Nicholas Theobald

Do you want to know how far UK Govt have implemented #covidinquiry recommendations? Then check out @cbffjuk.bsky.social recommendations tracker 👇 Currently only 30% of the resilience and preparedness recommendations have been implemented: www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/tracker-home

this is a very useful tracker of implementation of Covid Inquiry recommendations from @cbffjuk.bsky.social www.covidfamiliesforjustice.org/tracker-home

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

It's not just about climate chaos. It's also about landscape chaos. The damage we do to the land's hydrology is layered on top of the damage we do to the atmosphere. Our mismanagement of land commits us to a cycle of flood and drought. We can change this, as explained here. Please read. Thanks.

Was good to get to dive in the latest report on how care home residents and staff were let down during the pandemic

The British syndrome, summarised: 78% of us say our high streets are important to us. But only 28% of us actually use their local high street even once a week – and only 53% of people said they used theirs *once a month*. We won't use it, and we won't lose it.

NEW: Trump is a Russian asset. And the UK government is finally waking from its decade-long slumber Read this. And order a wind-up radio. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Rich Reform UK MPs love to - stimatise needy benefits claimants - claim massive "expenses" "Benefits-bashing Reform UK MP Suella Braverman claimed £45,000 in parliamentary expenses towards her water bills, newly-emerged files show - leaving the taxpayer on the hook" www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Multiple polls show Trump’s approval at record lows, but I think what’s happening runs deeper than this. Something very dramatic is occurring. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/exposed

In the early 1980s, almost half a million people were paralyzed by polio every year. The number of cases has fallen by more than 99% from its peak, and foreign aid programs have played a crucial role in the fight against polio.

King Donald the Mad: "The United States and Italy have been united for thousands of years, since the time of Ancient Rome"

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Oxford is hiring professors: we're looking for an academic GP with a research track record in mental health. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

This is brilliant news as RFKJr funded Danish trial to play lottery with babies lives by withhold the HepB vaccines will now not go ahead as the Guinea-Bissau officials will not allow it. Huge thanks to campaigners such as @standupforscience.net for fighting to prevent the study

After protests and violent incidents in France in recent days, we’re seeing lots of old and fake videos and images circulating online. Read our roundup to help you verify what’s real 👇

Seems only right. This should be extended to cover tax avoidance by exile, people like Jim Ratcliffe, why should people who leave our country to avoid paying tax, keep their honours, its a dishonourable thing to do. www.ruck.co.uk/rugby-news/k...

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“Wind and solar power have saved the UK £5.9bn since the start of the Iran crisis.” @georgeeaton.bsky.social writes on the myth that net zero is to blame for higher energy bills. www.arguably.uk/p/is-net-zer...

Matt Hancock's transcript is here covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/u...

Cases of measles and outcomes not being fully captured but this can’t avoid the very real and preventable tragedy that is happening in the States. A vaccine preventable disease is endemic now and rfkjr and Trump spread disinformation and erode vaccine confidence

This is shocking- there are cases of congenital measles - measles acquired during pregnancy -occurring in Pennsylvania now- that is so dangerous for the baby as can affect heart development.

www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o... #climateemergency #postcodelottery

This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

Care homes were an “afterthought” during the pandemic and government failures caused the virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, the public inquiry has found www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Did the government throw a protective ring around care homes? Our 2020 paper concluded no. Now the COVID Inquiry agrees. So many avoidable deaths, so little learned. journal.ilpnetwork.org/articles/10....

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

When Matt Hancock said that the government had put a “protective ring around care homes from the very start” we all knew it was not true. The Covid Inquiry has now backed this up criticising his claim as "unfounded".

Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. You can lose everything and everyone. We're here to help. Are you? Donate to @faith2faithless.bsky.social, Even £5 can help our service keep going. humanists.uk/donate/actio...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... The care sector was “an afterthought"... as if we didn't already know about the dismal level of competence from Hancock and Johnson et al....

NEW: The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey:

For those unaware, John Cleese has fully endorsed Restore Britain

Social care is often dismissed as low-skilled, insecure work. But a major survey of UK workers tells a very different story: skilled, meaningful jobs with unusually strong confidence about their future. Andrew Harrop looks at the evidence.

The United States is actively helping Putin murder civilians in Ukraine. Trump is doing everything he can to force Ukraine to surrender to his friend and ally Putin so they can be subjugated by the Russians again.

“we know that within about a year of those cuts at USAID, where they were literally burning food that had already been paid for that was going to starving children, 500,000 children died. So this is a really a crime against humanity.” - Alex Gibney, director of “Musk”, a documentary on Elon Musk

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine “For the first time, the United States of America entered the battlefield on Russia’s side. That is not hyperbole. It is simply the objective and uncontested assessment of events.” Not even to GET useful diesel iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

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It is worth reminding ourselves that until last year that racist Birmingham politician featured in the ITV expose on Reform had been a Tory Cllr for 10 years before defecting.

Why is a retired banjo playing, public school nepo-baby on the BBC's flagship Newsnight commenting on the Red Wall? And why no mention that: Winston Marshall only has a political platform because his Dad is billionaire Paul Marshall... owner of GB NEWS and the Spectator.

This is it, now. This is the defining moment.

A reminder www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Brexit and Russia… “I think you would have to start with Boris Johnson. “The reason why there is still this confusion is there was no public attempt to establish with confidence what actually happened because successive British governments declined to look closely at what was going on.” (Times)

No one who has seen and heard these accounts can ever unsee them. The absolute, inhumane, psychopathic barbarism of the people making these decisions beggars belief. #Gazagenocide www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...

Who would still want to work in neonatal medicine? If the lesson we take from the Thirlwall inquiry is that we need more blame, more surveillance and more fear, then we will have learned the wrong lesson #NHS www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is telling us as loudly and clearly as he can: he’s not our friend and he won’t protect us. Time we got the message - and acted accordingly. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Look in the mirror, 🇺🇸”. No matter how many times you say “this is not who we are as a country”; right now it IS. 🇺🇸 has twice elected a corrupt, selfish bully who abandons allies, deals with enemies, rejects science and medicine, attacks other countries, harms the vulnerable and pardons criminals.