Well done us @cbffjuk.bsky.social who brought this complaint.
Tory Peer committed 5 breaches of standards over £50m Covid PPE deals and “did not act on his personal honour”.
Our campaign for accountability continues.....
@chrischirp.bsky.social
@russellscott.bsky.social
Here is the translation of the introduction I wrote, where I explore the didactic virtues of Greek myths for thinking through the tensions between technological progress and emancipation.
www.felixtreguer.fr/en/2026/03/0...
Original PDF in French: www.felixtreguer.fr/files/d%C3%A...
I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that all the people who Streeting takes 'expert advice' from have an easily discoverable anti-trans bias.
"8,000 members of UK public aged 16 yrs & older, asked to weigh up five trade-offs that policymakers, NHS leaders, health professionals and AI developers may face".
"the public tends to prioritise safety, oversight and assurance over speed or economic opportunity". More 👇
@healthwatch.bsky.social
Bar chart showing responses to the question 'Which of the two options do you think is the most important when using AI in health care?' showing that the public prioritises stronger diligence and safeguards over benefits such as speed and economic development.
AI will be central to delivering the 10‑Year Health Plan – but what does the public really think about its role in the NHS?
Nell Thornton breaks down insights from our survey of attitudes to technology and AI in health care to understand where the public’s priorities lie 👇
https://bit.ly/4l3XlmY
I don’t think many people here need any prompting for this one, but here’s a thing you should sign. There’s an “I never used it but hate it” option
For what it's worth this is my full quote. I would love to understand from @ukri.org why this call has been restricted to 4 weeks (with no advanced warning) going against it's own EDI commitments. The response so far doesn't explain why only 4 weeks nor why not 8 weeks.
Until this year I didn't really know quite what hospices did. I know, I've been lucky - many of you no doubt know already what amazing work they do for people going through the absolute worst things. So obviously they're severely underfunded. www.hospiceuk.org/fair-funding...
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
Our data belongs to all of us. We need to know how the NHS deals with our data. We need the right to say no. No to sneaky data grabs and no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/3gc7
Justice for these innocent elementary schoolgirls who were murdered by a supposed high tech military.
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero speaking to reporters
Irene Montero: No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression — Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Afghanistan. It will not happen in Iran either
When they want to sell their oil wars, their wars for profit, their imperial wars — they hide behind women’s rights to justify them
I’ve reposted this as the preview link didn’t work - Apols ppl who reposted the original - please repeat!?! Thanks
We’re running a survey about rarer types of dementia: what do you know? Are there variations across 5 countries: Uk, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland-if you live in one of these, please click (15min) lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Thanks Ann, I’ll see if I can improve it
This idea that refugee status should be temporary and only last as long as a country is deemed to be “unsafe” is utter nonsense. The trauma which causes people to flee lasts a lifetime and cannot simply be undone once a state is (for example) no longer at war.
My grandfather-in-law fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1938 and settled in the US. He refused to set foot back in Germany for over 60 years, despite all the changes made in the interim. It didn’t matter that Germany became “safe.” He wanted nothing to do with the place.
Also available in other languages - please ask & I’ll send link
Once I got past the fact that the use of the term Britons (and sometimes "Britains") made me feel a bit queasy, there is a load of interesting stuff in this Labour Digital/More in Common polling on public attitudes to tech. www.moreincommon.org.uk/blog/britons...
#ntsummit
Baroness Casey mentioning the ageist way that Dementia/Frailty gets labelled in effect as social problems not clinical diagnoses/medical problems and so get marginalised in funding/service priorities
The FDA “has increasingly issued drug rejections or refusals — about 20 in the last eight months — that underscore a break from decades of general stability… It has advised companies to launch costly and complex studies that could add years to finding treatments for rare diseases with no cure”
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I find this fascinating. Partly due to methodological choices and reasoning to anticipate participant behaviour and potential effects on outcomes; and partly from a community, participatory and co-produced environment where I work. Hard to adjust if you're taught one approach and end up in another.
Save Brick Lane saying #StopDirtyDataCentres outside the site where one is proposed. The community is wants the site to be used for social housing.
Pretty full on first week of work after long sick leave: third lecture today and topic is no less than cancer. Last year when I gave this lecture I had just found a lump on my boob and the following the day I booked in to be checked by my GP for what turned out to be Grade 3 (ki67 <87) breast cancer
Great report from my colleagues at
@thekingsfund.bsky.social
Thing that most sticks with me: most of the public don't know how social care works, and are shocked when they find out how much they might have to pay for it.
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.
It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.
"Unlike #oil, #solar panels and wind turbines can avoid being shipped through maritime chokepoints such as the Strait of Hormuz... Reducing oil dependence is often framed as climate policy. But it is also vital to energy security" theconversation.com/the-strikes-... #climatesky
