I see the plan to lull DRC into a false sense of security is going well

What a triumph the BMA resident doctors’ “full pay restoration” campaign has been. I, for one, shall miss the antics of The 2008 Pay Differential Historical Re-Enactment Society.

I’m a ten-year mission.

If you;re the Parliamentary Labour Party, what do you give The Mascara Kid who has everything? A Mascoronation, obvs.

🥵Why are so many Europeans/Britons unnecessarily sweating through a heatwave without cooling? Why are portable AC units so crap? The answers are both interesting and maddening. My latest on air conditioning👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-missin...

No, the issue is that not that I 'just don't like Kemi'. It is I 'just don't like' the suggestion that not having a white face is a sign of not being integration, I don't like the suggestion that peaceful prayer is an 'act of domination', I don't like support for neo-Nazis.

But noooo, regulation holds back growth!

The speculation that Wes Streeting gets Chancellor is remarkable. This is someone with very scant achievements in the health brief, who outsourced all his thinking to Alan Milburn. So Labour had neither a strategy nor a plan on NHS recovery and reform. The fall in the RTT waiting list is small.

Westminster risks brushing over the fact that Jeffrey Donaldson, one of the key figures in keeping Theresa May in power post-2017, has been convicted of child rape.

Wouldn't assume Streeting will be Chancellor. It's not like he was negotiating from a position of strength.

[coughs] www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

Ages ago I was watching a report on child soldiers in the DRC or somewhere similar, and the man leading them was wearing a World's Greatest Dad t-shirt, so I don't think they are really policing that.

I’m going to focus most of my social media posts on Bluesky and Instagram. I feel increasingly that X is no longer valuable as a journalist. You can follow me on insta @paulbrandtv - join me there too! www.instagram.com/paulbrandtv?...

We argue that Burnham's victory shows what can happen when appeals aren't primarily about ideology, but 'valence'; bridging issues where left and right bloc voters both feel disillusioned (the economy). Burnham takes this 'valence' into Westminster but he'll have an uphill challenge to maintain it.

The Health Bill committee really isn’t what it used to be. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/editors-blog...

Shake Your Money Maker(field) www.youtube.com/watch?v=837G...

Andrew Milne banned from practising property law. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/convict...

Never mind this social media ban announcement. Let’s all acknowledge the greatest app that ever existed (now sadly defunct). @hpiandycowper.bsky.social

Lord Grade is going to be shocked to discover who was running Ofcom until very recently...

Health Secretary James Murray to ConfedExpo: “Delivery and reform are not two separate agendas … tomorrow must come to the aid of today … I do not want to tie your hands with red tape”.

This is rather good www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...

One must have a heart of stone not to laugh. www.ft.com/content/ac26...

Have said it before but bears repeating - aside from anything else, the Keir/Andy thing is personal as.ft.com/r/74b0d417-7...

“Magical thinking is the negation of effective public policy.” emptycity.substack.com/p/law-is-not... Superb by @davidallengreen.bsky.social

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

A reminder that crypto is an almost entirely parasitic industry, enabling crime, wasting the money of retail investors, energy and resources. We definitely do not need a national crypto reserve, the effect of which will be to tranfser taxpayers' £ to those already heavily invested in crypto.

I agree. Outstanding (and precise in its understanding of the facts of the case as found by the judge and the criminal law and policing issues) piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social which I would thoroughly endorse and recommend.

Not sure why the news right now isn't full of the people obviously identifiable from riot footage getting door knocked and dragged out in their keks.

The reason that Farage always historically kept away from the cokeheads and thugs was that he instinctively understood that his voters like the police and dislike anyone who seems to be against the police. The pathological need for attention might finally have undone him.

Clear and outstanding by @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/aa94...

White Lives Matter www.bbc.com/news/article...

This from the man who spent years hectoring us about how crucial it was for 'our own laws to be debated and made in our own sovereign parliament'.

EL HANCOCK PASA I’d rather be Matt Hancock than a snail, Yes I would. If I only could, I Chorleywood.

The new review of spinal surgeon John Bradley Williamson also reveals how Williamson “behaved in an inappropriate and sexualised way with some patients and some staff members”. 👀

'Leftwing' does not have to mean fiscally loose. "More open policies on migration and Europe and a fairer tax system would be economically “left” of the present government. But they would improve the public finances and reduce the deficit." Me in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7235...

Farage, 10th May: 'My computer was hacked!' Farage, 23rd May: 'My phone was hacked!' Farage struggling to get his story straight on how that £5m gift that was given unconditionally, no, for security, no, sorry, as a reward for Brexit, was leaked. 🤔

Nigel Farage complaining about a rich foreign oligarch meddling in the UK’s democratic process? Oh that’s just a little too delicious. A taste sensation.

Only The Mascara Kid can save us now.

Only more Wes Streeting can save us now.

1) Has there been any proven patient oriented outcome of AI delivered healthcare? 2) Do we have any quantifiable RCT that AI delivered healthcare is "cheaper" ? This is very much a "if you have a very expensive unproven shiny hammer everything looks like a nail" shituation

I’m amazed anyone needs reminding of this, but local government spending power per person fell by 18% from 2010 to 2024 (would have been 26% but for increases in council tax). At the same time, social care pressures on local govt have grown a lot. The decay of the public realm is NOT a mystery

There’s nothing like a subtle approach from Young Master Wesley Streeting to try bouncing the draft NHS workforce plan through, and this is nothing like a subtle approach from Young Master Wesley to try bouncing the draft NHS workforce plan through. www.ft.com/content/f7e0...

What a joke! Reform UK has shed 22 councillors and counting in the two weeks since the local council elections on 7 May, triggering a series of costly by-elections that will cost the taxpayers 100’s of 1000’s

[coughs] www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm currently on my way to Tommy Robinson's latest rally. He's a convicted criminal, too extreme even for Nigel Farage & liked by only 14% of Brits. Yet last September he got 150,000 people onto the streets. He's helped shift the Overton window on immigration. How? I try to explain in this article 👇

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

Crikey, this is significant. All about Orban's regime showering money on populism abroad including the UK. David Frost mentioned as an alleged recipient, plus Unherd and The Spectator. So much for pushing back against foreign interference. H/t @guystall.bsky.social

The truth about Orban’s regime is coming out. Interesting to see if information about their UK links is revealed.