✊ We strongly welcome the Scottish Human Rights Commission's (SHRC) call for reparations for Scotland's Nawken (Gypsy/Travellers) community, whose people were subjected to decades ongoing harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’, including forced assimilation and child removal. (1/3)

#Camelford #Amnesia - the politician's cover. I don't believe #MichaelHoward, former leader @conservatives.bsky.social, when he says he can't remember the letter warning that #privatisation of the #water industry could be put at risk if details of the mass poisoning became public knowledge.

Very good doc on the costs of water privatisation: Thatcherite dogma to produce the only privatised water in the world. The Cornwall water scandal saw 20,000 people poisoned as they cut-costs pre-sell-off & then covered it up to aid privatisation. #PoisonWater www.ft.com/content/ac11...

I also can’t help but think if this was dramatisated like #MrBatesvsThePostOffice it would raise awareness even further. #Water #Privatisation #Coverup

#PoisonWater tells the story of the #CamelfordWaterIncident, when aluminium sulfate contaminated the supply. #SouthWestWater told people it was safe to drink! “I found there was a deliberate policy to not advise the public of the true nature” Coroner Michael Rose www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Brigitte Bardot was no simple heroine - The Observer

Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.

Book 55 of 2025 #PortMortuary by #PatriciaCornwell, I think this is book 18 of the #Scarpetta series and this has gone back to the original style which I do prefer.

Number crunching: Telegraph editorial columns in December highlighting ‘the unreliability of social media’ v corrections the Telegraph has had to publish so far this year due to inaccurate reporting From the new Private Eye, out now.

(Audio) book of 54 of 2025 #Flesh by #DavidSzalay, this years @thebookerprizes.com winner. Was very graphic at the beginning.

Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy. The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit. No court order needed. No right of appeal.

"If we continue to reduce registered nurse availability to patients in the current context of financial pressure, it’s extremely likely more people will die" says lead researcher @alisonleary1.bsky.social

@rcpsych.bsky.social is Startwell still happening doesn’t look like there are events on anymore?

Clinical Teaching Fellow job ideal for post F2 doctors interested in #MedicalEducation. #ClinicalEducation #MedEd #ResidentDoctors www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

We're deeply disturbed by accounts by survivors who endured electric shock “therapy” and other conversion practices under NHS care, providing further evidence that these abusive interventions are unethical, harmful and must be banned. (1/2) @proud-at-bma.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent programme - but media coverage, so far, is erasing the fact that this cruel 'treatment' was used to convert people's gender expression as well as their sexuality. Trans erasure 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Interesting how @unibirmingham.bsky.social has really addressed its role in #AversionTherapy www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/ne... and @manchester.ac.uk now has a research fellow working on this too.

#LGBT #AversionTherapy LGBT survivors tell of 'barbaric' NHS shock therapy www.bbc.com/news/article...

Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus: @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Exited that #Jacqline is back at #MelFest with Woman I hope it’s as much of a banger as Effortless. Would love to see her in the #Eurovision final. #Melodifestivalen

This was easy to predict thank you #Sissal for keeping me company this year with #Hallucination #Eurovision

The updates to the course is an important question recently complete a course that had pre-reading e learning and there were important legal rulings from 4 years ago not there presumably due to it just not being updated. Therefore course content was describing situations that would be unlawful

I once heard from a guy, who was put up at the Novotel, but had a Dr's appointment in town. Because the "hotel" provided food, he only got £8.86 a week, so he had to walk it. Which took 3 hours, there and back. Which meant he missed a meal. The entire system is set up to be cruel by design.

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(Audio) book 52 of 2025 #SorryBro by @taleenvoskuni.bsky.social, this was a read for #QueerLit #Bookclub next week! Very glad this was picked learnt more about #Armenian culture, my only reference points were #Eurovision, the Armenian deli near home and Armenian girl in my class at primary school.

It’s sad it’s taken a #PreventionOfFutureDeaths order from the coroner for this to be picked up by the media but the current implementation of #RightCareRightPerson seriously needs to be reviewed www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Book 51 of 2025 #WhatItFeelsLikeForaGirl by #ParisLees, I read this for a #BookClub, but I’m sure like many the brilliant BBC adaptation had meant this was on my TBR for a few months. I love how it’s written in the dialect of ‘ucknall. Made me chuckle, smile and cry! #BookSky #QueerSky #TransSky

As part of the parenting assessment a #RorschachTest was undertaken and a #Greenlandic parent described woman gutting a seal, and believes the psychologist conducting the test called her a Barbarian! #Racism #RacismInDenmark

"they made me play with a doll and criticised me for not making enough eye contact". Eye contact is different in different cultures. #Danish psychologist was “checking” if the #Kalaallit/ #Greenlandic parents are civilised enough this is #racist #Greenland #Denmark www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(Audio) book 49 of 2025 #TradingGame by #GaryStevenson. This was an interesting listen reminded me I want to read that book about limintarianism #BookSky

So is the University Of Nottingham going to close its Chinese language courses in this new round of cuts? I thought Chinese was one of its big USPs!

Interesting #QueerHistory from #EliasMichaut focussing on #LesDouaires the French youth penal colony where the youth stood up against policies to send them to nap, due to concerns about them having same sex relationships theconversation.com/a-queer-upri...

Great guide from @rcpsych.bsky.social for anyone working #MentalHealth who is asked to write supporting a #PIP application. #PsychiatristSky #Psychiatry #MentalHealthNurse #CareCo #CPN www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-ca...

Book 43 of 2025 #FlyWildSwans by #JungChang. Looking forward to hearing her speak on Sunday.

1998. Before singular 'they' came bursting onto the scene in.... oh... 14th C.

43% drop in #LearningDisabilityNurses since 2009 in the NHS. No wonder many LD services are not functioning very well.

The newly moved #Waterstones in #Bury is well stocked up on #JungChang I hope I can find time to read her new book before she comes to Manchester next month.

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works." Entirely untrue. Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

🔍 What has previous research on sexual health shown? New study finds HIV diagnosis often missing in mental health records: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/hiv-dia... #SexualHealthWeek

Just been wandering around book shop looking for #FlyWildSwans by #JungChang the as really confused why I couldn’t find it! It’s not been released yet!

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Starmer rolls out red carpet for genocide

When surgical tools don’t fit: how gender bias in design puts female surgeons at risk. Great article from the #UniversityOfLimerick #GenderEquality #Bias #MedSky #Surgery theconversation.com/when-surgica...

Customer feedback this week; ‘Please can you get some more diversity at the National Trust by encouraging more hot men to visit.’ Ideas for how we do this v welcome. Nothing too racy please - we are the National Trust not the National Tryst.

The ITVX #LongLostFamily special on #MotherAndBabyHome scandal is extremely moving. State sanctioned & funded movement of babies from often #WorkingClass mothers to #MiddleClass families. www.itv.com/watch/long-l...

@rte.ie is Emerald Nightingales – Irish Nurses in the NHS streaming being broadcast in the U.K.?

(Audio) book 40 of 2025 #TomorrowWillBeDifferent by @mcbride.house.gov - it’s amazing to hear how far we have come but sat to thing about the current regressive trends. #BookSky #QueerBookSky #TransRightsAreHumanRights