Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Having a few phone connectivity issues - if this gets out there it’ll explain my silence. If not 🤷‍♂️

This has been a labour of love for me over the last few months. I think it's in ok shape now - as I straddle lived experience, place-based health, geriatrics medicine and sociology in one sitting.

‘His institute didn’t receive £275m from Oracle because Larry Ellison thinks he’s a pretty straight sort of guy’…super defenestration of Blair’s essay by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

It feels as if the Government's "plans" for adult social care are going to blow up on the launchpad (if it gets that far.) #seewhatIdidthere

I really enjoyed this. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My response to Tony #Blair’s “#essay”. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...

I read Sir Tony Blair’s essay yesterday. If I had been given that in this summer’s university finals to examine, I would have given it a high upper second. Quite interesting, but unfortunately a clear lack of structure and lack of contemporary evidence.

Blair and Mandelson. Privilege on steroids.

Gordon Brown is discreetly helpful. Blair is self-centred and destructive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

30 days to the day I started my finals in Cambridge in neuroscience. The only person who beat me on the Class List is now professor of psychiatry at Cambridge. We exchanged e-mails this morning. xxx

Eid Al-Adha. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/lif...

Hugely amused that Sam Fender and Olivia Dean will fend off Drake, Michael Jackson, Chemical Brothers and many others to retain the coveted no 1 spot in the top 100 singles this Friday - smashing all records, like global warming. @emmavardy2.bsky.social

Looking under the bonnet of the national policy on neighbourhoods is much more intellectually rewarding than being a sheep. There's a history of how a #neighbourhood can be defined as an arbitrary number of 30,000 - 50,000 people. Here it is.

More on neighbourhoods. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-we...

Tony Blair says Labour must abandon net zero, support Trump and move firmly to the right

What lizard? 👀

Lord Wolfson bemoaning the pack of opportunities in retail jobs and rising application rates But NEXT posted profits of £725 million last year so maybe could appoint a few more?

Man who appeared to make Nazi salute named adviser to Reform's Welsh leader

Any claim from doubters that the EU wouldn't want us back "collapses under even cursory scrutiny". intpolicydigest.org/brexit-s-rev...

More on neighbourhoods. www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-we...

I have few missions in life but one of them is to keep not just Charlotte’s name alive but also her spirit….

The bard of Salford.

Dementia policy has become far too corporate driven in England.

Always a treat to listen to Simon Calder on the radio list all the problems at the borders - and then say sweetly: ‘But that’s what people voted for in 2016’… news.sky.com/story/weathe...

Thank Farage www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

the Substack post: shibley.substack.com/p/re-inventi...

“Neighbourhoods” are not a new concept, and this should be shouted from the rooftops again and again and again. So the introduction of a “neighbourhood N.H.S.” is more than yet another iteration of place-based health or population health. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...

There’s little chance of getting PR in place by having Andy Burnham win the Makerfield election. The Greens standing aside, would probably not significantly increase Burnham’s chances either. Burnham and Simons made a huge mistake by forcing this.

Substack: shibley.substack.com/p/andy-burnh...

On BBC Radio 6 Music today, host @chrishawkinsdj.bsky.social is joined by writer and musician @johnrobbofficial.bsky.social to chat about his brand new memoir, Punk Rock Ruined My Life. Listen to the interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Punk Rock Ruined My Life is out now! #booksky

My Substack: Andy Burnham could "change the dial" for Labour. open.substack.com/pub/shibley/...

Burnham kept telling MPs to keep the faith. But the search kept having setbacks. Until Simons agreed - because Makerfield is exactly the place to prove what Burnham needs to prove. “I think being a constituency MP radicalised Josh to how broken the country is,” says one friend Read it all 👇

Man City beat Chelsea as expected. Good.

An excellent analysis it is a devastating critique

In what sane media world isTrump’s verdict on our domestic politics deserving of front page treatment?

From 7 @lbc.co.uk: economic growth up, migrant numbers down - the perfect time for Labour to oust PM Starmer? Do you admire Andy Burnham for gambling his career on this by-election? And should police use facial recognition tech at protests? 0345 6060973 x

As I was saying on @lbc.co.uk only last week.... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

#OnThisDay in 1925, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf was published. It sold modestly, but has since become one of the most celebrated and influential works in the English literary canon. Discover the story behind this modernist masterpiece in Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel by Mark Hussey. #booksky

MUP continuing to make its mark on publishing, both academic and trade. Non-fic authors - mail them with your proposal!

Good luck to Man City in the FA Cup final tomorrow.

As I said it landed at 27 this afternoon as a new entry.

Just seeing you my in my TL gladdens my heart. Been distracted of late - hope you’re ok and grinding on. Can’t bring myself to go back to PHill…xx

2 weeks since I had my spine jabs and….i am much improved. No doubt about it. Am I cured? Nope. Does it still hurt? Yes at times quite a bit…hopefully I can restart physio soon and see how we go from there. On t’wireless tomorrow as per xx