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The Nerve Weekend Dish: Helen Goh’s puttanesca galette with a lemon ricotta filling

Puttanesca galette with a lemon ricotta filling: the Nerve weekend dish, by chef and Ottolenghi collaborator Helen Goh

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A fantastic watch

Michelle Mone 'should be stripped of OBE', Covid bereaved families say A group representing 7,000 Covid bereaved families said it was a 'disgrace' the Scottish lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone still held the gong and called on government to act

👀 We’ve written to Honours Forfeiture Committee setting out why they should remove #MichelleMone OBE
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@cbffjuk.bsky.social

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Quick update on Covid in England - hospital data showing that the latest significant Covid wave is - thankfully - on its way down.

This chart by @bob-hawkins.bsky.social and his substack
bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situ...

Such an honour to be nominated and recognised for our work in Ardwick to try and help residents to avoid pollution by creating a green walking route that avoids some of the polluted hot spots there

Wow!

So it's now 5 who recognise the experience and commitment of Jess Phillips, verses 5 who wants her out - a group which includes at least 1 which is working with Reform.

This is now nothing more than Reform trying to destroy the inquiry and undermine the Labour government.

Jess Phillips has ‘full backing’ of PM over grooming gangs inquiry, says minister Children’s minister, Josh MacAlister, insists Phillips will remain safeguarding minister as four abuse survivors call for her resignation

If there is one minister you can trust it is Jess Phillips

Lots of respect for her

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post Exclusive: In fresh controversy, the women write to Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood to speak up for safeguarding minister

Breaking - Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips REMAINS in post.

They say Phillips has “devoted her life to hearing and amplifying the voices of women and girls who would have otherwise been unheard”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Care home firm HC-One fined £1.9m after woman choked to death on her dinner HC-One Limited admitted health and safety failings which led to the death of Margaret Campbell, 96, at Cradlehall Care Home in June 2022.

Private equity care home owner HC-One Limited fined £1.9m after a resident choked to death on her dinner.

Ignored patient specific instructions, staff shortages.

Company fined multiple times for patient deaths.

Care and profits can't be combined

I confidently predict that people who profess to be outraged by, say, the removal or destruction of statues honouring slavers and other racists because "history something tradition something something" will be completely silent about this abomination.

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

The access crisis in NHS dentistry was made in Westminster.

Choices made at the Treasury mean practices are now delivering NHS care at a loss.

But no health professional can work this way.

Join over 90,000 and say it's time for change. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."

Brilliant. ~AA

Hope is catching on 💛 Across towns and cities, people are showing that unity, care and community spirit still matter. Thank you to everyone taking part.

#WeekendofHOPE

Jesus fucking Christ on a bike.

Americans would lose their minds in the UK. Football fans routinely toss (ahem) inflatable penises around at matches.

This should lead to Calgie being exiled from any decent journalistic circle.

It won't, of course

Hideous.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Boris Johnson to be Questioned at UK Covid-19 Inquiry Clinically Vulnerable Families Demand Urgent Action

Boris Johnson to be Questioned at UK Covid-19 Inquiry

Clinically Vulnerable Families Demand Urgent Action
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Wakefield mining museum workers reject latest pay offer Members of Unison at the National Coal Mining Museum in Wakefield have been on strike since August.

Strike goes on: National Coal Mining Museum workers reject latest pay offer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our first episode of Two Bitches from Texas featuring the iconic Donna Mills is getting such an amazing response! 💅 We’re so grateful to everyone who tuned in.

🎧 Listen wherever you get podcasts or watch on YouTube!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L7Q...

#TwoBitchesFromTexas #DonnaMills #Podcast

"It makes me feel like my school cares about me and how my breathing is.
Funmi, age 11

London schools get @smartairuk.bsky.social filters.

Infection risks will reduce.
Learning environments will be healthier.
#Education supports #Health

Thank you @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social 👌
#Leadership

Boris Johnson has been called to give evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday 21st Oct, from 10am

It's the first time the former PM has been called to give evidence at the Inquiry since 2023, for Module 2. The Inquiry has also called Prof Chris Whitty to give evidence on Monday from 10.30am

Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing state intimidation Critics say referendum on rewriting country’s eco-friendly constitution is president’s latest pro-extractivist move

International eyes needed on Ecuador rn, where an organised assault on constitutional integrity, land- & water-defenders, the rights of nature & Indigenous rights is currently in full swing, as directed by the newly elected president Noboa.
Excellent piece here:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

YouTube video by Faber Books Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot. Read by Count Arthur Strong.

Me reading some poetry about bloody cats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3V...

It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.

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UKHSA’s HCAI reports exclude COVID-19 HCAI - there’s no dedicated public tracker for hospital-acquired COVID. A critical gap: the most pervasive healthcare-associated infection isn’t counted as one. For patients, families, & staff, that’s not just a data issue, it’s surely a health & safety issue? Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/healthcare-associated-infections-hcai-statistics https://open.substack.com/pub/joepajak/p/fact-check-englands-healthcare-associated?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email Noted: ‘Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) include: ‘Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) include Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA), Gram-negative bacteraemia such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Klebsiella species (Klebsiella spp.), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile, or CDI). They also include all bloodstream infections associated with critical care.’ Source: Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) statistics published monthly, quarterly and annually. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/healthcare-associated-infections-hcai-statistics @ukhsa.bsky.social 👉 They don’t include COVID-19 ‘healthcare-associated infections.’ 🤷 Why?

UKHSA’s HCAI reports exclude COVID-19 HCAI - there’s no dedicated public tracker for hospital-acquired COVID.
A critical gap: the most pervasive healthcare-associated infection isn’t counted as one. For patients, families, & staff, that’s not just a data issue, it’s surely a health and safety issue?

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

To read the trajectory of this alleged abuse in her own words is even more harrowing than the court statements and transcripts

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."