An attempt to block a transplant surgeon who sexually harassed four female colleagues from returning to practice has failed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone else see a cute friendly robot having a nap…

Two eldest kids running for Sheffield in South Yorkshire schools cross country race today. Ground was mainly sludge. The 15yo managed to mix in a massive nose bleed at the end 🤦🏼‍♀️. The 12yo went straight off to do an escape room so we’ll have to chip that mud off at some point… character building 👍🏻

It definitely feels like the tide is starting to turn in women's running. The National Running Show last weekend was a great example of this and demonstrates why the women's running boom can no longer be ignored. runningmatters.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

The explainer we all needed www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Looking at the long range weather forecast I guess I’d better get used to running in this grot. The ‘path’ was full on river at one point…

Had to get up at 5.30am to interview someone in Japan and my body did not like that at all. Once again completely baffled by how breakfast TV/radio presenters and their teams do it....

Beat the 10yo at MarioKart and he claims its cos I grew up in the 80s so I can play the 'old games'. Dude the most I could hope for when I was a kid was Lemmings on my Dad's work PC. Didn't even have a GameBoy. Guess I'm just an excellent driver 🙌

Only have headspace to follow so much political shenanigans but surely Mandelson's return was based solely on the basis that he was known to be well dodgy and would therefore be able to get on with other dodgy people... Back I go to writing about how poverty and inequality is awful and worsening

Grab your spot for this webinar later this month on pitching comment pieces with @hannahfearn.bsky.social - given she won the @freelancingfor.bsky.social award this year for best opinion writer, I can't really think of a better person to get advice from!!!!

Inside the NHS cancer crisis as senior doctors warn of treatment ‘disaster’ - special report by MJA member Rebecca Thomas www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

GPs could carry out more checks for heart disease and diabetes as part of the NHS Health Check prevention programme but are being limited by caps imposed by local authorities, a Pulse investigation by @annacolivicchi.bsky.social has found www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...

This should be good. If you're a member of the MJA make sure you log in to the website and RSVP as places are limited.

🚨 BREAKING: Professor Chris Whitty to deliver the 2026 MJA Annual Lecture - an exclusive event for our journalists and invited guests. Log in to the website and RSVP here: mjauk.org/2026/02/04/p...

Just had a remittance email showing I will be paid tomorrow for work invoiced for on Wednesday. Miracles do happen... Massive publisher too. Everyone else - get your act together please.

Hey Sheffield folk, @lilycanter.bsky.social and I doing a talk next week on Ultra Women at the @inov8.bsky.social store. Come along! Proceeds go to mountain rescue 🙌 www.eventbrite.com/e/inov8-trai...

NHS patients put at risk by ‘sham investigations’, says ex-CEO of hospital www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

There are a ton of things that could have been done differently to not end up at this headline www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

Physicians say patients aren't getting the prenatal care they need because they're scared to come in.

The photos of this sweet little boy have just been heartbreaking. So pleased he’s back home. Thing is, there’s hundreds more Liams in prison. And it appears not to matter all that much when judges decree they should not be there...

Remember at the start of Covid we all learned about R numbers and that it was 2-3 and that was bad. Well R no of measles in an unvaccinated population is 12-18. That’s half a classroom. And there will be classrooms where only half are vaccinated….

Been at the running show with @lilycanter.bsky.social who did a great job on a panel with Sophie Power and Lisa Jackson. Lovely to meet some of the readers of Ultra Women 🥰

In a fast moving world with more news than anyone can cope with, the one certainty is that if you try and do a train journey between major cities in Britain something will go awry….

Now how about the other children….

I would have thought there was plenty of current news to report on…

Now journalists covering protests are being arrested? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is that 3 royal medical colleges now by my count?

NHS medical negligence persisting in England ‘despite 24 years of warnings’ www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Physicians throughout Minnesota bear witness to the devastation that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is wreaking. They implore physicians everywhere to raise their voices. Read “We Do Care” by Bernard E. Trappey, MD, for Minnesota Physician Voices: nej.md/4akke1G

Staggering how quickly things can fall apart. Vaccination has been such a lynchpin of public health (that doesn't really work if everyone is just doing their own thing and guessing at the best thing to do)...

Read my latest piece for @doctors-net-uk.bsky.social on why GPs are demanding reform of ADHD Right to Choose care. The current system is failing patients they warn. www.doctors.net.uk/news/right-t...

Assume the 'marry early' is so you have a slave to take care of all the domestic load while you're lifting weights at your desk treadmill. Those steak and eggs are not gonna cook themselves are they....

US congressman meets five-year-old Liam Ramos and his father at ICE detention center. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

on the case for getting teens off social media, but actually giving them something in return www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... (& yes, posting this on a site where many of us have voluntarily taken ourselves off another platform that we felt had become unhealthy even for grown adults)

Live your life such that Bruce Springsteen does not write a protest song about how terrible you are

This is worth paying attention to particularly for those who have concerns about Palantir's involvement in NHS data.... www.bmj.com/content/392/...

There's one thing about measles - it is really good at spreading. That line for 2026 is something else....https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/health/largest-us-measles-outbreak-south-carolina

@emmajourno.bsky.social and I will be at the National Running Show on Sunday signing copies of Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport. I'm speaking on a panel at 14:15 at the Running Skills Theatre and we will be signing books directly after that. nationalrunningshow.com/agenda-sunday

Someone is going to have to explain this one to me like I'm a small child... apnews.com/article/ice-...

First cup of tea: Civilisation’s Momentary Pinnacle

Not surprising but not good www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to be missed this one - if you listened to our podcast about her recent award win for opinion writing you will know she is very wise and full of practical tips! @hannahfearn.bsky.social

Freelancing for Journalists is running a workshop on How to Pitch Comment Pieces with experienced opinion writer and former The Independent Comment Editor Hannah Fearn on February 25. www.tickettailor.com/events/freel...

Had seen this article doing the rounds but only just had a chance to read. There are a lot of stand out lines but this is one that I read a few times "Dan and Jane resisted the idea that they had become political. A better word, Jane said, was humanist." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The lying in the face of a lot of evidence is not really working for them this time is it...

🚨 Exclusive: A dangerous surgeon at @GreatOrmondSt harmed more than a quarter of the children he operated on, a new report is expected to say this week. Now the trust chief tells @thetimes he is "deeply sorry" but there is no evidence of cover-up... www.thetimes.com/article/352e...