James Bullion CBE
@jamesbullion.bsky.social
Former Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated Care, CQC, former DASS Norfolk, Essex, past Adass President. Skills for Care Trustee. Poet. Guitarist.
@skinnock.bsky.social interesting from the msc today on a fourth shift desire of 'from fragmentation to integration'. For that we will need some attention to the infrastructure for social care, housing & health, with agreement on what is local, what is national, and what needs a Casey consensus.
September 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
@skinnock.bsky.social interesting from the msc today on a fourth shift desire of 'from fragmentation to integration'. For that we will need some attention to the infrastructure for social care, housing & health, with agreement on what is local, what is national, and what needs a Casey consensus.
Holiday read. EP Thompson was absolutely core to my economics and history degree with his Making of the English Working Class etc, but also his modern politics and nuclear disarmament writing in the 1980s. This book distils and delights.
August 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Holiday read. EP Thompson was absolutely core to my economics and history degree with his Making of the English Working Class etc, but also his modern politics and nuclear disarmament writing in the 1980s. This book distils and delights.
Holiday read, Greuze; a moralist with a passion for lovely shoulders, and a self obsessed, impertinent, shoe kissing adorer, and hapless husband of an apparently embezzling wife, savings swiped by the revolution and died penniless, appropriately enough, in the Louvre.
August 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Holiday read, Greuze; a moralist with a passion for lovely shoulders, and a self obsessed, impertinent, shoe kissing adorer, and hapless husband of an apparently embezzling wife, savings swiped by the revolution and died penniless, appropriately enough, in the Louvre.
Two iconic German cars in Bristol this morning.
August 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Two iconic German cars in Bristol this morning.
Holiday read. A dip in sort of book, with many good essays. As a lad I'd buy these sort of books as primers. This short Franklin essay on Tryants is still relevant. 'Trust not a single person with the government of your state'
August 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Holiday read. A dip in sort of book, with many good essays. As a lad I'd buy these sort of books as primers. This short Franklin essay on Tryants is still relevant. 'Trust not a single person with the government of your state'
What an extraordinary sound live the Still House Plants bring, echoes of sonic youth, and mbv or low but really they are pretty unique.
May 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
What an extraordinary sound live the Still House Plants bring, echoes of sonic youth, and mbv or low but really they are pretty unique.
Apollo the tortoise in latest bid to escape....
May 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Apollo the tortoise in latest bid to escape....
Great evening with @cafewriters.bsky.social listening to Cat Woodward, Daryl Fraser and @leahpoet.bsky.social Such good readings and books to buy, and did open mic which I rarely do too.
April 15, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Great evening with @cafewriters.bsky.social listening to Cat Woodward, Daryl Fraser and @leahpoet.bsky.social Such good readings and books to buy, and did open mic which I rarely do too.
Worth seeing the Colin Self exhibition at @norwichcastle.bsky.social which I really connected to in the early 80s thinking about the potential for nuclear war and nuclear disarmament both of which were in the air it seemed. Great book by Georgia Bottinelli
April 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Worth seeing the Colin Self exhibition at @norwichcastle.bsky.social which I really connected to in the early 80s thinking about the potential for nuclear war and nuclear disarmament both of which were in the air it seemed. Great book by Georgia Bottinelli
After 6 months wandering wild Apollo has turned up in the garden again. Luckily we have left the weeds for him.
April 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
After 6 months wandering wild Apollo has turned up in the garden again. Luckily we have left the weeds for him.
Holiday read 4; have seen some criticism that this was an arrogant account, but it's reflective and quite human, about obsession, and maths, and formative friendships. Well worth it.
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Holiday read 4; have seen some criticism that this was an arrogant account, but it's reflective and quite human, about obsession, and maths, and formative friendships. Well worth it.
Holiday read; 3. For guitar geeks there is little better. They were truly great live at the Town and Country Club in the mid 80s. He comes across as difficult which is no surprise, and in the end saw ghosts. Like we all do. @nowjazznow
April 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Holiday read; 3. For guitar geeks there is little better. They were truly great live at the Town and Country Club in the mid 80s. He comes across as difficult which is no surprise, and in the end saw ghosts. Like we all do. @nowjazznow
2nd Holiday read (re-read really). How prayerful he was, in those times between the wars or when the bombs were falling in London. I particularly love 'what the thunder said' from the wasteland. All that dry rock seeking water, comfort. Poetry for these doubtful times no doubt.
April 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
2nd Holiday read (re-read really). How prayerful he was, in those times between the wars or when the bombs were falling in London. I particularly love 'what the thunder said' from the wasteland. All that dry rock seeking water, comfort. Poetry for these doubtful times no doubt.
Shoved into an old charity shop book - the flu strategy in the December 1963 Daily Mirror was aspro, and go to bed. Note the archbish's advice that universities build not sophisticates but people whose knowledge goes with character and reverence for persons and the mind.
April 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Shoved into an old charity shop book - the flu strategy in the December 1963 Daily Mirror was aspro, and go to bed. Note the archbish's advice that universities build not sophisticates but people whose knowledge goes with character and reverence for persons and the mind.
First holiday read, found in Holt. The speeches of Harold Wilson in the first year of his government in 1964/5. Urgent economic steps to impose temporary tariffs and reduce the balance of trade deficit on goods 'we ought to be able to make for ourselves..' sound familiar?
April 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
First holiday read, found in Holt. The speeches of Harold Wilson in the first year of his government in 1964/5. Urgent economic steps to impose temporary tariffs and reduce the balance of trade deficit on goods 'we ought to be able to make for ourselves..' sound familiar?
Stunning pub the brew society in #Leeds. In town for the Skills for Care board meeting. @skillsforcare.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Stunning pub the brew society in #Leeds. In town for the Skills for Care board meeting. @skillsforcare.bsky.social
They were giving these away at work. Obvs I have views about eating animals I shant proselytize about, but if we are now providing powdered protein bone broth for humans as a flavoured drink, it feels a bit livestock to me. This is a thing now is it?
March 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
They were giving these away at work. Obvs I have views about eating animals I shant proselytize about, but if we are now providing powdered protein bone broth for humans as a flavoured drink, it feels a bit livestock to me. This is a thing now is it?
Lively and robust conversations at UK Care Show. if anyone feels that the care sector is not self sustaining, inventive and innovative they should come to one of these.
March 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Lively and robust conversations at UK Care Show. if anyone feels that the care sector is not self sustaining, inventive and innovative they should come to one of these.
Nature turning, walk in Trowse woods at Imbolc this morning.
February 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Nature turning, walk in Trowse woods at Imbolc this morning.
On the moon's shoulder
February 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
On the moon's shoulder
Lovely mooch around Whitlingham Lake this morning.
January 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lovely mooch around Whitlingham Lake this morning.
Sense of foreboding (providers crumbling) from @vicrayner. she asks for social care to be central to policy, for pay & conditions to be improved (most workforce strategy items r modest costs except the fair pay settlement), an industrial plan for care & fairness #ncasc24
November 28, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Sense of foreboding (providers crumbling) from @vicrayner. she asks for social care to be central to policy, for pay & conditions to be improved (most workforce strategy items r modest costs except the fair pay settlement), an industrial plan for care & fairness #ncasc24
strong focus on people and lives at #ncasc24 and how any standards for a national care service have to focus on creativity and control over our lives. Strong evidence from @AnnaSeverwright on the difference this can make. @CQCProf will this be consistent with commissioning?
November 28, 2024 at 11:13 AM
strong focus on people and lives at #ncasc24 and how any standards for a national care service have to focus on creativity and control over our lives. Strong evidence from @AnnaSeverwright on the difference this can make. @CQCProf will this be consistent with commissioning?
Brilliant accompanying music from minimamusic.co.uk at the screening of Nosferatu tonight at @norwichfilmfest
November 16, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Brilliant accompanying music from minimamusic.co.uk at the screening of Nosferatu tonight at @norwichfilmfest