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Writer, editor, analyst. Disability employment rights advocate.
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
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· Nov 16
Pack 4 for #Covid aware and #LongCovid
community to help us find each other and connect with researchers on Bluesky.
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Additions welcome. If you're on it and don't wish to be, please let me know. Previous packs:
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community to help us find each other and connect with researchers on Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/SFsSVSc
Additions welcome. If you're on it and don't wish to be, please let me know. Previous packs:
1. go.bsky.app/JvVAoFt
2. go.bsky.app/MjGuFEe
3. go.bsky.app/Q9FoCjK
Where does the X #Disability hate campaign end and #RachelReeves begin?
How #Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s #Budget. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How #Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s #Budget. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget
Car lease scheme for people with mobility problems portrayed as ‘free’ but is funded by benefits and their own contributions
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Where does the X #Disability hate campaign end and #RachelReeves begin?
How #Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s #Budget. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
How #Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s #Budget. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#TheRedTreeandME are collecting finds for #MECFS research. 🎄 They have a Christmas tree at Chester Cathedral decorated with red leaves 🍂, each beating a message of hope from #ME researchers. Please consider donating, one red 🍁 at a time ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/one-red...
www.justgiving.com/page/one-red...
One Red Leaf at a Time: Fundraising for ME/CFS Research
Help One Red Leaf at a Time raise money to support The University of Edinburgh
www.justgiving.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
#TheRedTreeandME are collecting finds for #MECFS research. 🎄 They have a Christmas tree at Chester Cathedral decorated with red leaves 🍂, each beating a message of hope from #ME researchers. Please consider donating, one red 🍁 at a time ❤️
www.justgiving.com/page/one-red...
www.justgiving.com/page/one-red...
#LongCovid has a significant impact in #workplaces. Policymakers and employers should be listening to those who still work with Long Covid.
Key point: LC is preventable by cutting Covid infections. The best thing to do as a policymaker or an employer is to create Covid-safe workplaces.
#CleanAir 😷
Key point: LC is preventable by cutting Covid infections. The best thing to do as a policymaker or an employer is to create Covid-safe workplaces.
#CleanAir 😷
Proud to have co-authored this paper on experiences of #LongCovid and work:
“I've done my job for 30 years and I'm very competent at it, but I couldn't understand what some of the words were meaning… It's almost having to recognise things again and relearn things”
“I've done my job for 30 years and I'm very competent at it, but I couldn't understand what some of the words were meaning… It's almost having to recognise things again and relearn things”
New article exploring how Long COVID affects people at work, highlighting the need for adaptable work accommodations to support employment and well‐being.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social @nikki-s.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@longcovidsupport.bsky.social @nikki-s.bsky.social @imperialperc.bsky.social @imperialbrc.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#LongCovid has a significant impact in #workplaces. Policymakers and employers should be listening to those who still work with Long Covid.
Key point: LC is preventable by cutting Covid infections. The best thing to do as a policymaker or an employer is to create Covid-safe workplaces.
#CleanAir 😷
Key point: LC is preventable by cutting Covid infections. The best thing to do as a policymaker or an employer is to create Covid-safe workplaces.
#CleanAir 😷
An alternative viewpoint to Boris Johnson's self-exonerating conspiracy theory ramblings in the Mail
🔴Met Police Urged to Launch Investigation Into Boris Johnson For Covid Misconduct
Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/met-police...
Met Police Urged to Launch Investigation Into Boris Johnson For Covid Misconduct
Eminent lawyer Michael Mansfield KC tells the Byline Podcast that police should "look again" at the former Prime Minister's handling of the pandemic
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
An alternative viewpoint to Boris Johnson's self-exonerating conspiracy theory ramblings in the Mail
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Ex Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker Tim Horlick, who was previously married to City Superwoman Nicola Horlick (née Gayford), bought an £8.5m Pimlico flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks. He has now had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. Ben Ellery in @thetimes.com
Financier’s £8.5m flat frozen amid tax investigation over PPE deal
Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Ex Dresdner Kleinwort investment banker Tim Horlick, who was previously married to City Superwoman Nicola Horlick (née Gayford), bought an £8.5m Pimlico flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks. He has now had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. Ben Ellery in @thetimes.com
The not-at-all racist man to address a not-at-all racist German far right rally at the invitation of Hitler's finance minister's granddaughter.
And people only claim he said racist things because they don't like his not-at-all racist politics. Got it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
And people only claim he said racist things because they don't like his not-at-all racist politics. Got it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Nigel Farage to address far-right rally in Germany
Former Ukip leader accepts invitation by the granddaughter of Hitler's finance minister, Beatrix von Storch, to speak at Spandau Citadel in Berlin
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The not-at-all racist man to address a not-at-all racist German far right rally at the invitation of Hitler's finance minister's granddaughter.
And people only claim he said racist things because they don't like his not-at-all racist politics. Got it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
And people only claim he said racist things because they don't like his not-at-all racist politics. Got it.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
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Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Serious howls of outrage in the media this morning at what is a relatively modest Budget from Labour that does nothing more than fiddle around the margins.
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
It does highlight the missed opportunity. If you’re going to get this reaction anyway, why not at least get it for attempting a big swing?
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Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.
We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Byline Networks starter pack 2. Follow for good regional.and national citizen journalism and just some nice folk
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November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Byline Networks starter pack 2. Follow for good regional.and national citizen journalism and just some nice folk
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Patients shouldn't be risking their lives and health when going *into hospitals* for diagnosis or treatment.
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
Petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment...
petition.parliament.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Patients shouldn't be risking their lives and health when going *into hospitals* for diagnosis or treatment.
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on #masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable.
Please sign and share.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CEV #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir
Please sign and share.
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir #CEV
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir #CEV
Petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment...
petition.parliament.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Please sign and share.
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir #CEV
#Petition: Review #NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #CleanAir #CEV
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I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'd like to see the response to this if the question added "if that that means universities have less money to spend on UK students".
"Factors such as insecure immigration status can heighten young people’s vulnerability to further harm, placing them at significant risk of re-trafficking and renewed exploitation"
What do ministers think denying more children secure immigration status would do?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What do ministers think denying more children secure immigration status would do?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Factors such as insecure immigration status can heighten young people’s vulnerability to further harm, placing them at significant risk of re-trafficking and renewed exploitation"
What do ministers think denying more children secure immigration status would do?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
What do ministers think denying more children secure immigration status would do?
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
Wonder where all the British "based patriot" accounts that UK politics, including the No 10 team, are desperately pandering to, are really *based*...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Wonder where all the British "based patriot" accounts that UK politics, including the No 10 team, are desperately pandering to, are really *based*...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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I've signed... have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've signed... have you?
Looking forward to next week's piece by Boris Johnson, Columnist on "The woke myth of Marital Fidelity" and the Daily Mail's new weekly food column on "London's best Pizza Places to take the sweat out of planning a family meal", by Mr. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
#CovidInquiry
#CovidInquiry
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Looking forward to next week's piece by Boris Johnson, Columnist on "The woke myth of Marital Fidelity" and the Daily Mail's new weekly food column on "London's best Pizza Places to take the sweat out of planning a family meal", by Mr. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
#CovidInquiry
#CovidInquiry
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Sometimes there’s so much pain
I could swim in it
take a deep breath
and jump
right in
just like a sparkling silver and pink and blue
fish
swim
to the very core
where all the pain starts
and where all the pain comes
back home
I could swim in it
take a deep breath
and jump
right in
just like a sparkling silver and pink and blue
fish
swim
to the very core
where all the pain starts
and where all the pain comes
back home
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sometimes there’s so much pain
I could swim in it
take a deep breath
and jump
right in
just like a sparkling silver and pink and blue
fish
swim
to the very core
where all the pain starts
and where all the pain comes
back home
I could swim in it
take a deep breath
and jump
right in
just like a sparkling silver and pink and blue
fish
swim
to the very core
where all the pain starts
and where all the pain comes
back home
Trump's "peace plan" is for Ukraine to capitulate on Putin's terms, including surrendering parts of its territory not even occupied by Russian forces. We can't fix politicians, but we can help people 🙏🏻
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November 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trump's "peace plan" is for Ukraine to capitulate on Putin's terms, including surrendering parts of its territory not even occupied by Russian forces. We can't fix politicians, but we can help people 🙏🏻
donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/electricity
donate.redcrossredcrescent.org/ua/electricity
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Direct result of racism and insecurity unleashed by major political parties.
Not enough home trained doctors. Takes years and high debt to become a doctor.
A healthcare crisis in the making.
Unfortunately, the important thing that should have happened today didn't - the second reading of Ella's Law, to ensure a right to clean air. But it can still happen. And things can happen regionally too 👇Thank you @sianberry.bsky.social
🚨One win already for clean air action from new Mayors!
The Govt has adopted my first amendment to the Devolution Bill to make pollution part of their health plans.
Next up: a real duty to act on pollution, climate and nature. Write to your MP to sign my New Clause 29 today.
The Govt has adopted my first amendment to the Devolution Bill to make pollution part of their health plans.
Next up: a real duty to act on pollution, climate and nature. Write to your MP to sign my New Clause 29 today.
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Unfortunately, the important thing that should have happened today didn't - the second reading of Ella's Law, to ensure a right to clean air. But it can still happen. And things can happen regionally too 👇Thank you @sianberry.bsky.social
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BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics
Nathan Gill, Voloshyn and the Kremlin’s European Network
The sentencing of Reform UK's former leader in Wales to ten and a half years in prison should open the door to a broader investigation into the pro-Kremlin network that has infiltrated European politi...
bylinetimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics
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Former Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years. Wow.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Former Reform UK leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, sentenced to 10 and a half years. Wow.