Kieran Walshe
@kieranwalshe.bsky.social
Professor of health policy and management at University of Manchester, UK. Research health reform, governance, workforce, quality, evidence - ideas not ideologies. Ultrarunner. Citizen of UK, Ireland & Europe. Son of an immigrant. He/him.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
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If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
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The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
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November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
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Anyone else had this spam email from the so-called Academy of Public Health?
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Anyone else had this spam email from the so-called Academy of Public Health?
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"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Coventry South needs a by-election soon
Zarah Sultana has no mandate for disarming the people of Britain and betraying Ukraine
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October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence."
Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana.
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Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
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Then share. Thank you.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out.
Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
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Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October
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Then share. Thank you.
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Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Challenging and incisive report from the Transforming Evidence team on what needs to change in health R&D in the UK. Well worth reading. It's at transforming-evidence.org/resources/op...
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Come along tomorrow to LSHTM, Keppel Street or online to hear me talk about why we do research, why it's not used, and how we might engineer the system to get better value for all of us...
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Is research really worth it? with Professor Kathryn Oliver | LSHTM
Research is something we spend a lot of money and time on — as individuals, organisations, and states. But is it worth it? Do we get bang for our buck? Who really benefits? And does research actually
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October 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Come along tomorrow to LSHTM, Keppel Street or online to hear me talk about why we do research, why it's not used, and how we might engineer the system to get better value for all of us...
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Just for context the owner of BetFred is worth about £3 billion, money which - let's face it - has in large part come from the poorer sections of society. But the government can't possibly tax gambling or they'll close their shops.
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Just for context the owner of BetFred is worth about £3 billion, money which - let's face it - has in large part come from the poorer sections of society. But the government can't possibly tax gambling or they'll close their shops.
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📣New article!
We use publicly-available NHS referral data to outline the private healthcare market for NHS patients 2008-2024, and to review NHS patient choice policies since New Labour. (1/3)
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We use publicly-available NHS referral data to outline the private healthcare market for NHS patients 2008-2024, and to review NHS patient choice policies since New Labour. (1/3)
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NHS Patient Choice Policy in England: What Mapping the Private Healthcare Market for NHS Patients Can Tell Us - Liverpool Law Review
This article examines how the private healthcare market supports successive governments’ commitment in the English National Health Service (NHS) to patient choice of NHS or private provider. The Labou...
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October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
📣New article!
We use publicly-available NHS referral data to outline the private healthcare market for NHS patients 2008-2024, and to review NHS patient choice policies since New Labour. (1/3)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We use publicly-available NHS referral data to outline the private healthcare market for NHS patients 2008-2024, and to review NHS patient choice policies since New Labour. (1/3)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
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1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation
Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.
Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
1/11
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Especially delicious as this published 24 hours ago by an OpenAI employee ⬇️
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October 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Especially delicious as this published 24 hours ago by an OpenAI employee ⬇️
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For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For anyone who's published a book. (Source: www.alcs.co.uk/news/the-lat...)
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Wish the UK government had read our advice (ahem). Free to read.
The second Trump administration: A policy analysis of challenges and opportunities for European health policymakers
The second Trump administration has already made major changes in US policies that affect health and health systems worldwide.We use the Health System…
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September 27, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Wish the UK government had read our advice (ahem). Free to read.
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Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure
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Let's talk about "gold standard science"
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Let's talk about "gold standard science"
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Again, with the essential use of sibling controls, in a nationwide prospective study in Sweden of ~2.5 million children, no increased risk even with higher dose exposure
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Let's talk about "gold standard science"
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Let's talk about "gold standard science"
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I confess I sometimes wonder whether Unherd should really be called Unhinged. But just occasionally, especially when it does reportage rather than rage-baiting, it comes up with real gems. This IMHO is one of them. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...
The sordid reality of retirement villages
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September 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I confess I sometimes wonder whether Unherd should really be called Unhinged. But just occasionally, especially when it does reportage rather than rage-baiting, it comes up with real gems. This IMHO is one of them. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...
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NIHR ARC Wessex withdraws from X/Twitter
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NIHR ARC Wessex closes X/Twitter platform account after comments from owner
NIHR ARC Wessex has withdrawn from the X/Twitter platform following comments at the weekend by its owner Elon Musk. See BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvr5782yp3o We would encourage...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NIHR ARC Wessex withdraws from X/Twitter
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CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION! Disappointingly poor reporting from @theguardian.com. Of course we want more girls to play sport, but this study is what is technically termed "a load of nonsense". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Girls who play after-school sport in UK 50% more likely to later get top jobs, study finds
Despite benefits, girls far less likely than boys to play sport due to cost and lack of access, according to the research
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September 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION! Disappointingly poor reporting from @theguardian.com. Of course we want more girls to play sport, but this study is what is technically termed "a load of nonsense". www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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There's a new social care 'think tank' that has appeared from nowhere. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has some questions... open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...
The BBC, the NHS and a 'new' think-tank
A case study in how vested interests rebrand themselves as "think-tanks".
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September 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
There's a new social care 'think tank' that has appeared from nowhere. @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social has some questions... open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...