Next up for @rcem.ac.uk caring for autistic patients & those with learning disabilities or complex needs in the ED:
Alice Munro, EM Cons, talking about her experience of developing a sedation pathway so people with learning disability can tolerate interventions.
Come get some ideas!
A startup company called R3 Bio raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. They also pitched an ethically charged vision for what the CEO calls “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies. www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...
BA (A Child), Re (DOLS in Hospital) [2026] EWHC 653 (Fam) (20 March 2026): Judgment authorising deprivation of liberty of 13-year-old with mental health difficulties, who had been detained in a windowless room in a hospital accident and emergency ward. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection?
Public hearing in Court of Appeal on 25th March 2026
It's an appeal against Poole J's judgment on disclosure of position statements
Background info blog here (with links to earlier blogs)
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/09/23/l...
Can confirm this is fascinating
“If you don’t control her, she will turn EVIL.”
What do teenage boys see on TikTok? To find out, Lily Isaacs posed as a 19-year-old called Joe. She was fed a diet of porn and misogynistic dating advice
https://bit.ly/4sFAC3v
X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced
Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...
48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant. The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A Spotify search result for the phrase "songs with the word meeces in". There are two: Scrooge from A Muppet Christmas Carol and The Lovecats by The Cure.
Who would have thought it?
This is obviously impossible but for small kids I am going for:
The Sneetches and other stories
Frog and Toad
A Little House of Your Own
Wow, OpenAI's ChatGPT just repeatedly denied that Maria Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite multiple corrections from me, with sources... open.substack.com/pub/briandav...
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
📢JOB ALERT: @bindmans.com seeks to recruit two Court of Protection solicitors, one permanent position and one locum maternity cover for 12 months. Applications close 28 November. www.lag.org.uk?id=217547
Open justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect.
What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time?
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...
Quote on a red block that reads: “It seems to me, then, that this is one of the key contributions of academic philosophy in relation to public life: drawing out, reconstructing and scrutinising existing moral arguments that are already informing significant political work. This requires academic philosophers to relinquish any remaining notion that moral and political philosophy exists solely in the work we produce, and, until very recently, have almost exclusively studied.”
Quote on a red block that reads: “…our morality, and thus our moral decision-making, is anchored in a shared history of human plurality and human social relations. It is this condition that makes us not just functional actors, but moral actors."
Quote on a red block that reads: "…while everyday political change tends to take place through incremental reforms, mobilising people often requires a radical and emancipatory vision – one committed to the idea that other worlds are possible."
How might philosophical thinking shape research, policy, and public debate?
“The point is to change it”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life, explores this question by bringing together perspectives from 21 leading philosophers across the UK, US, and Europe. 🧵
Read essays: bit.ly/philosophyesays
📢 Panel Highlight: Update on Community Care Cases From the Last 12 Months
Sian Davies & Sam Fowles of @39essexchambers.bsky.social will unpack the most impactful recent community care cases, providing attendees with a comprehensive update.
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Well worth a watch. Thank you for sharing.
We're delighted to partner with @publiclawproject.bsky.social & @39essexchambers.bsky.social on this training based on our book 'Making Lawful Decisions' by @stevebroach.bsky.social and @torbc.bsky.social.
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Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.
To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.
And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.
Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
The nose and eyes of a very cute black Portuguese water dog who would like a treat please
interesting to see The Guardian describe the justice system as 'transparent' although not sure how much Lady Hale would agree. New book on her observations of a range of courts www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...
Big changes proposed today for social care for disabled children by Law Commission: a duty to meet need, with national eligibility criteria, rights to advocacy for children and parents/carers, rights for children to take/participate in decisions #socialcare www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/09/16/n...
Well … philosopher Hilary Putnam told me that when IQ tests were piloted women did better than men. When the results were analysed women did better on some types of question, men on others. So the mix was readjusted so that men and women came out equal, on average.
A plant with dark brown and bright red leaves
Signs of autumn 🍂
To be clear: there is nothing wrong with flying the Union Jack or St George’s cross.
But when convicted criminals, Britain First and Tommy Robinson’s allies are the organisers, we should all question what this wave of activism is really about.
hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...
