STOP SHOUTING CHRiS - says James Daly MP besides silent Chris Bryant - as he struggles to remember why he went to the police …

The UK now has an outstanding system to keep people safe when they take part in research. Strict rules and great safety culture mean patients in clinical trials get excellent care. But researchers complaining about bureaucracy and regulations take note...
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Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet.

Thank you Petroc Trelawny for marking so aptly the 200th anniversary of Byron's death.

In the last century orchards halved while streets named after blossom and blossoming trees doubled. We need to bring back the blossom - for people, pollinators and planet. standard.co.uk/news/environme…

Truss may feel so vengeful toward her colleagues that she doesn’t much care how damaging her repeated interventions are to her party. That or she has no sense of her own standing with the public, or perhaps both. Either way, it’s a gift for Labour and terrible for Sunak.

Just come across Liz Truss saying “I hadn’t gone into politics to deal with floods or fix prisons.” Why not? Wouldn’t politics be much better if she felt her job was to fix such things? This is a fundamental problem with our system ⁦The Rest Is Politics⁩ unherd.com/2024/04/why-li…

Right-wing anti-semitism gets a much easier pass than left-wing.

From schools' financial crisis, to lack of NHS mental health staff, to failure of Thames Water, it is very evident what Thatcher's 'small state' rhetoric has led to. Any vote for tax cuts is a vote for less state service which leads to chaos and misery.

Jenny Jones, 'The #RwandaBill is an absolutely vile bill.. The Tory government is actually abusing not just human rights and the rule of law, but also democracy itself'

'What is the point of the House of Lords if it can simply be ignored by the government?'

'If you think the…

It's very instructive to watch the well paid leaders of elite American institutions genuflect to religious fanatics and ethnonationalist bigots.

A lot of folks are sharing this harrowing estimate of the economic impacts of warming (19% reduction in global incomes by 2050, amounting to $38 trillion in annual damages) to say decarbonization would be cheaper. But that isn’t what the paper says (1/2) nature.com/articles/s4158…

Too many people with autism ‘still stuck’ in mental health hospitals

Autistic people and those with a learning disability are still being failed. Families live in fear of loved ones being locked up due to a lack of right community support.
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From schools' financial crisis, to lack of NHS mental health staff, to failure of Thames Water, it is very evident what Thatcher's 'small state' rhetoric has lead to. Any vote for tax cuts is a vote for less state service which leads to chaos and misery.

Death of Byron of rheumatic fever at Missolonghi 200 years ago today. The 'first poet of the age' died in the pursuit of liberty.

Yesterday, a Blue Badge was unveiled in Chapel Allerton, Leeds, to Duncan Dallas and his partner Liz. His work to promote Cafe Scientifique - in UK, Europe, US and Africa - and her work to promote medical cannabis for MS - both deserve honour. He was my mentor for 20 years.

BREAKING: Doctor Sarah Benn found guilty of professional misconduct after being imprisoned for upholding vital sign.

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#OverlookedWomen : Rosalind Franklin.

Died 16 April 1958, aged 37

Crystallographer who took Photo 51, the first known X-ray image of the DNA double helix. Watson, Crick & Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology.

BBC Morning Live have commissioned a piece on Accessibility on Public Transport They are looking for people's experiences if you are willing to take part in the programe please contact Lynsey Kent [email protected] they want to film this on 25th April, please contact her.

Grim, and dismissive response from Welsh Government to yesterday's protest. Do they seriously believe that it's appropriate to detain people with learning disabilities for years?