Whoever came up with the phrase “Common Sense” was deluded.
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Just throwing this out there.
I wonder how many ex & current MCFC players are now sitting there wondering why their agent seemed so keen for them to accept the City offer over other offers?
#MCFC #PremierLeague
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It's been 10 years since his passing, yet his impact on his sport and in this world remains. He was many things to many people, and, for me, he was one of the pillars for the love of boxing that became my profession and became my identity.
His personality, his immense skills and his profound intangibles were beyond question and he remains among the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters to have ever pulled on gloves, an incredibly difficult feat for a relatively modern fighter.
In 2018, I co-authored a book that examined his career statistically and it was one of the most fascinating studies I ever conducted. It shouldn't have been a surprise that it ended up being that way, for his appeal is timeless. The book also graphically explained why he experienced the health issues that began in his 30s and that would grow progressively worse throughout the remainder of his life.
He is still missed, but we are sustained by the countless memories he created for all of us. Continue to rest in peace.
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If these numbers are right, and I believe they ARE good and evidence-based estimates of "harm," the very low harm products at the bottom are VASTLY safer than alcohol. So it is not logical to tax and regulate them the same way we tax and regulate deadly cigarettes.
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Yes indeed it was unpopular Julia and woefully inaccurate in your health pronouncements. A well deserved Community Note is heading your way, I do hope you take the time and trouble to read and digest the content.
Summary : Don't take biased sensationalist media reports as gospel
Another horrible plume of toxic smoke engulfed me today... Is it time to ban vaping in public places? Formaldehyde, heavy metals, ultra fine particles ..scientists call it 'third-hand exposure' ...
#vaping #secondhandsmoke #publicban?
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Vaping is much less harmful than smoking
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No evidence to date shows vaping harms people around you
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No combustion = no smoke
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Clive Bates, the former CEO of Action on Smoking and Health, on the government’s proposed vaping ban.
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“The Bafta episode reveals the limits of many people’s imagining of diversity.” My @ObserverUK column , already online, and today in print: observer.co.uk/news/columnis…
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>be John Davidson
>born 1971
>Galashiels, Scotland
>working class family in the Scottish Borders
>football-mad kid
>just wants to be a goalkeeper
1983:
>you're 12
>a scout is coming to watch you play
>this is your shot
>then something happens
>your body starts doing things you can't control
>tics
>involuntary vocalisations
>noises you didn't choose
>head teacher's response: whip your hands with a belt
>you perform badly
>dad leaves shortly after
>you walk into a river
>you're 12
school:
>no diagnosis
>no framework
>just a kid who "can't behave"
>mocked daily
>leave at 16
>no qualifications
>the world has decided what you are
1989:
>BBC comes to Galashiels
>films your life
>"John's Not Mad"
>airs nationally
>some people feel compassion
>most kids use it as ammunition
>your face becomes shorthand for mockery in playgrounds across the country
>you know this
>you keep going
the wilderness years:
>no diagnosis until you're 25
>25 years old before anyone gives it a name
>you've been living it for over a decade without language for it
>you get a job
>caretaker at Langlee Community Centre
>you stay there your whole working life
the turn:
>a family is referred to you
>their daughter has Tourette's
>she's struggling
>you start hosting workshops
>schools
>police stations
>you explain what it means to live in a body people don't understand
>unpaid
>for years
>because nobody did it for you
2019:
>Holyrood Palace
>the Queen is about to give you an MBE
>you shout "Fuck the Queen"
>directly at her
>she reacts with complete calm and kindness
>the kid the belt hit
>gets a medal
2025:
>a film about your life premieres at Toronto International Film Festival
>"I Swear"
>six BAFTA nominations
February 2026:
>you're in the auditorium
>watching a film about your life
>your Tourette's doesn't stop for the occasion
>it never has
>mid-ceremony your tics ring out across the room
>and on the live broadcast
>as Black actors take the stage
>you shout a racial slur
>involuntarily
>uncontrollably
>you leave early
>you know you're causing distress
>you've known that feeling your whole life
>Jamie Foxx goes on Instagram
>"Nah he meant that s**t"
>"Out of all the words you could've said Tourette's makes you say that"
>the internet piles on
>thousands outraged at a man who cannot control what comes out of his mouth
>the film that explains exactly this wins three BAFTAs that same night
>including Best Actor
>the room got it
>the internet did not
>because the internet didn't watch the film
see -- Every founder, artist, activist, author, coach or ANYONE who wants to change the world should take note:
Stop apologising for who you are.
Be the change you want to see.
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I watched this movie last night. Incredibly powerful and inspiring.
Might have been wise for all those gobbing off about the BAFTA
N-word saga to have watched it too before making so many shockingly ill-informed comments. I'm looking at the likes of you, Jamie Foxx!
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Had everyone in the audience that night seen the biopic about Davidson's life, probably not, but they knew he was there, and they knew why, and the public response to this from *people who were at the ceremony* has been truly unconscionable
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Writing about the BAFTAs controversy, I was initially more sympathetic to Davidson but also willing to concede that maybe this was a "difficult for all involved" situation
Then I discovered *why* Davidson was in the audience, and my soul left my god damn body
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I’m mixed race and part-black, you fool.
I wrote an article in a national newspaper about being called a dirty n*gger by a member of the Equalities Committee during my first year of uni.
I know racism.
I’ve experienced it my whole life.
Which is why I refuse to sit silently while an innocent man is being destroyed online by my own people and branded a racist for a disability he cannot control.
I refuse to play into the perpetual victimhood culture. It makes a mockery of real racism.
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Viral creator Killk1yoshi with Tourette’s speaks out on BAFTA controversy after John Davidson’s “involuntary” slur during Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo’s presentation.
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If John had shouted it as I'm on a stage and wasn't told beforehand that he was there, I'd be embarrassed, go back stage, ask what happened, be told why, what and when then gone and found him, give him a hug, laughed and said "fuck all to worry about, how are you pal?".
If I'd have been on the stage and known he was there and he shouted it out, I'd have said " we've got the amazing John Davidson in the house, I've seen both documentaries as a young man, will watch what I hear is and incredible film and look forward to a beer with him during the after party. Disability and Tourettes isn't a crime, go to Tourettes Action UK to teach yourself about John's world".
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