The government admits profiteering is rife in children’s care and social care, yet it still wants private finance back in the NHS. This is an ideology where a few will profit while everyone else pays. #NHSNotForProfit #EconomicJustice

Calling all civil society contacts 📣 The Belgian government has just slashed funding for NGOs. While climate NGOs are affected, those working on human rights and conflict are being severely impacted. If you have contacts to potential funders, please get in touch so I can pass them on. Thanks!

One of the biggest challenges in public health & environment-related fields is the miscommunication of population-scale results to the individual-level This is often caused by the desire to formulate “action” relevant to people’s lives but ends up blaming individuals for things not in their control

French MPs introduce 'comprehensive' bill to tackle violence against women and children

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

So what does two-tier care actually “solve”? Not the bottleneck. Not wait times overall. It mostly changes who waits and who can buy their way to the front – while public queues risk getting slower, not faster.

📊 The @who.int warns that AI in healthcare is accelerating faster than the laws that should protect patients. 🛑Experts say regulatory gaps could expose patients to serious risks. ✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @edri.bsky.social @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @vdombrovskis.bsky.social

quelle fucking surprise

EU commission president von der Leyen said today the EU isn't fighting fossil fuels, only the *emissions* from fossil fuels total nonsense, we can't separate fossil fuels from carbon emissions even IF we could, they're a disaster for health, nature & human rights even before you burn them #COP30

🎧 The Seven Stages of Housing Crisis Grief (no paywall) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t... ..my chat about housing, cheese sandwiches & Charles Stewart Parnell with podcaster @tonygroves.bsky.social (intro is Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, her full interview here www.patreon.com/posts/patron...)

The dying voice of #CivilSociety in EU policymaking “The commission claims it wants civil society to be a partner in policymaking. But it shies away from defending NGOs against recent political attacks and fails to secure the stable funding that they need to survive" euobserver.com/eu-political...

'ChatGPT is nothing more than a “souped-up autocomplete”. (It) does not draw its info from a carefully curated database of facts. It has no way of selecting the most reliable sources, references, or evidence. It cannot evaluate.' Book review: The AI Con... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

"The electoral future of a low-growth country like Britain doesn’t lie in promising voters that with some magic trick you can drive up GDP, but in accepting that the arguments that lie ahead are about the distribution of resources." #Postgrowth

Nearly every panel I spoke on this year ended with the same question: "What gives you hope?" My friends, that question expired years ago. (If you need receipts, my book Saving Us is literally a 300-page answer.) The real question is: How are you PRACTICING hope? Because Greta is right ..

"There is a very strong consensus on one point - we need to move beyond GDP as a measure of progress. The difficult step is not about indicators, it’s about how we re-examine production & consumption A dashboard of wellbeing indicators... will not do." #postgrowth www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWy...

The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Combatting poverty beyond growth, video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbWy...

💸 Over $56B in tax is lost to cheating multinationals & under-taxed extreme wealth as Day 7 of #COP30 & #UNTaxConvention begins. A green, just future is possible when tax serves people, economies, and the planet not the super-rich. #Tax4ClimateFinance 🔗 bit.ly/4hTU0VZ

A few more details about Michael Prescott, the corporate lobbyist behind the “BBC bias” memo 👇🏻👇🏻

"This also describes the BBC’s understanding of “impartiality”. While it no longer provides a platform for outright climate denial, almost every day it breaks its own editorial guidelines by hosting Tufton Street junktanks (which often argue against enviro action) without revealing who funds them."

Do the same with fire departments: abolish them and give people the proceeds to protect themselves from fires. Fire fighters just sit around most of the day anyway. They’re leaches on society. Reader: the actual solution is to make all insurance public rather than private, not to abolish it.

"Alongside its flagship solar power course, Barefoot College International offers programmes for women in tailoring, beekeeping and sustainable agriculture. Every woman who completes a program is trained in general health knowledge that they are expected to take back to their villages."

$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on? #COP30 #climatecrisis Story by me 1/7 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Has public health communication been failing or is it just outgunned? Is the crisis of mistrust a self-created disaster? "MAHA listens; Science just speaks" (and often behind paywalls) US context👇 but challenging questions for everyone in public health. open.spotify.com/episode/3YA9...

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Universities New Zealand chief executive Chris Whelan said universities wanted a better deal from the various publishing companies... Whelan said the universities wanted free public access to the research their taxes had funded."

👀 Irish data centres are now using 22% of all electricity generated in Ireland, more than all urban homes combined & drawing an unquantified amount (lots) of Ireland’s water capacity Could AI demands be related to recent push to fast-track infrastructure, side-step safeguards & reduce court access?

"Rather than democratizing scientific publishing, Open Access has helped commercial publishers generate more profits (publishers found ways to shift paywalls from readers to authors). More stringent reforms are required to tackle misaligned drivers of scientific publishing." Fernanda Beigel et al.

Legacy media's culture of false balance - e.g. giving industry shills a right of reply on every public health story without highlighting conflicts of interest - has done enormous damage to science (not to say PH science is above reproach) PH needs to prevent bothsidesism & embrace independent media

The Journal spoke to Irishman John Whyte, the senior deputy director for UNRWA in Gaza with responsibility for operations, about Israel's efforts to hinder humanitarian access to the famine-stricken Gaza Strip. jrnl.ie/6866735

I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Isabella Weber on Mamdani & lessons we can learn: "This is antifascist economics – not opposing any particular party, but addressing the material conditions that make fascism appealing. It’s a program restoring universal dignity rather than fueling divides and blaming scapegoats for the crisis."

Unlike politics, there’s no such thing as public health centrism. It’s evidence-based radicalism. It’s all about change towards health justice and equity, not tinkering around the edges trying to keep everyone happy. Such notions, my friends, are rather radical and there’s no shame in that.

I did both history & ethics as part of my MPH but the classes were a tiny % of overall student intake. Those subjects provided vital context & Qs for everything else I learned. Moving beyond the ☑️ or "minimalist, procedural, institution-protecting ethics of ethics committees or peer review" ...👇

🇪🇺 #Alcohol profits before #PublicHealth and #Democracy? How the new “EU Wine Package” reveals a troubling imbalance between public interest and private influence. No public health assessment and the European Parliament and health civil society are being bypassed. euobserver.com/eu-political...

Read the latest Fascism & Liberalism blog by @jksteinberger.bsky.social and @celine.bsky.social "Cataclysm Capitalism continues neoliberalism’s attack on democracy, and goes even further, dispensing with any illusion of serving the greater good." ➡️ tinyurl.com/4jj2zese

BMGF contributed $5.5 billion to WHO 2000-24 $4.5b (82.6%) for infectious diseases incl. $3.2 billion to polio, though it's not a major % of global burden of disease A small % went to health systems, NCDs & determinants of health despite >disease burden & WHO strategy gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

Upcoming webinar: @mmbuchs.bsky.social - How to pay for a #WellbeingEconomy? Wednesday 3rd December, 12-1pm GMT More info and registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Three children were killed by lawn darts in the 70’s and they were banned in the US. ChatGPT has caused how many deaths at this point? If corporations are people, why aren’t we holding them criminally liable?

"The AHA is part of a health care industry coalition made up of insurers, pharmaceutical firms, and hospital companies that spent $81 million from 2018-21 on a TV and lobbying campaign opposing Medicare for All" #CDoH #MedicalIndustrialComplex

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

"Centrists" need to call Mamdani a "radical leftist" so they can say Trump/Farage fascism is just the opposing side of an equally matched "both sides" conflict But Mamdani is just a middle of the road, European social democrat And "centrists" - ie centre-right and right - are simply pro-fascism.

The head of journalism at Cardiff has published a blog entry on BBC Radio 4's coverage of Mamdani.

Incredible courage in the face of indescribable suffering. A women's film festival held in the rubble of Gaza. By Ibtisam Mahdi in @972mag.com www.972mag.com/gaza-interna...

OFFICIAL RELEASE: The documentary Unmasking Influence is now publicly available! Explore how powerful industries shape science, policy, and public health - and what must be done to prevent harm. Watch the full film: edin.ac/43Gd2cC @maizie333.bsky.social #GlobalHealth #UnmaskingInfluence

Water companies ordered to clean up hundreds of water sources across England found to contain toxic PFAS forever chemicals, with levels rising at some sites, reports Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...