One in four girls aged 17-19 experiences a mental health problem. Help us do more to help our young people. Donate to the #RichmondVoluntaryFund today and support the great work info@otr and Richmond Borough Mind are doing in the borough ➡️ bit.ly/RVFund

It's almost unbelievable how bad today's incomes data is - slightly worried it's going to be lost under the (understandable) virus focus. Poorer families lost 7% of their incomes over the last 2 years - hugely important and hugely grim.

Still an absolutely deafening silence on social care. Will there be a final rabbit out of hat moment? #Budget2020

Indeed. Absolutely nothing on SEND #Budget2020

For mindless libertarians: the principles of normal life do not apply in an emergency situation. For mindless socialists: you do not apply the appropriate response to an emergency to normal conditions. That's why lifeboat scenarios are a bad way to do ethical reasoning.

Any news yet, Sainsbury's Sainsbury's News?

"The people who can do the most to avoid these unnecessary deaths are [...] us. To slow the virus down, you need to act like you already have it."

Many positive comments on this Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health podcast with Jon Goldin 💙, vice-chair of rcpsychCAP, on child #mentalhealth and #coronavirus Do pls listen, follow, and share widely. acamh.org/podcasts/dr-jo…

Fifteen-minute survey to help families and kids deal with coronavirus

This is stomach-turning npr.org/2020/09/16/913…

Every time I saw this photo as a kid, I thought Bob Gibson looked like a superhero. As I got older and learned about who he was and what he stood for, I realized that my instincts as a kid were spot on. RIP.

Hard to take Tory protests over Covid impact assessment seriously given way Brexit costs totally ignored Why does evidence base suddenly matter? If it does, why doesn't Govt now do one for no deal? There's still time Might even help BJ make his mind up ft.com/content/491eac…

Just got in my inbox Ian Leslie's latest Ruffian email & it's all about the appallingly underrated (at least, as he points out, here in the UK) genius of Paul McCartney. Ruffian generally a worthwhile read; today spoke to possibly my deepest held belief. ianleslie.substack.com/p/64-reasons-t…

Excellent series that examines whether corporations should be culpable for #HumanRights abuses in supply chain. Highlights need - indeed, ethical imperative - for consumers to be aware of where what they're consuming comes from. justsecurity.org/tag/nestle-car…

The Home Office claims it is 'collapsing' under the number of asylum claims. The Home Secretary herself described the asylum process as 'broken'. But this government has been in charge for a decade, during which time the application process has got 8 times longer 2/4

removing legal routes to safety doesn't prevent criminality - it fuels it. The day the legal routes for refugee children seeking asylum here was closed was a field day for people traffickers and smugglers who exploit despair

And just to add one final piece of data, because facts matter. There were 29,456 asylum applications in the UK in 2020 - a drop of 18% on 2019. Germany took 7 times that number (121,955), France & Spain took 3 times that number (93,470 and 88, 530) & Greece (pop 10m) took 40,560

JUST IN: MLB announces it’ll move the All-Star Game and Draft out of Atlanta due to the state passing a new elections law last week.

This isn't just about economics or even simply protecting richer nations from new variants. A more equitable approach is about saving hundreds of millions of lives. Friday's #G7Summit would be a good place to start us on a more noble route. x.com/wto/status/139…

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