Health Equals’ newest report shows us that where you live in the UK can cut your life short by up to 16 years. I’m joined by Scottish author and social commentator, Darren McGarvey, to discuss the latest campaign from Health Equals – a coalition made up of 27 organisations.

Excited for this episode of the podcast. Because of things like income, housing and air quality, where you’re born can cut your life short by up to 16 years. Let's #MakeHealthEqual Find out more 👉 healthequals.org.uk/make-health-eq…

Go time. Thanks to Suzanne Zeedyk and 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪 💜 for their contribution to this wonderful conversation about trauma, healing and the stories we tell ourselves youtu.be/OQOK-LDm-JA?si…

Incredibly insightful 46 min discussion between Darren McGarvey Suzanne Zeedyk & 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪 💜 about trauma, child development, life, the universe & everything. Please find time to listen this weekend. Kate Johnston Give Them Time Fulton MacGregor MSP youtube.com/watch?v=OQOK-L…

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Got some work done. I come from a collective of artists who've been going since 2001. None of us have ever applied to Creative Scotland. Yet our work has inspired countless working class young people to take a chance on their creativity. This tattoo was designed by one such

youtu.be/OQOK-LDm-JA?si… Brilliant conversation between Darren McGarvey 𝕁𝕒𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝔻𝕠𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕪 💜 Suzanne Zeedyk. James speaks about the mind being a "bad neighbourhood"&we cannot navigate this on our own.Suzanne speaks about mobile attachment re-babies biology.🧠🌱 #trauma #attachment

If your stance on freedom of expression in the arts is that it should be upheld only if you share the politics of the artist, then you're a total fud.

"Some middle class people... don’t regard themselves as middle class so find it offensive when you call them middle class. They require a definition... so they can exclude themselves from whatever type of middle class people they think you’re going to criticise" Darren McGarvey

If you're an activist, then be an activist and stay away from influential roles in public arts bodies. Go make some art. Go and test how relevant you and your politics really are in actual culture and not some cosy consequence-insulated simulation of it. Live the real activist

This is a good report on Grenfell news.sky.com/video/survivor…

Grenfell simply explained: firms chased profits, ministers sat on their hands, innocents paid with their lives: Today’s report should make you angry. People died horribly and futures were wrecked because of ideology, neglect and greed | Peter Apps theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

💬 "Breaking this cycle by improving the social mix across schools would produce a healthier system, and help to break the link between school performance and spiralling house prices." Carl Cullinane on our new school admissions research in Tes ⤵️ tes.com/magazine/analy…

Solidarity. Also, anyone said anything about Alice Tarbuck?