Kris Nicol
@kris-nicol.bsky.social
Nurse Lecturer @University of Leicester an proud Year 4 Lead
Ex ICU Nurse (still hear Draeger alarms in my sleep)
All views are my own and not representative of my employer
Ex ICU Nurse (still hear Draeger alarms in my sleep)
All views are my own and not representative of my employer
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The world should be alarmed. A lunatic is president of the United States and no one is challenging his impulses to make himself an emperor.
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
Greenland alarmed after Trump appoints special envoy to make country ‘part of the US’
www.independent.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The world should be alarmed. A lunatic is president of the United States and no one is challenging his impulses to make himself an emperor.
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This sums it up rather well.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
This sums it up rather well.
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Emma Runswick talking sense on #BBBreakfast. Why are we turning away doctors when the NHS is crying out for them? Why has Wes Streeting refused to negotiate with the BMA for months?
December 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Emma Runswick talking sense on #BBBreakfast. Why are we turning away doctors when the NHS is crying out for them? Why has Wes Streeting refused to negotiate with the BMA for months?
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Let's be very clear what's happened: the BMA has been trying to negotiate with the govt for months (when there was no flu epidemic). As late as November the BMA were trying to get round the table & wrote a letter to Wes Streeting. He didn't bother replying.
December 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Let's be very clear what's happened: the BMA has been trying to negotiate with the govt for months (when there was no flu epidemic). As late as November the BMA were trying to get round the table & wrote a letter to Wes Streeting. He didn't bother replying.
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Lack of funding for nursing workforce puts global health targets ‘out of reach’
A lack of investment in the global nursing workforce is putting international healthcare targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has warned. #nursing #nurses
www.nursingtimes.net/global-nursi...
A lack of investment in the global nursing workforce is putting international healthcare targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has warned. #nursing #nurses
www.nursingtimes.net/global-nursi...
Lack of funding for nursing workforce puts global health targets ‘out of reach’
A lack of investment in the nursing workforce is putting global health targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses has warned.
www.nursingtimes.net
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Lack of funding for nursing workforce puts global health targets ‘out of reach’
A lack of investment in the global nursing workforce is putting international healthcare targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has warned. #nursing #nurses
www.nursingtimes.net/global-nursi...
A lack of investment in the global nursing workforce is putting international healthcare targets out of reach, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has warned. #nursing #nurses
www.nursingtimes.net/global-nursi...
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"I wouldn't want to take away the right to strike at all but..."
Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay.
Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.
Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay.
Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.
December 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
"I wouldn't want to take away the right to strike at all but..."
Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay.
Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.
Govt minister Sarah Jones defending a group of workers not being allowed to strike and attacking another group of workers for striking in order to restore their pay.
Jones is an MP for the party of organised labour.
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The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
To tackle child poverty the government must deal with parental poverty
Labour's child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won't address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty
leftfootforward.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
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The Palestine Action case is really simple.
What terrorism have Palestine Action committed?
None.
Case Closed.
What terrorism have Palestine Action committed?
None.
Case Closed.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The Palestine Action case is really simple.
What terrorism have Palestine Action committed?
None.
Case Closed.
What terrorism have Palestine Action committed?
None.
Case Closed.
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Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell
The X Effect and the dangers of social media bias
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Sky News' investigation The X Effect has exposed a right-wing bias in X's algorithm, which boosts extreme content over left-wing voices | Cliff Mitchell
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Once again, not a single member of the press corps stands up for their female colleague being verbally abused by the President.
Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.
Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Once again, not a single member of the press corps stands up for their female colleague being verbally abused by the President.
Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.
Trump is a historic disgrace, but every single person in that room standing in compliant silence is complicit.
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The UK state pension, worst in the world.
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The UK state pension, worst in the world.
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Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Labour Party seems to have moved from:
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
“We will look out for you, from the cradle to the grave.”
To
“Life’s unfair. Deal with it.”
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This is what I have lived my entire life in Europe. Why I never moved to the US, been offered many jobs, but the lack of proper health care, and the thought of my children being killed by some gun loon in school, kind of put me off. Proper health care is a human right, not a luxury.
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is what I have lived my entire life in Europe. Why I never moved to the US, been offered many jobs, but the lack of proper health care, and the thought of my children being killed by some gun loon in school, kind of put me off. Proper health care is a human right, not a luxury.
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"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
"we keep hearing conversations about tough choices, but these always seem to be tough choices for children in poverty, for disabled people, for working class communities, when are we going to see tough choices for multimillionaires and billionaires?"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on #GMB
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Dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy is one of the most urgent changes needed".
Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands.
50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population.
Political system bought by the rich.
Tax the rich.
Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands.
50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population.
Political system bought by the rich.
Tax the rich.
Do you feel lucky? Why acknowledging our own good fortune would make the world a better place | Julian Richer
I have been fortunate, and I know it. Now I’d like more successful people to admit that meritocracy is a myth, says Julian Richer, founder of Richer Sounds
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Dismantling the myth that we live in a meritocracy is one of the most urgent changes needed".
Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands.
50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population.
Political system bought by the rich.
Tax the rich.
Poverty inflicted on the masses whilst wealth and power is concentrated in few hands.
50 families have more wealth than half of the UK population.
Political system bought by the rich.
Tax the rich.
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Thames Water bidder offering £1bn extra cash injection.
30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments.
Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced.
Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments.
Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced.
Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
Thames Water bidder says it is offering £1bn extra cash injection
Castle Water says restructuring plans do not go far enough and extra funds will help resolve pollution crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Thames Water bidder offering £1bn extra cash injection.
30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments.
Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced.
Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
30%+ of the customer bill covers interest payments.
Any private owner would want profit, dividends, sewage dumping will continue, customers will be fleeced.
Must end the profit motive. Nationalise water industry.
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Its a scandal that hospices have to rely on charity for most of their funding. What we need is a publicly funded & fully resourced hospice system within the NHS.
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Its a scandal that hospices have to rely on charity for most of their funding. What we need is a publicly funded & fully resourced hospice system within the NHS.
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This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
And that's it. Overall impressions are
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
- there's still a surprising lack of detail
- lots of new work for officials but unlikely to lead to much change on the ground
- refugees will still live here rest of their lives but will struggle even more than before to integrate
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This document is the product of a broken administration, motivated by cynicism, immune to human decency, with a weak-to-non-existent understanding of the policy area they wish to legislate in.
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Investing in nurses has knock-on benefits for doctors, suggests study
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels and working environments are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors, according to researchers.
www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/in...
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels and working environments are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors, according to researchers.
www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/in...
Investing in nurses has knock-on benefits for doctors, suggests study
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors.
www.nursingtimes.net
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Investing in nurses has knock-on benefits for doctors, suggests study
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels and working environments are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors, according to researchers.
www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/in...
Hospitals with better nurse staffing levels and working environments are not only better for nurses but are also associated with less burnout among doctors, according to researchers.
www.nursingtimes.net/workforce/in...
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‘Why anatomy and physiology are the heart of nursing’
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing. #nursing #anatomy #physiology #career #nurses #anatomyandphysiology #nurse #education #healthcare
www.nursingtimes.net/anatomy-and-...
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing. #nursing #anatomy #physiology #career #nurses #anatomyandphysiology #nurse #education #healthcare
www.nursingtimes.net/anatomy-and-...
‘Why anatomy and physiology are the heart of nursing’
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing.
www.nursingtimes.net
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
‘Why anatomy and physiology are the heart of nursing’
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing. #nursing #anatomy #physiology #career #nurses #anatomyandphysiology #nurse #education #healthcare
www.nursingtimes.net/anatomy-and-...
Deepthi Thankachan explains why learning about anatomy and physiology is fundamental to a career in nursing. #nursing #anatomy #physiology #career #nurses #anatomyandphysiology #nurse #education #healthcare
www.nursingtimes.net/anatomy-and-...
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Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
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Government to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Labour to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR
Home secretary will attempt to change way ECHR is interpreted by UK judges – as critics hit out over proposals
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Government to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Alongside @bma.org.uk, we've written to the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions urging Long COVID and severe post Covid-19 complications be recognised as an industrial disease.
This change would ensure health and social care workers with Long COVID can access the financial support they need.
This change would ensure health and social care workers with Long COVID can access the financial support they need.
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Alongside @bma.org.uk, we've written to the Secretary of State for Work & Pensions urging Long COVID and severe post Covid-19 complications be recognised as an industrial disease.
This change would ensure health and social care workers with Long COVID can access the financial support they need.
This change would ensure health and social care workers with Long COVID can access the financial support they need.
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We've done some maths on NMC spending on major external suppliers over the last couple of years.
#NMCnotfit
#NMCCultureChange
#NMCstillfailing
#NMCnotfit
#NMCCultureChange
#NMCstillfailing
February 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We've done some maths on NMC spending on major external suppliers over the last couple of years.
#NMCnotfit
#NMCCultureChange
#NMCstillfailing
#NMCnotfit
#NMCCultureChange
#NMCstillfailing
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