7th March, 2025.
Right …
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’re very aware I’m trying to lose weight.
It’s something I’ve struggled to do for many years.
So … ?
I tend to be interested when something about weight-management crops up on the news.
Medications, lack of medications, what have you.
Today … ?
The Today programme tells us that research at Cambridge University has shown there’s a gene that affects the brains signals that tell us we’ve eaten enough.
And that we share this gene … with labradors.
It’s an interesting bit of science to know.
But I’m tempted — as I was in today’s intro video — to tell you I feel ruff … ruff ruff … ruff ruff ruff … bark … whine … woof … !
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The most senior envoy from New Zealand, to the UK, was fired, yesterday.
As … ?
He’d apparently said the US president’s knowledge of history was flawed: and pointed out that — in his view — the President had never heard of Sudentenland.
The area in what had been Czechoslovakia that had a high number of German speakers: and was annexed by Germany’s Nazi regime, and led to Neville Chamberlain’s “Peace in our time” speech.
A speech that told us Germany had no more territorial claims.
A speech made less than a year before the German invasion of Poland.
A speech that, given that invasion, was deeply unwise.
Given that … ?
I think the President of the USA is going to look like the former PM …
And that New Zealand’s envoy had a point!
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