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If you look at UK health pages, many NHS & other “official” pages, there are vast numbers of references to the Electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC). www.medicines.org.uk The impression is that the eMC has Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) for all UK medicines. And that is where we should look.

Daisy doesn't like being in all night. 😾 Looking for recommendations for microchip cat flaps. Please. Available easily in UK. Not a ridiculous price. Needs to fit a standard 28mm double glazed glass panel. #CatsOfBluesky #Cats #catlovers #catlove #MenWithCats #CatFlap

Not very far away... doi.org/10.64628/AB....

To deny the link between religion and nationalism is to wilfully ignore history. I applaud moderate Christians who speak out against dangerous Christian nationalism today. But Christianity was the state religion of the Roman Empire… 1/3 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

NEWS: Eight major U.S. allies—including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—have issued a joint rebuke of the Trump regime’s sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court. They vow “unwavering support” for the ICC’s independence.

From the new Private Eye

If The Times’ political editor didn’t challenge Kemi Badenoch on her banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social can the newspaper of record just make this simple correction?

👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Keir Starmer's final legacy: a scandalously secretive pharma deal with Trump that experts estimate will cost the NHS £44 billion by 2030 and lead to 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, double the Covid death toll. Isn't it time the public had a say on this? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NUJ responds to reports of Conservative party banning Byline Times journalists from conference • www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

The rain might be annoying, but it can result in some lovely effects!

The Community Pharmacy England site shows five current price concessions on levothyroxine tablets. Still not officially in shortage! cpe.org.uk/funding-and-...

Let us see more about this! Such issues really matter to so many of us.

No one should forget we took a big hit by our retirement age being moved back in EXCHANGE for the triple lock.

In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.

13 years of investigation! Resulted in a three-year prison sentence suspended for three years. Superficially seems to have been a VERY long investigation - how could it take that long? www.gov.uk/government/n...

How can two persons have 75% ownership of shares & voting rights of one company? Re Medicina Limited 02654669 find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0265... Was looking re these recent convictions: www.gov.uk/government/n...

🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

The proposed ban on non-essential use of PFAS in the EU is being fought by the chemicals industry on a scale, "far bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." share.google/r69snPliLy5N...

No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.

Anyone else getting a plague of TV Licensing spam emails? Several a day. So obviously spam/fake/malicious.

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We urgently need more Black blood donors, with the NHS only able to meet half of hospital demand for the Ro blood type. This Sickle Cell Awareness Month, I’ve tabled an EDM calling for action. Please give blood this month and ask your MP to sign 🩸 edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Let’s do this! 🪧 The gambling industry is littered with personal failures and tragedies and they have the gall to (try to) convince us that we’d be worse off without them! Wanna bet?

The entire gambling industry needs to be taxed into oblivion, including online. It provides zero social utility.

Martin Lewis. AGAIN Thankfully. As no-one else seems to care or bother. youtu.be/PxWA6fzkdj4

Session on the Workplace Thyroid Toolkit developed by the University of Aberdeen with the British Thyroid Association. Check it out online #NASUWT

WOW As reported by @libertyhq.bsky.social, five police forces; Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire, under the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), are to stop using Palantir's nectar. Huge news. libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/pal...

🤔 Nigel Farage leads a political party. He’s a sitting MP. And he now hosts his own weekly primetime show on GB News. 🚨Broadcasters are required to present news in an impartial manner, without political bias. 👇 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.

The only thing we learn from this is that Adam Smith anticipated the BBC: the "disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful...is...the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...