#Trump administration seeks to pull estimated $100m in #Harvard funding It’s such a shame about free speech & academic freedom suddenly being curtailed in #USA . I had thought the Trump administration were against this sort of thing ? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Ultra-processed #food

How much have Doctors and Nurses in the UK effectively subsidised the NHS by not having pay keep with inflation since 2008? The total amount and current annual amount Doctors x.com/i/grok/share/t…

#UK Government to sell out of RBS - at a loss of £10bn. Why does this bank not have to repay the British taxpayer this money ? Corporate socialism ? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Interesting……

Toxic chemicals from sewerage sludge on farmland …. Not effectively regulated…. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

10 Truths from Orwell’s 1984 …

Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill ….is not safe in the professional judgment of many experts….. #justsaying

Wow! - very unusual for Civil Service staff to take such a line on ‘elected government’ policy ! & It’s not obvious that the government has responded to their specific concerns. Foreign Office staff told to consider resigning if they disagree over Gaza ! bbc.com/news/articles/…

Antony Flew and belief in God ….

Peers criticise £9.6m House of Lords front door £9.6m for a front door ??? bbc.com/news/articles/…

#Water

"Everyone in government needs to wake up to what is happening in #Gaza," UN Human Rights chief Volker Türk told the United Nations Human Rights Council. "All those with influence must exert maximum pressure on Israel and Hamas, to put an end to this unbearable suffering," he said. #HRC59

🚨The #assistedsuicide Bill is now weaker than ever, putting the vulnerable, disabled and elderly at risk, and our latest polling shows the public have serious doubts.

Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site. BBC: “Almost all the casualties in Gaza recently have been linked to the delivery of aid rather than strikes on Hamas targets.” Surely-people with a Jewish faith cannot support this? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Pope Leo: “The heart of the Church is torn by the cries that rise from places of war. In particular from Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Gaza. We must not get used to war…In the name of human dignity and international law, I repeat to those responsible what Pope Francis used to say: war

The Government is pressing on with its cruel and unnecessary disability benefit cuts. Labour are choosing to take Personal Independence Payments away from more than 800,000 people. The Green Party would tax the super-rich to fund public services, not punish disabled people.

Climate Misinformation….. #ClimateCrises theguardian.com/environment/20…

About 25% of people in the UK who need palliative and end-of-life care do not get it. While an estimated 90% of people who die would benefit from palliative care, only around 50% actually receive it, according to the Association for Palliative Medicine. bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg4r…

#AssistedDying The vote for this legislation will create a ‘structurally asymmetric choice architecture’ for death. We can’t, (it seems), manage to give the everyone in our community palliative care -but we can help everyone die if they want to. Is that right or fair? #Babylon