Malcolm Clark

Last official meetings and events done as Streatham Wells councillor. An honour to chair my final planning committee; emotional to help my final resident at councillor surgery last Sat; and fittingly my final community meeting tonight - in Wells, for Streatham Business Improvement District Board.

In England, no women aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024, according to a study published in The Lancet. Researchers link it to the HPV vaccine.

Congratulations to the two awesome Belgian runners who decided to stop after creating a backyard ultra world record. Ivo Steyaert is 56. Merijn Geerts is 52. They have both run over 500 miles / 820km in 5 days. Congratulations also to the winning team: United States.

New survey by Public Health Wales shows over 3/4 people in Wales support making healthy food & drink easier to find, choose & buy. DsPH are helping make this reality so that every1, no matter where they live or how much they earn, can access affordable, healthy food. phwwhocc.co.uk/resources/ti...

Read our full report 🔗 buff.ly/PMNHHXv

Another in the long list of fake patriots - those on the hard right & far right who shout loudest about immigration & English identity, but choose to spend much of their lives outside of UK. Time mainstream media & politicians called this out more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.

New analysis from @oha-updates.bsky.social shows why it's time to update the rules that determine which foods can be marketed to children so they reflect current nutrition evidence. This is an important part of making the healthy choice the easy choice and protecting future heart health.

The BMJ has published a comprehensive new report setting out how the Government consultation on the packaging, appearance and display of tobacco and vaping products was subject to a significant amount of industry lobbying.

💫 Event 💫 Register for our webinar on #TobaccoIndustry disinformation, being held as part of London Global Cancer Week 2026. 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobacco-industry-disinformation-emerging-tactics-and-lessons-for-public-health/ #PublicHealth

Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

📝This report by @thekingsfund.bsky.social highlights the impact of cuts to public health funding — which means DsPH are facing difficult decisions about which services & initiatives to fund to develop healthier places for us to all live, work, & grow in. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

Great to be able to share this news! Mariam’s leadership on some of our key research programmes, as well as her wider scientific and clinical knowledge and understanding of the challenges research orgs are facing, puts her in a great place to help us beat cancer for everyone.

Green Party conference just voted in favour of this motion, and this time, in the hall itself, specifically voted against an amendment which would have removed the element about “Zionist Synagogues”. As a result, for most Jews the Green Party will now be considered to have a policy of antisemitism.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

As Scotland introduces restrictions on multi-buy promotions and England marks 1 year of the regulations, in our latest guest blog @malcolmjclark.bsky.social of @cancerresearchuk.org explores the UK's journey so far and why further action is needed ⤵️ obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2026/10/02/m...

Public health, not profits, should drive the regulation of tobacco and nicotine products.

📅 Today marks 1 year since restrictions on multibuy promotions for foods ⬆️ in fat, sugar & 🧂were enforced. Now, DsPH are building on this progress to ensure more measures are in place to tackle harmful commercial tactics ⬆️ sales of unhealthy food & drinks. Read our recommendations ➡️ bit.ly/adphcdoh

Streatham High Road is where bus priority is needed. It takes 25 minutes to go the couple of miles to Brixton and is relied upon by everyone. Hope that Lambeth and TfL will review these plans and deliver the promised improvements for bus users on the A23.

The proposals for bus priority on Streatham Common North are fixing the wrong problems in the wrong places. - fewer crossings when we need more - even worse cycling infrastructure - nothing for the bottleneck junction with the A23

The Vaping Products Duty comes into effect today, meaning a new duty of £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid will apply to all products entering the market. You can read more in our blog here: ash.org.uk/media-centre...

Big news. Thank you Andy for firing the starting gun on change. So many have campaigned for PR, some of us for decades! Recognise the scale of challenge ahead to make it happen. But a moment to celebrate the work of Make Votes Count/Matter, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Compass et al.

Burnham: "We don't let people sell food that damages health" Umm, I don't think many people - or even his own Health Dept - would necessarily agree with spirit of that. 10Yr Health Plan recognises need to change current situation: committing to introduce Healthy Food Standards reporting & targets.

Kath Dalmeny, CEO of @sustainweb.org, giving a great shout out to local food hero @lucyantal.bsky.social and Queen of Greens social enterprise getting fresh produce to communities in Liverpool - at PLMR fringe on food & health at Labour Conference.

Attending #LPC26? Come and visit us at stand C5 to learn more about our Unlock Cancer Breakthroughs campaign, calling on the Government to: 🧪 Speed up clinical trials 🌍 Attract more global talent to the UK 💷 Protect future funding for cancer research

The Conservative party recently announced proposals to change the benefit system so that recipients could not use their welfare payments to buy tobacco. Our new blog explains why the best solution is targeted quit support & access to free alternatives for those on low incomes and benefits. 👇

📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobac...

🚨True cost of UK’s food system is nearly £300 billion a year, and rising 📈 Updated analysis from @timjackson.org.uk shows the economic cost of the UK’s unhealthy food system has risen to £298 billion a year, up from £268 billion just two years ago. Read 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...

Today is 100 days until the smoke-free generation comes into force on 1st January 2027, and new data from ASH shows that 62% of 11–17-year-olds who have ever smoked say that, if they could go back in time, they would not start smoking. 📆🚭

Are you attending Labour Party Conference from 28th-30th September? Make sure you join us for this exciting Recipe for Change Panel Event - happening this Sunday (27th) at Hilton Liverpool City Centre from 1-2pm. No registration required! More info ➡️ www.recipeforchange.org.uk/news-and-blo...

📢 The Govt is consulting on proposals to reduce the appeal of vapes to young people. You can respond here: consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/tobacco-and-... ASH's guide on responding is HERE: ash.org.uk/campaigns/th...

"Advertising is one of the key mechanisms by which harm from obesity happens." 👀 Read @felly500.bsky.social comments in today’s BBC Sport, looking at junk food advertising during the football World Cup & why reducing exposure to marketing is key to tackling obesity. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

🎥 Watch our Policy and Public Affairs Manager John Waldron give evidence to the London Assembly Health Committee on youth vaping.

The Regulatory Policy Committee has turned down meetings with tobacco lobbyists - who are opposing plain packaging for cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, shisha, snuff, and smokeless/heated tobacco. And they've published the lobbying letters from the industry. Makes for interesting reading IMO...

Last week the APPG on Smoking & Health and the APPG on Poverty & Inequality hosted a roundtable on smoking and poverty in Parliament. Attendees heard from Gillian & Hannah, experts by lived experience, about the toll that smoking placed on their finances, relationships & health.

Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.

Global tobacco company, British American Tobacco, were the sole sponsors of delegate lanyards at Reform Party Conference. It is a cause for concern when any political party accepts funding from Big Tobacco, whose products kill two thirds of long-term users.

Today marks an important day for school food, with the government confirming the first overhaul to the School Food Standards in over a decade - AND for the first time ever, the standards will be properly monitored ☑️ Our Exec Director was quoted in the government's press release ⤵️

In a new study, Dr Alice Fabbri, @brittakm.bsky.social and Katherine Smith consider the types of research and knowledge translation activities which influence policy change across the Commercial Determinants of Health #CDoH. Read #research: doi.org/10.1136/bmjp...

What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.

My party has got this very wrong. Instead of sending members a fundraising request after the two mega £m Reform donations, Labour should be telling me how they are going to legislate or regulate big money (& crypto money) out of politics. We are in government. There is a Bill to tack it. Just do it!

Feels strange bringing in Jewish New Year after solemn afternoon remembering events in US 25 years ago, and those whose lives were lost or affected. A circle of seasons & life moment. But also timely reminder faith can be distorted & misused by a tiny minority, but that shouldn't be used to tar all.

Read our submission to the Autumn Budget which details why the Government should: ⭐ Adopt a Health in All Policies approach across the whole of Government. ⭐Invest more in public health. ⭐ Implement MUP in England. 👀 Read in full ➡️ www.adph.org.uk/resources/adph-autumn-budget-submission-2026/

Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...

Ed Miliband: "I speak as a proud British Jew.. I don't accept that in this country we can't stand up for values of the rule of law, freedom & dignity of all people.. and also counter antisemitism" Absolutely. Opposing apartheid & genocide is not antisemitic.

The logic of this from the Chief Rabbi seems to be: there is nothing that the Natanyahu Govt could do that would merit sanctions, as it would "feed into" a "hostile discourse" about Israel. And it dangerously conflates all Jews with the actions of Likud. Dire on so many levels.

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

Today we launched our new cancer manifesto for Northern Ireland. Cancer remains the leading cause of death in Northern Ireland but, with the right investment & action, the next Northern Ireland Executive could help save around 5,900 lives between now and 2040. cruk.ink/4yqzoMm #CancerPolicy