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This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Web version of the article available here (5/5)

📚 David Walsh @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social (4/5)

This is such an important issue that desperately needs more attention. If government policy continues to follow the austerity model, this is going to affect us all!

Many thanks to Aditya Chakrabortty ✍️ at @theguardian.com (3/5)

However, since the start of the 2010s, that positive progress has stalled and even got worse. People are becoming ill and dying for entirely avoidable reasons. For the first time in around a century, Life Expectancy is now on the decline. (2/5)

Page one of Aditya Chakrabortty's article titled, "This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" It's available on The Guardian website.

Page two of Aditya Chakrabortty's article titled, "This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?" It's available on The Guardian website.

Thrilled to see Social Murder? covered in The Guardian! (06.03.26)

Over the last 100 years, Life Expectancy in the UK, US and other rich nations has improved beyond recognition. Year on year, we’re living longer and more healthily than ever! (1/5)

Daily Star front page in 2026 with Trump telling us that the war brought by USA on Iran will all be over by Easter.

BBC News in 2020 saying Trump wants to be done with COVID-19 by Easter.

Same COVID story in The Guardian.

It’ll all be over by Easter, folks!

Where have we heard that before? 🧐

A very unimportant observation, but one that keeps coming up for me:

If I tried on a hat and it looked as big and capacious as the ones Trump wears, I would put it back on the rack and accept that it didn't fit my head.

Wouldn't want to look like a prick.

Looking forward to the UK media reducing their endless Reform coverage. And giving proportionate coverage to the Greens who are clearly a new force in the land & have a right to be profiled, heard & scrutinised.

Was starting to think WWE had forgotten Penta existed. Hope this is them committing to him and not just a hot potato.

Crazy how close the pizzagate loonies were to the truth. If only their suspicions had been on a multi-millionaire's private island instead of a Washington, DC pizza restaurant, they would've been bang on the money.

“That’s gotta be Danhausen! That’s gotta be Danhausen!”

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Great to see Transforming Society podcast ranking so high on Goodpods 🎧 (3rd for academic! 1st for climate justice!)

TS has been a passion project for years & we're really proud of it. Thrilled to see it finding its audience. @goodpods.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social

‘We watched 9/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out’: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks It is an epic piece of music that literally falls apart – and it perfectly captured the end-of-days chaos after the tragedy. Composer William Basinski and musician Anohni recall its febrile birth in N...

This is an amazing piece by @timjonze.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as shops warn it's being stolen to order Retailers and police forces tell the BBC that thieves are targeting chocolate and selling it on.

Hey Siri. Show me a photo of what a decade of austerity and slashed social safety nets looks like.

Big flip! Double flip! Triple flip behind the back! Each time, the kids cheered. Amazed. Brian put down his phone. He popped to the tesco across from his hotel and bought a packet of scotch pancakes. Back in his room, he sat on the edge of the bed and used his closed laptop as a frying pan. He flipped three in one go, like they were a stack of beer mats. "Good one, Daddy," he imagined them saying. Categories: poem, poetry, flash fiction, micro fiction

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#poem #poetry #flashfiction #microfiction

In Search of Left Wrestling Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.

Wonderful piece on wrestling, politics and workers' rights by
@shirleymush.bsky.social for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

And thanks for letting me know.

Oh no! So sorry to the other Tom Williams!

In Search of Left Wrestling Pro wrestling is often associated with the Right, but a new character has become popular for championing solidarity and workers’ rights, reflecting the growing economic precarity of its fanbase.

Same reporter wrote about the Abolish ICE shirt in August 2025, too

Wrestling Against ICE Spontaneous ‘FUCK ICE’ chants have propelled Brody King from cult favourite to anti-ICE icon — and rattled wrestling’s corporate partners.

Spontaneous ‘FUCK ICE’ chants have propelled Brody King from cult favourite to anti-ICE icon — and rattled wrestling’s corporate partners.

Anyone who has ever given a homeless person a fiver is, in a relative sense, more generous than Elon Musk.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe paid no tax in 2025.

Every time a billionaire finds another tax loop hole, they steal funding away your community’s roads, your local hospital or your children’s school.

14 February 2026. It was Valentine’s Day. So I bought some roses and shimmied into position. Hiding behind the bathroom door, I giggled to myself, excited for when my wife would next need to use the loo. She was going to be so surprised! Flask of coffee in one hand. Flowers in the other. I’d wait all night if I had to.

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

#poem #poetry #flashfiction #microfiction

Honestly, the amount of time these people spend calling libs/lefties etc 'snowflakes', 'fragile', 'triggered', whatever...
And they're all such fucking BABIES.

Our justice system finally recognises the absolute blooming obvious.

Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

Thanks for filling out the form!

It’s a long survey, and has some confusingly-worded questions. Amnesty have helpfully produced as guide for answering