Yup, Katherine Wu called it last June Makes me sick to my stomach; it’s such a ghastly disease to get sick or die from, and we could eliminate it 😢

Rescued Scafell Pike hikers urged to pay hotel bill and return head torches

Seeing red over the Greens’ advocacy of ‘buy the supply’ housing policy | Letters www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Interesting letter. Seems like it’s not just Reform that talk big and don’t deliver when in power. Idealism is great but doesn’t often survive first contact.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

mmo.aiircdn.com/22/69748bdae... Well done @gwr.com for a sensibly closing the track. Looks like with #ClimateChange we really need a more northerly route to avoid most of Devon and Cornwall getting cut off regularly

@pennyend.bsky.social please can I have the old met office App back, with pressure charts over time and a time slider that doesn’t take up >1/2 phone screen on the rainfall map? Very sad about the dumbed down ‘update’

This really is an outstanding piece of political journalism.

A man told me yesterday that it was important to "take emotion out of the equation“ when analysing the situation in the US, at which point I told him very calmly that "a woman who disagrees with you is not necessarily emotional". Ladies, it was a breakthrough. I should have done this years ago.

The RCP London Workforce Census for Reg/Consultants has shown for years a major inequality in doctors per 1000 with London/SE most served and there are similar data on GP list size variability And one rationale for citing new medical schools outside traditional big city settings is to help this

i don't think there is one answer But people do often get jobs close to where they trained and so ensuring that medical schools, training rotation and rotation numbers are planned to reflect areas with unmet need/underserved by doctors and rebalance distribution could help But T&C also?....

but we do also need, as part of the workforce planning to redistribute training posts or expand them in places with shortages As an aside, it does not follow that "Big city teaching hospital" = "good training experience" or "medium sized DGH in market town/coastal or suburb" = "Bad experience"

I always say that one of the reasons I was so far ahead of my colleagues when I first started working in engineering (& later teaching) after graduating was the 3 tours I'd served on the Newcastle bar and club scene Pressure, pace, organization, teamwork etc were all hardcoded in me from those days

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

This is worth turning off all of the cookie options to read Mark Carney’s speech in full. #StrongerTogether #Decency

Here is one you may want to bookmark. It is the full transcript of PM Carney's special address to Davos 2026. Thanks to Kody Blois, "Member of Parliament for Kings-Hants. Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Proud Nova Scotian". Nobel 🪙 www.weforum.org/stories/2026...

Who's gonna tell him?

Seeing Americans recognising that their current disaster is one wholly of their own making, which is true. However very little reflection on the effect it has on the rest of the world who had nothing to do with making it. We are afraid. The trust is broken. That trust is never coming back.

More than half the US was acquired through purchases including the USVI which they bought from Denmark. But that actually undermines Trump's claims, because in the 1917 Treaty of the Danish West Indies the USA ruled out any claims to Greenland. More here👇 open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

This is probably approaching "And *now* a warning?" levels, but truly he's gone completely insane.

If this text is real (no reason to think it isn’t) we have to accept that the only solution here is Congress doing its job. He cannot be a president in this deteriorating mental state. But Congress won’t act. We’re f*cked

Regular reminder that you can’t just point at the Constitution and assume it will work if the people whose job it is to uphold it are unwilling to do the work expected of them

The Trump move on Greenland is celebrated as a huge victory on multiple fronts by Moscow. As Danish papers and the Danish intelligence service have documented, the whole effort to persuade Trump that he "needed" Greenland was born in the Kremlin. kyivindependent.com/russia-welco...

Reform with a majority of MPs on less than 30% of the vote! You may hope that tactical voting etc will stop it happening but are we really prepared to take the risk? Wouldn’t you prefer seats to match votes? It’s time for electoral reform #PR

If you think you know what constitutes best practice in #QualitativeResearch methods in #HealthResearch, here's a list that may confirm or challenge your understanding 👇 If it challenges you, perhaps give the full paper a read? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #academicsky #ImplementationScience

Excellent piece of work, based on people's actual expressed views. I wonder whether NHS managers will notice, or act on, this?

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Interesting. I have said many times to friends and colleagues in Europe that living in an authoritarian state is odd because, for most of us, everything carries on as normal.

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

I'm not saying Trump is a Russian asset, just that I can't think of anything he'd be doing differently if he were.

Organisational toxicity in healthcare: three years ago I asked #MedTwitter to share their red flags. We got hundreds of replies - the thread oozed pain. Three people offered to help write it up… our paper was published last week. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Please share it 🙏🏼 #MedSky

@annabav.bsky.social really interesting paper for you

Most important item you will read today (gift article): One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

THREAD. In her exclusive interview in today's Daily Telegraph Magazine, the actor, influencer and designer Philippa Islington-Smythe (pictured) discusses the price of fame, her controversial new perfume, working with Margot Robbie and how becoming a parent changed her perspective on the world...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... the first paragraph is utter perfection 👌

67% of Reform MPs have previously been elected as representatives of the Conservative Party. They broke the country last time; do you trust them to fix it?

Here I am… X is not a healthy place to be!!

Whoever got this unethical trial cancelled, you just saved some lives. Kennedy, you should be ashamed of yourself for backing it in the first place. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

Taking to a very fed up colleague at the weekend who has worked out that he earns the same in pasties from take home pay as he did when he first started as a consultant >20 years ago. #Medsky

This is truly brilliant!👏👏✨ I wondered why I disliked Trump so much……🤭 londondaily.com/british-writ...

What did you say Lucy. Ps VERY nice to see you here again.

This is very important and very moving. Shahmir’s story cuts to the very heart of our current, ongoing malaise. (It also chronicles the tragic collapse of BBC credibility.) He is an incredibly brave man.

The US government is now freely killing people at sea, in other lands, and on its own streets. It is difficult to see what more is needed for Congress and the Supreme Court to exercise their constitutional duty to check and balance what is now a rogue state abroad and a gangster state at home.

Excellent news. You can follow them here: bsky.app/profile/comm...

when i looked at Labour Party criteria for becoming a candidate, it did look very much like unless you had been indoctrinated/programmed, steeped in the Party's ways you had no chance Mind you when Tories had open primaries they ended up with MPs like Sarah Wollaston who had independent thought

From the other place.

Watching #ITV Redeye - did they even bother with a medical or aviation consultant???

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