Neil Forsyth

A graph showing a negative trend in HLE

What's one of the best ways to measure population health?

We'd argue it's Healthy Life Expectancy - capturing not just how long we live, but how many of those years are spent in good health.

New figures are out today. The picture isn't good. At a national level, England's HLE continues to fall.

A sickening society is clear in these statistics

So why is it not in the news?

Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Google has done more to harm public perception of AI than any other company because its AI summaries, served billions of times a day at the top of search results, are utterly terrible.

What makes it a crying shame is that its top Gemini Pro model is very, very good. But most people never see it.

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

A good warm-up for your promotion campaign next season.

I hope your chemotherapy is successful.

I imagine Iran's replacement leaders will take more precautions.

I wonder what he'll say when the regime appoints a new Supreme Leader.

Disturbing parallels between the Tavistock and the WellBN case The case against Tavistock GIDS has been reported to have been exaggerated, is the same thing now happening at WellBN clinic?

Thank you @northwestbylines.co.uk for re-publishing this article.

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I can't imagine Johnson telling the truth at the Covid inquiry.

It’s taboo to admit it, but voters bear some responsibility for the frayed state of Britain | Andy Beckett Populists blame an ever-expanding list of enemies for social ills – many of which are in fact caused by changes in our habits and social norms, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

It’s taboo to admit it, but voters bear some responsibility for the frayed state of Britain | Andy Beckett

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

The worry is how many first places they will get in the future. And the future will last a long time.

Turnout was 47.6%.

The Representation of the People Bill: contours of the debates to come The government’s long-awaited proposals for electoral reforms, published last month, will receive their first scrutiny in the House of Commons next Monday. Ahead of that debate, Alan Renwick analyses which of the bill’s proposals – and omissions – are likely to spark most contention. He suggests that pressure to strengthen the bill will be intense on multiple fronts.

NEW BLOG: The Representation of the People Bill: contours of the debates to come

Ahead of the bill's second reading on Monday, @alanrenwick.bsky.social covers 'astonishing weaknesses', an idea that is 'indefensible in a democracy' and another 'breach of such a basic democratic principle'.

My view: Labour voters should vote Green. Not just for the immediate tactics, but because in their hearts they know Labour needs a shake up. For the good of the Labour Party, they should vote Green.

Case update: Good Law Project Limited & Ors v EHRC | Bates Wells On 13 February 2026, the High Court rejected a judicial review challenge1 brought by Good Law Project and three individual claimants to the “interim update” that the Equality and Human Rights Commissi...

Bates Wells on the High Court's EHRC decision - which says about it what we did.

In other words, in news that will surprise no one with their head screwed on, the lying liars at The Times lying lied.
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Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

Another blow for the ascientific disaster that is the Cass Review: "It is profoundly misguided to cast health care based on low-certainty evidence as bad care or as care driven by ideology, and low-certainty evidence as bad science."

Poor Misunderstood AI

Never before in human history have we been confronted by a technology that's so readily and so widely available, and yet where the experience of using it is so profoundly unimpressive for the average person.

[Please read the whole thread before leaping to comment. Thanks.]

I am going to share some early thoughts on the GLP v EHRC decision. I don't want to pretend to have any authority but I value my conservations with the rest of you on here. I might add to this thread later. 🧵

In a pretty grim decision - with one very considerable silver lining - the High Court has dismissed our challenge to the EHRC Interim guidance.

A number of resources follow in a 🧵.

Punctuation matters

Happy birthday!

I'm hoping playing bridge helps as well. One of my regular opponents played till she was 103 and lived to 104.

Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

BBC persists in referring to trans and non-binary individuals as "biological X who identify as X". It's a line routinely used by gender critical groups to dismiss trans and non-binary individuals' identities.
That framing has been shown to cause distress. It definitely isn't "unbiased reporting".

Please clarify.

The difficulty is that this is not "a simple problem".

There is no simple route to "growth, jobs and rising living standards" in an age of tariff wars, disruptive new technologies, climate change, war in Ukraine, Brexit & Trump.

The pretence that these things *were* easy has done Labour real harm

Five trans children died by suicide in 2019-20, 4 in 2020-21 then 22 in 2021-22. This is the truth, from official Government data, that Wes Streeting desperately tried to cover up.