Roslyn Byfield
LightNews LightNews
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Roslyn Byfield
@roslynbyfield.bsky.social
170 followers 140 following 150 posts
Rtd therapist. Mental health, politics, social justice, nature, heritage,arts. Blog is at:
https://politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/blog-2/
Posts Replies Media Videos
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
The #BBC is patronisingly doing the same as the royals: thinking they can buy the public off with minor corrective gestures which don't cure the basic rot then needing to go radical when criticism continues. #r4today #wato #c4news #bbcpm

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/11/09/s...
Sunday 9 November
Today is Remembrance Sunday and although it may well be different from London in other parts of the country observation has definitely been declining in recent years. A while back many would sport …
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
New #blogpost,including the changing shape of UK politics, finally some BBC resignations, exiling Andrew won't cure the monarchy's ills and key #workplace legislation coming soon. #r4today #westminsterhour #c4news #bbclaurak

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/11/09/s...
Sunday 9 November
Today is Remembrance Sunday and although it may well be different from London in other parts of the country observation has definitely been declining in recent years. A while back many would sport …
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
The #DigitalID thicket and #palantir, dark forces influencing UK politics, the toxic tentacles of #Epstein, what Parliament can't discuss and English puddings - should they be revived?! #wato #r4today #ReformUK #bbcpm #c4news
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/09/28/s...
Sunday 28 September
In the wake of the Trump state visit and as the British political party conference season takes hold, there’s no shortage of concerning news, much of it subjected to mendacious massage by the right…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
New #blogpost including #PalestineAction protest draconian measures, threat to democracy, the inadequcy of the world's 'policeman', more #Tory corruption uncovered, the woes of #PrinceAndrew and some respite! #r4today #wato #bbcpm #c4news

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/08/11/m...
Monday 11 August
Rather than August being the traditional ‘silly season’ the news agenda this year has been busier than ever, with desperate straits in Gaza and Ukraine including Netanyahu’s latest plan, growing op…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
August 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
#blogpost - #Labour first year & should the govt throw off its timidity on tackling inequality? And #TheSaltPath controversy - do the publishing & film industries need regulating? And a great museum up north.
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/07/13/s...

#r4today #wato #bbcpm #c4news
Sunday 13 July
As it seems we have been rendered pretty impotent when it comes to influencing our government’s policies on international affairs, especially the increasingly dangerous antics of Trump, Putin and N…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
July 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
So many years after Harold Wilson should Labour finally throw off its timidity in addressing massive inequality? Why Badenoch needs to worry about defections to #ReformUK and #TheSaltPath controversy. #bbcpm #r4today #c4news #wato
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/07/13/s...
Sunday 13 July
As it seems we have been rendered pretty impotent when it comes to influencing our government’s policies on international affairs, especially the increasingly dangerous antics of Trump, Putin and N…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
July 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Met Plod tells people not be to be alarmed re Wagner Group link to crimes here because they're on the case. What a joke when they're so hopeless. #r4today
July 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
The assault on our #mentalhealth via reckless and narcissistic politicians; #AssistedDyingBill conundrums and misinformation; and how can Europe go forward positively without the US?
#bbcpm #r4today #c4news #westminsterhour #GazaGenocide

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/06/22/s...
Sunday 22 June
As the bloodshed continues unabated in Ukraine and Gaza, the latest escalation in the Middle East crisis has the power to unleash unprecedented global shockwaves. I won’t be only one who finds it f…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
June 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Latest #blogpost including 3 ways cuts could be reduced; the dangers of Reform; what's happened to the rules-based world order & have 'awareness days' gone too far?

#mentahealth #bbclaurak #bbcpm #r4today #Trump #ReformUK

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/05/18/s...
Sunday 18 May
Donald Trump continues to cause mayhem with what media sources euphemistically call his ‘quixotic’ policies and tariffs and the two major conflicts (actually invasions) rage on despite yet more air…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
May 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Anyone else finding X not working, if you do both? V annoying. #bbcaq
May 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
He's not 'security chief', he's UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. #bbcaq
May 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Yes - @JackleBaillie is being very hypocritical with the #Gaza handwringing when her government and so many parliamentarians are members of a friends of Israel organisation. #bbcaq
May 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Will the main parties now take #ReformUK seriously? Political landscape changing overnight, the delusions of #Trump and @Conservatives and what the royals & cyber targets have in common.
#r4today #wato #politicslive #AbolishtheMonarchy
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/05/06/t...
Tuesday 6 May
The news agenda has accelerated to fever pitch over the last fortnight, journalists and commentators falling over each other to opine on the latest Trump antics, the local election results, the roy…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
May 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Do #TrumpTariffs have any positives eg getting us to buy less Stuff? #BritishSteel - is the govt anglocentric in saving Scunthorpe but not Port Talbot or Grangemouth? & what's your #Easter 'treat'?
#bbclaurak #r4today #wato #mentalhealth

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/04/13/s...
Sunday 13 April
When I began this blog during the first 2020 lockdown, the key theme, which has continued ever since, was the deleterious effect on our mental wellbeing caused by leaders’ (such as employers and go…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
April 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
The #benefits conundrum-including what many politicians and commentators don't understand about #mentalhealth; #Trump stunts being normalised and the disgrace of #JustinWelby.
#bbclaurak #wato #bbcbh #r4today #SpringStatement

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/03/29/s...
Saturday 29 March
As we approach the quarter year mark there’s as ever no shortage of news, the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, the Signal scandal and Donald Trump’s clumsy political posturing and tariffs stunt domin…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
March 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
#Benefits: I still haven't heard any politician demonstrate understanding of what those with #MentalHealth issues need, let alone deliver it or get why there's such need. #r4today #wato #c4news #bbcpm

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/03/15/s...
Saturday 15 March
For many of us the world has never felt a more unsafe place, due to President Trump’s casual destruction of the rules-based international order and the resulting fall out. From his initial executiv…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
March 17, 2025 at 8:06 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
As #Trump dangerous antics threaten even more global disruption, another massive #NHS upheaval beckons... + ongoing failure of politicians to address poor #mentalhealth underlying so many #benefits claims.
#bbclaurak #r4today #wato

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/03/15/s...
Saturday 15 March
For many of us the world has never felt a more unsafe place, due to President Trump’s casual destruction of the rules-based international order and the resulting fall out. From his initial executiv…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
March 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
There are decades where nothing happens; and...weeks where decades happen’ (Lenin). The cost to our #mentalhealth of #Trump overturning international world order is going under the political and media radar. #r4today #wato #bbcpm #c4news
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/02/23/s...
Sunday 23 February
‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen’ (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) – a timely quote from the BBC yesterday considering we’re now at one of those historical …
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
February 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
'There are decades where nothing happens; and...weeks where decades happen’. The cost to our #mentalhealth of #Trump overturning international world order goes under the political and media radar. #bbcpm #r4today #c4news #westminsterhour
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/02/23/s...
Sunday 23 February
‘There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen’ (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) – a timely quote from the BBC yesterday considering we’re now at one of those historical …
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
February 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
#r4today therapist James Davies.
'The psychiatrist, Prof Allen Young, has just been interviewed
about antidepressants without his long-standing financial ties to the pharma industry being declared to listeners (who presumably assumed he is an independent, expert voice). Due diligence please BBC.
February 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
The #mentalhealth of many will be undermined by the world having become an even more dangerous place since last week. #Trump is normalising disregard for law, order and decency on a much bigger scale than Johnson could. #bbcbh #wato #bbclaurak #c4news #r4today #wellbeing
January 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
#Trump first week - what do you think? Is big talk standing up to scrutiny? Complicit media need to wake up.
And big shifts in the #labour market - is your #workplace 'unbossing'?

#bbcbh #bbclaurak #r4today #bbcpm #c4news

politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog/2025/01/26/s...
Sunday 26 January
Phew – the first week of the Trump second term many of us have been dreading, with good reason. The 47th president declared: ‘Starting tomorrow, I will act with historic speed of strength and…
politicsandmentalhealth-themissinglink.blog
January 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
Hear that @bbcnews.bsky.social? Stop telling us 'what the Conservatives say'. They're irrelevant, a corrupt spent force. #wato #bbcpm
January 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
interesting exploration by @EvanHD
of 'unbossing' -getting rid of layers of middle managers in organisations, seen as mainly just interfering. #wato #r4today #bbcpm #c4news

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - The Bottom Line, Unbossing: Can We Work Without Managers?
Evan explores what happens to companies that decide to operate without managers.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
roslynbyfield.bsky.social
I wonder how many know this. #wato #bbcpm #socialcare #c4news
'Hammersmith and Fulham is the only English council where, as in Scotland, personal care is free to anyone who needs it'.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Is this the way to fix social care in England?
As yet another review is launched, a single council is offering an alternative to rationing support for the most needy
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM