Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Read all about it! Our fantastic Efi Mantzourani gave a talk about transition of care at the FIP World Conference of Pharmacy in Copenhagen. www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/29...

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

In case you missed it ... 💥 This is the type of speech Starmer could have given on immigration. But unlike the Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, Starmer doesn't seem to feel any sense of duty, protection, or thanks towards the foreigners in the UK who are holding this country together. #NotStrangers

Trump administration considers suspending habeas corpus. This would deny people the legal right to challenge one’s detention. Arbitrary detention of opponents would be normalised. No different from dictatorships. Rule of law? Respect for human rights?

We have a desperate shortage of care workers. This has a catastrophic effect on the NHS too. Labour’s decision to close the care worker visa scheme for overseas recruitment is appalling, kneejerk politics that - yet again - will penalise the most vulnerable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Nobel prize winnerJoseph Stiglitz explains how Brexit is making the UK worse off Then criticises Keir Starmer and Labour for negotiating with Trump from a position of weakness and not with strength by joining other countries

For anyone who's just seen Yvette Cooper talking about the immigration white paper, I set out some of the evidence and facts here. [1/?] www.independent.co.uk/voices/tight...

Anybody who claims all/most recent immigration is "low-skilled should be forced to explain this..

I am seriously shocked at the words coming out of Yvette Cooper’s mouth

Hard hitting from @mark-ungrin.bsky.social on how a naive reliance on a cartoonish version of EBM killed public health. whn.global/trumps-croni...

Of course I’d rather Labour had won the by-election and losing by six votes is astonishing. But I hope Starmer takes the message that Reform are better at being Reform than Labour, and Labour’s best bet is to go back to being Labour.

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

Better late than never...our evaluation website is now live! www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... @dianeashiru.bsky.social @ayodejimatuluko.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social @efimantz.bsky.social

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

PROTEST in any way you can the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil for practicing free speech. He's a Columbia grad married to an American. This is an outrageous violation of the First Amendment. apnews.com/article/colu...

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper... But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

that the decision to single out, detain &persecute someone for their political speech was made by those at the highest levels is the purest distillation of fascism. so many dems are silent bc, by framing anti-genocide speech as antisemitic for over a year, they helped create the conditions for this

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

it will be the best depression, the most beautiful depression, better than all of the other depressions in the world

"A $1 increase in the minimum wage is linked to a fall in the suicide rate of between 3.5 and 6% among people with high school education or less, reveals a 26-year study, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health" scitechdaily.com/1-increase-i...

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

:There was a coup in America, and no one noticed. It was a slow-moving coup, decades in the making, forged by redefining laws and loyalty until the contours of betrayal blurred." --THEY KNEW (2022)

Perhaps it’s best for women to explain it. We would rather keep our rights, our jobs and not have men tell us what to do with our lives and our bodies. The Left offers that, the AfD would take it away.

Today marks three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Donald Trump could learn a lot about leadership from Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

Hard to describe what it's like being in Kyiv, surrounded by brilliant, unshakeable, brave Ukranians, and reading Trump's comments. The free world deserves a better leader, the hill deserves a better city upon it, and these people deserve better friends.

#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

In case it hasn’t been apparent since 2022: Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of the free world.

Day 81. Many went to the Church next to the Parliament to honour the memory of two children that died from the regime's neglecting of safety standards in Batumi before moving on to blocking the road as is the principled tradition. #GeorgiaProtests

People of 🇩🇪 - Feeling disillusioned with current German politics? That’s exactly what they want. Change doesn’t come from apathy, it comes from action. Vote like democracy depends on it—because it does. Say No to AfD’s xenophobia & Musk’s interference in Germany democratic processes.❤️🇪🇺 #NoAfD #BanX

The same people who paid for Brexit are funding the rise of the far right in America and across Europe The fascism our fathers, uncles, grandfathers, died fighting to stop is being brought back by the worst of people We cannot stand by and let far right goons take us back to 1939.

Giving infectious disease research a break, as promised by the MAHA agenda. Let's break down what exactly this Executive Order is *really* saying. Fortunately, I speak fluent anti-vax grifterese & can translate. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Beautiful ❤️

Throughout human history, migration has been a vital part of people to find food, shelter, new life and explore. If we are living in one country now, we even don’t know where our past 10th generation lived. Let humanity flow the way it has been for thousands of years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esok...

🆕 LSE Health Annual Lecture: #SocialJustice & #HealthEquity 🗣️ Prof. Sir Michael Marmot @michaelmarmot.bsky.social argues that the need to reduce #inequalities in health is a matter of social justice 🗓️ Monday 17 March 18.30 - 20.00 @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

Hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting. It's a serious crime. So what happens to a company's directors when they're caught forging, not one line, but whole of their accounts? And the High Court has said the accounts were forged?

On LBC this morning, I spoke about why we should be far more worried the power Elon Musk is accruing, especially in light of his Open AI moves. The normalisation of his actions and activity by quite a bit of the US and even UK media is a big part of the problem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnt...

LONG THREAD: Okay, let's break down a few things, both about ID cards and Labour's ill-advised tactics on "fighting Reform". First off, I personally don't think ID cards would work in UK, because we are objectively bad at things like this, but they work elsewhere so this isn't about them per se. 1/

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

This is a word of warning to all of us. Left, right, or anything else. Constantly reevaluating and learning.

What did he mean when he sang what a wonderful world? He meant this ⬇️

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

The UK thought it could leave the EU and still call the shots. Five years on, reality has set in. Dr Daniele Saracino unpacks the UK's weaker negotiating position.

Maga Unmasked

YouGov Just 3 in 10 Britons (30%) say that it was right for the UK to vote to leave the EU v 55% who say it was wrong….the lowest proportion of the public saying that Britain was right to vote to leave since the pollster began asking this question after the referendum apple.news/AyI9jhc2eQaK...

The rampant mainstreaming of Islamophobia in UK conservatism, and the lack of anyone really even bothering to comment on it any more, is quite something

"Days before Donald Trump’s inauguration... an article appeared in the US magazine The Atlantic: ‘How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days’. Trump’s name doesn’t appear at all in the piece by Timothy Ryback, a historian and an authority on 1930s Germany. But joining the dots is not difficult."