General News Thread

[Foxdiamond]

4 minutes ago, Clogger_ said:

If the first thing you equate Muslims with is "extreme terrorists", I'm sorry but I've no time for you. That's just racist bollocks. You my friend are a problem. I know this gets deleted or banned, but you need to know, and maybe some others can see my thoughts on this

I'm certainly not your friend. I've not mentioned Muslims. Perhaps MI5 are barking up the wrong tree then 

[Lionator]

23 minutes ago, Clogger_ said:

"We" the British are not special. Why do others pretend otherwise? Weird

 

Edit... Thanks in anticipation for letting me get this off my chest

A lot of the world’s current hotspots (🇮🇱🇵🇸, India/Pakistan, Myanmar) can be directly traced back to appalling decisions made by the British state/empire. Obviously not the cause, they’re ethnic/geopolitical but we need to acknowledge that we cocked up. Even in Ukraine, while we rightly support them in their quest for freedom and sovereignty, we have a bizarre interest in Crimea and want to build bases there based on bad historical decisions. 

Edited 17 October 2025 by Lionator

[Clogger_]

7 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I'm certainly not your friend. I've not mentioned Muslims. Perhaps MI5 are barking up the wrong tree then 

"I''ve not mentioned Muslims." You're about 99 % more artless than Farage in pulling that one. Read your posts back, and what (and how) you are replying to. This cack needs calling out

 

And yes, I'm no friend of yours. Have a good evening though

Edited 17 October 2025 by Clogger_

[Clogger_]

2 minutes ago, Lionator said:

A lot of the world’s current hotspots (🇮🇱🇵🇸, India/Pakistan, Myanmar) can be directly traced back to appalling decisions made by the British state/empire. Obviously not the cause, they’re ethnic/geopolitical but we need to acknowledge that we cocked up. Even in Ukraine, while we rightly support them in their quest for freedom and sovereignty, we have a bizarre interest in Crimea and want to build bases there based on bad historical decisions. 

Close, but we're not alone. It's a problem with extreme application of nationality. Can think of other more recent examples

[Foxdiamond]

Just now, Clogger_ said:

"I''ve not mentioned Muslims." You're about 99 % more artless than Farage in pulling that one. Read your posts back, and what (and how) you are replying to. This cack needs calling out

My  friends in the Labour party will be falling about laughing at your nonsense 

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

Again, I'm repeating things I've said before, but it's simply self-evident to me.

 

On more than a few matters, it is one world or no world.

[danny.]

7 hours ago, Clogger_ said:

If the first thing you equate Muslims with is "extreme terrorists", I'm sorry but I've no time for you. That's just racist bollocks. You my friend are a problem. I know this gets deleted or banned, but you need to know, and maybe some others can see my thoughts on this

Islam isn’t a race. 

[Mickyblueeyes]

21 minutes ago, danny. said:

Islam isn’t a race. 

Interesting yet classed together as “the Muslims” as if they were an ethnic group. 

[Lionator]

My god these arguments just go round and round in circles don’t they lol??

[Raj]

Wheres Harvey Prices GiF " oh what a day"!!!!

 

FFS some posters in here need to go for a walk....

[Trav Le Bleu]

18 minutes ago, Lionator said:

My god these arguments just go round and round in circles don’t they lol??

No they don't!

[Trav Le Bleu]

9 minutes ago, Raj said:

Wheres Harvey Prices GiF " oh what a day"!!!!

 

FFS some posters in here need to go for a walk....

Is that a typo?

[Trav Le Bleu]

9 hours ago, Lionator said:

Even in Ukraine, while we rightly support them in their quest for freedom and sovereignty, we have a bizarre interest in Crimea and want to build bases there based on bad historical decisions. 

Charge of the light brigade?

[leicsmac]

1 hour ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Interesting yet classed together as “the Muslims” as if they were an ethnic group. 

It's not like people who generalise like that often make a distinction between religious affiliation anyway - mostly when they see the skin colour, they think that one particular religious demographic. Even if they're not. 

 

In any case, I can see why people get tired of it all - it's all so needless culture war bollocks. And it always ends the same way - with attempted ethnostates and associated ethnic "cleansing".

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Charge of the light brigade?

Lord Cardigan was a proper idiot, wasn't he? 

[st albans fox]

8 hours ago, Clogger_ said:

If the first thing you equate Muslims with is "extreme terrorists", I'm sorry but I've no time for you. That's just racist bollocks. You my friend are a problem. I know this gets deleted or banned, but you need to know, and maybe some others can see my thoughts on this

 

for whatever reason, political Islamism is massively over represented in terrorism in some parts of the world. That is absolutely not Islam. However, with the massive number of Muslims around the world, it’s inevitable that any fringe extremism (which exists around all religions) will amount to a significant number of people. that not the fault of the religion - its just maths and human nature.  as mickey pointed out a week or two ago, Islam is a very broad church with even different parts of different nationalities being quite spread in their interpretations. And that’s before you get into Shia/sunni!    Laying general blame for anything (especially something as huge as this) at the door of one religion is very lazy and pretty ignorant. 

[st albans fox]

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Lord Cardigan was a proper idiot, wasn't he? 

Rarely cold though ……

[Dahnsouff]

Nationalism has become the misdirect of a capitalist without morals. 

[bovril]

31 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

Rarely cold though ……

avoided wearing balaclavas though

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Nationalism has become the misdirect of a capitalist without morals. 

It's always been about power. The methods of keeping and abusing that power have just become more sophisticated.

[Lionator]

44 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Lord Cardigan was a proper idiot, wasn't he? 

Rudkin levels of incompetence 

[Trav Le Bleu]

36 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

for whatever reason, political Islamism is massively over represented in terrorism in some parts of the world. That is absolutely not Islam. However, with the massive number of Muslims around the world, it’s inevitable that any fringe extremism (which exists around all religions) will amount to a significant number of people. that not the fault of the religion - its just maths and human nature.  as mickey pointed out a week or two ago, Islam is a very broad church with even different parts of different nationalities being quite spread in their interpretations. And that’s before you get into Shia/sunni!    Laying general blame for anything (especially something as huge as this) at the door of one religion is very lazy and pretty ignorant. 

Shia/Sunni, Catholic/Protestant, Hindu/Sikh, Jedi/Sith.

 

All we need is Zoroastrians to turn on the Wiccans.

[davieG]

Exciting results from blood test for 50 cancers
A woman puts a piece of cotton wool onto her arm after giving blood. In the foreground of the picture, a healthcare professional holds two samples of blood in a gloved hand.
Image source,Getty Images
ByFergus Walsh
Medical editor
Published
17 October 2025
Updated 1 hour ago
A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer could help speed up diagnosis, according to a new study.

Results of a trial in North America show that the test was able to identify a wide range of cancers, of which three-quarters don't have any form of screening programme.

More than half the cancers were detected at an early stage, where they are easier to treat and potentially curable.

The Galleri test, made by American pharmaceutical firm Grail, can detect fragments of cancerous DNA that have broken off a tumour and are circulating in the blood. It is currently being trialled by the NHS.

The trial followed 25,000 adults from the US and Canada over a year, with nearly one in 100 getting a positive result. For 62% of these cases, cancer was later confirmed.

Lead researcher Dr Nima Nabavizadeh, associate professor of radiation medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, said the data showed that the test could "fundamentally change" their approach to cancer screening.

He explained that it could help detect many types of cancer "earlier, when the chance of successful treatment or even cure are the greatest".

The test correctly ruled out cancer in over 99% of those who tested negative.

When combined with breast, bowel and cervical screening it increased the number of cancers detected overall seven-fold.

Crucially, three-quarters of cancers detected were those which have no screening programme such as ovarian, liver, stomach, bladder and pancreatic cancer.

The blood test correctly identified the origin of the cancer in nine out of 10 cases.

These impressive results suggest the blood test could eventually have a major role to play in diagnosing cancer earlier.

But scientists not involved in the research say more evidence is needed to show whether the blood test reduces deaths from cancer.

Clare Turnbull, professor of translational cancer genetics at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: "Data from randomised studies, with mortality as an endpoint, will be absolutely essential to establish whether seemingly earlier-stage detection by Galleri translates into benefits in mortality."

The topline results are to be released at the European Society for Medical Oncology, external congress in Berlin on Saturday, but the full details have yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Much will depend on the results of a three-year trial involving 140,000 NHS patients in England, which will be published next year.

The NHS has previously said that if the results are successful, it would extend the tests to a further one million people.

Sir Harpal Kumar, president of biopharma at Grail called the results "very compelling".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "The vast majority of people who die from cancer do so because we find their cancers too late."

Many cancers are found when they are "already very advanced" he added, explaining that the aim is to "shift to earlier detection, when we have the chance to use treatments that are much more effective and potentially curative".

But Naser Turabi of Cancer Research UK cautioned that further research is needed to "avoid overdiagnosing cancers that may not have caused harm".

"The UK National Screening Committee will "play a critical role in reviewing the evidence and determining whether these tests should be adopted by the NHS," he added.

 

What view will Trump & Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr make of this great news or taking blood from humans causes Autism

[MaidstoneFox]

55 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Lord Cardigan was a proper idiot, wasn't he? 

Did start a trend for a popular form of men's knitwear though.

[danny.]

2 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

Interesting yet classed together as “the Muslims” as if they were an ethnic group. 

Do you mean classes together as a religious group? People of all ethnicities can be Muslims, the same for any other cult or religion. 
 

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

It's not like people who generalise like that often make a distinction between religious affiliation anyway - mostly when they see the skin colour, they think that one particular religious demographic. Even if they're not. 

 

In any case, I can see why people get tired of it all - it's all so needless culture war bollocks. And it always ends the same way - with attempted ethnostates and associated ethnic "cleansing".

I’ve never heard that, who is equating race and religion? And yes it’s tiring, although you seem to be mixing up ethnicity and religion yourself in that last paragraph.