Brexit benefits keep on coming. #wato

Labour promises cuts to migration – but without a plan, care homes, hospitals and families will suffer. By The Bear

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🔥 "The Reform company, sorry party, has already seen four of their new cohort announce that they can’t or won’t represent them in the council chamber, decisions that in some cases will cost local government tens of thousands of pounds."

Bosses of England hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise. Populist claptrap, not real analysis. NHS lacks capacity, staff. Discharging patients prematurely and subsequent readmission boosts treatment stats but is dangerous and achieves nothing. Fund the NHS.

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

It's a squalid contribution that's doing incalculable damage to the quality of the debate and to people who have chosen to make their homes here.

He still said immigration caused incalculable damage. Which is, to put it mildly, a surprising thing for a Labour leader, and leading human rights lawyer, to say.

I've only been speaking English since 2004 or so, but "incalculable damage" and "squalid" are not positive words when referring to immigrants, right?

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

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Sino Nasal Outcome Test SNOT-22 Well played #ENT researchers Best outcome measure acronym ever Rehab has things like the FIS and the FIM. Do share if you know anything you think beats the SNOT @clinicalrehab.bsky.social @mancunianmedic.bsky.social @trishaelliott.bsky.social #MedicalBSky

Waves hand from the back 👋: "You can only call the Albanian returns deal a "success" if you ignore how it created a shift in routes, increased exploitation and embedded the cycle of human trafficking". Starmer should be scrapping the deal not expanding it. news.sky.com/story/sir-ke...

“The NHS has one of the lowest levels of capital intensity in the OECD, with just 2,300 hospital beds per million people- 2000 fewer than OECD average-and a backlog of £13.8 billion in maintenance, including £2.7 billion deemed ‘high risk’.” www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/...

Cecilia Paredes, Peruvian photographer noted for her images of camouflaged bodies against patterned surfaces #WomensArt #Tuesday

This advice also applies to position statements and skeleton arguments

Err… hello… @theguardian.com … a whole article on when to worry about forgetfulness and you forgot to include even one mention of (peri)menopausal brain fog, which more than half of all women suffer from? Help for that sort of brain fog is available, and women should know they can ask for it.

Ordinary, law-abiding, clever, compassionate women who are regularly insulted & intimidated by angry men (whether in woman-face/dress or not) don’t deserve employers and colleagues deludedly pandering and fawning to aggressive / entitled men via their communications 1/

Absolute cracker of an interview with @ForWomenScot Director Susan Smith. First item. Better late than never I suppose but how much better would this have been if the powers that be had listened to women from the get go. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Britain wakes up every day, aims the gun at its feet and pulls the trigger. Just a prolonged exercise in meanspiritedness and self-harm.

Brexit wrecks and destroys the lives of British citizens - so why is it implausibly backed by govts? Why is the media silent? Why in UK public space are EU voices seemingly muzzled or ignored? Brits suffer. Who benefits? @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @grassrootsforeurope.org #wetoldyouso

Referrals to St Michael’s Hospice in Hereford are up 119% since 2017, but NHS funding covers just a fraction of costs. Hospices need fair, sustainable funding to keep up with rising demand. We look forward to working with government to secure their future. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Saw this post and chills ran down my spine. Let's not let history repeat itself.

Declaring emergencies to circumvent legal protections, in this case to justify logging national forests. "The memo has the effect of declaring nearly 60% of all national forestlands to be in a state of emergency, thereby lifting the usual requirements for public comment and environmental review..."

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

Another disastrous move. Beggars belief.

In the case of mental health issues, in particular, there are often clear links to a person’s socioeconomic situation. If someone is anxious because they are in dire financial straits, is this a medical issue or a societal one? @helensalisbury.bsky.social & @elspethdavies.bsky.social discuss this.

It’s good to read @helensalisbury.bsky.social and @elspethdavies.bsky.social discussing overdiagnosis. A complex issue, that takes a while to get your head around, especially when there are also campaigns ongoing for early diagnosis of health conditions too. #MedSky

focusing particularly on “overdiagnosis” of people who rely on the welfare state because they live in a state of significant distress, we risk stigmatising some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the UK… what really matters: people are suffering, and they visit their GPs to ask for help

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the UK can either raise domestic fees substantially, provide more direct funding to its universities, force closures on some unis to redistribute resources, or lift visa restrictions on foreign students. Or we can have a madcap series of uncoordinated cuts.

#FiLiA2025 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social, award winning journalist, writer and broadcaster returns to #FiLiA2025. You may remember Samira's emotional interview with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at #FiLiA2022 #Cardiff 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Brighton #Sisterhood #Solidarity ♀️

#FiLiA2025 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Karen Ingala Smith, #feminist idealistic cynic, professional #Yorkshire woman, co-founder of @femicidecensus.bsky.social & founder of Counting Dead Women will be speaking at #FiLiA2025 🎟️ filia.org.uk/tickets #Femicide #Brighton #Sisterhood #Solidarity ♀️

The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive” Theft is not a valid alternative.

Via No Context Brits

An interview with @profalices.bsky.social in @telegraphnews.bsky.social "unfortunately people in a great many organisations don’t understand data collection as a discipline and have been taking advice from other people who don’t understand it either" www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

5. A big part of the problem, ironically, is that natural regen is much cheaper/free, so there's less money to be made from it. There's an industrial lobby which profits from planting grim rows of trees in plastic tubes. There is no industrial lobby profiting from letting nature do its thing.

Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology. This is a global crisis. 🧵 1/31

New article out today in @theconversation.com on why Autistic people "stim", including using fidget toys and flapping our hands. It's a very important protective mechanism, so shouldn't be stopped unless it's harming someone: theconversation.com/autistic-sti...

Analysis from our response to Treasury’s Spending Review estimates if adult social care funding were to keep pace with projected demand and access to care packages was expanded by 10%, additional £7.6bn would be needed by 2028/29, an annual increase of 4.8% from 2021/22. Read more⬇️ buff.ly/qxQKUS3

Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...

#EMCA scholars in the Uk, check out recent new funding opportunities from @nihr.bsky.social They’ve posted a thread at the other place but so far not here Includes foci on people with learning difficulties and on #Dysphagia @charlesantaki.bsky.social @lizstokoe.bsky.social

This is so refreshing. I've never heard anyone interviewing Butler & challenging this absolute nonsense. Particularly the egregious claim that left-wing feminists are far-right authoritarian bigots. It's just a straight-up lie. At 14.00. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Well, that’s me off for a few weeks to rest and consume my weight in codeine. My new book, Who Wants Normal?, is out in 3 weeks(!) so I’ll be popping back with some written pieces and various bits of shameless self-promotion. You can pre-order here: shorturl.at/igjAO

NEWS: Brexit is a key factor in medicine shortages. “This wave of medicine shortages has already meant people struggle to find the drugs their doctors told them were needed for conditions like epilepsy and cystic fibrosis." Deeply worrying. ⤵️

“There are things that statistics cannot do,” Sullivan said. “Statistics are not a means of personal self-expression. They can neither validate nor invalidate individual identities, and they cannot see into people’s souls.” #SexMatters #SexNotGender www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...