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Italy 23-18 England: Six Nations 2026 – live Minute-by-minute report: Join Daniel Gallan for updates as Italy look to topple a much-changed England hoping to put recent heavy defeats behind them

Now that's what I call a weekend of rugby!!! www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2...

Nobody trusts anybody anymore Late-stage capitalism built a low-trust society, and it's an economic disaster

This is great - TRUST as a public good. open.substack.com/pub/yourbrai...

They don't need to "move left" in the sense of adopting Green policies. They do need to stop insulting their own voters. Not the same thing.

Well that was fun!!!

First time in over 20 ys - in Twickenham for the game. Go on#Ireland

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

❓What happens when mistrust of science moves from the fringe to the centre of health policy?

📄 In a new @bmj.com Opinion, I write about the Children’s Health Defense conference in Texas and what it reveals about mistrust, polarisation, and the limits of evidence in public health.

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A really optimistic, actually quite joyful piece! Thank you for sharing @jamestplunkett.bsky.social

This should be the response from all European politicians - Spain’s @monicagarciag.bsky.social is setting out the principles that should guide us, plain and simple.

Excellent piece that shows the importance of government stewardship - "the job of government is not to enjoy the good times, but to prepare for the bad ones — and to make sure that prosperity, when it comes, is shared, protected, and enduring"

So I have clicked on the "notify when they post" button in your profile which might help but I understand what you are saying. I know I should post more but I don't have time!

Agreed, but you also need a wider political medium to long term vision for population welfare across policies of which prevention is an important part - something that we know is absent here....

And more good news!
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/oc...

‘Collaboration’ explains sharp performance boost, say trusts The worst performing ambulance trust of the post-covid period has seen substantial improvement over the past 12 months, which it attributes to “collaboration” with local providers and integrated care ...

Some good news!
app.hsj.co.uk/2025/12/10/c...

Interesting! We are getting better at doing the wrong things! Drucker would have a few few things to say.... "There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all."

People living with multiple LTCs currently experience multiple condition specific annual reviews. This study attempts to reduce the burden on patients through offering a more holistic review.

Photo of Rachel’s piece in print, link to online version in next post

"The hard truth about underfunding palliative care is that people who are at their most vulnerable – the dying – suffer more pain, more indignity, less choice & less autonomy than they might have."

Incredibly, only 30% of hospice care is NHS funded.

Pls read my piece in today’s @theguardian.com.

Out today - read and share your thoughts with us.

Great thread on "left shift" (I really hate that term!) & why it is way harder than most people understand.....

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored? 'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'

Tomorrow, 7th August, is the anniversary of the counter-protests that ended the 2024 riots. Asylum is back in the headlines - but has the need to challenge racism gone missing? My Eastern Eye column this week on the need to rebalance the poliitical conversation

www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...

Why do the children of elderly patients stay away? Loneliness makes them get sicker and stay sicker for longer | Ranjana Srivastava One of the greatest acts of love is simply bearing witness to the vicissitudes of ageing

"Hospitals packed with elderly people whose every problem is magnified by loneliness and a dearth of love and attention. Our costliest medicines don’t touch them and the fleeting kindness of strangers is unfortunately just that." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

World Dementia Day 2025: we need to recognise ‘community based rehabilitation’ here in the UK, and some progress has been made The NHS Long Term Plan commits to integrated, person-centred care, but dementia and delirium must be central to that vision.Delirium, often overlooked, is a preventable and treatable cause of distr…

World Dementia Day 2025: we need to recognise 'community based rehabilitation' here in the UK, and some progress has been made drshibleyrahman.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/w...
#WorldAlzheimersDay

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Timeline cleanse

One thing I really hope we can leave behind in the 2010s/early 2020s is the idea that being cynical = being wise.

If you want to have an impact on the world, that involves being sincere. Yes people will sneer, but sneering has no impact. Genuine sincerity breaks barriers and moves mountains.

Yet another example of policy being driven by short-term cost-containment NOT people-centred care.

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