4,500 people per year experiencing a mental health crisis are held in police custody because there are no available beds. In recent years, 25% of mental health beds have been cut and the number of people being sent 300km+ for treatment has doubled.

Brexiters STILL. Claim the vaccine roll out as a Brexit benefit, it’s not. Retweet, bookmark this. Dr June Raine CEO of MHRA explains in December 2020 that the Pfizer vaccine was approved under EU rules, Brexit had no part.

Please retweet so as many brexiteers as possible get pissed off.

A tale of two countries 🇸🇪🇳🇿 Forced infection AKA “herd immunity” vs. shielding people from SARS2. How much clearer does it need to be? We cannot live with this virus. Cut transmission NOW by isolating sick, using respirators, ventilation/filtration/uvc in public settings.

Well #ImWithGary PICTURE CREDIT: From the side of the BBC New Broadcasting House

RT if you want to nominate & vote for Gary Lineker for 2023 BBC Sports Personality of the Year?

So why hasn’t EU membership prevented seven EU countries from making a proportionately bigger contribution of military support to Ukraine than the UK has? Because Rees-Mogg is lying, that’s why.

1/ Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Farage schooled by Bercow. “You can do a bit better than that. Why not start by admitting first that people are poorer, wages are down, foreign direct investment has slumped, Sterling is has taken a permanent 10% hit, and the economy is smaller.” ~AA

The UK inflation data is not a surprise to me. For over a year, I have warned that the forecasts of declining inflation were delusional, given what Brexit did to labor mismatch and food, and what bad governance did to credibility (to the policy regime overall, not specifically

There has been superb coverage today on FRANCE 24 of the thousands taking part in todays #MarchForRejoin in London. They have put BBC News (UK) to absolute shame & even ask in this report where the other broadcasters are!

Our recent report comparing the NHS to the health systems of other countries has found that in comparison to 18 similar countries, the UK has below-average health spending per person and low levels of key clinical staff. Read the full report today 📝 kingsfund.org.uk/publications/n…

I am delighted that my New Humanist pience on #antidepressants is now available for everybody to read Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) newhumanist.org.uk/6217/the-drugs… via New Humanist

This is what should happen. The problem is lack of resources. If I agreed to potential admission when ill there is no guarantee of a bed in the area. This is not choice. Mental health advanced choice documents ‘would reduce sectioning’ theguardian.com/society/2024/f…

Dr Rachel Clarke Royal College of Physicians Anyone who would want the subject given greater scrutiny than the recent debate in the HoL should consider signing @docanni petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6581…

A first-person account in World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org described the experience of depression to be “an overwhelming past, a stagnation of the present, and the impossibility of the future". I think that this captures the experience quite well. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wp… 7/8

The phenomenal Adebowale Victor knocking it out of the park with facts and compassion on Question Time tonight - silencing all who think they know better in the process.

2/ "Do not fear the darkness, for it is in the darkest nights that the stars shine the brightest. Embrace your struggles, for they are the harbingers of resilience and growth."

Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”

Incredibly relevant to the times we live in