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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Thank you for mentioning it! Having stifled so many media orgs in the US, Trump & his acolytes turn their heavy gaze to the BBC...

Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

Reverse the "dire state" of community nursing - The Lowdown District nursing in England is in a “dire state” and unless the situation is addressed the government’s vision in the 10 year plan of more NHS care in the community is unachievable, warn the Nuffield ...

Reverse the “dire state” of community nursing

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I’m at ##COP30 with movements from across the world working to end the rule of the fossil fuel corporations. This week we’re focussing on ISDS. We need to end this toxic system.

The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern

Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Nick Robinson just couldn't resist getting in a gabbled dig at Alan Rusbridger as being an 'old leftie' (thumbs up from Gibb). Respect to Alan for ignoring such tabloid journalism BBC #r4today

NHS frontline staff forced to ‘plug gaps that should be ‘filled by managers’ Skilled clinical professionals are spending hours each week ‘chasing paperwork, managing rotas or navigating broke administrative systems’ says a new report

NHS staff on the frontline are being forced to plug gaps in services that should be filled by skilled managers and admin staff, according to a new report

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Petition to Democracy Minister First Past The Post undermines our politics. It leaves most of us with MPs we didn't vote for, and keeps delivering results that don't represent public opinion. The upcoming Elections Bill is a chan...

60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.

The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.

I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...

RCN demands urgent action by governments as future of nursing at risk | News | Royal College of Nursing A petition signed by thousands has been delivered to the Treasury, urging action to fix the broken finance system for nursing students

A petition signed by thousands has been delivered to the Treasury, urging the Chancellor to fix the broken student nurse finance system, and to governments across the UK.

Student nurses need better financial support and we’re demanding governments take urgent action.

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‘A meeting of voices’: flotillas head into Belém ahead of Cop30 climate summit Indigenous leaders, environmental activists and forest defenders are determined to make this a summit like no other

Climate campaigners on their 'Voyage to Resist the End of the World' 💚 #COP30
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What a UK government led by Reform would really look like What the party's first six months at the helm at local level shows about how they govern - and whether they can keep their promises

Are Reform's local govt coach and horses bigger?
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Bristol needs better access to talking therapies Patients seeking help with their mental health face a ‘one size fits all’ approach provided by a private company. They deserve better

"Patients seeking help with their mental health face a ‘one size fits all’ approach provided by a private company. They deserve better"

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Can't read the article so can't reskeet (can't afford the HSJ subs) but like your questioning!

So many community healthcare services (formerly NHS or not-for-profit CICs) have been been outsourced to private providers since the 2012 Health & Social Care Act. Is the profit motive a factor in the decline in numbers of highly trained district nurses?

So many community healthcare services (formerly NHS or not-for-profit CICs) have been been outsourced to private providers since the 2012 Health & Social Care Act. Is the profit motive a factor in the decline in numbers of highly trained district nurses?

Our latest report charts the decline in the number of district nurses, down 43% since 2009 📉

It also places the decline in the context of government ambitions to shift more care out of hospital and into the community, where district nurses play a key role.

Read the report: buff.ly/gezemDJ (2/2)

How Reform UK might threaten our NHS Reform UK has plans for the NHS that could be the tip of a slippery slope towards the healthcare nightmares suffered by Americans

How Reform UK might threaten our NHS
Reform UK has plans for the NHS that could be the tip of a slippery slope towards the healthcare nightmares suffered by Americans

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Stop the cuts at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Cornwall’s NHS needs investment, not cuts. Patient care depends on the staff who keep the system running.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust plans to cut 150 admin posts - the people working behind the scenes who keep our hospitals running.

Longer waits, missed calls and risks to patient care will follow.

Please sign & share their petition✍️
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The cost of the Covid Inquiry so far amounts to 0.01% of annual Gov spending.

The likes of Nigel Farage and Ian Duncan Smith are now saying this is too expensive, and it should be wound up.

That's 0.01% for an inquiry into the worst public health crisis in a generation.

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"Britain used to administer an empire from a company building around Downing Street in the 1820s,” the Reform MP for East Wiltshire said during a press conference, arguing that in the past the number of staff needed to run departments was far fewer than today."

If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.

For someone who is (presumably) very well educated, this is a remarkable foolish comment from Reform's Kruger

Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

If the same money were invested directly into expanding NHS ward space, staff, and theatres - or even more importantly social care capacity to help discharge patients safely - the long-term impact would be far greater.

Instead, we’re paying for short term relief instead of building resilience.

And while the government described this as “spare capacity,” it’s not free capacity.

It’s paid-for capacity, at a premium, from the same pool of NHS consultants and anaesthetists who already work in overstretched trusts.

We’re not conjuring new staff out of thin air - we’re moving them around.

Such a good thread, thank you

It is absolutely good news when patients get seen faster - I won’t dispute that.

BUT - before we celebrate too loudly, it is worth asking what this latest “use of independent sector capacity” actually means for the NHS itself and whether it actual fixes any of the fundamentals.

Cholera is spreading fast, yet it can be stopped. Why haven’t we consigned it to history? | Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Vaccine production must be expanded to combat this ancient disease, especially in Africa, but a lack of political will is holding us back

#Cholera is spreading fast.
As for so many infectious diseases, we do have the tools to intervene… but poverty, neglect, disasters, and lack of real political buy-in perpetuate an epidemic ecosystem.
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#MedSky #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪

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How projects driven by Marmot principles are transforming Britain

Marmot places are having tangible results on health and wellbeing. Just ask these people who are busy making it happen

How refreshing