Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

We are deeply concerned by reports of a violent attack at a synagogue in Manchester today. We unequivocally condemn this act of violence.

More than 5 years have passed since the emergence of #SARSCoV2, the virus responsible for #COVID-19.
Despite some progress, the virus continues to circulate worldwide - causing infections, hospitalizations, and long-term health complications.
England positive COVID-19 tests trend up throughout 2025.

At Healthy Working Wales we will soon be lunching new FREE services to help employers keep your workforce well. Register here for our employer brunch briefing healthyworking.wales/event/new-fr...

sustainable economies and businesses need healthy and happy workforces

#CymruCan #PublicHealth

The voice of families with firsthand experience is all over this. Please spread and use this tool, it’s written from lived experience and will help improve the health and health care of people in prison. www.prisonadvice.org.uk/get-help/hea.... #publichealth

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

#Vaccines have been the cornerstone of #PublicHealth efforts for decades, protecting us from infectious diseases & paving the way for healthier, more prosperous societies.

#Immunisation is a safe and cost-effective way to protect people – especially infants & young children.
#VaccinesWork

Statement from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

"MHRA confirms taking paracetamol during pregnancy remains safe and there is no evidence it causes autism in children"

www.gov.uk/government/n...

En route to Public Health Wales AGM in Carmarthen. A tree precariously near line delayed us. Sorted. GWR train manager from Cardiff and Transport for Wales swansea staff unbelievably helpful. Train for Carmarthen/Fishguard rolls calmly into swansea only 1 minute late. And we’re off. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻love it

Patients who continue to struggle with fatigue and brain fog after recovering from COVID-19 may have lingering neuroinflammation triggered by the virus.
healthimaging.com/topics/clini...

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Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

John C. Turner pulls no punches 😂

A book for our times. As Lyse Doucet says quoted in intro to this “If you don’t understand religion, including the abuse of religion, you don’t understand what is happening in our world.” Or how to respond.

books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

Andrew Marr writing in this week’s @newstatesman.com

📢 Join us for the next ECDC Lighthouse webinar
“The public as partners: unlocking the potential of citizen science in disease prevention and control”.

What happens when science opens its doors to the public?
🗓️ Monday 22/09/2025
🕕 13.00-14.00 CET
💻 Online

#ECDCLighthouse

This article wasn’t about them, but it shows how people faked concern of social justice to let it rip.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/wokewashing/

15th November - British Psychological Society Wales is holding a Festival of #Psychology and #PublicHealth

Mind and Nation will bring people together to share the contribution of psychology to improving and protecting the health of the People of Wales.

www.bps.org.uk/event/bps-we...

Im two chapters into Harry Tanner’s first book and its brilliant . @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social His writng sweeps you up and carries you. Highly recommend www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-thi...

Good piece about St George by a historian in The Tablet . A saint of Middle Eastern origin brought to England by foreign missionaries and revered by many Muslims not just Christians….

“That’s how it starts. Not with a rejection of science, but with a crack in the trust.”

This should be mandatory reading for everyone in public health and healthcare.

macleans.ca/longforms/co...

A lot of unevidenced claims about vaccines are getting picked up and amplified on X by journalists who should probably know better.

So if your aim is to use social media to reduce impact of these claims, then it does feel like you should be tackling the flawed-claim-to-media-uptake step on X...

A reminder that you’ll get an alert at 3pm today to test the UK national emergency alert system. If you have a phone you need to keep concealed (eg because of abuse or violence) here’s how to opt out of the alerts www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...