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Dr Kate Cushing
@drkatecushing.bsky.social
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Doctor, scientist, mum, cat slave.
Public Governor Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust
Long Covid & CCH.
Love Northumberland/Newcastle, owls/wildlife/books/art/music/politics/EU
Wrote Little Orange Book 4 parents of babies & small kids.
Green Party member
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brexitbin.bsky.social
Signing up to the European Convention on Human Rights is a requirement for membership of the Council of Europe. The only two countries on our continent who aren't members of that Council are Russia and Belarus. Farage wants us to leave the rest of Europe behind and stand with Russia and Belarus.
April 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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benansell.bsky.social
Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
drkatecushing.bsky.social
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/Yy0G88P...
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
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britishfuture.bsky.social British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 1d
PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
New report today from @britishfuture.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
www.britishfuture.org/immigration-...
Immigration falling but public still thinks it is going up – new research - British Future
Findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker into what the public thinks about immigration for work, study and asylum
www.britishfuture.org
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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sundersays.bsky.social
New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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sarah-owl.bsky.social
Flu is certainly hitting the elderly and those with other health problems already- we have had several flu referrals to palliative care each of the last 3 weeks, all for end of life care
andymoz78.bsky.social Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 1d
Influenza has come early this year, and with the H3N2 being especially virulent amongst older people, hospitals and ICUs are under pressure. Join us tomorrow (27th November) to learn about flu in ICU this winter. With @ics-updates.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social @shond.bsky.social and Brij Patel
H3N2: Rapid clinical update and implications for this Winter
Preparing intensive care for Winter 2025.
ics.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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lamourna.bsky.social
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snig.bsky.social Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · Oct 1
Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
November 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
I haven't seen any yet but you could probably find a few contemporaries who didn't personally witness Farage being Farage at school. But there doesn't seem to be a single former pupil or teacher who find the descriptions of racism, anti-semitism & cruelty unfeasible. Shocked, I tell you...
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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ottoenglish.bsky.social
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.

He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.

Farage would have been about 33 at time.

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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joniaskola.bsky.social
4/5 Epstein emails show Russia has leverage over Trump, and Bloomberg leaks prove Witkoff is helping Moscow influence him.

When the leaks broke, Trump backed Witkoff, the man he chose.

This is a compromised administration
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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mrrobertbob.bsky.social
A “hole?”……there’s a bloody great Brexit chasm that is going to swallow Labour whole if they don’t open their eyes and stop chasing Reform and the Brexit Vote.
eastangliabylines.co.uk East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else. The bill has finally arrived.
eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
We knew from day 1. We knew before this from Sars1. It was also immediately obvious from the patterns of infection. The rest is just dishonest.
elhopkins.bsky.social Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 4d
The risk from surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000 of catching COVID. We should handwash for many reasons but this alone WILL NOT protect you from COVID. 🧵
elhopkins.bsky.social Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 28d
Here is Dr Barry Jones explaining that they knew from ‘day 1’ it was airborne and a virus of some consequence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cpR...
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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luckytran.com
Some vaccines like COVID and flu don’t stop completely stop infection.

But they do reduce the risk of getting infected and greatly reduce severe illness risk.

They are still worth getting.

Since they are not 100% effective it’s also wise to add another layer of protection by wearing a mask.
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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yorksfella59.bsky.social
All credit to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for 'accidentally' playing a series of clips of #Farage faithfully parroting the Russian line on Ukraine.

Since we know that, unlike his sidekick Nathan Gill, Nigel didn't take bribes from the Kremlin, the only conclusion left is that he genuinely believes it...
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
More powerful evidence of the disaster of #Brexit from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. If we’re to avoid yet more austerity, we need to start by rejoining the customs union & single market. Brexit was a reckless waste of money we simply can’t afford @europeanmovement.co.uk
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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carolinelucas.bsky.social
Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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russellengland.bsky.social
So much winning...

"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"

"Business investment is down 12%–18%"

"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"

Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
November 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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healthwatch.bsky.social
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
What Is The State Of Children's Health In England? | The King's Fund
We look at the data available on children's health in England - from child mortality to diet and exercise, teenage pregnancy and smoking, we we look at what this means for children's health.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
November 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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starism.bsky.social
One day we will think about the fact that we don't filter indoor air the same way we react to this.
dalassa.bsky.social Dalassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 6d
What a weird society we were.
McDonald’s ash tray from my youth. It’s an amber glass dish with a spiral on the bottom, the golden arches on the sides and three notches in the side to lean a cigarette
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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encantinada.bsky.social
If you're going to read one article this weekend, make it this interview with the wonderful Zack Polanski.
Share it widely.

Honest answers to warm your heart fill you with hope. 💚
“Migration is really important for this country. People are worried about the lack of council homes, the difficulty of getting NHS appointments and the sense that the country is broken. They’re right to feel all of those things but those are not the problems of migrants – they are the problems of multimillionaires and billionaires, and politicians who have refused to tax them and invest in their community.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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drlfarrell.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Covid-19: Major study compares myocarditis risk in children after vaccination or infection
Young people’s risk of developing myocarditis is higher and longer lasting after covid-19 infection than after vaccination against it, the largest study of its kind suggests.1 The research—based on w...
www.bmj.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY

"All we ever talk about in this country is immigration"

"Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM