🔎💥 NEW INVESTIGATION 💥🔍

😶 A company that landed £5.3m of contracts through the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has gone into liquidation

🗑️ bringing the total spent on unusable PPE which the government is unlikely to ever recover to £338m

#TheVIPFiles
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“I’m bringing this case because I’ve simply had enough, and I feel there is no other option available to me for holding South West Water properly to account.”

We’re supporting Jo Bateman’s legal action to protect her right to swim 🏊
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Good summary in The Boston Globe. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/27/met…

Btw - this cool finding in mice doesn’t mean that vitamin D supplements are beneficial in humans. But a healthy microbiome probably is for cancer

Outstanding paper👏. ‘As we advance our understanding of the potential role of additives in the development of diabetes, several public health authorities already recommend minimising the consumption of UPFs in order to lower exposure to controversial cosmetic food additives'👏👏

Just proves wine is good for you and helps run marathons #onlyjoking

Important research — shows some people continue to react to tiny levels of virus from disease and speculatively others maybe tiny levels of vaccine

amp.theguardian.com/global-develop…

INVESTIGATION:

Two contracts worth £258m to supply gowns and safety goggles were enough for the owner of a dog food business to move into a stately home 🐕
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Powerful piece by Tim Spector MD (Prof) on the critical role environment plays in your health.
Obesity is not genetic.
It depends mostly on how you live and the friends you keep.
That’s why we have to improve our environment to improve our health.

#HealthNation

telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness…

Long overdue - the U.K. obsession with mindless appraisals and fire extinguisher training at the cost of patient care —- NHS England to review cutting compulsory training for doctors theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

So great to have lunch with Prue Leith- She is even better in real life - an incredible advert for staying young and enjoying food

Most real kimchis are live and should bubble when you first open them.

The microbiome gets more important in cancer management each week

In London, researchers are working on a formal definition of food addiction, which is increasingly recognized as a serious problem. Sugar addiction, is, IMHO, at the root of it. The first food recognized as addictive was chocolate...shortly after sugar entered the food supply.

Promising pilot study of fecal transplant plus immunotherapy in melanoma treatment with a 65 percent response rate nature.com/articles/s4159…

Follow the lead of other countries and Abolish NHS England and empower local leaders - makes sense to me

thetimes.co.uk/article/847f03…

A national disgrace for an island nation who love water sports - hopefully the next government have a plan …..

A great honour and super fun to record my #DesertIslandDiscs with the amazing Lauren Laverne and team who knew more about me than I did. It’s out now bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Make improving diet his top priority !