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Formidable champion of women in medical profession: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Britain's first qualified woman physician & surgeon, co-founder & Dean of London School of Medicine for Women, first female Dean of British medical school. Portrait: John Singer Sargent 1900, NPG London

Stop what you are doing and look at this lovely story. A photography student in the 80s took pictures of punks and mods on the street in Preston. He’s now tracked them down and photographed them again. The pictures and stories are really ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Edmonton pharmacist jailed over illegal drugs sales worth £1.3m He was found guilty of three counts of fraud by false representation and two counts of converting criminal property https://enfielddispatch.co.uk/?p=27319

Obviously I want the utmost damage to Trump in the midterms, for Congress to constrain him & for a Democrat president in a couple years time. But honestly something broke in my relationship w America when Trump won the second time. I can't imagine feeling excited for an American president again.

If you’re in favour of ‘no unions’ and ‘low taxes’, frankly I’d much rather you did leave us alone and take your greedy, grasping, selfish selves to Dubai as quickly as possible.

This is excellent!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.

It never ceases to amaze me* how much of our privacy we have given away in the past 2 decades, and it looks like it’s only going to get worse. *Actually, it doesn’t amaze me at all! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

The problems we have with Donald Trump are two-fold and escalate in severity. Firstly, he is without doubt the worst person ever to be President of the US. Secondly, America elected him twice. It is actually the latter that shatters the foundations of the postwar democratic world.

Surely “the science” says it’s bollocks

The British Broadcasting Corporation — otherwise known as the BBC of course, and in days gone by affectionately referred to as ‘Auntie’ — was founded 104yrs ago today. Once venerated around the world it is now a failing, piss poor iteration of its former self.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Leaked emails expose rift at scandal-hit @nottmhospitals as desperate A&E staff whistleblew to CQC over dangerous A&E overcrowding and false reporting of waiting times data. Insiders warn of unsafe care being normalised. ​ Full story: www.thetimes.com/article/867a...

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

This is a very sad and extreme example, but how some of the public sector handles “disciplinary” issues which often are a reflection on poor management is woefully bad. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am extremely proud of today’s Money Box Live looking into the crisis at Capita. It was public service journalism that held a large company to account and is already inspiring parliamentary letters

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

What a fascinating story… “Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp paid £10k at auction for Epstein’s address book. He then used it to co-author a thrilling account of the swinging 60s – and an intimate portrait of a tormented man whose life was unravelling” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

Voted. Very easy to do to keep the loons out of the NT.

Remembering THELONIOUS MONK — born 109yrs ago today.

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Did you know that every drug-related death in the UK is carefully investigated? Dr. Caroline Copeland reveals how mortality data helps improve medicine safety and informs policy. It's eye-opening stuff! #medicinesafety #drugpolicy #publichealth #drugdeaths #pharmacology #healthstats #UKhealth

Sorry at what point do the government feel the need to do something about BBC funding, or are they just going to watch it be salami-sliced to extinction?

the tech industry is about to invent books

Everything about this just escalates in horror

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”

Cutting the costs of housebuilding by £50k per home would be really helpful in getting much-need new homes built. But if you don't get developers to pay for new schools and infrastructure you need to pay for them someotherhow. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A common theme in the 21stC. Company bought by “Private Equity”, loaded with debt, then fails and has to be rescued leaving creditors out of pocket & the PE owners are laughing all the way to the bank. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amy was given a bad hand. There was only one result really #Strictly

I rarely use amazon… Here’s a further reason not to.

A ‘hero’ pilot, plumber and dentist among those who saved flydubai flight to Israel

I appreciate that we need the full details of the latest apparent attempt to murder as many Jews as possible using a plane but if it turns out airlines can’t ensure their pilots aren’t dangerous assassins it rather rubbishes me putting little pots of liquid in clear plastic bags before boarding. 

‘Delays are always welcome’: 10 of the best railway station pubs in the UK

This deserves an honourary knighthood

Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...

This story has been in the news. In UK it is a legal requirement for medicines containing paracetamol (and aspirin) to be labelled as such if it’s not apparent in the medicine’s name. Should that appear close to the dosage which may be the only thing patients read? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EMA experts explore why we shouldn't focus on setting a requirement for a number of clinical trials. One pivotal trial, or two? What matters is generating evidence that addresses patients’ needs and supports a positive benefit–risk balance. Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Strictly Come Dancing: the launch show – live

MICK JAGGER on how THE BEATLES inspired the ROLLING STONES, meeting them for the first time, how they wrote the Stones’ first hit for them, how the Fab Four opened the door to America, and how grateful he is for all of this.

So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grim reading here #ThirlwallInquiry www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I got 2.5/5 in the little sample test in this piece. That’s probably because I’m largely disinterested in celebrity rather than my being “Face blind” (I’m sure the real diagnostic test is more thorough) www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

NEWS! Govt's confirmed it WILL keep this promise. I've got a statement from Minister for Pensions Torsten Bell 👇

iOS 27? I think I’ll pass for the time being if that’s alright?