Ann Haigh

Reform UK's Matt Goodwin Advised the Wealthiest 1% While Claiming to Stand Against ‘The Elite' Goodwin's definition of “the elite” includes university professors and civil servants while seemingly excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him

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Productivity increases between 5% and 13% with working from home, and worker wellbeing improves hugely too.

But Farage doesn't care about reality. Or productivity. Or your wellbeing.

He cares about the workplace property investors who bankroll him.

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NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct.

He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Keir Starmer to woo voters and MPs with new year plan to cut cost of living PM to highlight energy bill and interest rate cuts, plus end to two-child benefit cap, and to invite his MPs to Chequers

UK PM Keir Starmer to woo voters & MPs with plan to cut cost of living.

Can't be done without curbing profiteering, increasing real wages, democratizing the workplace, equitable distribution of income/wealth.

Start by ending privatisation of water/energy.

Opinion | Socialized medicine can’t survive the winter The British government is begging sick people to stay away from hospitals during the holidays.

The Washington Post has published a scathing attack on the NHS, essentially claiming that socialised medicine doesn’t work. Dreadful. The reason the NHS isn’t working well is that politicians are turning the NHS into a cash cow for private companies 🚨

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One of the arguments for PFI: the private sector would deliver better quality hospitals. The reality? A litany of dangerous failures. 🏥⚠️

Swipe through the evidence ⬅️

Now they want to try again with 250 new centres.

Full story 👉 bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...

Graphic of briefcase and Autumn budget booklet with the text "The NHS asked for support. The public asked for transparency. Nobody asked for another PFI-style plan. Yet that's what we're getting."

Although you'd be forgiven for having missed it - yesterday's budget confirmed it: private partnerships are back to fund NHS projects.🚨

So who DID ask for PFI to come back? While 69 NHS trusts still owe £21bn on old PFI contracts?

👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

It wasn’t easy uncovering the £21bn still owed for PFI hospitals - many NHS trusts delayed or denied our FOI requests.

🔍 Transparency should be simple.

Read the rest: everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...

#PFI #ProtectTheNHS

The High Cost of Care 2025: Inside the Private Equity Playbook for Nursing Homes and Its Devastating Financial Fallout - CEO Today The recent collapse of Genesis HealthCare, once a titan of the senior care industry, sent shockwaves through the healthcare sector, but it was far from an anomaly. The bankruptcy of this major operato...

Private Equity curse.

Collapse of US-based Genesis Healthcare shows the usual problems.

High debt. Owners have charge on assets, can gut business at will.
Staff/wage cuts
Profiteering
No long-term interest
Poor service

Playing with fire: PE making inroads into UK healthcare, high street, vets ...

Well said! Keep up the good work

Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.

England's water industry running amok. Govt's reforms can't work.

Govt says it will ban unfair dividends.

But shareholders can extract returns with share buybacks, interest payments on intragroup loans, artificial management fees and other charges.

Must remove profit motive. Nationalise.

As the Leng review starts to wind up, I remind you of the systematic review done by myself and @martinmckee.bsky.social earlier this year. No evidence of efficacy in most roles PAs are currently deployed in, no direct evidence of safety, no evidence of cost-effectiveness. www.bmj.com/content/388/...

When people say “the NHS is unsustainable”….

Politicians need to tax extremely wealthy people and corporations properly, to fund public services!

…are distracted talking about deals with private companies, and AI.

It’s not good enough. Patients and staff deserve so much better than this 🚨🚨🚨

Reform’s desire to ban Ukrainian flags is a stark reminder of who Farage really is Prohibiting ancient county flags by mistake is one thing, but imposing an intentional ban on support for Ukraine is quite another, writes John Rentoul

Reform’s desire to ban Ukrainian flags is a stark reminder of who Farage really is. Me for Independent Premium www.independent.co.uk/voices/refor...

Keir Starmer says tax cuts for tech billionaires are still on the table.

We should be taxing billionaires more, not handing out discounts.

As an island nation, it should be easy to keep out dangerously invasive species. But, like so much else, sensible policy gives way to deregulatory zeal.

Ban on changing children’s gender on NHS medical records A review found that accurate data on biological sex has been lost for a decade, affecting care

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#baytales25 - wonderful! Fantastic conversations. Book for next year!

A doctor at her computer

The Royal College of Physicians has urged the NHS in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to commission a review of postgraduate medical training, in light of concerns raised by resident doctors over worsening competition for training posts
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Also, is anyone interested in being named as a peer reviewer? Must be in an academic role (university email address), having done research on task shifting in healthcare settings, and ready to turn it round fast as I'll be asking for a fast-track review. Thanks in advance to any volunteers!

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

Also clearly nonsense given the number of men Trump has appointed with a history of sexual abuse or violence against women

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Legal challenge against GMC over regulation of physician associates passes 1st hurdle at High Court

We’ve just heard the NHS is to hire physician associates from abroad despite training quality fears

@anaesunited.bsky.social has stepped up to protect patient safety. But they can’t do it alone. They need our support to succeed

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@mancunianmedic.bsky.social Hear hear!!!!!

GPs are the bedrock of a good health service and dear God please hire more of them, and uplift the contract already!!!

Let's be clear - Reform's policies would be the final nail in the coffin for the NHS. Call To Action

Let’s be clear- Reform’s policies would be the final nail in the coffin for the NHS 🚨

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Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests

The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU

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RFK Jr. skipped meeting where officials planned fight against a future pandemic About 40 top leaders joined the effort to prepare for avian flu and other emergencies. Kennedy instead lobbied senators on his controversial nomination.

About 40 top Trump + Biden officials last week met to plan for the next pandemic.

They spent an hour on how to be ready for avian flu.

RFK Jr skipped it. He was on Capitol Hill, lobbying senators to vote for him, and sharing vaccine theories.

How Harry and Watson forced NGN to admit wrongdoing Why the circumstances show it was NGN wanting to avoid a public trial—and not the costs risk on the claimants—that brought this case to its end

A media lawyer's analysis of the settlement at the door of the court shows that it was Murdoch who caved in and grovelled, rather than exerting a costs clamp against the claimants (as has been supposed by some others). Per @davidallengreen.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

@bmj.com …2025🤷‍♂️ #LengReview