Paul Briley

The image is a headline from a news article with a photograph below it. Here's the detailed description: Headline: "Extend assisted dying to those without terminal illness, say Labour MPs" A subheading adds: "Call for bill to go further and apply to those who are ‘incurably suffering’." This headline suggests that certain Labour Members of Parliament (MPs) are advocating for legislation on assisted dying to be expanded. They propose it should not be limited to individuals with terminal illnesses but also include those enduring incurable suffering. Photograph: The photo beneath the headline features a woman with blonde hair, speaking to the media. She appears to be in a public setting, likely during a press conference or an outdoor event, as blurred greenery and possibly other officials are visible in the background. Her expression seems serious, indicating the gravity of the issue being discussed. The image and headline together highlight ongoing political debates about the scope and ethical considerations of assisted dying laws, emphasizing the inclusion of people who suffer from incurable but non-terminal conditions.

Labour MPs want the same approach for Assisted Dying bill going through Parliament now. Beware the long-term sick, disabled, elderly, & vulnerable!
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Is the world ready for mass migration due to climate change? With up to three billion people expected to be displaced by climate change by 2100, does there need to be a shift in the way we think about national borders, asks Gaia Vince?

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
This article is from two years ago. 3 billion people will be displaced by climate change. The only solution is to act on climate change. No legal bill will stop people fleeing from disaster on this scale. Our government know this.

A month ago UK PM Keir Starmer said that 'globalization is over', whatever that means.

Now the UK is chasing global trade deals - India, US, EU, China

Happy for UK water, energy, airports, ports, steel, auto, rail rolling stock to be owned by foreign investors.

What is the govt's thinking?

5 - the number of years a foreigner lives in France to gain French citizenship and access to live and work in 27 countries

10 - the number of years a foreigner lives in the UK to gain UK citizenship

15 years on, 230,000 badgers dead, and no meaningful reduction in bTB in cattle. Lets end the cull now, not years down the line.

Sign the petition govpetition.uk/700317

The fact that it took so much energy (largely yours, Mark) to have that piece of shit removed from publication tells you how entrenched the trolling and minimising has become.

Owning the truth is admitting you fucked up and have decimated a huge number of kids.

A low bar indeed 🤬

North Sea oil deals allow companies to offset billions in tax liabilities In three recent arrangements, operators with significant tax losses have merged with rivals with profitable assets

This should not be legal—oil companies merging with loss-making competitors to cancel out taxable profits.

It threatens the British Gov's core net zero strategy, making oil and gas more profitable, and reducing taxation available to support the green transition.

These losses should be ring-fenced.

To paraphrase @brownecfm.bsky.social, this is a primary reason I try with everything I’ve got to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2—in a society increasingly hellbent on making that as hard as possible.

2. Link for those unable to access the article:

archive.ph/2025.04.14-1...

Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.

1. Absolutely outstanding article on the increasing prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnoses amongst patients with Long Covid.

This possibility is the primary reason I avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2.

www.wsj.com/health/welln...

“For those long-Covid patients over 57, the symptoms associated w/ cognitive difficulties look much like early dementia… “It doesn’t look in older adults that this is a reversible process… They have the profile of a person w/ very early Alzheimer’s disease. Do they have Alzheimer’s…? We don’t know.”

Companies sued for £360mn in damages over Grenfell Tower fire Kensington and Chelsea council in London launches lawsuits against businesses involved in refurbishing the building

www.ft.com/content/56bd...

Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump is considering deporting American citizens to El Salvador

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.

We must overturn Citizens United.

Every day, it corrupts our politics and erodes our democracy.

Mark Carney, “President Trump caused this trade crisis — and Canada is responding with purpose and with force.”

YouTube video by MSNBC The ridiculous real story behind the tariff plan that turned Donald Trump into a global disaster

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbZ...
Really staggering …

Meanwhile Trump is demanding the EU buy polluting fossil fuels from the US in exchange for lifting tariffs.

No thanks, I'll take energy independence and renewables any day.

In this gloriously sunny first week in April my panels (16 x 430w, E/W orientation) have already produced 25kwh more solar than in the whole of February….& nearly a third of the solar produced in all of April 2024

And my battery (9.5kwh) means in the whole week I’ve only drawn <6kwh from the grid

On the back of my experience from my first year of solar ☀️ & spelling out the data from my own system two more people have had solar panels and battery (or “magic 🪄 machines” as they now call them) installed in their homes and two more have the process underway.

Same with the ongoing COVID pandemic.
“Musk [is now worth] $342 billion… Prior to the 2020 pandemic, Musk’s wealth was valued just under $25 billion.”

We could use that $$ for clean indoor air, testing, research, & vaccine development. (That’s why the pandemic is officially but not truly “over.”)

Reform UK forced to suspend another candidate "We've been vetting, I bet, to a standard that no other party has ever done before for local council elections,” Nigel Farage boasted last month

Nigel Farage's vetting boasts in tatters as Reform UK suspends two candidates in two days

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

🤷 Windrush victims have been dying for quite a while now without getting what the UK Government "promised" they were entitled to!

Always the political shock followed by platitudes and inaction. The State hopes they'll all die off soon!

My Most Dangerous ER Experience and How My Advocate Saved My Life A story of medical gaslighting, negligence and neglect that very nearly cost me my life - and how my accidental advocate (untrained and unprepared) saved me.

After the hysterectomy I also had a post op complication that was ignored by the ER three times. I had a life threatening internal bleed, but was sent home without tests because they thought I was “exaggerating”.

We MUST listen to patients. I only survived because my accidental advocate stepped up

Please treat your patients with the dignity they deserve. Don’t judge them on how they look, the chronic illness or disability they have or their gender or sexual orientation. Listen to them. Work with them. Let them be a partner in their care.

We can do better together /end

You don’t have to endure this type of insulting and misogynistic third degree to get your appendix or gallbladder removed.

They inform you of the surgical risks, you consent, the end.

There’s simply no plausible way to confuse the removal of a WOMB with an appendix /5

Me at ER for cardiac issues

Dr: “Could you be pregnant?”

Me: “No I had a hysterectomy”

Dr: “You look too young for that? Are you sure?”

Me: “I’m confident”

Dr: “I think you might be confused. Maybe it was your appendix.”

Proceeds to order pregnancy test /1 🧵

Stop UK tyre exports for burning Stop UK tyre exports for burning : Make a donation today to support Stop UK tyre exports for burning

In defiance of international rules, our used tyres are exported to India, to be pyrolysed at vast cost to workers' health & air quality. The government sits on its hands. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we want to mount a crowdfunded challenge. Could you help? 🧵 stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com

Was on @news.sky.com this morning discussing 5 years since that first lockdown.

This is what I said about lockdown being a terrible choice, but that the alternative was also terrible. And it wasn't just about deaths either. 1/3

Of course - that's before we even get to the awful attacks on disabled peoples lives, the two child benefit cap, our crumbling schools and the constant pretence that our national economy should be run like a credit card.

Tax wealth. Not income.

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