As Manx Care have failed to present an acceptable offer to fix Isle of Man doctors' pay, we will be striking on 22 and 23 January. We'll be providing Christmas Day cover so emergency services will still be available. We will continue discussions with Manx Care with the hope

Not valued for raising concerns, not valued for 24/7 medical care. Eroding doctors’ pay won’t keep them on the IOM. Islanders deserve better; your medics deserve fair recognition of skills & expertise. Full solidarity Prakash Thiaga Rajan across the UK. Emma Runswick 🏳️‍🌈 & I will come over.

When unions are outlawed, only outlaws will have unions. Unions don't owe their existence to labor laws that protect organizing activities. 1/

OpNonSTOP is enrolling children with new Perthes disease throughout the UK. Together, we'll overcome the uncertainty for families & clinicians . OpNonSTOP.org BOA Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care National Institute for Health and Care Research Oxford Trauma and Emergency Care British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery BOTA #Perthes

This just needs 5k signatures to get over the 100k needed for consideration for Parliamentary debate - anything which gets the facts about the disaster of Brexit has to be a good thing “Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member ASAP” petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…

The far right now wants to strip citizenship from and expel non-white citizens from their countries. Kikel is open about it in Austria, much of the AFD - which JD Vance and Elon Musk back - favour it. And the chat is starting in Britain too.

The doctor substitution agenda has been a policy directive since at least 2014 with Simon Steven's Five Year Forward View plan.

A fantastic thread and one that all patients and healthcare workers should be reading. What government and NHSE put out in messaging is *very* different to the reality of behind the scenes. Huge amounts of money changing hands for cheapening, dilution and replacement.

It's true that capitalists by and large hate capitalism - given their druthers, entrepreneurs would like to attain a perch from which they get to set prices and wages and need not fear competitors. 1/

If the tariffs could produce THESE kinds of disruptive monopoly-busting results… then my personal carrot/stick opinion of them just got more carrot-weighted

*taps the sign*

The government says it wants to make significant savings on welfare payments to the disabled and help the disabled into work. The point, say all ministers - led Sir Keir Starmer - is not to harm the disabled, but to free them from a life of dependency. That, they claim, is

Research published only last week by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research showed that we spend less on welfare as a share of GDP than the average for developed nations. Also when it comes to the so-called replacement rate - what any unemployed person receives

The Chancellor has a clear choice: she could cut vital support to the most vulnerable, weakening our economy by inflicting austerity 2.0, or she could introduce a 2% tax for the extremely wealthy . The moral decision is clear—let’s see if she makes it.

For all that orthodox economists *hate* tariffs in all their forms, the question, "do tariffs work?" is a complex one, which can't be answered unless you specify *which* tariffs, in *what* context: pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/me-… 1/

I never would have read *Careless People*, Sarah Wynn-Williams's tell-all memoir about her years running global policy for Facebook, but then Meta's lawyer tried to get the book suppressed and secured an injunction to prevent her from promoting it: npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-… 1/

I find this letter from so-called ‘senior figures’ utterly shameful. These individuals haven’t lived through the 22% real-terms pay cut that today’s resident doctors have. They trained in an era of free tuition and affordable housing - yet now choose to pull the ladder up behind

Nine years on from the referendum, let's just check how Brexit is going...

Today’s resident doctors probably wouldn’t strike either if like you: 🔸Pay wasn’t cut 22% 🔹They didn’t have £100k student loans 🔸They weren’t being replaced by “associates” 🔹They had free accommodation early on 🔸A house was 3x rather than 8x salary 🔹They had job security