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Christopher McCabe
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🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇧Professor of Health Economics. Queens University Belfast. Health Policy, Health Technology Assessment and Innovation. Opinions my own - nobody else would want them. Shares are not endorsements. #ElbowsUp

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 11h
Saw this on the dead bird place.

Would it be a different story if it was tobacco or alcohol or cannabis the subject matter … ?

Another shameful story #auspol.

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David Pocock (@davidpocock) on Threads
Why I’ve been banned from playing parliamentary sport...
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UNGRIPP @ungripp.bsky.social · 1d
Serving an IPP sentence is like walking on eggshells that are scattered over a minefield.

- Marc Conway, speaking at the Labour Conference 2025

#LabourPartyConference #endipp

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Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social · 1d
I’d add that this comprehensive review by Sally Gainsbury and Huceyin Nasi makes the same argument: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/th...
It is unconscionable that we accede to big pharma.
The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma
The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d
The reality of policy is all in the details. Good intentions and good government co-exist through attention to detail. Its so annoying.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d
A fine piece of writing there from Sam Leith
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...
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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 3d
Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Every day I cry’: 50 women talk about life as a domestic worker under the Gulf’s kafala system
Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers,...
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 3d
Pregnancy and C-19 are NOT good friends 🤬‼️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants alter trophoblast cell fusion and syncytiotrophoblast dynamics: new insights into placental vulnerability - Cell Death & Disease
Cell Death & Disease - SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants alter trophoblast cell fusion and syncytiotrophoblast dynamics: new insights into placental vulnerability
www.nature.com
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 3d
Is there any policy area that this government can actually get right from the get-go? It's a genuine question. How can they get policy proposals so wrong, so consistently.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 3d
Lucy Hamilton: “Some of the most dangerous people in world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It can be found at ABC, including on Radio National lifestyle programming.”

2024 theaimn.com/the-abc-goes...
The ABC goes to Hungary: the culture war battle between "Christianity" and "woke" is a con - The AIM Network
Some of the most dangerous people in the world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It was not just in the banal [...]
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 7d
I think it depends whether the main stream press actually cover what the evidence is saying rather than going with artificial balance. Fingers crossed.
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 7d
Well said!

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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 7d
I wish I could say yes....
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7d
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7d
"Physician-scientists are the artisans working through the night, arguing, racing, debating seemingly crazy ideas, all the while taking on complex questions to find a cure to benefit all of humankind. Vaccines are manmade miracles among us." www.thebulwark.com/p/polio-vacc...
The Polio Vaccine Was a Miracle—and We Must Not Forget It
As a polio survivor, I am a dinosaur today. My great hope is that our country’s living memory of the disease ends with my generation.
www.thebulwark.com
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 7d
Heartbreaking.

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's 1st death | CBC News
Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...
www.cbc.ca
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 7d
Last night four Scots, along with hundreds of others, were attacked and kidnapped by the Israeli navy as they tried to deliver livesaving aid.

The UK government must act.
The Herald. Four Scots on Gaza aid flotilla ‘kidnapped’ by Israel, Ross Greer says.
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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 8d
People sometimes think Bank Street needs bus lanes only during "peak" hours. The data shows otherwise : the largest delays are during the hours outside of "peak", when buses weave in and out of parking lanes.

Our city deserves reliable service all day, for all kinds of trips, with 24/7 bus lanes.
Image showing the travel times for bus routes 6 and 7 in the corridor of Bank Street going northbound and southbound between Aylmer and Chamberlain. The data shows significant large delays outside of the "peak hours" that the city has deemed where bus lanes are needed.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 8d
"If we can't build with the collaboration of the federal government and between provinces, and everybody gets to have their products going to market except Alberta, than it's not a country." - Danielle Smith, after the feds built TMX to the tune of $34 billion to get oil to market.
Danielle Smith announces Alberta will be the proponent in a new pipeline application
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 8d
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 9d
Just as other European states should give credit to the Baltics for being correct in their assessment of Russia, other European countries should give credit to Ireland for being correct in its assessment of Israel.
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 10d
New post: Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market
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The government delegating some highly technical tasks to independent experts doesn't create a democratic deficit, but it does avoid wishful thinking.
Misunderstandings on the left (and elsewhere) about the OBR, independence and the bond market
I often see pieces from those on the left criticising the OBR. Here is Louise Haigh , for example, talking about the “rigid orthodoxy of t...
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 11d
Is the implication that the senior figures actually quite like the idea of being 'bigot-lite' and wish there voter base was of that persuasion?

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 11d
Of course tech companies didn't just stop at broad manipulation of the public discourse sphere. The grab for land & power, literally, is playing out w/ devastating consequence. People are fighting back on data centers popping up all over. From @ruddock.bsky.social: pressingissues.org/big-tech-pus...
Why Big Tech’s Push for Data Centers Should Worry Us All
Communities everywhere are ramping up resistance to the extraction and pollution powering AI.
pressingissues.org
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 11d
In Canada...👇

"...acetaminophen remains a safe and appropriate first-line option for managing fever and pain during pregnancy..." sogc.org/en/en/conten... via @sogc.org
SOGC Statement on Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy
SOGC Statement on Acetaminophen Use in Pregnancy
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 11d
The ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is a terrifying example of what happens when politicians create performative, divisive policies to appease the far-right.

We’ve joined 100+ orgs asking the new Home Secretary to end the scapegoating of refugees and migrants 👇🏼

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
More than 100 charities call for home secretary to stop ‘scapegoating’ migrants
The letter claimed that blaming migrants for societal issues had sown ‘anger and division’ in the community
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d
🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.
Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history
The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 11d
regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11d
Rachel Reeves: "We do need a welfare system that is based on the principle of contribution"

What happened to a welfare system based on the principle of need? Or the principle of universalism?

Haven't contributed for whatever reason? Tough.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.
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