Close your eyes, imagine being paralyzed… unable to breathe Imagine being stuck in a claustrophobic iron lung, to breathe Maybe we all need to time travel, to appreciate how science & public health save us, every single day?

Helpful list of some of the people who, or whose families, Shabana Mahmood thinks should only have been allowed to stay temporarily

I don’t say it as much these days, but as a patient under multiple specialities I still back resident NHS doctors striking for fair pay and decent working conditions. That will never change. No guilt trips here. Join a union and fight for what you deserve ✌🏻

Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you’re good looking, kind & hot and you want an aloof wife who can quietly steer you to success from behind the scenes - I am available.

Please sponsor my visa!!!

An humanitarian and an icon 🇵🇸 #MsRachel #GLAMOURWomanOfTheYear

Me liking every post celebrating mamdani’s win even though i’m not a New Yorker.

🗣️ Our Chair, @sojanjosephmp.bsky.social highlights the need for strong UK leadership at the upcoming Global Fund Replenishment. Support is vital to fight AIDS, TB, and malaria, and to strengthen health systems globally. Read his piece 👇 www.independent.co.uk/voices/uk-ai...

Shoutout to all the aloof wives out there.

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.

Live footage of centrist pundits being permanently surprised by how cruel fascists actually are.

I might have survived the world’s oldest and deadliest infectious disease, but I swear it’s Teams that will finish me off.

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

there is no debate to be had about integration in the UK. The debate should be about what we do about the way we indulge delusional people by pretending their arguments are not bad faith.

Good morning

List three things you can talk about for three hours without prep: 1. Tuberculosis. 2. Neighbours (the Aussie soap). 3. Cats.

There really should be a medical term for that unique brand of anxiety that hits on delivery day when you’re waiting for your clinical home care company to turn up with your life-sustaining biologics.

I have discovered there are people out there with full time demanding jobs, a young family, and marathon training (for fun!) on top of it all. Meanwhile my inner monologue just screams HOW DOES ANYONE DO ANYTHING about a thousand times a day. Is there a secret formula? Please share.

Having a depressing time in the replies to this because liberals don't think this applies to them too.

It's so strange to me how the absolutely core question at the heart of politics - "what kind of society do we want to live in?" - is so absent from discussion, either assumed settled or reduced to meaningless generalities.

New wallpaper from @orangejuicefordinner (www.instagram.com/orangejuicef...) Spoiler alert: I’ll keep being weird daily, because normal is overrated 🤷🏻‍♀️

I'm just speculating here, but - hear me out - maybe, just maybe, autism isn't a defect and is just a facet of a range of brain development. And, maybe, we should focus on the specific needs of individuals rather than associating broad unfocussed labels with specific types of disability.

“Sally Rooney could be arrested as a terrorist supporter if she enters the UK” Like read that sentence over and over and reflect on the state of this country

Yes, please!!! 🙏🏻

If only...

In London, hate will never win.

Finally, a human rights lawyer turned politician who isn’t afraid to call a genocide what it is.

Gave my GP a card and gift for supporting me with my mental health and neurodivergence. He laughed when I told him, completely seriously, that I’d checked the GMC policy on conflicts of interest and gifts of minimal value, then recited the wording back to him. Rules matter.

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

When we remember we beat fascism before, we must also remember that we kinda let fascism happen before we actually beat it. I'm not a historian but I think that the one lesson of history might be not to have to beat it in the first place.

I’ll never be a Conservative, but I’m not celebrating the collapse of the Tory party. I’d much rather see a centre-right party as the official opposition than Reform, a hard-right party led by Nigel Farage. Labour is cooked as well. The Greens and independents look like our only real hope now.

Bedbug infestation Broken washing machine Gas and carbon monoxide leak. Two of those happened at the weekend. I need an empty field to go lie down in and scream.

Current status.

This message from Palestinian journalist, Wael Al-Dahdouh, must echo across the world. Wael continued to report from occupied Gaza after his wife and children were killed by Israeli forces.

The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it - George Orwell,

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

It should be illegal to have a viral infection in the middle of a heatwave. Who do I sue? 🤒

I’d pay a subscription for this.

I’ve picked up so much clinical knowledge about TB through my advocacy work and now working in the health research sector that my new consultant dermatologist actually asked if I was medical. Ha, nope. There’s no degree in lived experience, sadly.

RUN FOR FREE! Be a High Viz Hero. Volunteer at Ealing Half Marathon and get a free place in the following years race, register now at: www.ealinghalfmarathon.com/volunteer/ I’ve signed up as a volunteer this year and will be running the Ealing Half Marathon in 2026 for charity (god help me!).

My age verification went well.

The UK govt must also use every political, legal & diplomatic tool to help end Israel’s genocide, dismantle its apartheid regime & bring the illegal occupation to an end. Without decisive action, the relentless assault on Palestinians will escalate further, with even more devastating consequences.