Who to trust…. WHO MHRA - www.gov.uk/government/n... EMA - www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-... Or Trump and Farage? It’s really not difficult.

Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial.

Are people in the UK 'over-taxed'? @danneidle.bsky.social points out that the median worker is currently paying historically low levels of tax 👇

The logic that as energy has fixed costs that MUST all be paid by a Standing charge is flawed. Pubs have fixed costs. Yet you don't pay a monthly pub-access-subscription then a unit rate for each pint on top. A pint's cost incorporates the fixed cost, as many industries' do.

Asda Pharmacy launches 60p flu jab promotion for anniversary buff.ly/kNPa1ft #asda #pharmacy #vaccinations #flu #UKpharmacy

Oh dear, I was looking forward to this! #SlowHorses www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

First Farage platformed notorious UK anti-vaxxer, Aseem Malhotra, who insinuated that Covid vaccines caused the Royal Family’s recent cancers. Now he’s openly trashing scientific method & evidence, pretending neither can be trusted & facts are a free for all. This is deeply dangerous populism.

Thalidomide: Launched 1957/58, withdrawn 1961 Paracetemol: Launched 1878...

Quite a story. Falling acutely ill with an extremely rare condition on one of the remotest places in the British Isles….. …. And then writing about it! news.sky.com/story/critic...

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

This is a good policy. Tax wonks are pretty united on national insurance being a bad tax, because it means labour income is taxed more than other forms, and adds to complexity

👉🏻‘This is dangerous, it's anti-science and it's irresponsible. President Donald Trump is peddling the worst myths of recent decades. Such dangerous pseudo-science is putting pregnant women and children at risk and devaluing autistic people.’ www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/n...

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

Top #Equinox fact: Today is the day that the Sun rises due East and sets due West. At the December solstice the sun rises in the South East. At the June solstice it rises in the North East. As the days pass between the two, the sunrise position slowly changes passing due East each equinox.👇🤩 🔭🧪

UK medicine regulator confirms there is no evidence paracetamol causes autism in children www.gov.uk/government/n...

Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism. Now unlocked for all to read gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...

“Donald Trump’s administration is on Monday expected to tie pregnant women’s use of the popular medicine Tylenol – known as paracetamol elsewhere in the world – to a risk of autism, contrary to medical guidelines, the Washington Post has reported.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Perfect nominative determinism

Operation Anzu has seen hundreds of families sent letters by the NHS asking them to contact Staffordshire police, after a trawl of thousands of records for patients seen by this doctor:

Man arrested over sexual assault allegations at Dudley and North Midlands NHS trusts

Anyone read this (or thinking of doing so)?

Time to cast your vote – help shape the future of the National Trust ahead of our Annual General Meeting (AGM): buff.ly/kmcNfha It’s your opportunity, as a member, to tell us what matters to you. Make sure you have your say before midnight on 31 Oct!

Exclusive: Data analysis by #ThePJ has revealed that more than one-quarter (28%) of trusts and health boards do not offer formalised protected learning time in job plans for hospital pharmacists #protectedlearningtime #pharmacytraining #ukhealthcare #NHS #hospitalpharmacy buff.ly/sYgbbDO

Here’s the long awaited DHSC consultation “Enabling pharmacist flexibilities when dispensing medicines” H/T C&D (are they here?) www.gov.uk/government/c...

Can anyone recommend a good search engine now that all the usuals have become debased by advertising greed?

Face to fox ! Thank you @Em_Evergreen for today's #FoxOfTheDay

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Even in the 1500s, DFS had a sale on.

So who has been brave enough to install iOS26/iPadOS26? Not me!

NEWS. The State Pension is set to rise 4.7% next April

Dunning Kruger defecting to Reform is another win for nominative determinism

Community pharmacy is a critical part of primary care in England, but its role and relationship to the wider NHS is often poorly understood. Find out more about the role community pharmacy plays in delivering health services in our explainer. https://bit.ly/4mh7Gev

It’s *that* time of year again…. We know what we have to do to protect those scones!

If you’d prefer to vote by post, you have until 5pm on 10 Oct to request a printed AGM booklet on the link above.

Some great things in the replies and re-posts to this. A lot are of the type “… new stuff means that in 30 years [things’ll be so much better]” What are the things from 10, 20, 30 (or more) years ago that are improving lives *now*

Hey, @lomelindi12.bsky.social Quite a bit of #TheArchers content on #BBCCountryfile just now. It’s on at the moment but will be on iPlayer shortly

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

More EU 🇪🇺 flags at The Last Night of the Proms than Union flags 🇬🇧

Just imagine what would happen is someone said such things in the US.

Telegraph headline this morning: ‘National Trust branded a ‘disgrace’ for tearing down flag.’ What is disgraceful about protecting the nation’s monuments from harm? They belong to past, current and future generations. They are protected from alteration and damage by law.

Meanwhile in Paris... www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUE...

For the first time ever, Queen are playing Bohemian Rhapsody with a full orchestra and chorus at the BBC Proms on Saturday. I was lucky enough to catch up with Brian May & Roger Taylor backstage to talk about the song’s legacy. Tune in tonight to see the spine-tingling performance #proms

BBC News Channel now seems to be The Charlie Kirk Channel.

Why is the Charlie Kirk murder still the biggest headline news after 3 days? I’d never heard of him until he was killed, yet the BBC is providing blanket coverage. Am I particularly ignorant for not knowing him or had the Beeb lost its marbles? (Both may be true!)

These #BlueSky #Bookmarks are great. You click the little symbol then forget to look at whatever it was that was important enough to book mark at the time.

Happy anniversary of my one and only banger of a tweet.

I’m conflicted. Mandelson is a ridiculous man. I very briefly met him once, and he quickly made it clear that I was a nobody and therefore of no interest to him. But on the other hand, anyone who treats Jeremy Vine with contempt is OK by me

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians buff.ly/rTfNmFC