My strongest memory of COVID: I was sat in a respirator. They are horrible to wear. It made my nose stream and I'd gone deaf in one ear from pressure on my temperomandibular joint from the mask straps. I was tired. So, utterly, dog tired. I'd just reviewed a man, in his 50s

Sunak claims he had a long standing private engagement that prevented him being in the Commons. It was a Monday. He is a Parliamentarian. Unless it involved the death or serious illness of someone very close to him, I’m sorry, there is literally no excuse. In failing to 1/4

Love this from Ben Elton on the BBC… More of this please.

Dr Adriana Castelli The Centre for Health Economics Happy birthday The Centre for Health Economics!

WARNING. THIS IS A SCAM BY CRIMINALS TRYING TO STEAL MONEY. PLS SHARE. This is frightening, it's the first deep fake video scam I've seen with me in it. Govt & regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People'll lose money and it'll ruin lives.

Big shout out to the Dept of Theatre, Film, Television & Interactive Media (TFTI) TFTI University of York University of York for letting Lord Deramore’s Lord Deramore's primary put on Bugsy Malone in their studio theatre. Great to see my university engaging with the local community like this! 💯👍😊

Lovely to welcome Prof Chris Whitty to the department today. He'll be receiving an honorary degree later but this morning he took the time to give a short talk to staff and PGR students on current priorities, followed by a Q&A.

What damage the Conservatives have done to the UK over 14 years is summarised by this Newsnight panelist

Keir Starmer tells Labour’s National Policy Forum if the party wins power “the rescue job will be like none other”.   “Think of it like this: if our job in 1997 was to rebuild a crumbling public realm, in 1964 - to modernise an economy left behind by the pace of technological

We are pleased to announce that we have awarded over £100 million to 20 new NIHR Policy Research Units to tackle important emerging health and social care issues including #reproductivehealth #addiction and #dementia. Read more: nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-awar… Lucy Chappell Department of Health and Social Care

Yesterday’s announcement by this Govt about winter beds was really devious and dishonest. The message they were sending to the public was ‘we are investing in the NHS to prepare for Winter’ The reality was quite the opposite… 1/7

If Sunday Times is correct that Sunak wants to abolish inheritance tax, this quote in its scoop from a government insider is just priceless, by way of justification for the tax cull: “a lot of people don’t know that they won’t pay it”. The point, which this government adviser

“Sound money under the conservatives or run out of money under Labour “ says the chancellor Jeremy Hunt - who was literally brought in to rescue the economy from a previous conservative chancellor’s policies .. #cpc23

I made a giant graphic this week... to highlight just how many countries are already well into a period of fossil fuel decline in their power sectors. Half of the world's economies (107!) are already five years past a peak in fossil power generation. ember-climate.org/insights/resea…

Share your views on the long-term challenges for the health and social care sector at the online launch event for the REAL Supply Unit, 10am 7 November. Register now: shorturl.at/twIS4

NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university. American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀 Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years

5 years ago Milton Keynes was dubbed ‘tent city’ by the media. Today, no one needs to sleep rough on our streets. How did we do it? A thread by the Cabinet Member responsible 👇

Here is Robert De Niro’s full statement about how Donald Trump should NEVER be president again: “I’ve spent a lot of time studying bad men.  I’ve examined their characteristics, their mannerisms, the utter banality of their cruelty. Yet there’s something different about