Carole Bruce

Thank you. My MP, @simonforstroud.bsky.social
had a prior engagement but asked me to send his apologies. If you come across him in the tea room you might like to mention the APPG to him. He is a GP and would be a very valuable voice in the ME cause.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The root of everything we are experiencing today. Yet governments are complicit in perpetuating this situation, apparently unable to move beyond their outmoded beliefs .
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti

I signed the letter calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Overnight, I've received some 2,000 attack emails, identical text but different purported senders and subject headers. Still coming through now. Other signatories also getting it. Definitely an op.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself

Nigel Farage appears to equate Alf Garnett - a satirical 70s character intended to lampoon racists - with hissing "Hitler was right" to boys at school. I wonder if he's missing the point www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

Farage’s attack on the BBC tells us who he really is His response to allegations of racist behaviour reveals more than we could have guessed—and why the Beeb needs to protect itself

“Je suis Bernard Manning,” claims Nigel Farage. And so he is. But not quite in the way he meant. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/uki...

Welcome! You are invited to join the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, which explores how a new scientific concept, ‘soilsmology’, is shaking up our und... We are delighted to invite you to the global launch of the Earth Rover Program and the release of our inaugural report, ‘Soilsmology: Transforming our Understanding of Soil’, which explores how an eme...

Last chance to register for our webinar on the Earth Rover Program, starting at 14.00 GMT. Intro by the brilliant Kate Raworth, then explanations of the concept and the science by some of our scientists and technicians. Register to obtain link. Hope to see you there
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The most detailed genetic analysis of myalgic encephalomyelitis ever conducted Groundbreaking ME study identifies 250+ genes, links with long COVID, and uncovers new drug repurposing opportunities to advance targeted treatments

"These results confirm that #ME is a deeply polygenic & biologically heterogeneous condition with at least 4 major disease mechanisms implicated by genetic signals
Neurological dysregulation🧠
Inflammation🔥
Cellular stress response⚠️
Calcium signalling🚥"

#pwME
precisionlife.com/news-and-eve...

#ME people. Do ask your MP to attend this if at all possible.
@simonforstroud.bsky.social any chance you might be free?

Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce

Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Huge congratulations @catherinehale.bsky.social such an important and useful article on ELC especially for #ME and #LongCovid patients.

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Myalgic Encephalomyelitis' on Wednesday 19 November 2025.

Hansard for the Westminster Hall debate yesterday on #ME
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Tessa was absolutely splendid. So grateful. Personally I felt a complete lack of urgency on the minister’s part. We cannot be offered scraps and promises, many of us will be dead before effective change happens unless ME is given top priority by this government.

Just digesting the Westminster Hall debate:
Government support for people with myalgic encephalomyelitis #ME #pwME
Many, many thanks to @tessamunt (Wells and Mendip Hills, Liberal Democrat) for setting up the debate.
Tears here, hearing our stories spelled out.
Thoughts?

Parliamentlive.tv Westminster Hall

📺 Westminster Hall Debate on ME today at 16:30

#ThereForMP @tessamunt.bsky.social will be leading the debate today focused on government support for #PwME

You can tune in here 👇

www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m

I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.

Just to say how much I love and appreciate every one of the #ME brigade that post on here. Some can only watch and that’s ok, some have valuable information and that’s ok, some are scared and that’s ok, all of us understand and care and dare to hope for better days to come. 💙

Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.

"Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Zealously Pro Palestinian party"

Genocide is bad actually.

COP30 must confront the climate and cost of living crises together By Zack Polanski

Let's stop subsidising destruction.

This Govenrment need to stop standing on the side of polluters and instead tackle the cost of living crisis.

Some of my thoughts on COP 30 👇🏼

bestforbritain.substack.com/p/cop30-must...

A picture of sir Robbie Gibb’s network of influence

This was a diagram illustrating a piece I wrote in @prospectmagazine.co.uk in January 2024. Some faces have since changed but you get the general gist …

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.

This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.

iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Wise words in these turbulent times. Wise words for any time.
Rainer Maria Rilka. Austrian 1875-1926.

Broken Battery Severe ME patient currently on a 10% battery, the gas goes out more than I do. I also compile ME/CFS Awareness videos.

After a number of requests I’ve made all of the TV clips on my YouTube channel public. They’re now searchable on and will appear on my homepage and in the videos tab.

youtube.com/@brokenbattery

Charlie Mayfield knows about retail not health as I understand it. This is at the root of it. This government is so fixated on growth at all costs that it cannot/ will not see the real reasons impeding their beloved bottom line. Advised no doubt by BPS proponents 🤦‍♀️