Small Prophets taps into the weird roots of English suburbia Mackenzie Crook’s BBC sitcom perfectly conveys the contradictions of a realm where nothing much is allowed in public and anything can happen in private, writes Will Wiles

There is both a wonderful smallness and gentleness to Small Prophets

Through this it shows us how the everyday can be fantastical

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Why the NHS needs a ‘slow policymaking’ movement | The King's Fund In a system bloated on fast-food-style policymaking, slowing down might be the most positive – and radical – step the government can take to improve health care.

This kind of approach could be more effective in delivering what people need, the challenge is that political necessity will often work counter to this

Question is, how can we have policy that serves people's needs rather than politicians?

#Health #NHS

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Nations priced out of Big AI are building with frugal models Amid a widening global divide in AI adoption, low-cost AI models that can deliver sovereignty and efficiency with a smaller environmental footprint are gaining ground.

The current AI ecosystem feels reminiscent of early internet

Decentralised, organic, democratic spaces Vs corporate, exploitative ones

We know which way the Internet as a whole went, let's hope AI can be different

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This is Apartheid.

It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.

To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.

This

Project Hail Mary

Fantastic film

The universe is filled with infinite wonders, but the greatest of them is the connections we make with each other

xG being the new measurement for how successful trips to the toilet are

Feels totally like she's seen clips of Zack Polanski everywhere on his podcast and wants to replicate that strategy

Not sure moving into a space already occupied is going to help raise her profile though

Expected but naive geo-political strategy from Saudi Arabia

On the surface, ensuring a regional competitor is removed seems sensible but in reality the instability created by this conflict and/or a collapsed Iran will be destructive for their strategy to diversify the economy

Managing with dyslexia as an internal communicator - All Things IC From these conversations, I’ve learnt more about myself in terms of how I work and why. From these conversations, I’ve learnt more about myself in terms of how I work and why. The main reflection is t...

Good article on the challenges of working in comms with dyslexia

Much of the points in this piece feel relevant for anyone who's neuro diverse

#Comms #PR

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Chinese Scientists Find Climate-Related Sleep Loss May Result in Economic Inequality The study has the potential to inform fairer climate policy to reduce the effects of sleep loss due to global warming.

Climate change deepening inequalities is well known. This is an area of that I hadn't considered before but feels obvious when you think about it

#climatechange

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Bradford District Green Party graphic featuring a photo of Zack Polanski (man in a suit) looking to the side, with a blurred city backdrop including historic buildings. Overlaid is a mock Independent newspaper-style banner with the headline: “From a wealth tax to rejoining the EU: Zack Polanski outlines the Green Party’s economic policy.” The top reads “Bradford District Green Party”. At the bottom is the link “join.greenparty.org.uk”, along with the Bradford District Green Party logo and small promotional imprint text.

🗣 @zackpolanski.bsky.social: “For a truly progressive government, a wealth tax needs to be a day one priority.” ✅️

That's a big test for Scotland to see if they have that alternative game plan in then

This first half is typical Scotland

Best chance at a title for 20 years and it's errors all over the pitch and no drive/desire

#6Nations #Rugby #IREVSCO

With the public valuing more safeguards over pace of diagnosis for example

Feels like an area ripe for more public discourse so we can realise the potential of AI alongside maintaining trust

2/2

Some interesting findings here

What sticks with me most is the results on the speed vs oversight trade off

1/2

#AI #Health #NHS

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This

Has the PR industry failed to execute its own PR effectively enough?

Interesting article

Spot on in it's articulation of the problem, people in PR do a great job 'selling' the value of the organisations they work for but often miss the opportunity to do so for our profession

Both publicly but also within our organisations

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The King is mad

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

China’s DeepRare AI Aims to Speed Rare Disease Diagnosis A new study published in Nature found that the system provides traceable diagnostic reasoning and improves accuracy without relying on genetic data.

As we see more AI model use in medical diagnosis we'll need a serious conversation on how human validation interacts with them

Who validates and at what stage will be key to making this safe and effective

#Health #NHS #AI

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STONEYGATE LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION WIN GRN: 30.4% LAB: 27.7% OL: 16.2% IND: 11.5% CON: 8.3% REM: 2.7% LDM: 1.6% IND: 1.6% GREEN GAIN FROM LABOUR Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🎉 Green WIN! 🎉

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💚 Congratulations to Aasiya Bora of Leicester Green Party on being elected in Stoneygate ward!

Yes- vote for Hannah Spencer!

I don't often miss twitter

but old twitter would have been the best place to be to laugh at people who think Kpop is a band and not a genre

#Kpop #Belfast

Makes me think about how standard planning templates like OASIS need to adapt going forward to help practitioners communicate in the gaps that are becoming more important

#PR #Communications

A lot of this rings true, and in particular the difficulty of keeping comms in neat buckets of campaigns, messaging, audiences

With the reality often that our work is more messy and interlinked than that

#PR #Communications

Why PR today is less about messaging and more about relationships

Really interesting perspective on shifting the focus of communications from messaging to relationships

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#PR #Communications

Something the Government want you to forget...

The Islamic Republic’s Broken Promises of Economic Justice Nearly five decades after it pledged to uplift the poor, the ideological obsessions and cronyism of Iran’s regime have left millions more excluded than ever

In what might be the fading days of the Islamic Republic

Worth remembering that it was a desire for economic justice that propelled it to power, rather than a desire for theocracy

And it's that unmet desire that's has eroded it's foundation

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Public Sector Crises, ‘The Welfare Crunch’ And The Future Of Health And Care | The King's Fund What is the 'welfare crunch' and what does it mean for the future of health and care? Luca Tiratelli explores.

Highlighting a vital need to reimagine and revitalise the welfare state

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