BTW, just while I am feeling a bit mardy, here's a short post about my feelings on 'red flag' emails. And, please let me know if you have ever flagged an email as 'low importance'. (Though it might, on reflection, be the best/snarkiest approach to a red flag email.) euan.is/raging-about...

“Blink once if you can hear us, Sarah, twice if [Mark] Zuckerberg is an asshole.” Best response here is to read Sarah Wynn-William’s book, Careless People, and recommend it to everyone. @biggreenbooks.bsky.social - I’d be very happy to buy someone a copy via yourself, if you still do that.

Great to see the Levellers getting some love. Part of my life since 1990 and looking forward to seeing them at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool later this year. #levellers

Brief update from the battlefields of attacking extreme wealth concentration (we're still far from making any progress) crookedtimber.org/2026/04/09/e...

Another version of "never fucking surrender" aka hope in action.

Go on. Delete it right now… (This is mostly about authoritarianism but perhaps the most grim sentence I read this week on AI and war was how it “shortens the kill chain”.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Political reason is not in the same postcode. Starmer makes me think of @samfr.bsky.social comments about Rishi Sunak - just how is it possible these people, PMs no less, are so bad at politics?

“Labour are clearly flailing…” as @zackpolanski.bsky.social accurately notes. People going to the Greens certainly care about nature - but what people want is progressive social policies that are environmentally sound. It’s not really about beavers, you muppets. (As welcome and as cute as they are…)

OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c Now it's over to users! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...

Seeing my research in print is so exciting, and it's featured in the BJGP editorial too! So grateful to all at @wolfsonpallcare.bsky.social

Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today

How long should it take to retract a paper with incontrovertible signs of data fabrication? Sleuths think 2 months is too long, particularly when clinical risks are involved. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-o... #retraction #stemcells #cardiology @erictopol.bsky.social

Lovely article from David Misselbrook on the “pings and the bongs of regulatory micromanagement and guideline hypertrophy” and the erosion of the patient-doctor relationship. “For at least the last two decades we have all had a DHSS sponsored buffoon sitting in our consulting rooms.” 🤣

Oh, that’s a nice surprise - my article, featuring the fabulous @deevybee.bsky.social, is included on the list. Thank you to the wonderful editors for all their support 🤩

Brighton & Sussex Medical School is seeking to appoint a practicing GP as Associate Professor or Professor of General Practice jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/cde88946... @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social #academicprimarycarejobs #primarycareresearch

In this blog, we explain why we need to have an Extreme Wealth Line, just like the Extreme Poverty Line. Also, having a line as a social indicator does not necessarily commit one to a limit on wealth possession via taxation only; it's a regulative ideal. blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

FYI @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social @euanlawson.social @drtomround.bsky.social @timsenior.bsky.social @nadakhan.bsky.social

At a conference? Why not check the speaker against the Disclosure UK database? They might be paid thousands of pounds from the pharmaceutical industry. I think we can agree transparency is important - but I suspect many (?most) doctors don't know about it. search.disclosureuk.org.uk

How do we keep GPs in the job? New research from Sophie Park. www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/gp-work...

Listen to the full audio interview with BJGP Editor, @euanlawson.social‬, for editorial insights into journal impact and real world applicability. www.bjgplife.com/212 #ResearchMethods #PrimaryCare #GPsky #Medsky

My thoughts with the good people at @releasedrugs.bsky.social but also, especially, with the people who are being targeted by the far-right. As they say “Solidarity is key when under attack…” www.release.org.uk/blog/office-...

The Govt needs to go much further on private school reform if it wants to reach its goal of ‘smashing the class ceiling’

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social. bjgplife.com/encounters-w...

Nick Clegg - here he is, again, rationalising the staggering malignancy he has blithely facilitated. Austerity and its litany of deaths. Tuition fees and the disintegration of HE. Facebook and the tech bros. If there is a social ill or moral void seems we'll find him greasing the wheels.

Read the issue dedicated to #QualitativeResearch, with an editorial from Prof. Carolyn A Chew-Graham‬ plus a celebration of qualitative research from @euanlawson.social‬ bjgp.org/content/75/755

The review also found a lack of evidence about who is most likely to be missed, highlighting the need for more research to understand and prevent inequalities at this crucial point of care. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... #PalliativeCare #Research #GeneralPractice #BJGP

Our paper on repeat prescribing duration is in this edition of @bjgp.bsky.social doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... Lots of great articles beyond ours, including a thoughtful editorial from @euanlawson.social on co-proxamol I'll write more next week !

Pretty sure more than 50 people will need this £10 graphic novel...

‘Most drug users have to be coaxed into the Thistle, and treated carefully so that they come to trust the workers.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the UK’s first legal controlled drug consumption room: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

The impact factors for 2024 are published today - *sigh* - so this is a good moment to send people to the editorial I wrote last month about them, the BJGP, and QRPs/journalology. #primarycare #BJGP bjgp.org/content/75/7...

Oh - that is such sad news @releasedrugs.bsky.social. I didn’t know Peter personally though had been on the occ meeting with him. He did remarkable meaningful work for people who use drugs - from a place of real compassion and he leaves a powerful legacy. www.release.org.uk/blog/peter-k...

Let's never forget eh? "Musk’s sojourn in government has revealed severe flaws in his character — a blithe, dehumanizing cruelty, and a deadly incuriosity. This should shape how he’s seen for the rest of his public life." (Gift article: so no paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

politicians often say that there’s no point in being idealistic because you can only do things when you are in power. But now they’re in power. But not doing the things that Labour supporters want. Hey guys, you won! Stop appeasing the opposition

This is also a good read for those of us who read a great deal of research, because many forms of p-hacking can be seen with a careful read of methodology and analysis...

Our new paper! With @oohgpwales.bsky.social Digital Maturity: Towards a Strategic Approach We propose a simpler, more practical way of assessing the digital maturity of healthcare organisations, and argue that support should be tailored the organisation’s maturity level. bjgp.org/content/bjgp...

I’m giving the Edith Pechey lecture in Leeds tomorrow (6th May) at 5.30 pm UK time on how digitalisation increases health inequities. Join in person (from 4.30 for drinks) or online from 5.30). medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/medicine/eve... medicinehealth.leeds.ac.uk/faculty-/eve...

Labour need to say over and over again that Reform want to abolish the NHS. They are not your friend.

I can't comment on the validity of the claims made by Patrick Galbraith in his new book or the counter claims made by the campaign group @righttoroam.bsky.social but this rebuttal letter from them is a masterclass in how to stay objective, focused & rational. www.righttoroam.org.uk/patrick-galb...

I keep my own wee list of books that are ‘Not Yet Published’. Love it when they roll around and, excitingly, tomorrow will bring us @rutgerbregman.com’s new book Moral Ambition which could be the perfect book for these times. Is there a (German) word for this ‘book anticipation’ feeling? 💙📚

Working out of hours GP today and called up to sort an ambulance for a patient needing admission. Was asked: are they ‘bariatric’? Took me a moment to realise what was meant - not helped by me immediately thinking ‘barometric’.

Hannah Fry on the BBC’s One Show just telling a story about a chicken - she was quick to reassure us that the chicken not hurt in any way. Heaven forfend. We kill something like 1.1 billion chickens every year in the UK. We really do have some weird social norms around animals.

@thegreenrunners.bsky.social I might be going mad - but has your 'Become a member' page lost its link to join? There are links to a couple of articles but otherwise there seems to be nowt else... thegreenrunners.com/become-a-mem...

This early career summer school is going to be amazing - (and not just because you’ll get the chance to hear about robots!( www.bangor.ac.uk/events/healt...

Themes absolutely don’t emerge in quali research @bjgp.bsky.social - these badges a favourite gift from one of our postgrad researchers!

Highlights from the BJGP Research & Publishing Conference. Full review in the linked podcast #BJGPRC #PrimaryCare @nadakhan.bsky.social bjgp.org/conference

The April issue of the BJGP is now out. My Briefing 'Resisting in the liminal space' attempts, in under 500 words, to go from liminal spaces to Gramsci to political resistance. I may have over-reached... @bjgp.bsky.social

At the Congrès de la Médecine Générale in Paris presenting with @becksfisher.bsky.social and John Ford. We covered GP retention, workforce data, unequal GP distribution, lack of job opportunities. #sustainableGPcareers #addressingbottlenecks @rcgp.bsky.social @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk