This should be illegal. 60% of Wes Streeting's donations come from people and companies linked to private healthcare, according to @goodlawproject.org research. Our NHS should be protected from these private interests - not left defenceless against them. End privatisation in our NHS.

Ok Bluesky hive mind - please tell me what this figure represents. On the ceiling of one of the galleries in the Doria Pamphilij in Rome c C18th. At first glance I thought it was a musical instrument. Maybe architecture?

I fear that the people who need this message the most are not going to see it, but I’m still gonna share it anyway

You know the more all really awful people (most the MSM and majority of our political leaders) scream and shout about how awful Polanski is, the more convinced I am he's right and they have no other tactic apart from to slate him in the press.

😬

Hooray! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Zia Yusuf is on Question Time for the 7th time tonight. BBC Question Time appearances Zarah Sultana 1 Jeremy Corbyn 1 Mick Lynch 1 - Nigel Farage 38 Very, very biased selection, even more than Fiona Bruce.

Wars are incompatible not only with civilised human life but with the very survival of the human race, threatened as it is by greenhouse warming. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and all the rest of the planet's deranged old men are signing the death warrant for 8 billion of us.

A study shows that when medical chatbots are required to interact with real people they arrive at the right diagnosis in only 35% of cases - and the study authors ask 'why humans fail when interacting with LLM based tools?' Is it really the humans that are failing? www.bmj.com/content/393/...

The number of years you can expect to live in good health is going down in the UK - unlike the rest of the World. There is a huge 20y gap between rich and poor On average, you can expect to be in poor health before you reach pension age. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

Any condemnation from the quisling UK government? @jackabbott.bsky.social @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @rhunapiorwerth.bsky.social @johnswinney.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social Any mention from complicit UK news media of Israel's breaches of Geneva convention etc etc etc? Of course not.

A life truncated. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.

If you don’t think Donald Trump has completely lost his marbles, then you need to watch this.

Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president? While heads of state are entitled to medical confidentiality, their decisions can have life or death consequences, say @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

"We tolerate disruption from all sorts of other causes without worrying about it as much as we do from protest." @rcquaker.bsky.social gave evidence at the Joint Committee on Human Rights' inquiry on the expansion of police powers and the impact on the right to protest.

If the UK were a US state, how would it rank? It depends entirely on what you measure! Fascinating table showing a startlingly different picture depending on the choice of metric. Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/diogo-...

GPs have won a major protection for patients in their negotiations with NHSE & Govt Guarantee of referral, no target for rejections, clear documentation of Advice and Guidance with Consultant name & GMC number Patient safety is always the priority Govt needs to listen to GPs

Excellent piece on why Donald Trump needs a neuropsychiatric assessment - not an analysis of video clips - although these clearly demonstrate his loss of cognitive function. The consequences of failure to do are a rapidly mounting death count. doi.org/10.1136/bmj....

This has to be the end for the #Palantir #FDP A damning editorial in the BMJ Streeting: Make your move. Pick your side. www.bmj.com/content/393/... @coricrider.com @doctorow.pluralistic.net @comparesoftware.bsky.social @adebyrne.bsky.social @helensalisbury.bsky.social @bengoldacre.bsky.social

Operose sending emails to GP Partners - come and join us! The same Operose who Samantha Jones was CEO The one that employed PAs at the expense of GPs The one owned by a hedge fund whose owner is now based in Dubai It’s a corporate takeover of GP Practices aided by Government cuts

This is what we need to show anyone who supports Farage and his aim to abandon our tax-funded NHS

📢 We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025... the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies www.trumpactiontracker.info

Island kids in Fiji can’t get to school because boat fuel prices have skyrocketed. They have a message for world leaders.

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

Up there with the most powerful words I've ever heard in journalism.

Key quote: 'Zack Polanski and the Green party have been talking about making hope normal again. I think we also need to make prejudice strange again.' As always that 'hopey changey stuff' is a key part of the narrative, otherwise it's just pandering to the right. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

BJGPLife: The ‘Emergency break glass’ has been broken. Now we must break the silence… Lets talk about the JPM six bjgplife.com/the-eme... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Some good news. “A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections (RSV) is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say.”

It's important to remember that a fall in small boat crossings in the Mediterranean, and thus in the Channel, is partly because the EU funds Tunisia & Libya to intercept them, imprison them, torture them, rape them, enslave them, dump them in the desert to die, or leave them to drown.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/p... "Personal data will be shared with the National Crime Agency where this data is needed for law enforcement purposes and is for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties."

If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

New piece of whether uk govt had abandoned pandemic preparedness: www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Opposition to Palantir’s involvement in the NHS is growing. @helensalisbury.bsky.social writes on data control, privacy, and Palantir www.bmj.com/content/393/...

"the claims about waiting list reductions reported by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, a pilot site for this tech, are based on a flawed study, and the trust’s enthusiasm may be affected by close ties between members of its leadership team and the company."

Palantir in the NHS - my latest about questions of efficacy and ethics bmj.com/cgi/content/...

I am updating my lectures on vaccines for my undergrad students and it’s quite depressing how things have changed in one year…

“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

New BMJ Editorial out today from @rocher.lc and me: www.bmj.com/content/393/... - Biobank's response to the news that researchers have accidentally uploaded data to GitHub multiple times is insufficient & risks trust in the UK's health data ecosystem. Everyone needs to feel responsible for privacy.

If you return unwanted Reform local election leaflets to their party headquarters using their free post address, then it will cost the party £2.50 per envelope. Please don’t share this information; it could cost Nigel Farage a fortune.

If you think Trump depicting himself as Jesus is blasphemous, wait until you hear how he cut food assistance and healthcare to poor children.

It's old, I know... But @privateeyenews.bsky.social is usually worth repeating! 😂

The Dept of Justice (DOJ) fired two immigration judges who dismissed high-profile deportation cases against international students who had advocated for Palestinians. The two judges, who were terminated alongside four colleagues on... TAT: [Nationalism | Suppressing dissent | Undermining democracy]

Uk government to cancel/review debts of unpaid carers www.gov.uk/government/n...