NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

2) It’s actually worse than that chart made out, because at most points on the income distribution, Americans earn much more than Brits. If we plot the same data by actual income instead of percentile, the US deficit is vast. 5 fewer years even among the comfortably-off.

Types of spinal cord injury. Source: Apparelyzed #neuroscience #MedTwitter

Back of my Polling Card for local elections. For 1st time, photo ID is required. Card gives many options for elderly or those with disability. None, NONE, for younger or student voters. The policy is simply biased against younger voters, designed to suppress their vote.

Morning! Your reminder… That election rigging doesn’t come more obvious than this:

This stressed me out as a kid. Why didn’t this fucking idiot build a door on the side?

It’s staggering the Government is doubling down on its claim inflation busting pay rises for our nurses & teachers will embed & drive inflation. It’s completely untrue & debunked by most economists. If you are sick of this bull**** RT this widely

@annaclyne Orchestre de chambre BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Proms Lake Shore Symphony Theater Lüneburg Mostly Modern Festival Stadttheater Gießen WSSSO directed by James Lowe performing <<rewind<< this Sunday (4th) at 7pm in Ayr Town Hall. Our percussionists are loving it!! 🥁

Junior doctors continue 72-hours of strike action today Health Secretary Steve Barclay says he’s made a very “reasonable” offer He fails to mention it’s just another crappy real terms pay cut on top of a decade of crappy real terms pay cuts!

Just in case you thought that it was industrial action by nurses & doctors that created waiting lists for hospital treatments, here's something from Financial Times

Fantastic customer service last night Scottish Water from Chas McKenna. Went above and beyond to help an elderly lady with flooding. Thank you!

We couldn’t agree with this more. Please follow and RT to help raise awareness of the important issues facing the NHS.

BREAKING 🚨 | The BBC's reporting that at least 13 schools with RAAC had been set to be rebuilt under a Labour plan - but their building projects were SCRAPPED by the Conservative-led government in 2010. Former Education Secretary Michael Gove scrapped the scheme because he did

The Prime Minister UK Prime Minister said today "We were making very good progress before industrial action" Waiting lists are a #PoliticalCHOICE RT if you think this 👇was NOT "good progress" before IA & govmnt needs to change course #PayRestoration bbc.co.uk/news/health-66…

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Getting accurate, up to date and accurate information out to women is essential in helping them make the best decisions for them. LabourPains.org OAA have amazing resources to help inform us labourpains.org/?fbclid=IwAR3G… @ArcBroom Nuala Lucas