A Cabinet Minister tells Tim Shipman today that government is moving from enforcement to reassurance. That’s not as easy as it sounds. Policies to help people feel safe need clear end points if they are not to backfire. The Policy Institute Dr Jo Daniels kcl.ac.uk/news/why-reass…

My interpretation of Boris Johnson this evening: the pandemic of COVID-19 in the UK is much more serious than we have been led to believe. Johnson was unusually serious, fists clenched, no jokes about squashing sombreros.

Trisha Greenhalgh Matt Hancock @nachkontrolle We have this

📺 This is so beautiful. Sound up! 🎚 Interviewer: “Who owns the patent on the vaccine?” 💊 Jonas Salk: “Well, the people I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” ☀️ 🦠🔬🩺👩‍🔬💪

When I wrote these words, I didn’t know if anyone would read them. I certainly didn’t think this would happen. I wrote them for my patients, my colleagues & myself. Please watch this. Please share this. This has been our reality. We can’t go back here.

Why was #EdwardColston put up as a statue in Bristol in the first place, in 1895, over 170 years after he died? If they wanted a white businessman/philanthropist (and we'll get onto his philanthropy later), there were many other candidates. Why a slave trader?

You can read my blog on this issue from earlier this year here fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/sex-and-g…

replace the entire British curriculum with this TikTok

OMG! There is a part 2!! HT @antoni_UK 😊 x.com/antoni_UK/stat…

After my first dose of AZ vaccine I reported* the potential side effect of an earworm of ’Savage Love’ by Jason Derulo. Six days after my second dose I’ve had no recurrence, only Mahler 5 (the famous Adagietto), so I think we can say it was coincidence. *to Twitter, not really.

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Whether British Airways says Ladies & Gentlemen or just Passengers/Everyone means NOTHING TO ME or either of these men. So if it IS important to non-binary people, why not do the bare minimum!? Especially as people's genitals are irrelevant to the position of their seat trays!

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Love love love this family.

I am a NHS consultant. I am financially comfortable, in a job I love, so why am I striking tomorrow? Answer: Because the next generation will not be able to live off what I do today. The juniors that will become these consultants know this and are leaving already. Why? 🧵 👇

I walk past this building in Fitzrovia, Central London, daily, and marvel at it. A time capsule. When I was a kid, much of London (pre-gentrified, pre-Blair/Thatcher) was like this. It smells of the 1970s. But what is it? And how is it still like this in 2023? Answers please.

It was wonderful to have Keir Starmer back on home turf this weekend, among old friends, launching his re-election campaign as Labour’s MP for Holborn and St Pancras. Together, we can deliver change for Britain.🌹

There's a common misperception that since lots of intellectuals hold beliefs like “sex is a spectrum”, therefore these beliefs must have some validity. But intellectuals are not immune to delusion; they are in fact particularly vulnerable to it. I explain here (sound on):