreign Policy is always quite imperialistic.

Yeah, there’s plenty of ‘shy’ Tories. By rights, after all they’ve done, they should be reduced to double figures but I am braced for them to only lose a hundred odd seats.

Suppressing my initial urge towards sarcasm, the calculation seems to be based on a simplistic calculation of number of total years served. If we look at one example, Bill Cash, mentioned in the article he has forty years of experience. Unfortunately, that forty years was spent as a backbencher, which if you don’t have a handle on it after three years probably indicates that you have been promoted by the voters beyond your level of incompetence.

Jacob Rees-Mogg, who despite having a moral deficit, is a much more effective tool for the Conservative Party having a clear grasp of Parliamentary procedure and has only 14 years as an MP.

So in terms of experience longevity is not indicative of the loss of expertise to the Conservative Party.

So in a sense the calculation is too simplistic but in another perhaps it’s unnecessarily complex. British Parliamentary democracy is a pure numbers game where quantity of MPs, rather than quality, is the be all and end all. It is my hope that it’s this simple total will be reduced by at least a couple of hundred.

Donor Frank Hester apologised after reportedly saying the ex-Labour MP made him want to “hate all black women”.

I kinda suspect that he already hates all black women… just a hunch.

Which states have the highest rates of long COVID?

Long COVID refers to the condition where symptoms that surface after recovering from COVID-19 linger for weeks, months, or even years.

According to data from the Census Bureau, Oklahoma and Montana have the highest percentages of adults who tested positive for COVID-19 and have experienced symptoms lasting longer than three months. About 34% of adults in both states reported long COVID symptoms in November.

Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama residents have the lowest rates of booster vaccines in the country, at 6.8%, 7.7% and 7.7%, respectively. At least a quarter of adults in these states reported having long COVID symptoms after being infected.

Looks like she has a “If you can’t handle me at my worst…” tattoo.