Edel Rogan
@edelr.bsky.social
Work in child health policy and public affairs in NI but also here for musings on the outdoors, walking, camping, music, good food and kind people.
Mum and wife. She/her.
From Ireland / Northern Ireland / North of Ireland
Mum and wife. She/her.
From Ireland / Northern Ireland / North of Ireland
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"If we don't save Gaza we would not have saved our international order, and humanity will be buried in Gaza."
Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks to Jackie Long about the Israel-Hamas war.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/uk-govt...
Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks to Jackie Long about the Israel-Hamas war.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/uk-govt...
‘UK govt needs to stop talking, we need action’, says Palestinian ambassador
We’re joined from Westminster by Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, who was born in Gaza.
www.channel4.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"If we don't save Gaza we would not have saved our international order, and humanity will be buried in Gaza."
Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks to Jackie Long about the Israel-Hamas war.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/uk-govt...
Dr Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK, speaks to Jackie Long about the Israel-Hamas war.
Read and watch here:
www.channel4.com/news/uk-govt...
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“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening & this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.
May 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening & this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.
Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship w/ drones w/ humanitarian volunteers on board.
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Rumours, rock-star cardinals and street cleaning: Rome gets ready for conclave
Rumours, rock-star cardinals and street cleaning: Rome gets ready for conclave
Papal electors gossip in bars and restaurants and try to avoid journalists seeking clues to Pope Francis’s successor
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Rumours, rock-star cardinals and street cleaning: Rome gets ready for conclave
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Wow!!!!
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
April 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Wow!!!!
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Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Now THAT’S some #GoodTrouble. #HandsOff
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April 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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We’ve decided to stop posting on X.
Our values guide everything we do, and unfortunately, X no longer aligns with them. We’re choosing to focus on safer, more positive spaces - like Bluesky! 💙
You can also connect with us on:
📌 Facebook: tinyurl.com/mv7w29bf
📌 LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/43mmes27
Our values guide everything we do, and unfortunately, X no longer aligns with them. We’re choosing to focus on safer, more positive spaces - like Bluesky! 💙
You can also connect with us on:
📌 Facebook: tinyurl.com/mv7w29bf
📌 LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/43mmes27
March 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We’ve decided to stop posting on X.
Our values guide everything we do, and unfortunately, X no longer aligns with them. We’re choosing to focus on safer, more positive spaces - like Bluesky! 💙
You can also connect with us on:
📌 Facebook: tinyurl.com/mv7w29bf
📌 LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/43mmes27
Our values guide everything we do, and unfortunately, X no longer aligns with them. We’re choosing to focus on safer, more positive spaces - like Bluesky! 💙
You can also connect with us on:
📌 Facebook: tinyurl.com/mv7w29bf
📌 LinkedIn: tinyurl.com/43mmes27
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Physical punishment harms not helps children.
Thank you to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for her powerful speech in parliament this week calling for the removal of the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Thank you to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for her powerful speech in parliament this week calling for the removal of the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
March 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Physical punishment harms not helps children.
Thank you to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for her powerful speech in parliament this week calling for the removal of the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Thank you to @jessasatomp.bsky.social for her powerful speech in parliament this week calling for the removal of the ‘reasonable punishment’ defence as part of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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Today mark’s one year since the publication of RCPCH Scotland’s Worried & Waiting report.
Our recommendations to the Scottish government remain unchanged 👇
Cut waiting times
Enhance CYP service experiences
Ensure prompt, effective care.
Read more: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our recommendations to the Scottish government remain unchanged 👇
Cut waiting times
Enhance CYP service experiences
Ensure prompt, effective care.
Read more: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...
March 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Today mark’s one year since the publication of RCPCH Scotland’s Worried & Waiting report.
Our recommendations to the Scottish government remain unchanged 👇
Cut waiting times
Enhance CYP service experiences
Ensure prompt, effective care.
Read more: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...
Our recommendations to the Scottish government remain unchanged 👇
Cut waiting times
Enhance CYP service experiences
Ensure prompt, effective care.
Read more: www.rcpch.ac.uk/news-events/...
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We should tax the rich, not cut foreign aid.
Repost of you agree.
Repost of you agree.
February 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We should tax the rich, not cut foreign aid.
Repost of you agree.
Repost of you agree.
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Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?
A thread/
A thread/
February 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us?
A thread/
A thread/
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GPs and patients are feeling the effects of the crisis in #GeneralPractice - especially in deprived areas.
Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
‘Fix poverty, fix health’: A day in the life of a ‘failing’ NHS
A GP surgery in one of the most deprived areas in the north-east of England is struggling to provide care for its patients as the health system crumbles around them. In the depths of the winter flu se...
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
GPs and patients are feeling the effects of the crisis in #GeneralPractice - especially in deprived areas.
Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
Gateshead GP Dr Paul Evans took The Guardian inside his surgery to show the impact of the crisis.
#RebuildGP #TeamGP
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...
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We see you, our American friends, and stand with you.
Bluesky is a great environment for building European-American resistance links…
…and over the coming months and years, we should actually put some real work into that space.
If you feel that, please re-share this for solidarity. ✊🇪🇺🇺🇸
Bluesky is a great environment for building European-American resistance links…
…and over the coming months and years, we should actually put some real work into that space.
If you feel that, please re-share this for solidarity. ✊🇪🇺🇺🇸
February 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We see you, our American friends, and stand with you.
Bluesky is a great environment for building European-American resistance links…
…and over the coming months and years, we should actually put some real work into that space.
If you feel that, please re-share this for solidarity. ✊🇪🇺🇺🇸
Bluesky is a great environment for building European-American resistance links…
…and over the coming months and years, we should actually put some real work into that space.
If you feel that, please re-share this for solidarity. ✊🇪🇺🇺🇸
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🔥 Lord Sumption says US is now “very, very” unreliable ally -
- and the UK should disentangle from it.
Absolutely right.
- and the UK should disentangle from it.
Absolutely right.
February 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🔥 Lord Sumption says US is now “very, very” unreliable ally -
- and the UK should disentangle from it.
Absolutely right.
- and the UK should disentangle from it.
Absolutely right.
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Almost everyone on bluesky has experience ditching a long-established app that now doesn't align with their values.
What happened here was awesome - people chose their values over convenience and influence.
Meta, Google, Amazon... if you're on here, you'll be the first rocks in that landslide too.
What happened here was awesome - people chose their values over convenience and influence.
Meta, Google, Amazon... if you're on here, you'll be the first rocks in that landslide too.
February 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Almost everyone on bluesky has experience ditching a long-established app that now doesn't align with their values.
What happened here was awesome - people chose their values over convenience and influence.
Meta, Google, Amazon... if you're on here, you'll be the first rocks in that landslide too.
What happened here was awesome - people chose their values over convenience and influence.
Meta, Google, Amazon... if you're on here, you'll be the first rocks in that landslide too.
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"The authors of a new report on the cost of our conflict need to come to visit Belfast, the Bogside, and Omagh if they plan to continue to pontificate on our toxic Troubles fallout..."
Whining over legacy costs really sticks in the craw – the Omagh Inquiry is certainly no waste of money
The authors of a new report by the right-wing think tank Policy Exchange need to come to visit Belfast, the Bogside, and Omagh if they plan to continue to pontificate on our toxic Troubles fallout.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"The authors of a new report on the cost of our conflict need to come to visit Belfast, the Bogside, and Omagh if they plan to continue to pontificate on our toxic Troubles fallout..."
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Rewatching Don’t Look Up and think Jonah Hill does a good job as JD Vance, Meryl Streep as Trump, Mark Rylance as Musk/Zuckerburg, and the Don’t look up crowd as MAGA.
My gosh this film is much less crazy today than in 2021!
My gosh this film is much less crazy today than in 2021!
February 7, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Rewatching Don’t Look Up and think Jonah Hill does a good job as JD Vance, Meryl Streep as Trump, Mark Rylance as Musk/Zuckerburg, and the Don’t look up crowd as MAGA.
My gosh this film is much less crazy today than in 2021!
My gosh this film is much less crazy today than in 2021!
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"As paediatricians we are clear that there is no greater investment than our children, and this report rightly highlights the extortionate cost that this mental health crisis is placing on our current and future society." Dr Mike McKean VP of Policy.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK childhood mental health crisis to cost £1.1tn in lost pay, study finds
Researchers estimate lifetime earnings lost as charities call for independent review of causes of the crisis
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"As paediatricians we are clear that there is no greater investment than our children, and this report rightly highlights the extortionate cost that this mental health crisis is placing on our current and future society." Dr Mike McKean VP of Policy.
Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Read more: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The diagnosis is clear. Children are being left behind and record numbers are waiting for treatment. We brought this issue to parliament to call on MPs to champion child health services. 🧵
February 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The diagnosis is clear. Children are being left behind and record numbers are waiting for treatment. We brought this issue to parliament to call on MPs to champion child health services. 🧵
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Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.
February 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Nearly 250,000 people in Berlin showed up to protest fascism and the Musk backed AfD party.
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If you support Mexico, like.
If you support Canada, RT.
Say no to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and watch their empire collapse.
If you support Canada, RT.
Say no to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and watch their empire collapse.
February 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
If you support Mexico, like.
If you support Canada, RT.
Say no to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and watch their empire collapse.
If you support Canada, RT.
Say no to Donald Trump and Elon Musk and watch their empire collapse.