Perhaps even harder is trying to prise a hypersensitivity pneumonitis patient away from their parrot - or worse in Yorkshire, their pigeons.

Don't know about Glasgow. An 8 yo kid I know who arrived in UK 3 years ago whose first language is Ukranian speaks fluent English with Yorkshire accent and is well versed in British cultural practices eg around Christmas. Not sure whose culture has been smashed.

The 'clogging up' of A+Es is not due to the 2% of people coming to ED with this quite arbitrary list of conditions. The main reason they're clogged is poor flow through hospitals! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In my experience it is harder to persuade an asthma patient to give up their cat than to persuade a COPD patient to give up smoking.

And have you noticed a big uptick in “benefits” stories at the moment? Probably completely unrelated(🤔) to the fact we’ve had the longest run with no small boat crossings for 2 years, and the latest immigration stats are down at pre-pandemic levels… They’ve gotta find a scapegoat somewhere🙄 9/9

Where is the celebration that people witth £2m houses will be helping out the hard working family with 4 kids in an overcrowded 2 bed house who after 3 years waiting have just got a slightly less overcrowded 3 bed house which they can't afford carpets for?

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

I am one of these statistics. Not sure my bank or credit card provider would consider me "economically inactive". And if I hadn't retired at 62, the person who is doing my old job now might be unemployed or emigrated to Australia - so how would that help the economy?

In my final med exam in Dec 1983 I had a question about immunodeficiency, and I was pleased to know enough to include a short paragraph about a new disease that was affecting young gay men in New York, and the virus which had just been identified. Little did I know how that would go! #WorldAidsDay

The People's Front of Judea?

Just how is the asylum seeker in the hotel by the motorway junction supposed to get to the TB Clinic? BBC News - Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you have to cut the number of cocktails on your round the world cruise that you planned for your retirement, this might enable a kid to go to school less hungry and concentrate better. And in 20-30 years time that kid might be doing your bypass surgery.

If Badenoch wants to make the case that lifting half a million kids out of poverty is a bad thing, tell us why. But don't claim this is somehow the teaching of a religion which she doesn't believe in and clearly knows very little about. Try reading what the Bible reports that Jesus actually said.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Why does #BBC Chris Mason keep saying that scrapping 2 child benefit cap is "putting party before country"? Opinion polls suggest that right wing press has persuaded voters who don't rely on benefits that poverty is Ok for other people's kids. That doesn't stop child poverty being a bad thing.

Argument is that stocks and shares ISA is long term investment. Older people may be less interested in long term. But tbh if anyone has more than £12k to spare to save in any type of savings, they are wealthy, so why not pay tax on unearned interest?

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Lots of talk today about health care "in the community" 1. Have they heard of GPs? 2. Aren't hospitals in the community?

Orange face, ridiculous looking pile of fluff on the top of the head, silly dance and trying it on with females? No, doesn't remind me of anyone...

If people have more than £12,000 available to put into any type of savings in a year, they are wealthy. Why shouldn't they (OK we) pay tax on the interest?

Folks, our respiratory hub has been running for two weeks now this winter and is already at 168% utilisation. It’s… busy. We could not squeeze in any more people if we tried. It’s not too late to get your flu vaccination.

And as a direct result, making it a less attractive place for people to live - including those of us born here.

Who needs nurses anyway? Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The country explicitly rejected the racism and xenophobia that dominated the Tory and Reform campaigns. Voters are abandoning Labour because they now too do that, not because they need to do more.

They were elected on a clear mandate to move away from the cruel policies against people fleeing war and persecution promoted by the last government.

I remember hearing about people having jewellery confiscated before, somewhere

Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete Under future rules Renew status? 1995, 98 x6 Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012) Citizenship 2013 news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...

Any experienced Dr knows that there are times when guidelines - even those produced by NICE or professional bodies like BTS - should be adapted or ignored for the individual patient. Putting the guideline on line in patient's pocket instead of just in a learned journal doesn't change that.

At the budget the Chancellor has the opportunity to lift 470,000 children out of poverty by ending the two child cap on benefits. I have long campaigned for this course of action, and this week signed EDM2256, supported by the CPAG, Trussell Trust and many others.

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trying to imagine what this policy would have meant for my grandfather and his friends, facing the constant uncertainty of when and whether they would have been deported, after fighting to save this country from the Nazis

Ukranian friend been in UK 3.5 yrs. Temporary status makes it hard to get rental accommodation or find work (but has set up as self employed cleaner) Kid now well settled into UK education. No family to go back to. No sign of war ending any time soon. Must they stay in this Limbo forever?

If people want to vote for being tough on asylum seekers, they will probably vote Reform anyway. If people believe in compassion, fairness and justice, Mahmoud's approach will turn us away from Labour.

Dog keeps asking to go out in garden for a wee. As soon as he is out, and realises how cold and wet it is, he turns round and comes straight back without bothering to wee. #StormClaudia

Please #GiveBlood if you can #BloodDonors save lives.

Yeah, I felt so much safer in 1975 just after the IRA bombed a pub 100m down the road from my high school.

I assume Trump will be suing Polanski and the Green Party for $1bn for damage to his reputation.

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

If it wasn't for that Panorama programme, nobody in the world would have thought Trump had anything to do with inciting or encouraging the Jan 6 insurrection. Right?

Please get your jabs (if you can afford it).

Not content with stifling press freedom in his own country, Trump is now interfering with BBC. I can't believe that after years of platforming Farage and his ilk, the BBC is being accused of not being far right enough

The only way to stop a bad guy with a sandwich is a dozen good guys with guns and body armour.

What happened to keeping politics out of sport? Trump ally Infantino to award first Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in DC www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Taxes are needed to run a civilised country

If your government thinks the Pope “doesn’t know what he’s talking about” when he defends migrants’ dignity, the world should see the warning sign. The US is no longer leading on human rights. It’s suppressing them.

This is yet another example of how you beat the far right. By beating them, not trying to be them. By having your own agenda, not aping theirs. With courage and conviction - and humour - not fear and timidity.

"Affordable housing" is a con. We need to build more social housing. There are families who will never afford to buy a house.

Great news!

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. Look on my works, they're the best works, Everybody says so. No other king in history could have done this, especially losers like sleepy Joe. His works were 200%, maybe 500% worse. We are making works great again. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

So are all those patriotic citizens concerned about safety of women and girls going to be waving their St George's Cross flags and shouting obscenities outside Royal Residences on the grounds that one of them has been accused of sexually assaulting a minor?