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Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley

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Public health doctor, hon Professor @salforduniversity, visiting Professor @chesteruniversity, former Director of Public Health, Scouser & @FT Women of 2020 ❤️all arts especially music & film, wildlife, photography, history, politics & sci-fi

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Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley @ardernkate.bsky.social · Nov 15

As promised here’s the link to recent honorary Prof lecture at Salford University #citzenledpublichealth definitely one for @sallywarren.bsky.social @lucatiratelli.bsky.social @jobibby.bsky.social @sallygainsbury.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social @charliepickles.bsky.social vimeo.com/1026581234

Citizen-led Public Health: A Story of People, Place, Politics and Power by Professor Kate Ardern

This is "Citizen-led Public Health: A Story of People, Place, Politics and Power by Professor Kate Ardern" by University Of Salford on Vimeo, the home…

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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 14m

NHS bureaucratic failures are on my mind a lot right now. Can you tell????

#cansky

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder of how Mrs Thatcher's Conservative party in 1983, an era featuring much more widespread racial prejudice in the public, approached the issue of race and national identity:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22m

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

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Daryl FÉTH FÍADA Feehely 🎃 @darylfeehely.com · 16d

A nice surprise this morning to hear that the @climatealarmclock.bsky.social gang are back dropping truth & pragmatic laughs about #ClimateChange.

Maith sibh 👏

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Public perception and the hottest summer yet - LIVE at Earth Rising 2025 - The Climate Alarm Clock

The Climate Alarms Clock is back with a couple of special episodesTodays episode was recorded live at The Earth Rising Festival in the Irish Museum of M...

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1h

The Welsh Government must show stronger leadership in driving the changes needed to tackle the growing problem of obesity in Wales, says the Senedd's Health and Social Care Committee

Urgent action needed to tackle Wales' obesity crisis

The Welsh Government must show stronger leadership in driving the changes needed to tackle the growing problem of obesity in Wales, says the Senedd’s Health and Social Care Committee. 62% of adults in...

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 1h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1h

As Tory Conference ends, Best for Britain have released exclusive new polling.

🔵 Best for Britain CEO @pimlicat.bsky.social discusses how support for Brexit has fallen in the Tory party. Read Westminster Wire to find out more.

https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/tory-voters-say-brexit-a-failure

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Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social · 3h

We cannot accept this.

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'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3h

In the early 2010s it was infuriating to see endless screeds on "legitimate concerns" against East Europeans from analysts and scholars who seemed oblivious to how the moment political leaders capitulated to this xenophobia it would just lead to escalating hatemongering against other diasporas

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 19h

Now open access: BJRL back archive, including special issue on ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’. Check it out.

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 21h

This week, Professor Carsten Timmermann writes on Bulletin 87:1, ‘Medical History in Manchester: Health and Healing in an Industrial City, 1750–2005’.

Read the blog post: bit.ly/3KYQL39

BJRL Goes Open Access: Professor Carsten Timmermann on Manchester's Medical History - Manchester University Press

BJRL 87:1 is now Open Access on Manchesterhive.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22h

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 8d

“Westminster makes a fraud out of good people” – Andy Burnham didn’t hold back in Liverpool.

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 5d

🏥 How can the NHS shift from fragmentation to true integration in neighbourhood health?

✍ Researcher, @alicesemark.bsky.social, explores the lessons from our Labour Party Conference panel on delivering the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan.

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Re:State @re-state.bsky.social · 5d

The Re:View is out! 🥳

This week, Head of Health, @rosiebeacon.bsky.social reflects on party conference season and the Prime Minister’s announcement of NHS Online, an entirely virtual hospital model first proposed in our Hospital of the Future programme.

Read it here: re-state.co.uk/review/revie...

Re:View 3 October 2025 - Re:State

There are few words that truly encapsulate the party conference experience. For attendees, they are a heady mix of people, panels and parties. For politicians, they are a crucial moment in the politic...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h

We all need to be prepared this week for when on Friday Donald Trump — much to his complete and total surprise — doesn’t actually get the Nobel Peace Prize and he loses his mind.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 18h

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 5h

‘Populists (like Trump and his acolyte Farage) exploit the anger and frustration of declining working classes for their own benefit and that of selfish plutocrats’. But Starmer, with his flag waving nostalgia,should also note that you cannot step into the same river twice
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Trump’s tariffs won’t deliver many jobs

Nostalgia is not a strategy: the past cannot return

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s video of the incident

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 5h

Local museums in 75 areas across England are to receive £20m funding from the government's Museum Renewal Fund.

It will enable millions of people to continue to celebrate their local heritage through new or improved exhibits, protection of opening hours, jobs and community & educational programmes.

Millions of people to benefit from £20 million to keep local museums open and thriving

£20 million investment in civic museums to protect opening hours and jobs, as part of the government’s ongoing commitment to ensure museums can continue to tell our national story at a local level

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 5h

That poses a lot of questions

Whoever that person is they have laid the Govt open to criticism of not treating all UK citizens abroad the same, of making judgements about them

It undermines the process we pay a lot of money to uphold of having embassies etc abroad to support UK passport holders

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 1d

It speaks volumes that a No 10 spokesperson wasn’t able instinctively to say something about seeking access and providing consular services to British citizens detained overseas.

Now imagine substituting certain other countries for Israel and being told ‘it’s a matter for that government’.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer’s spokesman asked about Israel detaining British citizens who were on the Gaza aid flotilla, while in international waters, replies that it is a “matter for the Israeli Government”

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 5h

The Right Rev Michael Volland said the shadow justice secretary was ‘entirely wrong’ and accused him of feeding into a ‘harmful narrative’

Bishop of Birmingham criticises Robert Jenrick over ‘white faces’ claim

The Right Rev Michael Volland said the shadow justice secretary was ‘entirely wrong’ and accused him of feeding into a ‘harmful narrative’

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13h

been reading about the glorious revolution and it’s funny that this event that looms so large in the history of British parliamentary govt and thus world liberal democracy was straightforwardly the Dutch doing a regime change as part of their geopolitical struggle against France

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