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Lorraine Legg - purplesquirrel
@lorrainelegg7.bsky.social
Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 live in England; Irish citizen passport 🇮🇪; forever European 🇪🇺; retired after a very long career in NHS as a cancer nurse specialist and midwife; dogs 🐾; politics; history; NFL
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We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.
December 16, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11... Yesterday’s farming demonstrations revealed what these protests are all about. Farmers want state subsidies for the wealthy and are indifferent to the cost to the state of supplying them.
The politics of privilege are what the farmers’ protests are all about
I was on Sky News last night, supposedly debating the inheritance tax charge on farms. I say supposedly for a good reason. I went on presuming that we might have a calm discussion, but it became very...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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#Oliverscampaign
I feel like the new kid on the block. I have opened a Bluesky account.
I am trying to find my tribe.
If you are on Bluesky please come and support me ❤️

#medsky
#nursesky
#Autistic
#ADHD
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Trump is Musk’s client. Musk is Putin’s client. Putin is Xi’s client.
November 11, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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A man whose wife died after a drain was mistakenly left in her abdomen for 21 hours has condemned increased use of physician associates in NHS

Coroner highlighted lack of a national framework covering PAs' training, supervision & competency assessment
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rising NHS physician associate use questioned after Oldham death
Roy Pollitt's wife died after a physician associate mistakenly left a drain in her body for 21 hours.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Bluesky is what the other place used to be and I love it! 💙💙
November 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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I would like us to throw out “norms and traditions” and bring back “what does the law allow?”
November 10, 2024 at 3:23 AM