E G Nomad
@egnomad.bsky.social
Linguist and educator 🇫🇷🇪🇸
If only all social issues could be resolved as easily as moving from Twitter to Bluesky.
If only all social issues could be resolved as easily as moving from Twitter to Bluesky.
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E G Nomad
@egnomad.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Yet another reminder that those with the most money are usually the ones shouting loudest. In First Aid as in society you don’t treat the screaming people first: you treat the ones you can’t hear at all.
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‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
Ruth was 14 years old and being treated for an eating disorder when she died after being detained under the Mental Health Act. She wasn’t allowed to see her family for more than a few hours a week. How did the system we trusted – and I worked for as a GP – fail us so tragically?
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
‘The ward felt like a prison. What had I let them do?’: how my daughter was crushed by a health service meant to help her
‘You Britons go to the pub, we go to the swimming pool!’: the European health habits worth adopting
Some great and important lessons here, though a shameful reflection on the UK when Icelanders can pay £25 a year for pool access! @theguardian.com #brexit #costoflivingcrisis
Some great and important lessons here, though a shameful reflection on the UK when Icelanders can pay £25 a year for pool access! @theguardian.com #brexit #costoflivingcrisis
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 AM
‘You Britons go to the pub, we go to the swimming pool!’: the European health habits worth adopting
Some great and important lessons here, though a shameful reflection on the UK when Icelanders can pay £25 a year for pool access! @theguardian.com #brexit #costoflivingcrisis
Some great and important lessons here, though a shameful reflection on the UK when Icelanders can pay £25 a year for pool access! @theguardian.com #brexit #costoflivingcrisis
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For the last century many people have imagined what an American dictator might look like but none that I know of predicted that his approach would be to repeatedly say “Hello I would like to be a dictator.”
Trump: "I stick up for Viktor Orban. Not a lot of people do because in many cases they're jealous. They wish they did what he did. They would have no problems if they did what he did."
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
For the last century many people have imagined what an American dictator might look like but none that I know of predicted that his approach would be to repeatedly say “Hello I would like to be a dictator.”
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NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
October 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
NEW from me:
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.
That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
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English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson
English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson
Measure, which will allow increase in line with inflation, is part of white paper on post-16 education and skills
University tuition fees in England are to rise in line with inflation, but only for institutions that meet “tough new quality thresholds”, the government has announced.
In an attempt to put the higher education sector on a firmer financial footing, all institutions will benefit from increased fees for the next two academic years, starting next September, the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, told MPs on Monday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet ‘tough’ standards, says Phillipson
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Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
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Carpool karaoke's gone shite
October 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Carpool karaoke's gone shite
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French PM Lecornu has just explained his resignation: political parties all behave as if they have a majority in parliament; their intransigence and egotism is making it impossible. #France
October 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
French PM Lecornu has just explained his resignation: political parties all behave as if they have a majority in parliament; their intransigence and egotism is making it impossible. #France
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history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism
teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.
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As a point of information, in Spain a separate digital health ID card has all my health & prescriptions data: it is used by me whenever I go to the pharmacy for a prescribed medicine, or the clinic to see the GP, or to the hospital for an appointment.
Why on earth does the UK not do the same? 🤷♂️
Why on earth does the UK not do the same? 🤷♂️
September 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
As a point of information, in Spain a separate digital health ID card has all my health & prescriptions data: it is used by me whenever I go to the pharmacy for a prescribed medicine, or the clinic to see the GP, or to the hospital for an appointment.
Why on earth does the UK not do the same? 🤷♂️
Why on earth does the UK not do the same? 🤷♂️
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I have a sinking feeling they’ll do exactly this
The most foolish thing the UK government could do right now is mess around with skilled visa criteria just when opportunities to attract parts of the tech sector into the UK are opening up
September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I have a sinking feeling they’ll do exactly this
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Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
September 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."
September 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"The big orange elephant in the room that we're all tiptoeing around is the fact that Mandelson was chosen for that position, to be the interface with President Trump, not despite his questionable connections and his rather ephemeral morals, but because of them. Because he shares them with Trump."
Highlighted by the brilliant @hannahfearn.bsky.social on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social - this is shameful. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living in Britain in 2025. A couple with 2 children needs to earn £74,000 a year between them.
After a year of a new govt people on low to middle incomes are still struggling to reach the Minimum Income Standard (MIS) 📢
@crsp-uk.bsky.social, supported by JRF, calculated the costs needed to achieve this standard of living in the UK in 2025 1/4
@crsp-uk.bsky.social, supported by JRF, calculated the costs needed to achieve this standard of living in the UK in 2025 1/4
September 12, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Highlighted by the brilliant @hannahfearn.bsky.social on @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social - this is shameful. A single person needs to earn £30,500 a year to reach a minimum acceptable standard of living in Britain in 2025. A couple with 2 children needs to earn £74,000 a year between them.
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This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
'I'm angry. It's not right' - locals want asylum hotels shut, but are shared houses the answer?
The BBC's UK editor, Ed Thomas, meets local people and asylum seekers in two towns in north-west England.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This was inevitably going to happen, wasn’t it? Close the hotels and the lEgiTiMaTe cOnCeRns become about asylum seekers living in actual houses. Because it was never about the hotels, as such.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
While the BBC listens attentively, nods vigorously and puts it at the top of its website.
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I HAVE EXCITING NEWS
There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours.
AND Sunday School as normal in two days.
A xx
There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours.
AND Sunday School as normal in two days.
A xx
September 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I HAVE EXCITING NEWS
There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours.
AND Sunday School as normal in two days.
A xx
There's an emergency Midnight Mass episode on Rayner's resignation and the reshuffle that followed that will be appearing on your app in a few hours.
AND Sunday School as normal in two days.
A xx
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Suspect the precedent of having breached the ministerial code, despite having acted with integrity, might be problematic for more than just Angela Rayner
September 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Suspect the precedent of having breached the ministerial code, despite having acted with integrity, might be problematic for more than just Angela Rayner
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It reduces emergency admissions, unnecessary investigations and mortality rates, and raises patient satisfaction. Maybe that’s where the government should be putting its money.
‘MD’ on the NHS summer of discontent, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
🧵2/2
‘MD’ on the NHS summer of discontent, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
🧵2/2
August 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It reduces emergency admissions, unnecessary investigations and mortality rates, and raises patient satisfaction. Maybe that’s where the government should be putting its money.
‘MD’ on the NHS summer of discontent, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
🧵2/2
‘MD’ on the NHS summer of discontent, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
🧵2/2
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‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness
‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness
Studying in London before taking up a high-flying job in New York, Naina Mishra seemed set for a bright future – until she began retreating from friends and family into a paranoid spiral even her mother couldn’t break. What does her story reveal about the dangers of young adult estrangement?
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
‘I had her right in front of me. And now she’s gone’: how one mother lost her daughter to mental illness
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The headline here should say:
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees
Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The headline here should say:
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".
(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)
www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...
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And an additional "BRAVO!" to @quietriotpod.bsky.social listeners who added a big bump to that graph.
In three days, more than 5,000 people used our online tool to write to Sky News and make a formal complaint.
“The changes made by Sky News today to reclaim some degree of editorial control are welcome and we thank our supporters for taking action.” ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/sky_news_cha...
“The changes made by Sky News today to reclaim some degree of editorial control are welcome and we thank our supporters for taking action.” ~AA
www.bestforbritain.org/sky_news_cha...
Sky News changes Reform UK coverage after receiving thousands of complaints
Sky News today altered their coverage of Reform UK press conferences after a concerted campaign organised by Best for Britain.
www.bestforbritain.org
August 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
And an additional "BRAVO!" to @quietriotpod.bsky.social listeners who added a big bump to that graph.
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I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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little library gallows humor for ya :'D
July 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
little library gallows humor for ya :'D
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i dno, maybe time to let it go
July 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
i dno, maybe time to let it go