new commentary out with Russell Mannion on developing critical perspectives on health innovation www.ijhpm.com/article_4802...

Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

We are delighted to publish @colinlorne.bsky.social & Michael Lambert's paper on place-based reform, Wigan, & rejecting the politics of responsibilisation for 'left-behind'places - now on online first: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Health Communism is out in paperback today. It contains just one new endorsement, from RWG, which meant the world to us. “The authors are at once ahead of their time and right on time.” Get it at the link below to donate to Sameer Project, or pirate it online and donate instead

New blog - "Disinformation, vested interest and the campaign against vegan diets" - Chris Till looks at the right-wing criticism of vegan diets and uncovers vested interests, anti-environmentalism and climate denialism #veganism #climatechange www.cost-ofliving.net/disinformati...

New Blog Post - "Making Meaning, Creating Care: Mad Zines and Self-Harm" - @veronicaheney.bsky.social‬ looks at the use of MadZines to challenge prevailing understandings, diagnoses and treatments of self-harm #SelfHarm #MadZines www.cost-ofliving.net/making-meani...

New Blog Post - "How to think about the rise and rise of mental distress" - Susan McPherson critically examines the new Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey (APMS) survey of adults in England #MentalHealth #MentalDistress www.cost-ofliving.net/how-to-think...

New Blog article - 'Systemic Betrayal, Moral Injury and Distress in Community Food Support' - Carl Walker examines the crisis at the heart of the UK food sector #food #foodpoverty #inequality www.cost-ofliving.net/systemic-bet...

New blog - "Review: 28 Years Later and Shifty" - Simon Carter reviews Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' and Adam Curtis's 'Shifty', both of which explore nostalgia and a nation grappling with what it has become #28YearsLater #Shifty www.cost-ofliving.net/review-28-ye...

Brand new research out from @changingrealities.bsky.social today. It's time to get the Child Poverty Strategy right. Please do give it a read and a share.

new article on bioethics and populist health policy out now, with me, @gabyarguedas.bsky.social, @drberger.bsky.social and Russell Mannion. Great to see this now in print journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

New post from me up on health policy and redefinitions of who is (and isn't) eligible for welfare support www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s...

New Blog Post - "Creating a Surplus" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social critically examines the concept of 'surplus' in healthcare systems and argues that it often makes people responsible for a whole set of structural conditions beyond their control www.cost-ofliving.net/creating-a-s... #policy #deathpanels

Contributed to piece in Guardian on Streeting claims re MH overdiagnoses. It's part of sustained govt move to reduce ESA claimants. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New Commentary from @heathercame.bsky.social & colleagues on excuses for racism (& how to counter them) journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

We are pleased to announce that our new issue has just been published! Vol 2 (1). Read, enjoy, let your colleagues know! journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

Based in UK? Working in soc of health? #medsoc Next @fshi.bsky.social deadline 28th march www.shifoundation.org.uk/schemes/

Reminder to colleagues working in critical public health to submit to the community owned diamond OA journal when they can! We know not everyone has the academic capital to publish in new journals, but if you can, please do!

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

BREAKING: The High Court has ruled the government's consultation into plans to slash billions of pounds from disability benefits claimants was unlawful The case was brought by Ellen Clifford Full report coming

New Blog - 'Catherine Will' - In our last blog of the year we remember Catherine Will, who died this year. Catherine was a founding member of the editorial collective and contributed numerous articles to the blog. Here is a short selection of her many articles. www.cost-ofliving.net/catherine-wi...

New Blog - 'Anxiety and Art: Uncertain Bodies' - Veronica Heney reflects on the 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers' exhibition and the relationship between art and anxiety and how the non-verbal can convey a sensation #art #anxiety #mentalhealth www.cost-ofliving.net/anxiety-and-...

Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland - Ellen Stewart University of Glasgow JCPH Vol. 1 No. 2 doi.org/10.55016/ojs...

New blog - "Lived Experience and Social Welfare Policy" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social examines the democratic deficit caused by the discrepancy between healthcare policy and social welfare policy #healthcare #socialwelfare www.cost-ofliving.net/lived-experi...

New Blog - "The NHS in Late Soviet Britain" - @ewenspeed.bsky.social examines the current state of the NHS and asks why Britain has become so unstable www.cost-ofliving.net/the-nhs-in-l...

new post from me up on the @costoflivingblog.bsky.social on the NHS in late Soviet Britain, more here www.cost-ofliving.net/the-nhs-in-l...

A sad moment: the outgoing editorial board's last ever issue of CPH - as always, some cracking papers plus our final editorial reflecting on change in publishing doi.org/10.1080/0958...

Blog article "War and conflict – what’s the role of medical sociology?" By Chris Yuill www.cost-ofliving.net/war-and-conf...

Blog "The fragile worker: stigma, illness and disability in the contemporary workplace" by Jen Remnant www.cost-ofliving.net/the-fragile-...

Here is parting editorial I contributed to on Critical Public Health Journal, in which we point out many of the failings in current academic publishing model. Please share widely www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Here are the links in the tweet: Press release: https://cphn.net/breaking-news/ FAQs: https://cphn.net/2023/07/05/critical-public-health-editorial-board-resignation-faqs/

NHS hit by ‘severe’ drug shortages due to Brexit red tape app.independent.co.uk/2023/11/05/n...

New Blog Out - "The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)- one year on what has changed?" - Danny Taggart & Lucy Duckworth reflect on the failures & achievements of the IICSA's report on the first anniversary of its delivery & ask what has changed. www.cost-ofliving.net/the-independ...

Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out drove second Covid wave, Vallance tells inquiry inews.co.uk/news/politic...

GP waiting times in UK worse than Rwanda, China and Russia, study finds inews.co.uk/news/world/g...

Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress Climate change and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/h...

New Blog - "Myths about plastic pollution are leading to public confusion: here’s why" - How are myths about plastic pollution leading to public confusion? @lesleyhenders.bsky.social looks at the myths about plastic pollution in the media. www.cost-ofliving.net/myths-about-...

New Blog - "Repeat child removals: structural inequality & iatrogenic harm" - Susan Mcpherson, Danny Taggart, & Pam Cox look at ‘recurrent care proceedings’ (RCP) where where mothers have had successive children removed from their care by the state. www.cost-ofliving.net/repeat-child...

How covid spreads: narratives, counter-narratives and social dramas. Our paper for BMJ to inform the UK's covid-19 inquiry. So far, all the things we claimed in this paper have been borne out in the inquiry. This is an international scandal. www.bmj.com/content/378/...

10 things we learned from former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara at the Covid inquiry #covid liveapp.inews.co.uk/2023/11/01/c...

Have to say Bluesky looks great, but starting again on new platform really makes it clear to me how toxic the other place has gotten.