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James Ingram

@ingyingram.bsky.social

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Posting on public policy etc. while surgeons + physios fix me | Vice Chair, Patients' Voices @rcoanews.bsky.social + rep to @facultypainmed.bsky.social | Former int'l civil servant + NGOs on human rights etc | https://linktr.ee/jamesingram

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

FUCHS lubrication technology must be a joke, right?!

Or is this just straight faced for LinkedIn?

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Physics, History, English, and Latin teachers of mine have all been found out (and successfully prosecuted) for paedophilia, and even we didn't have rumours as lurid as that (maybe that's how they got away with it though 😳)

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Just hoping my kids, freezing today in their tiny pop up sukkah in a London back garden, feel as positively in the future

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

When you could invoke the first Israelite King, just ignore the obvious, and invoke one of the most antisemitic "king's" Tsar Alexander II instead

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for the day any minister in the current govt stands up to do this youtu.be/cOXFQFWaSCE?...

Tony Blair responds to an angry activist at a Labour Party Conference

YouTube video by New Labour

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think that the Chief Secretary of the Admiralty would want to harness that extra wind for his ships

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

So, happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys – who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Diary of Samuel Pepys, 7 October 1663: I did keep my bed; and my pain continued on me mightily, that I keeped within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr Hollyards, but he was not at home; and so home again. And whether the coach did me good or no I know not, but having a good fire in my chamber, I begun to break six or seven small and great farts; and so to bed and lay in good ease all night, and pissed pretty well in the morning, but no more wind came as it used to do plentifully, after it once begun, nor any inclination to stool.

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 1d

V happy to share that I've joined the main Board of the Faculty of Pain Medicine @facultypainmed.bsky.social to represent patients' experiences + views

Lots of great info for patients + families on chronic + acute issues, inc. opioids here
fpm.ac.uk/patients/pat...

#MedSky #AnSky #PPI #PPIE #QISky

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4d

Defining the mere existence of the Palestinian national project as being in opposition to the safety of Jews living anywhere in the world is obviously unfair to Palestinians, but it also ultimately reifies the logic that makes synagogues in diaspora targets of anti-Israel violence. It helps no one.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4d

The people responding to a horrible attack on a shul in the diaspora with "This is about Israel-Palestine" are essentially arguing that Jewish existence and Palestinian existence worldwide are fundamentally irreconcilable.

Unfortunately, the Board of Deputies of British Jews appears to agree.

Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 4d

Absolute unhinged nonsense from @boardofdeputies.bsky.social

STATEMENT: Board of Deputies calls for more than 400 protest terror arrests to also be investigated for stirring up racial hatred

The Board of Deputies utterly condemns the morally grotesque protests that took place today and over recent days.

After the most deadly attack on British Jews since the York Massacre of 1190, we called for the protests to be stopped out of respect to the dead. Politicians and police echoed our community’s call, stressing the burden of policing this rally while providing enhanced protection to more than 300 synagogues across our traumatised community.

The crass insensitivity shown by the protesters, more than 400 of whom were arrested for supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation, is an offence to public decency.

That they would go ahead despite our pleas shows such reckless disregard for public safety and our community’s wellbeing that we consider the underlying motivation to be not just their support for terror, but that they are antisemitic acts, designed to stir up racial hatred. As such we are calling today for those arrested to also be investigated and prosecuted for stirring up racial hatred.

We are demanding that the Government look again at the legislation and powers available to police to stop this continued assault on community relations, city centres, and stretched police resources. What is happening on our streets is just not acceptable. Freedom to protest must come alongside a sense of decency and civil responsibility that seems to completely evade these hateful marchers.

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 4d

The grandson of Oswald Mosley worried about damage to the UK...

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 4d

It's been a challenging few days. And now, on top of it all, messages from school that there are cases of head lice in both kids' classes 🦗

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

As a visibly Jewish person, I always know that going to a synagogue means assuming a certain degree of risk. But now I know that if something were to happen to me, it wouldn't just be sad for my family, but people would try to exploit my death to push policies I deplore.

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 5d

Reflections on yesterday

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#JewSky #YomKippur

I am still feeling sick, desperate, and distracted after yesterday's attack on Yom Kippur. In our synagogue, I was at the children's service, with our kids joyfully, vitally, and chaotically ...

I am still feeling sick, desperate, and distracted after yesterday's attack on Yom Kippur. In our synagogue, I was at the children's service, with our kids joyfully, vitally, and chaotically acting o...

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 5d

10 years old, but worryingly relevant to how I'm feeling being a very online Jew today www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#JewSky

If British Jews are attacked, respect our dignity – and keep your agendas to yourself | Keith Kahn-Harris

I dread the cacophony from right and left on how we should react to antisemitism. What’s important is supporting our survival as a community in the UK

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 5d

Yet another weird day to be a Jew today

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 8d

Me, hoping the kids just listen to me at bedtime, and they counter with this

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Monday 😳
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says

Eliza Manningham-Buller points to extent of cyber-attacks and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 9d

"I wouldn't necessarily support hunting immigrants through the streets with packs of ravenous hyenas, but clearly the voters want and expect them to be hunted by something and it's shameful that elites are sneering at hyena centric suggestions just because they come from real working Britons."

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 9d

Spent 6 years trying to set up Prince's Trust partnerships to get young people into work in c18 countries. I've seen a lot better policy, practice, and funding than this in places Britain wouldn't even think of learning from

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 9d

Stopping caffeine today to try to help make Thursday's Yom Kippur fast a bit easier. Never a good time to go cold turkey, but would have been so much worse if trying to keep up with everything in Liverpool

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 11d

To the tune of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...
🎶 Lucky Sadiq has Directions🎶

James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 13d

Plenty! But bears really need to get themselves ready to feast on the whale when we tell the story of Jonah on Yom Kippur. Even Jewish bears are exempt from fasting

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 13d

Re-emerging after two days of Rosh Hashanah, sharing Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg's piece as an expression of the deepest reflection and action to which many Jews have now re-committed ourselves www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Shana Tova

#JewSky

Thought for the Day - Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg - BBC Sounds

10 SEPT 2025

www.bbc.co.uk

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James Ingram @ingyingram.bsky.social · 16d

I'm 90% salt beef and 10% apple tonight. No way I can manage a dance before waking up for shul. Unless we're advocating for mid-shacharit napping too