Greatly honoured to be one of the first two winners of @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social Walter Holland lifetime achievement award. I was privileged to know Walter well, a real champion of public health
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Commuting podcast: ERJ Podcast March 2026: Mortality in severe asthma. publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/... #RespEd #LungSky
Loved Paul Auster's movie "Blue in the Face" and "Smoke" back in the 90s, so especially poignant to read Siri Hustvedt's account of his death from lung cancer.
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"The global health community should name this politics of contempt for what it is, redouble efforts towards justice and accountability, and reject the false neutrality of silence in the face of impunity".
@thelancet.com
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Italo Calvino on Xenophon’s Anabasis in "Why read the Classics?"
"Man can be reduced to a locust but can apply to this condition of locust a code of discipline & decorum, in a word, ‘style’, & consider himself satisfied; man is capable of not even discussing for a minute the fact that he is a locust but only the best way of being one." 1/n
Huge variation in NHS stop smoking funding leaves high need areas underresourced.
www.bmj.com/content/393/... @bmj.com @ashorguk.bsky.social #LungSky #StructuralViolence
The SPACE for COPD maintenance programme improved quality of life and was cost-effective when delivered over 12 months. However, the primary outcome, endurance walking time, was not different between control and intervention groups. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespED
The SPACE for COPD maintenance programme improved quality of life and was cost-effective when delivered over 12 months. However, the primary outcome, endurance walking time, was not different between control and intervention groups. thorax.bmj.com/content/earl... #RespED
"adding stop-smoking support to lung cancer screening would improve overall health and reduce health inequalities...with the greatest benefits seen in the most deprived groups". www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #RespEd #LungSky @ashorguk.bsky.social @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
Celebrating a bad day for fascists - Tom Hopkinson, 1934 on Mosley's London rally.
Young children, pregnant women, and immunocompromised people are at the highest risk of severe measles when unvaccinated - roughly one in five unvaccinated people infected by the measles virus will require admission to hospital www.bmj.com/content/393/... @bmj.com
"We too recommended that the GMC should lose their right of appeal. The Government and the GMC accepted our recommendations" @bmj.com @rcphysicians.bsky.social
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TOBACCO ENDGAME - Using lessons from the UK experience to develop a knowledge toolkit for tobacco control.
@asthmaandlung.org.uk #FCTCCOP11 #COP11
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When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
I took my gun and vanished.
PUNITIVE SCRUTINY: when complaint pressure—not evidence—drives regulatory action against doctors. The process is the penalty.
The GMC & NHS employers must apply transparent, evidence-based thresholds.
New BMJ paper here:
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@abierkhatib.bsky.socia @copddoc.bsky.social
Overnight success takes time - but so good to see this strong public support for public health measures long opposed by harmful industries. Well done to all involved.
Vote, or you don't get to complain about the result.
Voting in the Royal College of Physicians elections closes at midday on Monday. www.rcp.ac.uk/membership/e... @rcphysicians.bsky.social
People waiting so long for the march to start that there's starting to be weddings....
Big Alcohol in the Global South - Bribing politicians. Writing governments' own alcohol policies. Targeting children with cheap sachets and mini-bottles. Exploiting migrant workers in conditions described as modern slavery.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEs1...
"while cigarette companies claim to be transitioning to less harmful products, market reality shows that cigarette marketing expenditures have not been reduced and are continuing to target older, low-income adults who smoke." tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/earl... @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social
Randomised trial of delivering co-located, personalised stop-smoking support within lung cancer screening: the YESS study
thorax.bmj.com/content/earl...
@bmj.com @btsrespiratory.bsky.social
State of the art review: Biological drivers of the host response in sepsis
thorax.bmj.com/content/81/4... #LungSky #RespEd @btsrespiratory.bsky.social @bmj.com
Voting in the Royal College of Physicians elections closes at midday on Monday.
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