Chris
@chrislchrisl.bsky.social
Europhile, humanitarian, artist, mum, grandmother
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Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
December 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Poorest Britons lose right to financial privacy.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025 empowers the state to 24/7 snoop on the bank accounts of recipients of universal credit; employment and support allowance; state pension credit.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
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🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🔴Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
Keir Starmer’s decision to exclude Russian interference in the EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in UK elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/r...
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You hear loads of nonsense about clean energy jobs.
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
You hear loads of nonsense about clean energy jobs.
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
But ignore the naysayers, the gloomsters and the doomsters.
Clean energy is the future.
Clean energy jobs offer hope, security and a future for our young people.
Ed gets it.
Labour gets it.
I get it.
Do you?
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In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore… masking is boring. Etiquette. Courtesy.
A cough? Pollution day? Crowded underground? Mask goes on. End of story.
No identity crisis. No tribal signalling. Just collective care. /2
(Family photo from SE Asia - man in mask=NBD)
A cough? Pollution day? Crowded underground? Mask goes on. End of story.
No identity crisis. No tribal signalling. Just collective care. /2
(Family photo from SE Asia - man in mask=NBD)
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
In Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore… masking is boring. Etiquette. Courtesy.
A cough? Pollution day? Crowded underground? Mask goes on. End of story.
No identity crisis. No tribal signalling. Just collective care. /2
(Family photo from SE Asia - man in mask=NBD)
A cough? Pollution day? Crowded underground? Mask goes on. End of story.
No identity crisis. No tribal signalling. Just collective care. /2
(Family photo from SE Asia - man in mask=NBD)
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😷 Masks aren't traumatising.
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
December 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
😷 Masks aren't traumatising.
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
Abandonment is.
Airborne denial is.
Hospital-acquired infection is.
Long Covid and severe ME is.
The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14
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This research was carried out in 2021. We are living with unnecessary infections.
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff
Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This research was carried out in 2021. We are living with unnecessary infections.
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
#CleantheAir
Respirators for airborne risk
Ffp2
Ffp3 for staff
Not gappy FRSM
We need masks that seal to the face. www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
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A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
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NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Plus continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Plus continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
December 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NHS data reveal 'collapse' in GP jobs in England
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Plus continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
Availability of GP jobs remains far below the level seen in 2022/23
Plus continued lies by Labour about 2600 new GPs in ARRS highlighted with just over 1100 FTE in post but other GP jobs gone!
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Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn.
Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?
Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?
October 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Eligibility for an NHS Covid booster has been HUGELY restricted this Autumn.
Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?
Studies show that both acute & long-term impacts of Covid are substantially WORSE than flu on almost every measure.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So why are the government offering so much LESS protection for Covid?
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“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“It isn’t people seeking sanctuary who are tearing our country apart. It’s toxic, racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants for crises they did not cause.”
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
Carla Denyer challenges the Home Secretary's new immigration reforms saying they just fuel far-right narratives.
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Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
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The UK played a pivotal role in creating the ECHR. Leaving it now would betray that legacy, and destroy the very principles we helped to create.
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The UK played a pivotal role in creating the ECHR. Leaving it now would betray that legacy, and destroy the very principles we helped to create.
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Our President, Dr Ian Higginson, responds to the findings of the corridor care report published by the APPG on Emergency Care, complied by RCEM.
Read his full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
Read his full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Our President, Dr Ian Higginson, responds to the findings of the corridor care report published by the APPG on Emergency Care, complied by RCEM.
Read his full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
Read his full response here: rcem.ac.uk/press-releas...
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It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s easy to see why Trump wants to destroy the world’s number one news source. We can’t let him.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
The BBC belongs to all of us here in the UK.
The Prime Minister and leaders from across the political spectrum should be united in telling Trump to keep his hands off it.
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This report was published 20 October 2022
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This report was published 20 October 2022
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
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Fab study, delivers truth to the lies of the right wing. Its fossil fuels driving bills up and green drives them down, you paying attention Tony, Nigel, Kemi.....?
buff.ly/uvJ952M
buff.ly/uvJ952M
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Fab study, delivers truth to the lies of the right wing. Its fossil fuels driving bills up and green drives them down, you paying attention Tony, Nigel, Kemi.....?
buff.ly/uvJ952M
buff.ly/uvJ952M
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I just can’t fathom why any ‘strategist’ would have recommended the strategy of “chase the voters who won’t ever vote for you while pissing off those that might”.
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I just can’t fathom why any ‘strategist’ would have recommended the strategy of “chase the voters who won’t ever vote for you while pissing off those that might”.
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Fueled by a changing climate
This is how fossil-fueled global heating is supercharging Hurricane Melissa
www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
This is how fossil-fueled global heating is supercharging Hurricane Melissa
www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Melissa reaches Category 5 — fueled by climate change-driven ocean heat | Climate Central
Hurricane Melissa reached Category 4 strength, with winds of 140 mph, between Oct. 25 and 26 after undergoing extreme rapid intensification. The storm further strengthened into a Category 5 hurricane ...
www.climatecentral.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fueled by a changing climate
This is how fossil-fueled global heating is supercharging Hurricane Melissa
www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
This is how fossil-fueled global heating is supercharging Hurricane Melissa
www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
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💯 agree. UK is long overdue a constitutional overhaul. We’ve taken our democracy for granted, and trusted too much in the absurd “good chap” theory. Time for a serious national debate about what kind of country we want to be, what to preserve of our best traditions, and what we can improve on. 🧵
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
💯 agree. UK is long overdue a constitutional overhaul. We’ve taken our democracy for granted, and trusted too much in the absurd “good chap” theory. Time for a serious national debate about what kind of country we want to be, what to preserve of our best traditions, and what we can improve on. 🧵
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Tony Blair and the false counter narrative we need to defeat. High energy bills are caused by fossil fuels - solved by green energy. Farage, Badenoch and Blair all have it wrong.
October 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Tony Blair and the false counter narrative we need to defeat. High energy bills are caused by fossil fuels - solved by green energy. Farage, Badenoch and Blair all have it wrong.
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We can’t rebuild trust in politics if the part of government people actually see – their council – is bankrupt.
Stephen McNair reports.
Stephen McNair reports.
New report confirms local government crisis is growing
The Institute for Government’ annual review of the state of local government, published last week, paints an alarming picture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
We can’t rebuild trust in politics if the part of government people actually see – their council – is bankrupt.
Stephen McNair reports.
Stephen McNair reports.
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And for that we can thank the sterling job of normalising bigotry done by UK media, including the BBC.
However, I continue to believe that the majority of people in the UK are decent people.
However, I continue to believe that the majority of people in the UK are decent people.
Exclusive: Racist attacks on public transport rise 67 per cent in three years
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social: The British public are no longer ashamed of their bigotry
🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social: The British public are no longer ashamed of their bigotry
Exclusive: Racist attacks on public transport rise 67 per cent in three years
The British public are no longer ashamed of their bigotry
www.newstatesman.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
And for that we can thank the sterling job of normalising bigotry done by UK media, including the BBC.
However, I continue to believe that the majority of people in the UK are decent people.
However, I continue to believe that the majority of people in the UK are decent people.
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Some photos from the rather wonderful and very atmospheric @oldoptheatre.bsky.social this week, where I gave a talk on #Unheard voices in medicine. It was lovely to see some familiar faces and have a fantastic and detailed discussion! Would highly recommend visiting the museum.
October 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Some photos from the rather wonderful and very atmospheric @oldoptheatre.bsky.social this week, where I gave a talk on #Unheard voices in medicine. It was lovely to see some familiar faces and have a fantastic and detailed discussion! Would highly recommend visiting the museum.
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The top benefit claimants in the UK.
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The top benefit claimants in the UK.
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires
1. The Royal Family £500m a year.
2. Billionaires £320m a year EACH.
3. MPs many claiming more than £50,000 a year in PERSONAL benefits.
Yeah lets crackdown on these ridiculous benefits multimillionaires/billionaires