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Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social · 1h

A 2025 review in the Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... shows that our current spending on new medicines skews overall health spend away from more effective interventions. But it looks like we are about to spend more on meds, thus depriving our population of more effective healthcare.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

We will rebuild

Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.bsky.social · 1d

Horrible, horrible images from Portland:

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1h

Badenoch is the perfect leader for a party that has retreated into fantasy.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

"Prime minister Keir Starmer was expected to go to Cop30, where the UK can boast about some of the world’s most ambitious targets and solid achievements in cutting emissions. But... some of his advisers want him to stay at home, fearing that the Reform Party will attack him for going."

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 1h

This is actually one of the best news pieces I've read in mainstream media about our circumstances. It carefully lays out the scale of the catastrophe we're potentially facing, and the utter unseriousness of those elected to do something about it

Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 1h

This makes me want to go full gorilla mode www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 3h

Officials in Downing Street have blocked publication of a report warning that the collapse of tropical rainforests could push up food prices in British supermarkets.

Story 👇
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

I bet it would also push house prices up slightly across the board.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Stuffed mushroom on the barbecue? I used to call them cheesy delights.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

Breaded vegan starfish?

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

1911

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

James Elder told BBC News today that there had been severe bombardment overnight in one of the areas - tent cities - which the IDF have driven people south into.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2h

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3h

Tomorrow, a week on from Thursday's attack on the Manchester synagogue, this will be marked as a day of solidarity and mourning by civic groups from across all faiths and none. You are also invited to join online sharing #britainstandstogether

More information
together.org.uk/articles/bri...

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 3h

The mother of this baby, Tetyana, was killed in a russian strike on Kyiv on Sept 7 — she suffered burns to 90% of her body.

Her premature baby, Nazar, miraculously survived emergency delivery and brain surgery. The father Vadym meets his son for the first time on Oct 7.

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Source: United24.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 3h

1. On Monday, Trump delivered a $70 million windfall to his billionaire buddy, John Paulson.

Paulson hosted the biggest fundraiser of Trump's 2024 campaign, raising over $50 million.

This week, Trump returned the favor.

Follow along for details.

Trump approves mining road, delivers $70 million windfall to MAGA billionaire

On April 6, 2024, a procession of Range Rovers, Aston Martins, and Bentleys rolled up to the Palm Beach mansion of billionaire John Paulson. The occasion was a glitzy fundraiser for Donald Trump’s…

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 4h

Bluesky search is coming back.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 4h

MSF doctor left Gaza on a medical evacuation, leaving a home, 25 years of memories, and everything else but his clothes and mobile behind - Israeli conditions for any evacuation - explaining the mass mental health crash which will follow a full ceasefire.

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 4h

Fast and Reckless Product Management

Fast or slow, reckless or careful diagram. AI as fast/reckless government as slow/careful

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 4h

Much of the time.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 4h

You did. I was answering the sentence straight.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 4h

She did, though I can't be sure they weren't lined up for interviews and hand-shaking on the way out.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 5h

Oh look, another political speech!

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 5h

"People don’t give a damn about your macro level." - said Belarusian President Lukashenko, who has banned price increases across the country — because, as he noted, things should be done so that people feel good.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 5h

I can't find the relevant previous post, and I can't do the budgeting, but I'd suggest offering the support to employers and employees to get (probably a large number) into work, then three years later observe "oh look, the benefit budget has gone down".

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 5h

"A second Byline Times journalist has been blocked from attending Conservative party conference, following our political editor Adam Bienkov’s also being rejected."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6h

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

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