🔴Reform UK Councils Are Dismantling the Fight Against Climate Change Nigel Farage’s party is spreading climate change denial, while blocking any localised action to deal with the threat, an academic analysis of Reform councils has found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/24/r...

This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned

PFI: Still draining NHS budgets decades on - John Lister lowdownnhs.info/private-prov...

'The Medact briefing urges trusts and ICBs to “urgently decline” FDP, and for NHS England to terminate the contract, saying partnering with Palantir risks weakening patients’ trust while “driving out locally tailored and trusted data solutions”.' #NHS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anna Foster challenging Israeli UK embassy spokesperson to justify Israeli attacks on the Pars gas field and on devastating attacks on civilians in Iran and Lebanon, which of course, in any rational world, he can't. Excellent journalism from a Middle Eastern expert #r4today @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Only 12.7% of GP trainees feel confident they’ll find a long‑term GP role within six months of qualifying. Our latest blog looks at what’s driving that uncertainty and why employment pathways matter. 👉 Read in full today: https://bit.ly/4uhwNTH

Trump demands Zambia’s critical minerals… or else he’ll cut up to 1.3 million off from HIV meds. We urgently need global cooperation to fill these aid gaps and allow countries to stand up to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/h...

'The Medact briefing urges trusts and ICBs to “urgently decline” FDP, and for NHS England to terminate the contract, saying partnering with Palantir risks weakening patients’ trust while “driving out locally tailored and trusted data solutions”.' #NHS www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

LeedsKONP will be there 💪

MSF is alarmed by the dramatic escalation in conflict across the #MiddleEast. We urge for the protection of civilians and healthcare facilities, as our teams adapt and scale up activities in #Iran and #Lebanon. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/middle-east-...

Press release: councillors in Lincolnshire will tomorrow vote on whether to give the go-ahead to a vast data centre, which will produce over 1,000,000 tonnes of CO2 per year: www.foxglove.org.uk/2026/03/10/p...

The GP employment paradox: why GP trainees are worried about finding jobs in a system short of GPs Most see struggles ahead That’s not great for the future @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.

It's always ordinary civilians who suffer most in these wars from the air - US & Israeli claims of targeted attacks are shown to be falsehoods when they warn hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes & sleep on the streets 💔 #Beirut

We're so fortunate in the UK to have such skilful and dedicated #NHS teams 💙 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sadly the new GP Contract provided just £1.50 per patient per year of additional funding The Govt & Wes Streeting have raised your expectations However they won’t help patients get better care We need more GPs & more funding This is the new reality speak to GPs @healthwatchengland.bsky.social

Datacentres could DOUBLE the UK's overall energy demand in service of big tech oligarchs. We've joined five other groups inc @foxglovelegal.bsky.social to call for our government to put measures in place to ensure the public and climate don't pay the price. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Brilliant support & campaigning from local people to save their NHS GP practice in the face of opaque decisions from the ICB. Excellent reporting from @sussexbylines.co.uk

Wellsbourne Surgery: the campaign goes on The Wellsbourne story moves forward slowly but the community must stay vigilant | James Joughin @sussexbylines.co.uk

The Representation of the People Bill doesn't cap political donations. Super-rich can buy/bribe political parties to protect their interests. The poor can't. The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth and the bottom 20% has only 0.5%. 24m live below minimum living standards.

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight "Your position is utterly incoherent" "You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys"

US 'experts' have described oral health in Britain as 'Third World'. 📈Yes, inequalities are widening. 🇺🇸But in the US working age adults are missing more teeth. 🇬🇧The UK Govt will decide whether we end up becoming an Austin Powers cliché. Our letter to the editor of @thetimes.com

Citing Orwell’s ‘1984,’ judge orders Trump administration to return slavery exhibits removed from Philadelphia museum | CNN Politics share.google/YbItDN5yKQL0...

If Wes Streeting can release his messages with Peter Mandelson, why not release the ones with private healthcare donors?

the loss of the World Service would be a tragedy and huge lost of soft power for Britain

A consensus is growing: our current way of doing politics is unsustainable. Election results that seem random. Majority governments elected on a fraction of the vote. We've had enough. Sign the petition to include fair votes in the government's new bill:

"The prime minister and the health secretary should listen to the public they serve when they tell them Palantir has no place in the NHS. “They should not be scheming with tech billionaires’ staff on how best they can ‘mitigate’ the ‘public perception’ problems these tech giants deservedly face".

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🦷Why is it so hard to find an NHS dentist? 📻A must-listen state of the nation. 🎤Answers from by BDA Chair @eddiecrouch.bsky.social, Consultant Tom Thayer and @dentalhealthorg.bsky.social's Rachael England on BBC R4 Inside Health. 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002r3nn

Hang on, so we did a deal with Trump which will mean the NHS giving an extra £9bn a year to these 👇 very profitable corporations, on the basis it would help attract investment back. And yet… no investment is coming back. It was a shakedown. Who knew? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'Sunset #SycamoreGap' etching by contemporary Northumberland based UK printmaker Rebecca Vincent #WomensArt

Student loans in uk are phenomenal amount of debt saddled on young people for much of their lives. Government should return to grants. More young people will enter higher education, adding to our skills base, there will inevitably be a lift in mental health as financial stresses are removed etc

An excellent letter from @tomdolphin.bsky.social at BMA about why the NHS should stop end contracts with Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Support our call to the UK Government for transparency over Lord Mandelson's links with Palantir - sign here: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

... and PE has widespread involvement in community health services, as in our area: Private equity owned company gains billion £ contract for community services - The Lowdown share.google/pjPGOhvXpzjT...

Four More US States Weigh Bans on Private-Equity Interference in Medical Care. UK handing more of healthcare to PE parasites Hospitals GP surgeries Dentists Care homes Children's care PE has no long term interest in anything. It profiteers by devouring. archive.ph/xBUyI

It's rare to see how lobbyists operate. But the Epstein-Mandelson correspondence shows us what happens all the time: plutocrats and government ministers conspiring against the public interest. This is why all lobbying should be in the public domain, but despite Labour and Con promises, it's not. 🧵

Private equity firms making huge gains from publicly funded foster care services for vulnerable children observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️ youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM

The government has given in to Trump, handed billions from the NHS budget to Big Pharma - and won’t even give us their the true long term costs. Great piece 👇 I’ll be meeting MPs tomorrow to plan the fight back. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Very disappointed that this Govt is overseeing an increase in outsourcing of NHS elective care & uptick in profit-seeking private equity ownership of healthcare firms (incl. HCRG, who have a v large contract for community services in our ICB area)

Urgently important work from @chpithinktank.bsky.social

Solidarity with #Airedale #NHS hospital strikers. No SubCOs in the NHS. #fairpay #fairpensions #safestaffing

WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. Full statement: bit.ly/46dT0HF

'The normal rules of engagement have been thrown out - Alex Pretti was on his knees when first shot was fired'