Who I blame for all this ghastly hot weather: Keir Starmer Andy Burnham Lazy teachers BBC Meghan Markle Ange Postecoglou Mounjaro Jude Bellingham Matcha Chat GPT Hydration breaks Spiteful class warriors Call The Midwife Women who vape Langoustines That Norwegian rowing chant. 😡

This is nothing. This week I stayed 4 nights in a Holiday Inn in Brighton that had no air conditioning in any of the rooms. No one warned me & I booked it in February It Was Very Very Very Hot 🫠

With some sadness my prediction is that Labour will go full steam for Burnham He has no particular record of note in most of the UK And in the next GE he might scrape, maybe, a majority, but he’ll be blamed by then for all the same stuff Starmer is being blamed for. Better the devil you know

Being from the UK I had no idea that this was the history behind Juneteenth! How amazing!

Fascinating thread. I assess med students’ reflective analysis of placements - what I want to know is their thoughts about their experience I don’t think AI can capture that; but it’s hard to tell if it’s being used & I suspect it is. 💔

The BBC is, at its best, one of the greatest broadcasting organisations in the world. But in the corner of Devon, we’d be benefit without it. Independent, insightful, inspiring #BBC www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is also *terrible* news for many autistic students; having helped with revision recently, English lit& lang requires a challenging combo of analysis of nuance and interpretation Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Bluesky overrun by British teenagers at night because it's the one place the Labour government will never check.

I haven’t been out of the house today, but I did knit on a train and through a meeting on Thursday (helps me concentrate). Does that count? #knit

And it’s golden info like this that makes me love BlueSky. They aren’t talking about this on the other place, I bet.

I read this with my horrible RP accent and was all “gosh, what’s this about q-min?” 😂 (I know, I know)

Funny coz it’s probably bloody true Tragic coz honestly how did we get here

2/3 The suggestion that someone else should do this work makes no sense - it is absolutely the GP skillset: knowing the patient, understanding all the medical issues, the social set-up, the medications & their side-effects, balancing risks & benefits, explaining & sharing decisions.

3/3 GPs are miserable about spending hours of their days glued to a computer screen answering online queries- most of which have minimal impact on patient health - just to fulfil a daft promise from Wes Streeting about access. We want to do the job we trained for.

Seeing our frail, complicted, older patients, who often need home visits, should be the bread and butter of GP work but is being squeezed out by the requirement for limitless online access. (We told you this would happen) 1/3 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Good news - I wonder if it will make the media cycle?

Honestly, whilst Miffy is just fab, there’s something slightly sinister about the tilt of their head

Hmmm. Is a Cornish pasty a sandwich, tho? Coz it’s not a dumpling. Also. Yummy

I hope that part of any “great reset” for young people is a laser focus on the mess that is education GCSEs have become so incredibly academic and dry; even for academically able children. And the endless rules in school have sucked out the joy Support teachers to deliver the subjects they love

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Bloody hell I hate GCSEs They can get in the bin

This is both fascinating and true, I suspect. And explains so much about where we are a society at the moment as well

Love #eurovision Love even more that we came last and we still love it 💕🌈💕

Well known public health sub speciality, the old penile implant specialism

Actually. What do you call a plane full of GPs? 😂

Going to Belfast for GP conference of LMCs Half of the GPs from the SW appear to be on my plane. Hope no one needs medical assistance… 😂 @bma.org.uk

Bloody hell. Has everyone lost their minds? A) Local elections are always bad for the party in power B) better a boring but capable PM than almost all the other options C) a bit of stability would be welcome & D) not Streeting. Please.

It’s amazing watching the left rip Labour apart, whilst at the same time blaming them for letting Regorm take advantage. You guys create the narrative too. Honestly, if you can’t see your criticism is part of the problem, then we are all stuffed.

I recognise this. And I blame Cameron and Osborne for opening up Pandora’s box with such arrogance

Here’s my random take; I wonder if, when faced with parties of extreme (Reform), dull, plodding on in power (Labour); useless & chaotic ones (Tories) and general confusion (Green) The party of joyous water slides (the Lib Dems) might do quite well locally?

Eastenders sometimes does amazing storylines. Nigel’s story has been one of those; showing the impact of dementia, hard choices about care; and his death this week. The writers and actors have captured this so well, holding a dramatic mirror up to life & death that I regularly observe #eastenders

Top 15 Tv Shows Ever, by gut instinct Eastenders West wing Mad men Detectorists Yes minister/PM Star Trek tNG Dr Who Succession ER Cardiac arrest Downtown abbey Slow Horses The mandelorian HIGNFY House of cards (UK original) Oh and basically anything with David Attenborough, obviously.

It feels wrong that in the 21st century, a “small group of determined members” in the unelected second chamber killed off something that had passed in the Commons. I wonder if this’ll do significant damage to the future of the Lords?

The question was: Has Starmer lied. The Answer was: No The rest is media outrage that he didn’t lie.

So in a weird and complex political fight due to take place the first week of May in the UK ✋Labour may take the biggest hit, due in part to the Mandelson-gate scandal, all linked to Epstein ✋Reform may gain, with their much vaunted close ties with Trump (and are packed with ex-Tories) What now?

If you’re a BMA member, do send back your voting paper ASAP I *know* it’s horrible to fill in, (there are a lot of candidates and it’s a very long list) but honestly, it’s your chance to support democracy at a very real level 💕

Spent the weekend prepping up sections of the @bma.org.uk ARM agenda for discussion with the whole of the ARM agenda committee next week. My brain has gone a bit melty, but I still love working through all those amazing submissions! Yay for policy!

Just for the record I was born European Lived 45 years as a proud European And I hope we’ll rejoin in my lifetime. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

Here’s a thing. I rather like the fact that we’ve got a fairly competent government in the UK. Yes, they’ve got things wrong & reasonably quickly put them right. It’s frankly astounding how quickly we’ve developed collective amnesia over the chaotic last government Boring & sensible suits me fine

Today was spring re-opening day for the best gelato; Delphini’s in Totnes And do you know what? They gave away free ice cream for the afternoon! General joy broke out across the town. We were almost last in the queue and it was both joyous & tasty

Hear me out. Keep the State Visit, but send Princess Anne instead.

12 and 13yo girls are the bestest. Overheard in conversation, topics as wide ranging as why access to abortion is so important, the importance of dragons in fiction and their views on global politics Honestly, they probably should be running the world 🥰🥰🥰

Ballet really is the ultimate escape from reality - glorious music, astounding dance. So incredibly lucky that www.brb.org.uk comes to Plymouth 💕💕💕

Had a dream where I popped out to Trago Mills on my lunch break, then couldn’t find my way back to the car and was desperately upset about how late I was going to be starting afternoon clinic. Reminder note to self on waking; only risk Trago when I’m not in a hurry to get anywhere else.

Due to the way we display dates in Europe, Pi day here is 31st April. Which is why we dance round a maypole on that day.

So apparently, there’s loads of debate in “the other place” over who should get a seat on the BMA council. I don’t know whether to be relieved or worried that I’m not part of this (I stopped tweeting a while back), but honestly, if you’re a #BMA member, have a look at the papers and vote

Have we learnt nothing from Boaty McBoatface? 🫠 I’m looking at you, Bank of England. And in other views, yes, I’d vote for Bagpuss on a £50 note #banknotes

Right. Help #knitting I recently did a lovely bind off, where I worked something in one direction, then basically worked back in the opposite direction and sort of just lifted the stitches off?! I know; i should have made a note. But now have no idea what it was. Any ideas anyone?

Voting in by elections is fascinating - sometimes a protest, sometimes an endorsement; often grounded in local issues (after all, you’re not going to change the government of the day). What everyone really needs to think about is how to address the far right narrative & why it’s happening.

Listening to the news cycle today, as a parent-carer for SEND children is really exhausting and a bit scary. Sadly “change” doesn’t always mean “better” What would make things better in mainstream Smaller school sizes (500+ in a year should never be ok); less sausage factory approach; more empathy….