Superb news showcasing the wonder of medical science. Huntingdon's is a brutal terminal disease. This new gene therapy slows the disease's advance by 75%. One medically retired patient has now returned to work. Others, expected to need wheelchairs, are walking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Listening to #Mammy en route to work at the moment and it is absolutely superb - only danger is laughing/crying too much to drive occasionally. Such a glorious, life-affirming book, Seamus 💚

When time is short, every moment counts. And sometimes, what matters most at the bedside isn’t morphine, other drugs or medical interventions but simple human - or, in this case - canine connection. I am sharing Cookie's photo with permission. You can just glimpse her master behind her. (1/3)

Please, @theguardian.com, stop writing headlines that give credibility to Trump’s baseless medical misinformation. The way you’re reporting this makes you part of the problem.

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is such lovely news! Thank you @waterstones.bsky.social #organdonation 🩷🫀

Please know that this is Trump scaremongering. There is no good scientific evidence linking paracetamol (Tylenol) to autism. A 2024 Swedish study of 2.4 million births found no relationship whatsoever between exposure to paracetamol in utero & subsequent autism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Before you shrug and say “Oh. PPE again. Old news” Remember 1/ that cost lives due to reduced - or no- protection 2/ All those £billions could have been spent on crumbling NHS and school infrastructure Instead it went into Tory crony pockets That‘s your money & my money going into their pockets

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Shattering, vital and necessary reading on the wholly avoidable death of a child. Can only imagine the pain involved in its writing. Every medic I know, please read this 👇👇👇

First Colbert, now Kimmel. Last-minute settlements, secret side deals, multi-billion dollar mergers pending Donald Trump's approval. Trump silencing free speech stifles our democracy. It sure looks like giant media companies are enabling his authoritarianism.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

Beyond belief. Downing Street pandering to Trump by literally shutting down UK free speech. Shame on the government for its spinelessness. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Interesting to see that Farage has a history with Malhotra dating several years and Malhotra also spoke at a fringe event as well as the main event at the Reform conference so Farage has more questions to answer about platforming a known anti-vaxer

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long. Regulatory failure at its worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

At work on sofa, lost in a vortex of Harley.

Too many drones to call it an accident. Putin is doing what had to be expected. A tentative attack on a NATO country to test out what happens.

So delighted to be interviewing academic Liam Shaw about his riveting new book on the rise and fall of antibiotics, which I had the pleasure of reviewing for the Spectator. Please join us both at @Waterstones Trafalgar Square tomorrow (Wed) evening, 7pm. And buy his book - it’s brilliant!

I grew up beneath this beautiful, 17th century white horse at Westbury, now defaced by racists posturing as patriots. You can't pretend patriotism involves the defacement of our actual cultural heritage. Please let's call it what it is - ugly, malicious, hateful. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nothing makes me feel more ashamed at work than the plight of patients stranded in corridors, nooks, crannies & dark corners of wards with neither call bells nor oxygen - because we simply do not have sufficient NHS hospital beds. It's utterly, absolutely wrong. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Absolutely cannot wait to join Rob Delaney to discuss what the story of a heart transplant tells us about compassion, family, medical innovation & the NHS 🫀💗🩺 Thank you ‪@intelligence2.bsky.social‬ for arranging this dream conversation. Please join us! 📆 13 Nov 📍 Kiln Theatre, London ⏰ 7pm

If Labour ‘phase 2’ can’t figure out how to go after Reform on this - they let Malhotra headline presumably being aware something like this might happen - then their political strategy is doomed. And even more so the Conservatives, who you would think would jump on the word ‘royal’.

Reform donor Arron Banks with the type of "enemy within" comment that has seen this public servant Patrick Vallance need police protection from radicalised lunatics who have been socialised towards violence during the pandemic and beyond

One of the disordered counterpublics Reform has pulled into its MAGA-style coalition is the anti-vaxx movement. What unites these counterpublics is a deep distrust of anyone outside the in-group who challenges their worldview. If you want an RFK Jr style figure running UK health policy, vote Reform.

This type of fear-mongering and misinformation fuels vaccine hesitancy. For a physician to make statements that are factually incorrect is not only unethical but dangerous.

I fail to see how Reform UK can distance themselves from this - it was Farage and his team that gave Aseem Malholtra a platform for his vaccine conspiracy theories. As @drrachelclarke.com says, vaccines save lives. If you have concerns then speak to an NHS doctor or nurse. bsky.app/profile/drra...

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

What a beautiful, brutal, tender, savage book this is. A love story set against the hellishness of the trenches of WWI, In Memoriam utterly grips from first page to last. In a fictional boarding school in 1914, systemic bullying teaches little boys that to feel is to be weak, contemptible...

Most doctors, most of the time, draw on their years (decades, in my case) of medical training & expertise to do the best we can for you. What distinguishes us from snake oil salesmen - persuasive grifters who prey on human fears to line their pockets - is our expertise & our integrity. Trust… 1/n

Measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, tetanus. Diseases that used to terrorise families, killing children & babies in their thousands. Now we have vaccines - safe & miraculous life savers. Please, parents, use them. Protect your precious children 🩷 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The atrocities committed by Israel never stop. Just the latest, unforgivable, act of civilian slaughter 😔 #genocide #gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I'm delighted to welcome Jo Rose to talk about The Story of a Heart by @drrachelclarke.com This incredible book interweaves the stories of two children, Kiera and who has died after a road traffic accident, and Max who is awaiting a heart transplant. bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/1880290/epis...

"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"

Absolutely cannot wait to join Rob Delaney to discuss what the story of a heart transplant tells us about compassion, family, medical innovation & the NHS 🫀💗🩺 Thank you ‪@intelligence2.bsky.social‬ for arranging this dream conversation. Please join us! 📆 13 Nov 📍 Kiln Theatre, London ⏰ 7pm

This is wonderful... exactly what palliative care needs. One month today - sign up!

Delighted to be joining the wonderful poet & NHS palliative care nurse @mollycasespeakes & @lilyredwoodpoet for an evening of story and poetry exploring living, dying, loss & love in stunning Fitzrovia Chapel. Please do join us. 📅 Thurs 25 Sept 🕕 Doors 6pm (drink on arrival) 🎟 Tickets £10

Hats off to this brave waiter who is single-handedly taking on tycoon Richard Caring's Ivy empire over their alleged pocketing of staff tips. Ivy restaurants explicitly claim tips go directly to the individual who was given them - this waiter says otherwise. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Atrocious from Netanyahu, who presumably won’t stop until every living Palestinian has been bombed, starved, displaced or murdered. War crimes in plain sight, as Starmer et al look on and whisper the world’s feeblest condemnations. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“Israel has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure without causing starvation…” But no more. Devastating reporting from @theguardian.com’s Emma Graham Harrison on the grotesque calculations behind Israel’s engineered famine. Please read.

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinian children to death. It cannot be sugar coated. It is a fact - an engineered famine - and it’s abhorrent. #Genocide #Gaza

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” The UN has over 6000 aid trucks ready & waiting to enter #Gaza - while Israel engineers mass starvation. It is sickening, genocidal, inhuman. Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters

There is no context - none at all - that justifies the deliberate, calculated starvation of children. #Gaza Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today. Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous. Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

The absolute burning shame of cone time. Poor Harley and her injured paw 😭😭😭