BREAKING: Statement just posted by Keir Starmer

Possibly. Or that being the tough guy to end all tough guys will win him enough votes in September.

Poverty is bad for your health as something we've known for a long time. But this paper has data to show how different health problems pike up in the most disadvantaged populations. If preventing multi-morbidity & premature death is the aim Govts need to get tough on poverty & its causes.

One of the best things about working with South Asians is their philosophy of secularism, which is a positive secularism: everyone embraces and celebrates everyone else's festivals. I've been wished Happy Christmas by all my Hindu & Muslim friends, and I wish them happiness on all their festivals ♥️

"The Borrowers"? Alternatively, as my late mun used to say looing round the piles of papers accumulating in every surface "Buried 'neath some snow deep alp".

Congratulations to pop tart for their popular ad campaign, but I am reserving judgement for when they are no longer selling chemical sugar goo inside of a stale cracker with a nutritional value lesser than the cash used to purchase them.

If you’re still planning to respond to the Government’s #NationalSENDConversation survey here are our tips to help. The survey FAILS to mention rights or EHCPs, so we have lots of guidance about what is already law that you can remind the government! www.specialneedsjungle.com/t...#NationalSENDConversation

Wishing you all the best of the season from all of us. Thanks for all your support in 2025, why not join us in 2026? KeepourNHSpublic.com

Very sorry to read this. First mer Aggrey when I was a medical studenr in Brum. Later worked with him as a colleague at St George's. Learned a lor both times. Rest in power.

Not sure you are selling the desirability of your accessible kitchen. Is Thetford delicious as well? Are there crumpets? Cheese? Marmite?l

Spouting self-aggrandising hubristic rubbish may or may not be related to mental illness. Either way it is still rubbish. Most crimes are committedby sane people of normal intelligence.

Inumerate?

And to you Lloyd and Steve

Hi everyone. I’ve been involved in this and hope to be on a future episode (home situation allowing). Please listen, share and express your thoughts if you wish. Thank you 🥰 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

#OtD 12 Dec 1866 the worst mining disaster in English history occurred when the Oaks Colliery exploded killing 361 miners and rescuers aged between 10 and 67. The inquest concluded the deaths were caused by management negligence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8377...

The important question is whether this year’s flu season will peak soon (and so we have a ‘normal’ serious flu wave, shifted earlier) or whether it will keep going up and only peak towards end of the year in which case it will be a terrible flu season - i.e. are we in scenario A or scenario B. 6/10

HELP! When buying a house is it the new normal for solicitor to require purchaser to install an app - only available on a smartphone- to verify identity? Should I be uploading personal data into the cloud in this way? Am I a technophobic old bat even to worry about it?

At the risk of whataboutery, Milton, Frieda Kahlo, Tracey Emin, Klee, Matisse, Sylvia Plath, Munch etc etc name whose admired art may well also have been therapeutic for the artist. So what? Either the art produces an effect on us, the viwer/audience or it doesn't.

That is troubling.

Should I send it by snail mail then?

On the other hand, the train from Truro to Paddington is full. Proving.. what exactly?

Our ICB is looking to make more use of Brave AI. Is that something I should welcome, be wary of, both? I see that they are a not-for-profit, non Big Tech company, which sounds good to me. How AI is used in health services, rather than whether, seems to be the issue. @paulbernal.bsky.social

What is likely to be in the Government's new NHS Workforce strategy? What should be? Retention of existing staff, career progress from early on & training g in community, preventative & digital skills that the 10 yr plan calls for. Increasing the number of district nurses would be a good start.

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

That sounds fascinating. When does the book come out, who is editing, who are your co-authors, editor, publishers?

1970s better for me- because I was young. My eyes & ears & worked better then. On the other hand London transport far worse, As a junior doctor I had to work a 100 hr week. Torygrsph nostalgia then looked back to 1930s - hunger, unemployment or Jazz age. Young people & workers knew their place.

Horrible for all migrants. Shameful and distressing for decent people from the 'host' nation too. Not sure if I count, none of my grandparents born here. Economic migrants. My parents from different diasporas met in London.

Over-sold. Experience of digital banking, for example doesn't encourage me to depend on digital unless it is there to support the human beings who are caring for me & can deal with passwords, holes in mobile coverage & AI hallucinations.

Digital is a problem more than a solution if it’s difficult to access, tricky to use, temperamental, rigid or non-inclusive. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Just started interviewing for the READY study, exploring the last year of life of people with learning disabilities. In early interviews, despite, or perhaps because, of the sensitivity of the subject, some bereaved people find talking & being heard liberating. www.readystudy.uk

A good book - not a text-book- about chemistry or biography of a chemist, that a twelve-year old might enjoy. Ideas please. @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social @paulbernal.bsky.social

Burnell, Barnowl, Bernawl, Parnell, Bannle? Perhaps we are sensitised

The old ones are the best

Not to mention children's wards 8n general hospitals.

Where does bluesky store drafts. Wrote a long post but did not send because playing musical trains at Bristol.

As long as they continue to ban cis- men from that particular women only space. A million years ago, when I was a school-girl, there were often groups of them trying to peer over the fence.

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

There is an urgent need to maintain &increase the places for learning disability nursing - in order to enhance &save lives of pwld- to attract&keep this vital area of practice- no courses fees for students, a bursary&a golden hello

Greater Manchester Police confirm: - Car was driven at public - Driver then attacked people with knife - Suspect wore a vest looking like explosive device - Security staff at synagogue stopped attacker getting in

HOPE not hate condemn the appalling, violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester which has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Our thoughts are with the Jewish community and all affected.

I had no idea that members of the Jewish community carried out security duty like this. Stay safe. And we should rally round to protect them too. Nobody should be afraid of entering their place of worship.

10000000000000000000 times this.

A maternity hospital should be a place of hope and new beginnings. Yet in Gaza, that hope is clouded by stress and uncertainty. Even amid an offensive, hospitals should be protected. We call for an immediate end to the violence and for concrete measures to protect civilians.

During the attacks, which continued throughout most of the night, a pregnant patient went into labour. She delivered under extremely stressful conditions and experienced postpartum complications. Both mother and baby are now stable.

Last night, Al-Helou hospital in #Gaza City, supported by MSF, sustained severe collateral damage from nearby attacks. This came despite multiple assurances from Israeli forces that the hospital was not in danger.

Wasteful. Migrants were among my teachers, my students, my colleagues, friends, neighbours. We would all be poorer if a few xenophobes drove them out or prevented their entry.

Time to cast your Quick-vote: it does what it says on the tin.