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Director of Health, Health Foundation Leading work to improve health and reduce inequalities. Trustee Centre for Homelessness Impact Honorary member @adphuk.bsky.social Independent Chair Calderdale Cares Partnership Board Views my own 📍Hebden Bridge
Pride and resilience at heart of food in the North East 💗
Last but not least, a new film and report from the fourth and final ‘What Works Here Inquiry’ on food in the 📍North East - watch in full and learn more here: foodfoundation.org.uk/news/pride-a...
@ffc-commission.bsky.social
The Labour govt made a bold commitment to halve the difference in life expectancy between regions.
As @healthfoundation.bsky.social shows - this is easier to say than do and as yet there is no credible plan to deliver this.
www.health.org.uk/features-and...
#OtD 3 Mar 1985 after a year on strike and some of the most bitter class war in UK history the National Union of Mineworkers voted to end the stoppage. A turning point for the working class in Britain, this iconic strike came to define the decade stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1021...
Vibrant simple painting, bright purples blues, greens, perhaps a lake in foreground with small green islands. Grass, a path, trees. Houses. Hills blue sky with clouds.
Alexej von Jawlensky
Landscape
New 🏭: The price of natural gas in Europe has surged almost 80% since Friday after Iranian strikes on the world's second-largest exporter Qatar and the effective closure of key shipping routes... But zooming out, we're still a long way from the 2022 price crisis
Quote from the Origin of Species ‘There is grandeur in the view of life …’
02-Mar: On this day in 1994, the Friends of Charles Darwin were formed. We are still going strong. Follow the link below to join for free, thereby entitling you to add the initials FCD after your name.
friendsofdarwin.com/join/
Monochrome photograph featuring two women climbing on a rock face with ropes both wearing long dresses and hats
Rock climbers Lucy Smith and Pauline Rankin of the Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, 1908, Salisbury Crags, Scotland #WomensArt
Welcome to #WomensHistoryMonth
Now it can be revealed that Kirstie Donnelly, the City & Guilds chief executive who later received a £1.74 million bonus, and Abid Ismail, chief financial officer, who received £1.2 million, provided suspect information about the financial health of the charity shortly before the sale.
Never heard of an instance like this of a charity CEO getting a £1.74m bonus. Part of a strange wider story I’ve never heard about of the sale of City & Guilds to a commercial company in Cyprus. The sale is now subject to a Charity Commission inquiry
www.thetimes.com/article/76bb...
Roy Lichtenstein, Brushstroke, 1965 #roylichtenstein #museumarchive
Construction work in Manchester after the IRA bomb of 1996 (Len Grant/Millennium Manchester).
Heaven knows there’s a lot of challenging things in the world right now, but the new-style-classic logo GBR clock is a definite sign of building hope for the future. Pure small joy
A full house tonight, exploring the shifting perceptions & realities of the UK's culture wars w/ @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social , @ukandeu.bsky.social, The Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP, @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, Dr Kate Ferguson, Gideon Skinner & @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIZM...
Diana in a dark outfit accepting a bouquet of roses from a bearded man wearing glasses in a black-and-white indoor photo.
On this day in 1989, Princess Diana visited the Mildmay Hospital. It was a key moment in changing public attitudes to HIV.
Together, we must continue our work to end HIV stigma forever. You can donate now to support our work.
https://tht.org.uk/donate
Walking together can be a powerful way to feel a sense of belonging in our environment.
Georgette Heyer
Virginia Woolf
Tana French
Kate Atkinson
A.S. Byatt...
Five women authors by whom I’ve read at least five books:
- Maggie O’Farrell
- Ali Smith
- Val McDermid
- Muriel Spark
- Sarah Hall
Five women authors by whom I’ve read at least five books:
- Rachel Cusk
- Annie Ernaux
- Ali Smith
- Deborah Levy
- Elizabeth Strout
Five women authors by whom whom I've read at least five books:
Katherine Mansfield
Ali Smith
Patricia Highsmith
Beryl Bainbridge
Susan Hill
Five women authors by whom I’ve read at least five books:
- Jane Austen
- Barbara Pym
- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Daphne du Maurier
Would have liked to have added Olivia Manning but not sure if the three separate Balkan trilogy books and the single volume Levant Trilogy counts …
Slavery and forced labor have become less common over the last 250 years. Line chart of the number of countries that had not yet abolished large-scale forced labor. In 1789, 165 of the 174 countries covered had not yet abolished large-scale forced labor. In 2024, it was 9 countries. Annotations on important cases, such as China, the Soviet Union, and the United States, say more about the history of slavery and forced labor.
✍️ New article: Tracking historical progress against slavery and forced labor: a long-run data view
For much of history, forced labor was widespread and brutal. Tens of millions of people were made to work under the threat of violence or punishment. The situation today is very different.
Early stroll. Night’s grip loosens. A white ribbon waves from a gate. Birdsong’s theme and variations. Soft blue light in an upper room. My footsteps like a ticking clock.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
✨✨✨New blog
What would it take for the government to fulfil its promise to halve the gap in healthy life expectancy across the country?
TLDR: improving health care won’t be enough on its own, govt urgently needs to reduce deprivation.
Full analysis here ⬇️⬇️
www.health.org.uk/features-and...
Healthy life expectancy at birth in the UK has decreased to its lowest level since the ONS time series began in 2011 to 2013
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Photo featuring a plate with orange border and central abstract swirling design in green, blue, orange, purple and cream
Clarice Cliff (1899-1972), regarded as one of the most influential ceramics artists of the 20th Century #WomensArt
My new paper is out!
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Publishing on racism against people racialised as Eastern Europeans and its impact on health is not easy. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who supported me throughout this process.
#philsci #racism #health
Interesting letter from Social Security Advisory Committee to DWP Minister about plans for the new 'Right to Try' work for disabled people.
They don't think plans so far will deliver intent of reducing claimants' fear of being reassessed & barrier to trying to get work. 1/3 t.co/wvsEuCcUp0
📢 Changes have been made to how the government classifies 'healthy' and 'less healthy' food and drinks.
This could have a wide-ranging consequences, as Kat Jenner of @obesityalliance.bsky.social explains in our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3OiIskG
@actionsaltsugar.bsky.social
Nearly 50% renewables
