If Labour won’t nationalise water, their “big overhaul” is a con. Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected. Public services should be in public hands.

Meta sucks so stop wearing the fucking Oakley Meta glasses - please and thank you

I hate to break it to the wellness influencers but the preservatives in supermarket bread isn't anywhere near as big a deal as you're making it out

Bolognese is just cottage pie filling but Italians don't want you to know that

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

I actually bought some Christmas presents as a result of online advertising so tell me why I'm still being advertised to BUY THOSE SAME COMPANIES. I already bought your product so how about fucking off for a bit?

Does anyone else feel they spend most of their life getting advertised to now? I'm sure it was the same five years ago but it feels ridiculously in your face since the AI explosion

Forget 23andMe, I have a very simple ethnicity test. Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, it's a movie set at Christmas. Now if you found yourself irrationally annoyed at that then regardless of what your skin colour may be, you're a white man.

Does our national news corporation really need two articles about a man who tried to kill as many men, women and children as possible? And do both need to be trying to paint this man in a sympathetic light in different ways? There's no chance a darker skinned man would receive the same treatment...

I love how influencers are so critical of bread for having "a hundred ingredients" in it in order to sell you a basic bread recipe but you never see them telling you to support local bakeries...

Daniel Elkeles - a man who has never written a discharge letter in his life has the gall to say such 'inflammatory' stuff about myself and my colleagues. If the Resident Doctor body is so important then perhaps pay us what we're worth and create some more jobs to allow doctors to do this work?

The internet: I'm going to review this random person's diet Me: wtf why?

The existence of Ariana Grande suggests there's an Ariana Venti knocking around out there

I know it isn't just inefficiencies in the NHS that are causing it to struggle but the application process for doctors' training programmes has got to be some of the most egregious. It makes a simple process difficult FOR ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD REASON.

Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY "All we ever talk about in this country is immigration" "Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"

Is she…reading a C spine X-ray…on Microsoft Paint?! #chiropractors

I wonder when the UK will buck the trend of successively worse and worse Ministers for Health

NHS trusts to Resident Doctors: it's important for you to take all your annual leave for your wellbeing RDs: so can I take it to use for my wedding? Trusts: lol no wtf

It’s often hard to get your MP to understand specific GP problems and influence decisions Take for example Ilford North where GP to patient ratios are some of the worst in the country and aren’t improving 2661 patients/GP up 510 since 2018 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 2257 patients/GP If only the local MP had any influence

Aaron Rai has just won one of the more prestigious tournaments on the DP World Tour. Back in 2018 the BBC did an article on his rise up the golf world with focus on him being Indian. The top comments are all about him being "English"! There is no way that would be the same if it was published today

📉 Should we be prescribing metformin with antipsychotics? Despite clear guideline support, this UK study of 26,000+ patients found metformin is rarely used to prevent weight gain from meds like olanzapine. Why the gap? #Antipsychotics #Metformin #Psychiatry #SMI #WeightGain 🧵 THREAD

Also the irony of a psychiatry exam causing me symptomatic performance anxiety has not been lost on me

Gotta love the impact that failing a practical post-grad medical exam has on you. Nervous before the first attempt and now increased anxiety due to added pressure of applying for ST4 jobs without knowing whether I've passed the prerequisite exam + all my mates having passed first time. Delightful!

The government getting involved a private entity's decision which is supported by local police, in order to force them to reverse it just isn't sitting right with me

Petition to rename man flu to brovid. Medicine is always evolving after all

Apparently someone saying this to me on Instagram doesn't violate community guidelines... Racism towards Indians really is just totally dismissed.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Okay so the flags are seemingly getting bigger and are flying closer to the ground and I'm a little more worried about that. Feels both literally and metaphorically more in your face...

America doesn't get a lot right but their versions of pancakes are just infinitely superior

Here's a bunch of bullshit that I do not believe: Energy companies saying investing in renewable energy won't lower bills Anything Trump says Anything Israel claims That out current version of capitalism works If laws are changed that billionaires will leave a country The NHS is dead

The irony of being contacted a couple days ago by a resident doctor colleague asking when the next strikes were. We haven't been striking since July and not since a whole new cohort of doctors have started their careers. You want us to strike even less? @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social

We apparently signed up for a job for life. If so the government needs to actually let us work...

Israel is now officially committing genocide. This means that the UK is now officially complicit in genocide. This means that the UK is now officially denying genocide.

So the guy who continues to start new far right political parties organised yesterday's protest and there are people claiming it was only about 'illegal immigration' and that they're fine with people who come here to work and pay taxes. Meanwhile Robinson owes HMRC around £2 million...

Phone companies have packed their products full of useless AI features because we've got to the point now where for 99.9% of the public their smartphone needs can be satisfied for years by processors/RAM accesible for under £300/$350. AI is bloatware designed to slow your phone...

Another round of BMA elections and again not been elected. Really deluded myself into thinking I had a shot at this one 😞

Given importance of health to the voting public, it seems politically naive of Nigel Farage and Reform to have their health policy so closely tied to Dr Aseem Malhotra, whose speech today confirms his switch from once respected clinician to conspiracy theorist quack: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Hey Guardian you spelled “Well-know crank and conspiracy theorist (who happens to be medically qualified) spouts dangerous bullshit again.” wrong

Just in case anyone doesn't know but the real story coming out of Birmingham this weekend is Kareena Kapoor visiting Soho Road

Regardless of what you think regarding Angela Rayner's house purchase - the photo that the BBC have used of her would never have been if she wasn't a woman in government

Bloody hell remember when we were accused of 'political strikes' last year? Wes needs to get some perspective if he thinks 'beating the doctors' will help save the NHS

Trying to answer the feedback survey for the @rcpsych.bsky.social International Congress and I'm stuck on this part as a Midlander...

We have written to the Presidents of the Medical Royal Colleges to draw their attention to the staggering revelations over GMC decision-making that came to light in our judicial review.

So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms. And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell... This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

Just signed up to the BMA's doctors' register. If you're a doctor and have any issue with the way the GMC is set up/operates then I would urge you to do the same

Let it be known I rate Ali very highly and the lovely thing about test cricket is that the rhythm of it means that MCQs can be done in between balls and extra reading between overs.

On 21 July, new indicative ballots will open for consultants and SAS doctors in England. Together we can act to tackle pay erosion and value doctors properly. Learn more: 🔗Consultants: bma.org.uk/ConsultantsPay 🔗SAS doctors: bma.org.uk/SASpay #MedSky

We can't be that close to the singularity if autocorrect still doesn't know the difference between too/to

Having to use a credit card to pay for a £1100 mandatory exam because my monthly pay has already been eaten up. And this is as a CT2 who lives at home still and buys zero coffees or lunches at work. I really wish I had full pay restoration right now.

Very interesting article. I think this illustrates how MH is viewed within our country - it's considered ubiquitous (which really underappreciates the varying levels of illness imo) and therefore it's incorrectly assumed that a one-size-fits-all approach is a given when it comes to prevention