Just so everyone in the UK knows where they stand with Twitter and racism.

If you take one thing away from #AutumnStatement , let it be this, by Ed Conway:

Even though this is a 'tax-cutting budget', tax burden overall is going UP, higher even than after the last budget, highest than the historical peak of 1948.

The rest is smoke and mirrors. ~AA

Today's #HighCourt ruling was careful to stress that the UK is bound by its own domestic legislation and by #humanrights obligations under several international treaties and conventions, in addition to the ECHR (2/4)

It is time to stop this shocking display of populism by Rishi Sunak. Let's start with tweet number 1: in case you did not notice, the Court that found against HMG today was the highest UK court. Not the ECtHR. /1

If appropriate to you, please do apply for Digital Health mentoring program. As chair of CCIO Network advisory panel, am keen to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds. Closing date is soon. Apply here Health CIO Network Digital Health CNIO Network Ayesha Rahim Dr Liz O'Riordan digitalhealthnetworks.net/mentoring/

You will either think this is normal (like Dermot O'Riordan🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺) or bonkers like me

My husband is currently on 2 live video calls at the same time…

Who is right? Dermot O'Riordan🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺 or me?

Exactly what I described a few days ago. OpenAI may put another band-aid on this specific case, but the overall problem isn’t going away anytime soon.

Extraordinary and shocking (yet sadly not surprising) Prof Ewen Harrison Dr Liz O'Riordan The Royal College of Surgeons of England #ilooklikeasurgeon OpenAI

In July 2023, you voted for your 12 new CCIO Advisory Panel members. A warm congratulations & introduction to our chair Dermot O'Riordan🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺, who is CMIO East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. Dermot's bio can be found here: digitalhealthnetworks.net/elections/. We will be sharing more profiles over next few weeks.

Just checked my phone and I’ve got WhatsApps from December 2012 at least. Backups happen automatically without effort; it’s absurd to suggest they don’t exist unless lost wilfully.

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People hit by a vehicle at 20mph are around five times LESS likely to be killed than at 30mph.

Why is Rishi Sunak launching a war on pedestrians?

#BBCLauraK

The demand for simple solutions in an age of complex problems seems almost universal.

This map of the West Midlands shows a congestion forecast for 2031 if we continue with current car usage trends.

Any “plan for motorists” cannot overcome the basic fact that there is more demand than there is capacity.

Helping people choose more efficient modes is essential.

There is no such thing as a motorist. Just pedestrians and others who occasionally use cars, bikes, public transport etc to get around. Have a word with yourself, Rishi.

Shame on you Mark Harper you’re normally way above this sort of low level nonsense. Sensible #Conservative councils have championed road safety for all road users & pedestrians for decades. Decent politicians bring people together not stage phoney wars. Grow up.

Do you know what kills your children? More than sepsis, heart disease and malignancy added together? Cars. And their speed. Cutting speed in cities saves your child. 'A war on motorists?' Do duck off.

The ‘war on the motorist’ is such bullshit. The real war is on the pedestrian and has been for years.

How to kill business confidence in a month:
1. Don't listen to industry and take all ambition and hope out of the future of #UK 's successful #Offshore wind Industry.
2. Threaten to cut back #HS2 even further.
3. Announce a weakening of UK's #NetZero ambitions.

It's truly

Full on corporate attack on government now

Self interested lobbying - or a big own goal with business?

For those of you wondering how sexual harassment of female surgeons can occur *in theatre* - may I present to you a letter in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times

Nowhere in any prospectus I read did it say “expect to be sexually harassed/assaulted”

This letter is shameful and shameless