On the contrary, as Sir Michael Marmot and I outlined in Prospect

“Britain is objectively sicker than it was a decade ago: people are dying earlier…more babies are dying in their first year of life than three years ago”

prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/polic…

Conservatives Accused of Breaking Electoral Law With Fake Sadiq Khan ‘Driving Charge Notices’ bylinetimes.com/2024/04/16/con…

Glorious

Tesla's board is asking shareholders to approve $56 billion in compensation for Elon Musk.

That's enough to give the 15,000 or so workers who will soon be laid off $3.73 million.

Each.

Time line cleanse. Dance is everything.

When I was growing up we had no money to buy books. All I had was my local library. I spent hundreds of hours in it. But for that library I might never have become a lawyer. A thousand have closed under Conservative Governments. It’s almost like they don’t want us to read

Good succinct summary of the microplastic mess. Recent evidence of presence in arteries, clots, and GI tract and correlation with adverse health outcomes
nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Medicine

In the light of yesterday's horror announcements, including that the rollout of #UniversalCredit to those on income-related ESA will now start much sooner, these concerns raised by disabled people about the rollout become even more important. Please read
disabilitynewsservice.com/dangerous-roll…

Childcare costs : Families march for 'urgent intervention' - BBC News

Parents in Northern Ireland do not get free childcare hours, unlike other parts of the UK where parents are entitled to 30 free hours. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…

It’s terrifying to think how many people would be perfectly happy to live under a brutal dictatorship if they thought the brutal dictator was “on their side” and would mainly direct his brutality towards people they didn’t like.

This is weapons grade gaslighting from the man who’s government have been responsible for huge deterioration in the health of the general public.

Feeling vulnerable doesn't mean you can't call an election, replies public.

Don'r let anyone tell you that the NHS can't be funded.

Govts found £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn guarantees) to bailout banks; £895bn QE for capital markets.

They can do the same to help 6.24m people awaiting 7.54m hospital appointments.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/nhs-cr…

“Awwww how will we get young people to vote for us? They don’t vote”

“Give them something to vote for”

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Any TV production company that wants to give a Mr Bates V the Post Office treatment to the appalling suffering of benefit claimants at the hands of the DWP, there are many stories waiting to be shared.

I love the Bay Area. I love both airports because when I land, I’m in one of my favorite places. I hope the spat is resolved. One of the lesser existential crises of our age. ‘Spat over airport name takes feud to new heights’ theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

PIP has nothing to do with employment.

PIP is for moderate to severe disability and it is v difficult to qualify for.

It is not something one can blag. I research this.

Sunak's idea people can go off PIP with treatment is wild and dangerous. It is disability denial,no less.

This is excellent!

It’s bizarre that so many of the 70+ generation (that’s me) are the most likely to forget how their lives have been improved by state intervention and EU membership.

The reason they are so eager to get you to worry about 'welfare scroungers' is to distract you away from the billionaire scroungers that actually exist and more likely to have taken away from public funds