A pair of class 455s heads slowly off from Claygate towards Oxshott at the twilight of the class. Itsy bitsy spider 🕷️

Company led by former Health Secretary buys Dr Foster from Telstra Health telstrahealth.co.uk/dr-foster-sa...

I found 2024 incredibly frustrating. Because I (and lots of other people) kept explaining that the fiscal position of all parties was literally impossible but broadcast (in particular) was never willing to go that far.

For 3.5 years, UK investigators had enough evidence to charge former Reform UK politician Nathan Gill with bribery, but held back. What explains the delay, and should we believe he was the only British politician who took money from (pro-)Russian agents? shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/uncovering...

Old me in black and white

Going to treat myself to a very small glass of Madeira wine 🍷 #yum

I may treat myself to a very small glass of Madeira #yum

Again: if you think that going “it’s a problem if you can’t see what is objectionable about this mural” is “silly”, you yourself are a racist and an appeaser of racists, just like the government we now have.

1/ What a Russian breaking of the ceasefire will look like, step by step. There are far better experts on this, but I was an Australian diplomat in Ukraine in 2014 so I've seen this play out up close. So join me, brothers and sisters, as we count down to a fullscale re-invasion.

Hey Jonathan, Leading Patient Safety Learning as Chair must take a knack for both detail and big-picture thinking,I respect that. Figured I'd reach out. Most practices lose 20–40% of patient inquiries because calls go unanswered, especially after hours. That’s revenue walking out the door.

I once rode the carousel of doom. From beyond the grave!

Why specifically Friday night? Can Britons buy cocaine on a Wednesday without funding Russia's war in Ukraine?

Whoever wrote ‘low level lighting will guide you’ deserves an airline safety Pulitzer.

 "so deep was the fiscal crisis that public spending was cut and taxes on the rich went up. The result is that Britain’s top 10 per cent is the only segment paying more in taxes today than in 2010" on.ft.com/4a6clNL if this were more widely understood, Reeves' job would be somewhat easier

"Brightest and best" - I really thought we'd seen the back of this phrase when Labour was elected

The move to release site-level A&E data also provides useful information on 12h A&E waits. One conclusion is that some trusts seem to neglect harmful long waits to achieve better 4hr performance: www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca... ...

We’ll sorted. See it. Say it. Sort it.

I’m in the train 🚂

The NHS recruits international medical graduates onto non-standard, non-national and non-permanent contracts. Many are trapped on these contracts for years. It is exploitative, and how normal it has become scares the bejesus out of me. Everyone in healthcare should read this article. #SASsix

I’m getting promotional emails from a restaurant in Glasgow that I have no recollection of ever eating at

stations posted for closure include Fenny Stratford, which is quite literally within Milton Keynes. Bonkers [I mean, I know why they want to do it operationally, but sometimes the social objective overides ...]

"The National Energy System Operator has predicted Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclear." news.sky.com/story/new-re...

Train is delayed because it is late.

Train is delayed because the train in front is running late. But why is the train in front running late?

My phone wants to correct goat to hoat?

Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says Institute for Government. @njdavies.bsky.social not pulling any punches here in this dire assessment of Starmer’s performance www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May

Oooh I’m cited in this paper on understanding engagement with incident reporting systems 😊 www.cureus.com/articles/428...

The people share one massive money pocket

Heat pump and gas boiler live together in perfect harmony

Preshaping some tasty bread

Oh no Cloudflare is ducked 🦆

I'm chairing an @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event tomorrow on how changes to NHS technology help deliver the 10 Year Health Plan. Register here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/nhs-te...

bowl of goats 🐐

Europe is deeply confused about China handling and it shouldn't be - you either engage with a superpower that is the main trade partner to over half the world's countries, or you retreat into protection and decline. So it has to be engagement.

Cooking groats for breakfast #yum

I’m in the Arterio train 🚂

I’m in the Victoria line

I’m in the train 🚂

About to begin to start to get ready to go out

If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing

Ukrainians specifically are already on a temporary, renewable permit and their time here under that permit doesn't contribute to ILR In effect this has been the implied policy for Ukrainians since 2022

Making coffee #yum

Ordered a pair of Eogrfws and looking forward to using them.

Guardian’s top story is @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social’s analysis of NHS performance, the latest release from Public Service Performance Tracker 2025. There are some positives from past years but these risk being undermined by loss of GP partners, social care failures and chaotic approach to reform

Oh no, bird feeders are bad now 😟

Eating a tasty cheese scone

Baked a tasty sourdough loaf

While this budget psychodrama is playing out, my LinkedIn feed is full of heat pump engineers worrying their business is doomed because of an HMT briefing yesterday, and there’s a prominent story about the imminent collapse of the SEND system. Bad fiscal policy has real world consequences

I changed my email address on my TfL account more than six months ago but I’m still getting emails to my old address