Been planning away for #GIJC25 - lots to look forward to. And plenty of people to connect with.

“State capture – a form of corruption so deeply embedded that it shapes the rules of democracy itself.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The European Ombudsman "has opened an inquiry into whether the European Commission acted secretively in its dealings with industry before launching a series of business-friendly initiatives". The Ombudsman was acting on a complaint by the Corporate Europe Observatory www.politico.eu/article/ombu...

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Lord Strathcarron, a hereditary peer trying to stop a smoking ban for future generations, told me he discussed the bill with a relative at British American Tobacco. His amendments will be voted on in the House of Lords tomorrow. www.theexamination.org/articles/uk-...

Peer lobbying to water down tobacco bill fails to declare conflict of interest, story from @theguardian.com and @theexamination.org www.theguardian.com/business/202...

12 hours in to Wiltshire Council full council and so far Tories and Reform have collaborated to support action on screenwash and making press releases nicer to them. They didn’t support a motion of solidarity to the LGBTQIA+ community or back axing of car parking charges for Blue Badge holders.

Reporting on @tcrgbath.bsky.social, Investigative Desk and Tax Justice Network Africa analysis of British American Tobacco in Africa - and the mysterious missing millions open.substack.com/pub/p/unmask...

“Tobacco control advocacy is not without risks... Tobacco control advocates should be recognised as human rights defenders (HRDs).” - Dr. @brittakm.bsky.social, @tcrgbath.bsky.social and Kelsey Romeo-Stuppy, ASH Learn more about protections for Human Rights Defenders: ow.ly/9Occ50X9lCP

Great to hear @ambervandenakker.bsky.social and @spidermaani.bsky.social on the latest @tcrgbath.bsky.social podcast looking at why health-harming industries, like tobacco, seek a seat at the policy-making table.

This morning Professor Anna Gilmore spoke about the Commercial Determinants of Health #CDOH, #ClimateChange and noncommunicable diseases #NCDs at the 3rd Hearing of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health #PECCH. Find out more 👇

Hope the Post succeeds www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

(3/3) 🙏 Huge thanks to everyone who made Series 2 possible - our brilliant guests, collaborators, production team, and the wider #tobaccocontrol community. #DeadlyIndustryPod #PublicHealth #PodcastSeries2

(2/3) Here’s what’s coming up in the first three episodes – out now: 1️⃣ We explore the experiences of tobacco farmers. 2️⃣ We find out about the tobacco supply chain and its global reach. 3️⃣ We head to London to discover how deep the connection of this industry is to the British capital.

🧵 (1/3) 🎙️ Series 2 of our podcast Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is here! 🚨 🎧 Listen and share to help us hold this deadly industry to account: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus... @uniofbath.bsky.social @lhgp.bsky.social @centre21cpubhealth.bsky.social

Today's the day! Join us on Zoom at 3pm: peoplespapers.eventbrite.co.uk @cperguom.bsky.social @wcmlibrary.bsky.social @rememberlop.bsky.social @writerlytone.bsky.social

Well-known authors who you rarely find in charity shops. Elmore Leonard, Roald Dahl, Murakami.

Blacklisted union activist launches judicial review after #spycops inquiry bars him from giving oral evidence. www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...

Arriving next week is S2 of the @tcrgbath.bsky.social podcast Deadly Industry. Eight episodes uncovering tobacco stories from around the globe. Ep 3 featuring a tobacco tour of London’s lobbying, plotting and selling.

“Discreditation. Complaints. Legal threats. Surveillance.” Dr Karen Evans-Reeves and Dr Gemma Mitchell describe 6 ways the alcohol industry and front groups try to silence those protecting public health. More in our latest blog: www.ias.org.uk/2025/09/16/a... @tcrgbath.bsky.social

Just started dipping in to Elmore Leonard for the first time and it is as good as I hoped. Penguin have just added three of his to their classic crime series

✨ Our podcast Deadly Industry: Challenging Big Tobacco is back for Series Two! ✨ We return Tues 30 September with eight powerful episodes exposing the tactics that keep the tobacco industry powerful and profitable. 🎧 Listen to our new trailer: shows.acast.com/deadly-indus... #DeadlyIndustryPod

Does Luxon have any standards? Costello seems able to break all the rules with impunity. More evidence, as if we needed it: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Mandelson will be gone by Sunday but the Tories will have taken zero action on their former leader and Prime Minister Johnson and the washing machine of dodgy cash he has set up with public funds www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🎓 New PhD opportunity available at the University of Bath! Starting January 2026, a new #funded PhD placement will examine #PolluterPays approaches to address the Commercial Determinants of Health #CDoH. 📅 Apply by Tues 30 Sept. Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... @lhgp.bsky.social

This is pretty grim from @johnharris1969.bsky.social but a wake-up, if Labour wants to abandon fighting Reform others need to take it on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🏆 We won an award from @journalists.org for excellence in science reporting for "Oil companies leak toxic gas across Texas — making local residents sick," with the @houstonchronicle.com. Read more: www.theexamination.org/articles/oil... #ONA25

What a shame but what a legacy Bragg leaves. So who would you want to take over (not who you think will). How about @profaliceroberts.bsky.social ?

Before John Boorman went to Hollywood to make the neo noir classic Point Blank, he worked in BBC Bristol making documentaries and docudramas. Find out about this little known period of his life and work at this talk and screening in Bristol in October ti.to/film-noir-uk...

This whole website right now:

“Breakfast is typically a full English yoghurt and whichever type of coffee doesn’t constitute taking the wrong side in the culture war.” Inside Robert Jenrick’s head courtesy of Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Three cheers…for Channel 5’s bold move to bring back Play for Today, more than 40 years after it left our screens in 1984. The channel has announced it will revive the brand from early next year, with an emphasis on the social realism that was an important feature of the original series.’

All the Thomas Pynchon novels ranked by someone who doesn’t seem to like pretty much anything Pynchon wrote www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

The Wizard of the Crow is on my must read list and this essay by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o only whets my appetite to explore his writes further. “Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Apparently it started with a runaway dog from a nearby Norwegian research station www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Why do we tolerate the activities of the gambling industry? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... search me guv. I dont know 1. Perils of pragmatism. More research prolongs a crisis 2. Guns & slot machines: One claims safety, the other claims fun 3. Extraction to extinction 4. The flow of data

The Friday bulletin from @helenlewis.bsky.social is always interesting - and this instalment on the economics of being an author is a particular gem. The ‘busy work’ of social media promotion while platforms laugh at all the free content. Um, like this post (curses) open.substack.com/pub/helenlew...

Lib Dems defeat Reform motion at @wiltscouncil.bsky.social Full Council meeting which would have ended action to tackle climate change. In 2019 a coalition of LDs and Tories declared a climate emergency.Today the Tories abstained #wrongsideofhistory

@samgelder.bsky.social reports on Reform plans for local govts to throw out climate action policies. It has such a motion at Full Council for Lib Dem-led Wiltshire next week. The question there is how Conservatives will vote - and possibly split www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

And here is your disco just to show the full range of 70s genres. #totp

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“The most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Out in paperback now and cannot recommend highly enough: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to Prof. Anna Gilmore, Dr Rachel Barry & Dr Alice Fabbri for the publication of their new paper in the latest edition of @futurehealthj.bsky.social. This special edition focusses on #commercialdeterminants and #conflictsofinterest in #PublicHealth & Policy. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.fh...

Help keep @bookhaus.bsky.social serving the Bristol its radical written diet of books. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

“Wildlife activists who exposed horrific conditions at Scottish salmon farms were subjected to “Big Brother” surveillance by spies for hire working for an elite British army veteran.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...