This is what reform want in the U.K.

Jim Ratcliffe, a tax resident of Monaco who has legally avoided an estimated £4 billion in UK taxes, says, "The UK is being colonised by immigrants, isn't it?" Ed Conway, "You met recently with Nigel Farage, didn't you?" Jim Ratcliffe, "I did"

I’ve just joined the Labour Party. I’ve voted in every election, national and local, since I was 18 but it no longer seems enough given the onslaught from the biased media and populist far right.

“.. a poll of Germans found nearly two-thirds said they wanted to avoid US brands. .. an astounding 83 per cent of Swedes said they were no longer buying US brands.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/3276...

🇺🇸😡🇺🇸😡🇺🇸😡🇺🇸😡🇺🇸 So . The next whiny yank going on about ‘we didn’t vote for him/ we are suffering/ when are you going to help us’ crap … show them this. (My daughter did 4 yrs in Afghanistan. I’m done with the lot of them. )

"There's so many European leaders who have been contorting themselves... to excuse the inexcusable." Anthony Gardner, former US Ambassador to the EU, tells #Newsnight that Europe has been “sanewashing” the actions of President Trump.

Danish PM in Chequers today

Now closing on 99,000 signatures! Keep going! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Lord Carey fears the bishops risk “losing their legitimacy in public life” if they block the AD bill. Whatever your views on the bill itself, the idea of religious clerics who sit ex officio in parliament having 'legitimacy' to lose is plainly absurd. premierchristian.news/en/news/arti...

We will be at G_A_Y Manchester this Friday from 2-4pm offering sexual health testing and PrEP/Doxy-PEP initiation. We will also be available from 4-6pm but for testing only. Come see us, NO appointment needed!.

inspiring evening at the Klimpton Clocktower hosted by David Lockhart to launch @georgehousetrust.bsky.social Paint the Town Red campaign. Monica Pearl inspired us with memories of ActUp New York and we got to meet two new patrons Orla Mcquillan from @thenorthern.bsky.social and Carl AustinBehan

🆕 We are reminding eligible groups to come forward for mpox vaccination, as UKHSA becomes aware of small numbers of locally-acquired cases of clade Ib mpox in the USA, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. 📰🔗 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukhsa-detects-first-case-of-clade-ib-mpox

*BHA HISTORY + BLACK HISTORY MONTH* NEXT BHA HISTORY POST: Wednesday 17th October #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #BlackHistoryMonthUK #Health #HealthEquity #HIV #GreaterManchester #Liverpool #Wakefield #Leeds #Coventry #Warwickshire #History

On #NoKings day, I want to remember @janeygodley.bsky.social We lost her almost a year ago, but exactly 1 year ago, while in hospice, she was still going strong in protest. Be like Janey!

Reminder – Today we are offering walk in clinic for Bexero (Gonnorrhoea) Vaccine at The Hathersage Centre. Please arrive between 3.30pm and 5pm. For more information visit our website here:

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country" "The messaging is getting dangerous" "All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them" "And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony" "And become a team again"

This week is #ChoiceWeek! 🌍 World Contraception Day - 26th Sept 💙 International Safe Abortion Day - 28th Sept Join us in celebrating the life-changing power of reproductive choice. When we #ChooseChoice, the whole world wins. Learn more: www.msichoices.org/get-involved...

Doxycycline (or DoxyPEP) is being touted as a preventative measure against STIs – a “morning-after pill” and now available on the NHS to prevent gonorrhoea. More: buff.ly/iO50fzS

The pop-up sexual health clinic is offering the Bexsero vaccine, which reduces the risk of gonorrhoea, alongside DoxyPEP, which can help prevent STIs such as chlamydia and syphilis www.attitude.co.uk/news/g-a-y-g...

For years, medical professionals and transgender advocates have been saying the "Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine" was not following the principles of evidenced-based medicine. Now the "godfather" of evidence-based medicine is leveraging the same claim against them. (1/)

It’s #MythBustingTuesday. Today’s target: “Natural immunity is always better than vaccine-induced immunity.” I hear this all the time. Although it sounds appealing, it’s dangerously misleading. 🧵

Day 6 : Need emergency contraception? If you have been sexual assaulted , recently exposed to HIV or If you require emergency contraception please get in touch via the northern website to receive additional information and support. #SexualHealthWeek

The Northern Contraception, Sexual Health & HIV Service offers free, confidential clinics across Manchester, Salford and Trafford. To find out more information or book an appointment , please visit: thenorthernsexualhealth.co.uk #sexualhealth #contraception #HIV #health #nhs

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

#manchester from up the hill

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Greater Manchester Fast Track cities event kicked off by Andy Burnham A room of energy working towards zero transmissions of #hiv #hepatitis #TB #gmftc2025

The UK government can stick with its red lines towards the EU and still significantly deepen trade relations, without further damaging US trade, how's that for cakeism? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Canada has no reason to be subtle about it, no one does, the U.S is making itself a pariah state

Had enough of Elon? Rosie has! You can join your friendly local #TeslaTakedown protest at 11am tomorrow. In the #UK, we've got one in #London and one in #Manchester: actionnetwork.org/events/tesla... actionnetwork.org/events/tesla... Please share with interested tweeps.

The early bird overthrows the worm 🌅 #boycotttesla

320 total crashes in the F&F series. We’re just gearing up for the final one. #crashtesla

Don’t like surprises? Don’t buy a Tesla. #TeslaTakedown

Won’t hold our breath on Musk thanking us for the upgrade #boycotttesla

🧵 Tesla's brand and sales are plummeting in the US. We can do the same here—and March is key. This should be our biggest month for EV sales because a tax break expires at month-end. Here's three ways you can ensure Tesla misses out on their slice of that pie. 1/4 #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla

I'm starting this thread to document as many awful things Trump and his cronies are doing with links - as well as examples of those standing up to hate. I'll keep updating in the comments as an easy reference point for myself and others. Starting with... www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

Hundreds of demonstrators shut down Tesla showrooms in Manhattan and Brooklyn today as part of a series of demos against the car manufacturer following Elon Musk’s blatant Nazi salute and general destruction of the U.S. government. 6 arrested in Manhattan — 3 inside, 3 blocking the entrance.

⚡️Breaking⚡️ We delivered a message to Keir Starmer & his government—outside the UK Parliament—to mark the 1000th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine: For 1000 days, the UK has firmly stood with the Ukrainian people. Don’t let that change, no matter what course America takes on Ukraine.

Donald Trump Wants You to Die The attack on public health begins Paul Krugman https://substack.com/home/post/p-155555293

Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

Unapologetically. ✊🇪🇺

A welcome antidote to the xenophobic nonsense about "low-wage" migrant workers that floods the opinion pages of the Telegraph and Times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great opportunity here, please share with anyone you think may be interested. This is being offered to people from a Black African and/or Caribbean background, the team are also hoping to recruit Black heterosexual men. Share, share share!

RFK Jr is officially HHS secretary. What do we do now? Thoughts with @kkjetelina.bsky.social on what may be coming and how we should respond: yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...

My advice to the world is a repeat of what we were told in the 1990’s Don’t have sex with Americans. It’s not safe. They have poor health care and with RFK jr in charge disease will be rife. You may catch something. America is not safe to visit. Americans not safe to be intimate with. #publichealth

Our ambition to end new HIV infections in the UK by 2030 means nothing if other countries have a six fold increase in infection. One world. One solution. We are all in this together. #hiv

Cancer research budgets down 85%, clinical trials on vital HIV and malaria treatments ended overnight, but we did manage to update Google maps. This is what *winning* looks like. 🙄

“Without HIV treatment, people with AIDS typically survive about three years.”