We really need minimum unit pricing which has worked very effectively in Scotland

I’ve been very unhappy with government but this is genuinely excellent news with almost immediate positive effects on children, families, communities and the Treasury as fewer impoverished children means less acute service demand

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

My brother is an electrician who works in offshore wind. He sent me this photo of the largest turbine installation vessel in the world. Skilled jobs, good pay, and secure futures. While fossil fuels shed jobs and destroy the planet, renewables are delivering for the working class.

Who could have predicted that accepting Reform’s narrative that immigration had turned the UK into an ‘island of strangers’ would drive people to vote Reform AND parties to Labour’s left? Slow handclap Number 10

The Labour Government needs to say the same immediately and strongly

People’s Front of Judea latest

Incredible and explains a lot - imagine the average family being £20k richer?

No one, least of all government, should be using X or any of Musk’s businesses

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Lesson for British politicians and media - stop pandering to Farage and the far right and start taking them on

Labour won’t win over Reform minded voters with these policies only drive away voters like me

You can’t out-fash the fash. Stop trying. It makes us hate you, and the fash will never love you.

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

Labour are losing council by-elections to the Greens AND Reform. Current strategy of following the latter’s immigration agenda just alienates everyone

Data published this year shows 20mph on London borough road resulted in: 📉40% drop in fatal collisions 📉75% fall in kids being killed 📉34% fall in people being killed or seriously injured. Great to see Enfield making their streets safer with 20mph 👍👍 #VisionZeroLDN

Heat pumps are four times more efficient than gas boilers but the electricity they run on costs consumers four times more than gas even though 50% of electricity is produced with cheap renewables. System need urgent change as suggested by below to encourage less polluting heating

Two important studies have shown that London’s LTNs and 20mph have saved many lives and not harmed areas outside them

I have deactivated my X account as it has gone full Nazi

A new study finds that Low-traffic neighbourhoods cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j....

I remember going to one of the Mayor’s free music festivals at Burgess Park just after 7/7 and this vibe was palpable. Ken has many failings but he was great in this vital moment for London

From genome to exposome: universal newborn genetic screening is the wrong focus if we want to improve population health www.bmj.com/content/389/... Good stuff See this one for another good explanation theconversation.com/the-nhs-plan...

Poverty, excessive wealth and the economic inequality the gap between them created is made by political choices. The outcomes are terrible and expensive

Health care only accounts for 20% of health outcomes - most disease, injuries and early death is caused by wider determinants including poverty, pollution, unhealthy products and practices

Think of the actually useful things you could do with £9.4bn to reduce and capture carbon whilst improving health: pedestrianisation and better walking and cycling infrastructure, tree planting and rewilding, insulation and energy efficiency

Electrify all things and generate all electricity from renewables

Similar results to Wales

Disappointing health news from the government continues…

And produce all electricity with renewables and energy storage - job done

Alcohol related disease and deaths are rapidly rising in England and it’s a driver of violence and abuse - we should be restricting it further not the opposite

Imagine if a Democrat President and White House did this whilst Catholics are mourning? It would be the end

Even if Labour (or indeed the Conservatives) could out Reform Reform (by being tougher on immigrants, disabled people and Trans people among others) they shouldn’t because it is (a) immoral (b) it won’t work

Where to start with this? Autism and ADHD are not mental illnesses and cannot be diagnosed by a GP. You’ll be lucky to get a diagnosis of a mental health or neurodivergent condition if you’re a child, as waiting times are over a year in many cases

This is great - the Transport for London junk food ban reduced child obesity and did not harm advertising revenue. We need to ban junk food, alcohol, gambling and highly polluting product ads

“Air pollution fell substantially as [Paris] restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life. Such an obvious no-brainer, it’s remarkable that so many cities HAVEN’T done the same.

THIS! Not only would a maximalist approach to Europe integration, poverty reduction, education, public health and infrastructure renewal be true to values but would also deliver growth and be more POPULAR than this focused grouped shenanigans

"The 20 mph legislation in Wales cost approximately £32 million. However, it was estimated in the first year alone that the direct cost savings from reduced road traffic casualties would amount to three times the initial implementation costs (£92 million)."

fingertips is broken! I feel a great disturbance in the health policy and research force

Guys - if you’re bored there’s plenty of worthwhile things to do (help local youth, get involved in greening your neighbourhood, learn some skills for the modern workplace, exercise, get some therapy for your ‘brokenness’) other than trash the world

The regeneration of King’s Cross and St Pancras and surrounding area is a triumph

A cycle through what used to be one of the UK’s worst traffic sewers and now one of the best public realm transformations next to my Alma mater @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Strand

Finally some GOOD news!

There’s always been a lot wrong with US health care but their health science is second to none and degrading it is a loss to the whole world and generations to come

Really enjoyed delivering my Better Mental Health Training with Ashford Borough Council - 100% rated ‘Excellent/Good’ (there were more trainees online)

It is much more expensive for government to leave children in poverty (lifetime worse health, employment, tax, benefit outcomes) than to invest in lifting them out

What government is doing is the exact opposite of what the entire mental health sector called for - it will result in more illness, death and expense to the state and wide society

What is a Labour government for if it is not for reducing child poverty? Even if you don’t care about children, child poverty causes incredibly expensive, life-long problems the state ends up paying for

Was great to present to London Mental Health Champion Councillors last night on the NIHR PHIRST evaluation of my Better #MentalHealth training for local government folk last night. Really nice write up of the evaluation here: thriveldn.co.uk/latest/news-...

When I was a councillor a single housing estate regeneration scheme in my ward, building 2.5k homes and refurbishing similar number, cost £1bn and is taking 30 years to complete. £2bn across entire country is virtually nothing in housing terms I’m afraid

Public health leadership means using evidence and effective communication to make the case for difficult change - Sadiq has done this brilliantly with ULEZ expansion - I wish more were as brave and effective