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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7h

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 16h

Only in attempts to knock me off the peak of the health policy summit, tbh

Ju-jitsu for health economists

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 16h

“It’s not the years: it’s the mileage.”

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 16h

Never was conventionally hot until I hit the big 54. Now, require bodyguards 24/7.

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 1d

Labour manifestly don’t have a credible plan for NHS reform. My latest column is outside the paywall for an hour or two. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...

Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections

“And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.” Hamlet, Act 2 Scene 1 Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care Wes Streeti...

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 2d

Like I never met John Thaw. 👀

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter used to be good, and then deliberate changes over time, ending in the Musk ownership (which just auto-correct to Muck!), ensured that it wasn’t.

So, it became time to leave.

It isn’t that much harder than admitting to yourself that a band or artist that you once loved is no good any more.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it’s a fracturing of media story as much as anything

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2d

Only more lasagne can save us now.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 2d

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2d

I do *heart* the Financial Times www.ft.com/content/e3c2...

How to have sex like a medieval knight

From friars’ encounters with cross-dressing prostitutes to a mystic fired up by religious lust, the tastes of the late Middle Ages were far from vanilla

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good piece: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

www.theguardian.com

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 2d

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

It’s not opera that’s elitist but the idea that art is to...

The myth that culture has not been for the masses is debunked in a new book

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 3d

A UK presenter shouldn’t crow about an audience’s ignorance of Nathan Gill who took bribes from Kremlin agents & was a close ally of Farage . It shows they have failed to do their job . What next , telling us that Watergate was one of the lowest points in investigative journalism 🥺 ?

Joy @joybe.bsky.social · 4d

The Nathan Gill scandal should be huge news so why has the British media been mainly silent about it? (I think we know 🤔)
Here's Fiona Bruce shutting down any mention & acting like the audience aren't interested.
#bbqt

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Andy Neather @hernehillandy.bsky.social · 2d

New from me in Club Oenoloqique: facing up to #wine’s biggest challenge, sustainability cluboenologique.com/story/rooted...

Facing up to wine’s biggest challenge

This extract from new book 'Rooted in Change' explains why it’s time for the wine industry to get to grips with sustainability – and what the future could look like

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 2d

If you have Bloomberg access, I really recommend this: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How The Twilight Zone Smuggled Controversial Ideas Past TV Censors

Hundreds of fans gathered in Rod Serling’s hometown to celebrate The Twilight Zone creator who turned science fiction into bold social commentary.

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redneeraj.bsky.social @redneeraj.bsky.social · 4d

Choose your sinking boat @hpiandycowper.bsky.social @craig.nikolic.co.uk

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Robin Conibere @pharmrj.pharmsky.app · 4d

Apparently not the BMA www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/news/bma-dis...

BMA distances itself from controversial Pharmacy First letter

A draft letter sent in “error” to GP practices suggested they should not refer patients to pharmacies, claiming that the Pharmacy First service could “undermine” doctors.

www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk

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Robin Conibere @pharmrj.pharmsky.app · 3d

BMA ⬇️

a man in a purple robe is sitting on a set of stairs surrounded by two women .

ALT: a man in a purple robe is sitting on a set of stairs surrounded by two women .

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 4d

Stunning irresponsibility from leaders in the BMA.

Somebody needs to go after them for this, very publicly and very, very hard: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

BMA leaders suggest GPs ‘overwhelm A&Es’ in revolt against NHS reforms

A letter sent by senior members of the union has been condemned for advising doctors to sabotage the Pharmacy First scheme, which they claim undermines them

www.thetimes.com

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Henry Anderson @henryanderson1.bsky.social · 4d

Departing senior official at massively-delayed new hospitals programme insists it will be “one of country’s most successful transformation” projects

from @zoetidman.bsky.social

www.hsj.co.uk/people-moves...

Head of repeatedly delayed building programme moves to HS2

The top NHS England official for the programme to build a wave of "new hospitals" that has faced major delays is leaving for a senior role at HS2.

www.hsj.co.uk

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 4d

The second, truer, answer: people who currently own very expensive homes.

The evidence is that stamp duty is economically paid by sellers - it reduces property prices.

(I went through the evidence for that here taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/09/s... )

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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 7d

Unsurprising.

Can anyone explain why JCVI recommendations for #covid booster this autumn different from Canada’s where 65+ & health & care staff still eligible unlike in NHS?

@cbffjuk.bsky.social
@longcovidadvoc.com

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion

Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 5d

#leadership #lasagneleadership #leadershiplasagne #lasagne #hashtag #lasagnelasagne

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