So if govt is serious about its shifts prevention & community care, it has to break the silence on family life.

See our infographic below - there is so much untapped potential, aligned to families own preferences, in this top right quadrant 👇

I cannot think of a more inappropriate use of ‘the wrong side of history’.

And I cannot see any way in which history does not look back on the situation in Gaza as a stunning failure of global leadership, in an era where humanitarian foreign policy has been made toxic by populists.

I’m on two minds about all of this. I believe in democracy - it’s been clear for a long time that the British people want lower immigration.

But in a healthy democracy, political figures debate and shape public opinion as well as simply responding to it.

Take the Plan for Change below - 'money in working people's pockets' right next to 'Net Financial Debt' and hackneyed platitudes about economic stability, sound money, economic responsibility etc etc.

Focus groups expressed frustration at powerful forces affecting their health - forces they felt unable to contest.

In particular:
- Big business - esp food and tech
- Irresponsible landlords
- Exploitative employers

who were felt to profit at the expense of their health.

These groups were actually *more* in favour of public health interventions than the national average.

See the chart below - except for junk food ads (where Con '19-Lab '24 voters are bang on avg) - support from these groups (yellow and green) consistently exceed the national average (blue).

🏦 As well as on the public finances more generally.

- Reducing the burden on the NHS was the public’s top-voted direct benefit of improving the nation’s health.
- Reducing reliance on welfare was fourth, ahead of seven other factors.

Focus groups expressed similar worries:

4/ 💷 Economic pressures were felt to weigh particularly heavily on health.

81% agreed that ppl's work environment had a significant impact on their health.

Focus groups spoke of “always-on” jobs, financial stress + being too tired or cash-strapped to make healthy choices.

71% felt govt had a part to play, while - strikingly - more people felt the food industry (84%) were responsible for the nation's health than the NHS (79%).

Focus groups emphasised that people view their health as intimately bound up with their work, social and family lives.

3/ 🧩 The public doesn’t see health as something for individuals to solve alone.

78% say people take a great deal of responsibility for their own health—but they also see a big role for others (ctd.)

Another in a series of ‘is this @BBCNews or the sidebar of shame’ moments.

Since when did the UK’s foremost news outlet - respected around the world for its serious + credible journalism - start calling anyone a ‘struck-off sex GP’

A sex GP. Come on, it’s getting silly now.

I repeat: a Z-list celebrity having an offensive hissy fit is not more important to UK citizens’ lives than say…

- The uprising in Syria
- The war in Ukraine
- The Irish elections

Or pretty much any domestic or foreign policy issue going. Sort it out, BBC, honestly.

*BBC newsfeed inanity alert*.

Literally, why are: Cate Blanchett’s thoughts on AI, Greg Wallace’s (admittedly gross) behaviour at work and a man buying a smooth Mars bar in the top 10 stories?