Helen Buckingham
@hbuckingham.bsky.social
Expert by experience in healthcare management & policy, Chair National Voices, Trustee RVS, NED PHIN. Also cook, wine drinker, reader, gardener, walker, armchair art critic.
It's so basic though... ensuring diversity, not just of gender, should be second nature to any event organiser. Not least because it gets you better discussions.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's so basic though... ensuring diversity, not just of gender, should be second nature to any event organiser. Not least because it gets you better discussions.
Reposted by Helen Buckingham
This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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No more bedpan Rudolphs??
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 AM
No more bedpan Rudolphs??
I'm intrigued by the gravyboat/Aladdin's lamp top left! I assume it's intended to be Florence Nightingale's lamp.
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm intrigued by the gravyboat/Aladdin's lamp top left! I assume it's intended to be Florence Nightingale's lamp.
Not sure there's ever been a 'Cumberland & Westmorland Hospital'.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Not sure there's ever been a 'Cumberland & Westmorland Hospital'.
Oh how rubbish.
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh how rubbish.
It's quite the mental shift...
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It's quite the mental shift...
Fantastic review in the Grauniad - enjoy!
October 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fantastic review in the Grauniad - enjoy!
Oh wonderful, I have been to Valletta but not been able to see the cathedral. That is just spectacular.
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Oh wonderful, I have been to Valletta but not been able to see the cathedral. That is just spectacular.
And then some!! Where?
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And then some!! Where?
And no politician ever wiggles out on anything...
October 21, 2025 at 7:28 AM
And no politician ever wiggles out on anything...
Abolition de facto much easier than de jure - do (some sort of) restructure, stop using the name, tidy up the legislation later.
A la the demise of Monitor.
A la the demise of Monitor.
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Abolition de facto much easier than de jure - do (some sort of) restructure, stop using the name, tidy up the legislation later.
A la the demise of Monitor.
A la the demise of Monitor.
Probably smells much the same.
October 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Probably smells much the same.
(Nothing to do with Pizza Hut, obvs, it's going down the rabbit hole of what defines a salad)
October 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
(Nothing to do with Pizza Hut, obvs, it's going down the rabbit hole of what defines a salad)
