This feels personal. My child is in school in Glasgow. She's likely recorded as not speaking English as first language, even though it is basically her first. Everybody I know is extremely impressed that she's fully bilingual (me, too). Now these people are coming after her. Coming after children.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Please sign and share if you can. Dr Abu Safiya is a hero. He sacrificed everything to save lives in Gaza – and now Israel is holding him, and reportedly torturing him, without charges. Doctors around the world are rising to free him and other Gaza medics. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

“We thank the committee for this report – we remain committed to transforming palliative and end of life care through our 10-Year Health Plan.” I’ve read the NHS 10-year plan cover to cover. It’s 171 pages long. Guess how many times the words “palliative care” appear? Once.

🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published. Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs. Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible. The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.

The GPs overachieve with diminishing resources

At least 342 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the truce on October 10.

🚨 Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal Horlick ‘bought an £8.5m London flat after supplying 50m faulty PPE masks during pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property’ 💥 (Of course it was a VIP Lane deal 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️) www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

🚨Last year I revealed in @bylinetimes.bsky.social that HMRC were investigating upto 4 PPE firms. We now know the names of two of those firms:- Luxe Lifestyle and Ayanda. 💥Both were awarded deals via VIP Lane and both had Conservative Party ties. 🤦🏻‍♂️ bylinetimes.com/2025/04/09/w...

Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry. Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market” 72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.

FTA: "if NHS nurses can have the courage to walk towards Covid patients in paper masks and bin bags... And if NHS doctors are willing to speak out about the dangers to patients... then a prime minister should surely be capable of more than deadly vacillation."

A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com "The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..." We will never forget. ❤️

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We are calling for all taxpayer-funded support for Boris Johnson, as a former PM, to be withdrawn. Bereaved families should not be expected to fund the lifestyle of the man whose decisions led to the deaths of our loved ones. Sign our petition: www.change.org/STOPFUNDINGJ...

UNICEF says baby girl among several children killed this week as Israel carried out a wave of bombings despite truce.

🌊Fun Fact: Coral reefs support 25% of all marine life despite covering less than 1% of the ocean floor. They are incredibly biodiverse and are often called the rainforests of the sea🌳 📸 Gaby Salvador library.kogia.org/works/cmat80... #OceanRegeneration #Biodiversity #YourDevocean #SustainableSeas

From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Outside the Department of Health with WeOwnIt making our message clear - there is no place for PFI in our NHS.

Using private finance for NHS infrastructure is like taking out a payday loan A MASSIVE rip off that affects patient care Today 53 academics tell Rachel Reeves: no new PFI in the budget Sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-n... Join us today at 1pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tell-rache...

An open letter to the Chancellor: abandon this dangerous and damaging proposal. 53 academics of accounting and finance from UK universities explain why Rachel reeves should abandon the idea of new private finance for the NHS.

No one should gloss over how appalling this is. A president who feels this comfortable demeaning women, and so many others, is nothing short of embarrassing and shameful.

In 30years I have never been this upset with the words coming out of Government This includes a plethora of Tory Health Secretaries I am not part of BMA leadership I am just a GP who gives up his time freely to advocate for patients, the NHS & make sure the facts are correct

Corruption in court? A judge overseeing the trials of several Merseyside pensioners under the Terrorism Act (accused of supporting Palestine Action) has reportedly agreed a request by the prosecutor to allow police to change statements in several of the cases. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

I could be spending more time in the garden, but I’m here X or working as a GP The vast majority of GPs & colleagues care primarily about having high quality patient care & are fighting to see it continue Standing up for patients means pointing out flaws in Govt policy & plans

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112. UU has 205+ criminal convictions. Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined Rewarded with higher price and profit. archive.ph/7aP8O

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.

Which one is more English?

Lifting two child benefit cap 'not enough for families struggling with rent'. No curbs on rents, water, energy bills. Profiteering fuels, inflation, poverty. People condemned to poor housing, cut spending on food, essentials. Need welfare support. Govts don't connect the dots. archive.ph/NN4ZS

The Rule of Law in England. Legal-aid is scarce. Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing. The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.

This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous. Filmed by North East Hunt Monitors on 08/11/25

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC

Ofwat PROPOSES £11m fine on Wessex Water for wastewater failures. Company has 47+ criminal convictions, fleeced customers for yrs, allowed to negotiate fines. No fines on execs Water industry is a prime example of rentier economy controlled by criminals. 1,135+ criminal convictions.

Millionaires group urge Reeves to introduce wealth tax to ‘lift kids of out poverty’. But Govts listen to the City type. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't grow economic by squeezing the bottom 50%.

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

From a Washington Post story titled "How women feel about Trump’s presidency"

Yes, "pregnant people" is inclusive language that describes pregnant cis women AS WELL AS trans men and nonbinary people, a lot of whom can get pregnant. But it also describes, like, 12-year-old girls who get pregnant. Do centrist pig-dogs think THEY are "women" too? Coz...bit of a red flag, that.

The number of homeless people in England is higher than official government data suggests, according to new research from the charity Crisis www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived. Scares people into paying extortionate price for freehold, 6000% profit. Previously arrested, charged with stalking offences. Govt must investigate these vampires.

Worked in a day centre for adults with learning disabilities for 5 years. They are home for some people, and the service users are family. I hate what parts of this country have become.

Perils of private clinics Use unqualified and poorly trained staff for baby scans Pregnant women incorrectly told that babies are malformed, must be aborted. Failing to spot problems in pregnancy. Anybody can call themselves a sonographer. Profits and deregulation cause tragedies.

Siegfried Sassoon (1917)