The NHS and neo-colonialism The NHS relies on overseas staff, which harms healthcare in source countries: closing the door will give Britain a taste of its own medicine

The NHS and neo-colonialism

The NHS relies on overseas staff, which harms healthcare in source countries: closing the door will give Britain a taste of its own medicine

By Patrick Wright

The idea that working class white boys only suffer because of equality legislation is a classic way of avoiding (a) the complexity and (b) the structural causes of both poverty and disadvantage.

Of course they want to avoid it.

Helen Salisbury: The right to refer The NHS has a longstanding ambition to bring down hospital clinic waiting times, and the cheapest way is by reducing referrals.1 Some referrals are simple, and the patient’s problem might be solved by...

My latest on GPs' right to refer - and the talk of 'mandatory advice and guidance' which sounds like a threat to it.
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The amount of people trying to pass off AI generated images as "work" they "designed" to deliberately dupe customers is truly nuts. Anything that ANYONE makes themselves will always be more valuable and interesting than result of a prompt churned out by a machine off the back of the work of artists.

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

Ratcliffe is also what we get from normalising anti-immigrant rants as ‘legitimate concerns’.

I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.

I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.

FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

People who make billions out of billions are invariably horrible, vicious, abusive, nasty, bitter human beings who think very highly of themselves and their needs and their pile of money and absolutely nothing of other human beings.

If the Epstein scandal has reminded us of anything it is that.

Let this be a lesson for all of us.
*gestures vaguely at everything, everywhere*

The cliff edge and the hot wind Everyone is angry.

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A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Fuck me but I'm bored of whingeing, thick, destructive right wing bell ends with power.

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

I wouldn't tell anyone. No one would know.

I can’t believe trying to appease a fascist didn’t work.

If only there had been examples from history to show us that wasn’t effective.

‘Without strength training I wouldn’t survive’: the woman who joined a CrossFit gym in her 80s At 81, Jean Stewart was frustrated by her growing frailty, so she decided to get active. Now 96, push-ups, kettlebell squats and pushing a weight-loaded sledge keep her strong

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We threw away such a lot for that not-so “special relationship”.
A more confident nation, with more honest politicians, would admit it and make amends with Europe. This is all such bullshit.

I will die on the hill of it being worth saying that unlawful actions by the regime are unlawful, of it being worth understanding why that’s the case, not because it will stop them but because it’s worth understanding the dimensions of *what they’re doing*

There’s power in saying that true things are true, even if it can’t stop terrible things from happening

I don’t know much but I know this: under NO circumstances should you look in the mirror at the end of the day right now. You don’t need to see what ten hours of this stress has done to you, you’ve been through enough

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MSNOW

Apologies if the gift article link isn’t working, try this one www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/j2nsd...

A very good point. Poverty is poverty, no matter how it is disguised.

Now, just a few years later, we face a situation in which the far right lead the polls. This is really alarming for many people who have dual citizenship – and for those who don’t, but theoretically could. We need clear moral leadership from the government asserting the full rights of all citizens.

Why Denmark's vaccine schedule works for Denmark — but not for the United States With its vaccine schedule, “Denmark has made a values choice to accept preventable hospitalizations and illnesses that other countries have chosen to prevent.”

Denmark’s vaccine schedule is the most minimalist in the developed world. So why is HHS trying to adopt it?

My new piece in @statnews.com.

Huge thanks to @thekibosch.bsky.social for the lightning-fast turnaround and sharp editing.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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mEDiCiNe iZ a VoCaTiOnZ

Is that why no university fees apply to medical degrees? Is that why we give doctors social housing?

Oh no, wait, none of that happens.

The Jobs That Disappeared - How GP Adverts Tell The Real Story About General Practice The graph that made my stomach drop

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