Missing you and love you Grandma Sheila Lamb. 6 years today 💜

QR Special: The cruelty of Long Covid

QR Special: The cruelty of Long Covid

👩‍⚕️ The brutal physical, mental, emotional, social & professional impact
😳 HOW many affected?
🚑 The battle to be taken seriously

With @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social & Claire Higham

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Such an important listen. Claire so movingly and powerfully highlighting the urgent need for research, funding, political will and ventilation 👇

5 years on: the story of how we created the National Covid Memorial Wall. — Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK By Matt Fowler The first year of the pandemic was gut-wrenchingly difficult for the families of victims. Like many, my Dad's funeral was a stripped-back and quiet affair. Only 10 people were allowed ...

5 years ago today, we created the National Covid Memorial Wall.

A wall of hearts, each one representing a life lost.

Matt Fowler painted the first heart. He shares how it happend, and why it still matters.

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The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year.

I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry.

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£1 billion invested in health protection as new Pandemic Strategy published New Pandemic Preparedness Strategy has been published alongside the UK Government's response to the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 2 report.

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NHS 'came close to collapse' during Covid and patients were failed, inquiry finds NHS collapse was only “narrowly avoided” due to efforts of staff who put themselves at exceptional risk, the inquiry says.

"The NHS entered the pandemic with not enough beds or staff. It was a precarious position as Covid hit, the inquiry report says

The situation meant there was little room to expand and cope with the surge in Covid patients, particularly in the first wave"

Congratulations Liam. Hugely deserved 👏

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty

For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.

Today is the Day of Reflection.

A day to remember the lives lost since the pandemic began.

In their name, we will keep fighting for justice.

Remembering my Grandma Sheila and everyone lost or affected by COVID 19 ❤️💛

The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost | Ben Connah It’s not a question of if, but when, another pandemic hits Britain. We owe it to all those who suffered to make sure mistakes are not repeated, says Ben Connah, secretary of the UK Covid-19 inquiry

The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost | Ben Connah www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

4/4 The horrors experienced by some in the pandemic have already started to be forgotten, to be minimised and airbrushed from history. We cannot allow that to happen if we want to do better when the next crisis hits.

@bjcsolicitors.bsky.social represent @cbffjuk.bsky.social

1/4 Covid Inquiry Module 10 Day 11. Today the Inquiry will hear from its final witnesses. It is fitting that it will be 6 bereaved.

Margaret Waterton (Scottish Covid Bereaved)

Sharon Boswell (Scottish Covid Bereaved)

Heather Stewart (Scottish Covid Bereaved)

1/3 Covid Inquiry Module 10 Day 10. Today the Inquiry will hear from 6 witnesses, all of whom lost loved ones to Covid-19

Sam Smith-Higgins (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru)

Julie Thomas (Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice Cymru)

Doughty Street Chambers is immensely proud to announce that our leading immigration junior, Alasdair Mackenzie, has been appointed King’s Counsel following his success in the 2025 competition.

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We have security services which the prime minister and the highest judges say have misled the court and which another senior judge said in an inquiry report do not present accurate pictures and instead give retrospective justifications for their actions. And these are the instances we know about. The Hillsborough law campaigners are right to resist this late amendment, and the government should provide that any exemption of the duty of candour on national security grounds should be independently assessed from those who assert it. And that is how the national interest would be best served.

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Why the Hillsborough law campaigners are right to be resolute

The attempts to water down the duty of candour should be resisted

Me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Thank you for acknowledging the catastrophic and unforgivable failures contained in the M2 Covid Inquiry report & that covid continues to impact the economy. As someone who lost a family member it is galling that people who failed us have been rewarded and many remain in positions of responsibility.

🔔 Nothing to see Year... with James O'Brien ☃️

Who's up? Who's down? Who's in and who's out?

🎅🏽 Join us for a review of 2025 🛷

Part I of a @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @pimlicat.bsky.social & @mrjamesob.bsky.social special.

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So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...

1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.

The Covid Inquiry shows the importance of ministerial leadership during crises | Institute for Government Clarity of priorities, clear messaging and visible leadership are paramount in any crisis.

The Covid Inquiry shows the importance of ministerial leadership during crises

Clarity of priorities, clear messaging and visible leadership are paramount in any crisis. @sophiedaud.bsky.social @timdurrant.bsky.social

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Letter to the Cabinet Office & DHSC | 28th November 2025 | Long Covid Groups On 28 November 2025, Bhatt Murphy wrote to the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). In our letter, we invite the Prime Minister to make a statement in the House of Commo...

On 28 November 2025, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social wrote to the Cabinet Office and the DHSC on behalf of the Long Covid Groups.

Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:

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#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas

I’ve added an Excess Deaths Comparison page to my analysis on that topic. Here I’m comparing the UK, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, to June 2025.

My method projects "Expected Deaths" using a linear regression on the weekly deaths (4-week average) from a baseline of 2015-2019 deaths.
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230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….

“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”

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Questions, questions, questions Daddy Blackbird #31

Today is #SurvivorsOfSuicideLossDay 💜

My new piece, 'Questions, Questions, Questions', shares the hard questions that followed and how they shaped grief after Steve’s death 💔

I’ve also shared a short video on navigating these moments with children.

#DaddyBlackbird #SuicideLoss #Grief #Hope

A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com

"The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..."

We will never forget. ❤️

Thank you for writing this. This minimising of the report's findings and making excuses for such a poor response have been really hurtful to bereaved families ❤️💛

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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