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🎵The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat 🎵

Use this tool to find out if your local health services use Palantir software, and register your objection. It takes 30 seconds. Well done @goodlawproject.org notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Just when you start to hope government are making better decisions for the UK future, you read an article like this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

youtu.be/TmyjzvQv5bA?... A plea. Build a bridge, shine a light #Flea #Honara #NoKings #Together 28.03.26

A moment that changed me: I thought my Parkinson’s was the end of my life, but dancing changed everything

OSSOFF: Your statement says that as a result of last summer's airstrikes, Iran's nuclear program was 'obliterated.' Correct? GABBARD: Yes O: The WH stated war was launched to 'eliminate the imminent nuclear threat' G: The only person who can determine what's an imminent threat is POTUS O: False

How neighbourhood governance can help us beat the far right.
 Misbah Malik, @hopenothate.org.uk 👉 www.right-here.org/how-neighbou... Reading list 🧵3/10

🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms "I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"

Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders. Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

As violence escalates across the Middle East, it is children who are paying the highest price. Right now, our teams are responding with emergency support for vulnerable, traumatised children and their families. 🔗 Please support our response: bit.ly/4rSsAnN Children deserve safety. Everywhere.

𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣(𝟮) - the new collaborative album from War Child Records - is OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/4re0qCq Every purchase, stream and share of 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣(𝟮) helps support our work with children facing unimaginable circumstances around the world. We are so grateful to everyone who helped bring this album to life.

A moment that changed me: a pigeon fell out of the sky – and she led me to a secret underground rescue network

"The future can only look after itself…We hope people will accept us whether bright and breezy or feeling low. We ourselves all try to shine. If we share the love around, everyone feels safer - it's community. By helping others, I help myself' #Dementia #Wisdom via @innov-dementia.bsky.social

‘OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o model cited Pravda content in response to five out of seven prompts on contested subjects.’ on.ft.com/40TOF9R

Live more: how Greater Manchester is leading the way in offering early, preventive support to people living with dementia and their families, in partnership with @sharedlivesplus.bsky.social & @adass.bsky.social GM www.adass.org.uk/live-more-sh...

You should read this (and not only cos I co-wrote it 🙃).

"There is no recession of the imagination": finding point 7 of the Arts Emergency Manifesto particularly inspiring today. Also point 11: "Optimism is a weapon and if all else fails be silly".

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Today, the Guardian’s Seascape launches a year long series on young people in England’s coastal towns. What is it about living by the sea that results in poorer outcomes for many? Our news story to launch it. More in an hour… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Missed our #10YearHealthPlan webinar earlier? Don't worry, here's some of the key takeaway from our panel and speakers on what they think the 10 Year Health plan will mean for the future of the NHS. Watch the event back here: youtu.be/nhRtMPOzbjs

Moments like these, I always come back to: "Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die." ❤️‍🩹

Today, we have set out our plan to kickstart a decade of social and affordable housing renewal. Here’s how we’ll do it 🧵

83 #DoTheRightThing #PIP news.sky.com/story/politi...

If enacted this will see the State finding new £ & staff to help people kill themselves whilst hospice care in many places is being reduced. Is that the outcome legislators intend? If not what are they going to do about the latter?

“Crucially, the government has decided that taking £200 a year in Winter Fuel Allowance from people on £30,000 is too politically painful. How can it defend to its own MPs taking £10,000 a year from families in much more difficult circumstances than that?” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk www.bbc.com/news/article... A story about how *every* future born citizen will have their DNA recorded & screened with AI, without one paragraph about data security or scrutiny of promised benefit? Anyone got a link to a better article?

This being the context for the Assisted Dying Bill 👇

They. Are. Sanctuaries.

170 unhappy Labour MPs. Labour loses far more support from its own base than any it might gain from those who think benefit recipients are scroungers - they'll just bank the win and then find another excuse to hate Labour. inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Personal independence payment helps people to go to work makingrightsmakesense.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/p...

Why are Tories suddenly using the term "white british" in debates on immgration and citizenship? www.ft.com/content/aceb...

#DoTheRightThing Government whip quits over disability benefit cuts www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sharing this on the eve of tomorrow's vote. I am a palliative care doctor who is not opposed to AD. But enshrining in law a state-funded right to die, while not enshrine a similar right to the palliative care that might make life worth living, is so very wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Land of the free.

At #NHSConfedExpo today, Victor Adebowale explored the complex relationship between the NHS and adult social care, highlighting the urgent need for collaboration to enhance care delivery.

If you want to know how today's spending review affects #socialcare, you are going to have to wait. There is no clear sum to fund a fair pay agreement and promises of 'over £4bn' for social care in 2028/29 are unclear. Puzzled, frustrated thread > news.sky.com/story/spendi...

Good to see this by @local.gov.uk - the impact of OTs on people’s lives and outcomes far exceeds their relatively small numbers

Who controls the past now Controls the future. Who controls the present now, controls the past. Who controls the past now, controls the future. Who controls the present now? Now testify. (It’s right outside your door). youtu.be/j_zyb-XXWz0?... #LosAngeles 🇺🇸

How about securing trust in the quality of your journalism, commitment to verified facts and the richness of your quality broadcasting output instead? #BBC

'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

go.bsky.app/jPc1mH Innovation, creativity and joy. Let’s not settle for making the most of what we’ve got, when what could be, is beautiful and bold. #MakingItReal needs people who believe in #MakingItHappen. @tlap.bsky.social #Casey #CareCantWait It’s #TimeToAct Join in.

Beautiful!

Jude McCreath live @ the wonderful George Tavern London this week The poster drawing and design his too

Prevention works.