📝 New @sport-england-se.bsky.social data shows that people living in the most deprived areas are around 20% less likely to be active than those in more affluent areas. Creating spaces that support active lifestyles, inc access to active travel, is vital for physical & mental health.👟
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Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
"A vaccine during pregnancy which protects new-borns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say."
Vaccines are miraculous. #VaccinesWork 💉
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In March we saw the combined Conservative and Labour vote share at just 37.1%, a significant drop on the combined 57.4% they achieved at the 2024 general election, itself a record low. buff.ly/OxLijr3
“Low skilled”? A 30,000 data point care plan.
There is a 9% vacancy rate in social care, an average 12% of posts are filled by international recruits, but in some care providers that figure is 100%.
Who is going to look after you?
A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑
Attended this partly to see what kind of people attend this kind of thing. As any political scientist could’ve predicted, it was largely home & car owners & the middle aged who mostly seemed to object to local change. The 2 reform cands were absent while 1 of the Greens was hiking in the Himalayas.
Artist: Dennis Goris
How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...
Poppy Bilderbeck - whose mum died of cancer last summer - has accused Peers of a “massive breach of their authority and power” for blocking the progress of the assisted dying Bill.
She says having the option of an assisted death would have brought her mum “peace and comfort” at the end of her life.
Harry Eccles
Has anyone else forgotten that Farage approved of Mandleson too?
Benefit Fraud costs about £2bn a year.
Tax Avoidance is at least £200bn a year.
One is unaffordable and needs to be cracked down on.
The other is completely ignored.
I bet you already know which is which.
The Workers Party candidates say they going to sort out Gaza, among many fine aspirations, like rebuilding British industry, leaving NATO, and free healthcare with no waiting lists. They want public laundries and public access to all forms of culture.
Cervical cancer death rates in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 Reported deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women. In 1950, there were 8.6 deaths from cervical cancer per 100,000 women By 2021, this had fallen to 1.7
Your slow news story for the day: Death rates for cervical cancer in the United Kingdom have fallen by 80% since 1950 from 8.6 deaths per 100,000 women to 1.7
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org
Israel is "PROHIBITED" by the US from bombing Lebanon, says Donald Trump.
It underlines a basic fact:
Israel's genocide and war crimes could be stopped at any moment by any US president.
Far left Sultana is suspended and removed from the House of Commons for calling Keir Starmer a liar
"I have a duty to my constituents to tell the truth and the Prime Minister is a liar" #UKPolitics
Yet another reason to clean the air, encourage routine testing, increase paid leave, change policies that encourage presenteeism despite illness, and create cultures where there is no shame attached to masking
NHS hospital waiting list down to 7.22m appointments for 6.11m individuals.
Down from 7.77m when Tories left office.
2.70m waiting over 18 weeks.
Illnesses has huge social cost - pressure on public services, welfare, economic output.
Must expand NHS capacity.
"Landlords issue surge of no-fault evictions ahead of legal ban."
If you receive a s21 Notice before 1/05/26, or your landlord issues a claim against you in court, get legal advice!
Many no-fault evictions can be defended - you might not need to leave your home.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
A reminder, Boris Johnson changed the vetting procedures so that he could ignore them and appoint who he liked, with no oversight.
Then changed the Ministerial Code so that Ministers would not have to resign.
What's the average IQ of the Republican Party?
BBC Migration Review: an incisive and balanced review on how to do context from all perspectives. But the coverage continues to be dominated by reporting the politics, not the substance too + not doing enough on context for the average viewer to have got it
www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...
Tobacco, alcohol & unhealthy food are major contributors to poor health 🚬🍺🍕
Our work on cross risk factors with @aha-uk.bsky.social & @oha-updates.bsky.social has been featured as a case study in this toolkit on advocacy from the FILTERED project...
www.smokefreepartnership.eu/our-policy-w...
One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.
‘I imagined all the food I could buy for my family with the $84 I had in my pocket. When I got there, the market was almost empty. The cheapest flour I could find was $55 per kilo. I couldn’t refuse. My family was starving.’
Hassan Ayman Herzallah in Gaza.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ap...
This work in Tameside shows how movement can be part of everyday care.
With Moving Conversations now mandatory for adult social care staff, leadership is creating change at scale, building a workforce that supports people to live well for longer.
🔗 https://ow.ly/SyHF50YMopv
Disability Rights UK
Given Trump's record, can we be sure that the trip to the moon really happened?
