Dear Gorton & Denton, Something you might want to hear...

See @rogerkline.bsky.social paper 'No More Tick Boxes' at citou.com/research-and-resources and elsewhere

Outside Manchester United's ground. Nice one.

Keep digging. Its pathetic Cooper defends decision to proscribe Palestine Action despite ban being ruled unlawful www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

A car crash a day keeps the voters away www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ive signed. Have you Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Nice one Senator www.facebook.com/reel/1580695...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

I dont usually share Daily Mail stories but this one deserves to to be www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Labour faces a battle to hold on to its 13,000 majority, with the Greens the bookies’ favourite . After the Mandelson shambles, Labour cannot possibly win, so this time Labour voters it has got to be the candidate that will beat Reform = Hannah the Plumber www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

£55000 payment to Mandelson when he resigned. He has no shame and nor does Kier Starmer for ever appointing him. - even after he was warned. But then Mandelson mentored McSweeney and he got Kier Starmer election as Labour leader. . www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Nolan Principles. They have got lost somewhere in Westminster. If found please return to No.10 Downing Street, www.gov.uk/government/p...

Tackling racism in the NHS. Links to evidence you might find useful www.linkedin.com/pulse/tackli...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just seen this. Assuming it is true what concequences flowed from it? NHS trust spent £2.4m on controversial surveillance system that films vulnerable inpatients 24/7, despite damning internal report finding major issues with the technology and company that owns it, novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/n...

What is the point of this government? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've spent my entire adult life being some sort of constructive rebel. The meltdown in the Labour Party seems to me to lead only one way in the Gorton and Denton by-election for anyone serious about defeating Reform there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir. Agents for the IDF and for ICE. Now we know how they got huge NHS contracts. Time they were removed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Two thirds of UCU staff walk out. I worked for UCU two decades ago. In fact I ran for General Secretary and just lost. There is no way two thirds of the staff would walk out if the story of victimisation isnt true. My sources say its been coming for years. feweek.co.uk/ucu-staff-to...

Mandelson ran Kier Starmer's campign for Labour leader via Morgan McSweeney. Time is up. P45 time www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kate Pickett - always thughtful. This looks like a must read book www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This pic will turn into a P45

Good governance and transparency should be at the heart of any healthcare regulator. This correspondence suggests it may not be www.linkedin.com/pulse/nmc-fo...

She is courageous, principled, refused to be bullied and driven out of her role as CEO by the failure of the NHS (locally and nationally) to protect her. Dr Susan Gilby. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

She is courageous, principled, refused to be bullied and driven out of her role as CEO by the failure of the NHS (locally and nationally) to protect her. Dr Susan Gilby. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

She is courageous, principled, refused to be bullied and driven out of her role as CEO by the failure of the NHS (locally and nationally) to protect her. Dr Susan Gilby. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

She is courageous, principled, refused to be bullied and driven out of her role as CEO by the failure of the NHS (locally and nationally) to protect her. Dr Susan Gilby. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Good governance and transparency should be at the heart of any healthcare regulator. This correspondence suggests it may not be www.linkedin.com/pulse/nmc-fo...

Facing a workplace investigation? You may want to read this first. www.linkedin.com/pulse/facing...

Facing a workplace investigation? You may want to read this first. www.linkedin.com/pulse/facing...

So Labour are concentrating their fire on the Greens not on Reform? Calling them cowards? After Burnham got blocked? Pathetic. If Greens look more likely to win in a couple of weeks time then that is surely where the anti Reform votes should go? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Is this the casefire?. Children murdered? Israeli airstrikes on Gaza kill at least 30, with death toll expected to rise www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Fancy that hbr.org/2026/01/when...

Investigating the Investigators. Remarkable how many people have contacted me to say "it is aas if you were writing about my own experience" www.linkedin.com/pulse/invest...

Good to see BMJ highlight this @thedauk.bsky.social been highlighting risks of #Palantir for over 4 years….why on earth did NHS England fork out £330M on a company with such a track record?🤷‍♂️👇👇👇 youtu.be/0erZPoOPcm4?...

They couldnt kick their way out of a paper bag. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A case of collusion thanks to a slip of the tongue www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-c...

A case of collusion thanks to a slip of the tongue www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-c...

Power and inequality in access to workplace justice: tip of the iceberg www.linkedin.com/pulse/power-...

After Starmers cowardly own goal the best chance of beating Reform there must be the Greens leader?

This race discrimination decision has implications well beyond this case www.personneltoday.com/hr/appeals-t...

Lessons here for HR more widely. But also evidence that the NMC keep getting it wrong as I have blogged several times before and as the excellent NMC Registrant Watch team keep reminding us all .https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/process-matters-lessons-from-nurrish-v-nmc-fitness-practise-lawton-tfcpe/

NHS Board members have a duty to speak out too I wrote this blog about Bolton NHS FT. The issues I raised are especially relevant more widely in the current NHS environment - and and still relevant in Bolton as a number of people know www.linkedin.com/pulse/board-...