Mark Trewin
@markbt.bsky.social
Socialist. Retired mental health professional. Likes wild places, travel, centre left politics, equality, peace. Less keen on genocide, oppression, inequality
Bizzare and very long article in the @theguardian.com that is only relevant for Americans because they don’t have a decent publicly funded health system and refuse to vote for one. Not sure the rest of us need this advice!
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
My $30,000 health insurance claim was denied. Then I tweeted about it
Public shaming works – but it’s also a sign of how broken the appeals process is in the US health insurance industry
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Bizzare and very long article in the @theguardian.com that is only relevant for Americans because they don’t have a decent publicly funded health system and refuse to vote for one. Not sure the rest of us need this advice!
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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Forever guilty on all counts.
December 5, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Forever guilty on all counts.
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Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour:
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
December 2, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Chris Wormald - the balance sheet. In favour:
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
1. vastly experienced (much, much more than Case). Run two v big budget depts. also held senior role in what is now MHCLG; done time at the centre as head of EDS and heading Clegg office. former head of policy profession.
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Day 5 of Georgia protests. Much focus has been on Tbilisi, where 200,000 have been gathering in recent days.
However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country.
(🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)
However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country.
(🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)
December 2, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Day 5 of Georgia protests. Much focus has been on Tbilisi, where 200,000 have been gathering in recent days.
However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country.
(🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)
However, this is in Batumi, Georgia’s second largest city. Huge numbers now gathering. Pro-EU, anti-government/anti-Russia protests growing across the country.
(🎥Irakli Gogua on Instagram)
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Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza.
You can read about this in the Israeli press.
Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...
You can read about this in the Israeli press.
Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...
Israel allying with ISIS affiliated militants to starve Gaza
Israel's publicly declared policy of starving Gaza has many elements. One of them is allowing criminal gangs to run rampage - including ISIS.
www.owenjones.news
November 24, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza.
You can read about this in the Israeli press.
Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...
You can read about this in the Israeli press.
Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West?
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-all...
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Horrific pictures from Beirut overnight after Israel apparently dropped multiple ‘bunker buster’ missiles into residential apartments.
The attack appears to have happened without any warning, around 4am while people and families were sleeping.
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The attack appears to have happened without any warning, around 4am while people and families were sleeping.
(📸Credits in ALT text)
November 23, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Horrific pictures from Beirut overnight after Israel apparently dropped multiple ‘bunker buster’ missiles into residential apartments.
The attack appears to have happened without any warning, around 4am while people and families were sleeping.
(📸Credits in ALT text)
The attack appears to have happened without any warning, around 4am while people and families were sleeping.
(📸Credits in ALT text)
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This is massive, and still a work in progress.
639 references so far, and counting. More are being added as we speak. Enough reading for a lifetime.
This isn't just a blatant GENOCIDE, it's the BEST documented one in History. There's no coming back from this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
639 references so far, and counting. More are being added as we speak. Enough reading for a lifetime.
This isn't just a blatant GENOCIDE, it's the BEST documented one in History. There's no coming back from this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
Gaza genocide - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM
This is massive, and still a work in progress.
639 references so far, and counting. More are being added as we speak. Enough reading for a lifetime.
This isn't just a blatant GENOCIDE, it's the BEST documented one in History. There's no coming back from this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
639 references so far, and counting. More are being added as we speak. Enough reading for a lifetime.
This isn't just a blatant GENOCIDE, it's the BEST documented one in History. There's no coming back from this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_ge...
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Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza.
This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media.
It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...
This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media.
It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...
Israeli media: Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza
The Western media keeps covering up Israel's crimes - but if you read Israel's newspapers, there is a different story.
www.owenjones.news
November 23, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Israel is plotting to colonise Gaza.
This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media.
It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...
This is all being openly discussed in the Israeli media.
It is a damning indictment that Israeli newspapers offer more details of what's actually happening than newspapers in, say, the US or UK.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israeli-me...
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Evil vaccines, saving people's lives.
November 21, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Evil vaccines, saving people's lives.
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Israeli forces have, on average, killed three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank every week since October 7, 2023, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️ aje.io/azth2v
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️ aje.io/azth2v
Netanyahu, Gallant ‘wanted men’ as Israel bombards Gaza, Lebanon
ICC issues arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister and former defence minister as well as Hamas military commander.
aje.io
November 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Israeli forces have, on average, killed three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank every week since October 7, 2023, according to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️ aje.io/azth2v
🔴 LIVE Updates ⤵️ aje.io/azth2v
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Fourteen years of austerity, incompetence, indifference and corruption
November 20, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Fourteen years of austerity, incompetence, indifference and corruption
Fabulous wintry walk on Ilkley moor today 🥶
November 21, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Fabulous wintry walk on Ilkley moor today 🥶
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A reminder today, as US politicians including the President fall over one another to attack the ICC over arrest warrants and defend Netanyahu…
November 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM
A reminder today, as US politicians including the President fall over one another to attack the ICC over arrest warrants and defend Netanyahu…
John Prescott knew how to deal with shouty entitled Tory farmers! 🤣
November 21, 2024 at 10:11 AM
John Prescott knew how to deal with shouty entitled Tory farmers! 🤣
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Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ...
Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...
Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...
November 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Wish this got as much coverage as the landed gentry having to pay some tax ...
Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...
Child poverty is at its highest ever level - but yeah let's interview whinging millionaire landowners about their 'hardship' ...
Huge respect and affection for #JohnPrescott. A brilliant MP and politician from a time when the Labour Party actually represented working people
November 21, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Huge respect and affection for #JohnPrescott. A brilliant MP and politician from a time when the Labour Party actually represented working people
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The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall admits to MPs that the department's own modelling has found cutting winter fuel payments will push 100,000 pensioners into poverty.
Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy
Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy
November 20, 2024 at 9:45 AM
The Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall admits to MPs that the department's own modelling has found cutting winter fuel payments will push 100,000 pensioners into poverty.
Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy
Ministers previously denied any kind of impact assessment had been done on the policy
More Israeli war crimes
🔴 Gaza’s Civil Defence has released a statement detailing the extensive damages and losses it has suffered in Israeli attacks:
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
Israeli forces kill 88 in Gaza; US Senate rejects bid to block arms sales
No respite for civilians in Gaza, Lebanon as US Senate blocks bid to halt arms sales to Israel.
aje.io
November 21, 2024 at 9:08 AM
More Israeli war crimes
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🔴 Gaza’s Civil Defence has released a statement detailing the extensive damages and losses it has suffered in Israeli attacks:
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
Israeli forces kill 88 in Gaza; US Senate rejects bid to block arms sales
No respite for civilians in Gaza, Lebanon as US Senate blocks bid to halt arms sales to Israel.
aje.io
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 AM
🔴 Gaza’s Civil Defence has released a statement detailing the extensive damages and losses it has suffered in Israeli attacks:
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
🔺87 personnel killed
🔺304 staff injured
🔺21 detained
LIVE Updates ⤵️
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#AssistUsToLive
All of our services are being sold off & privatised. NHS contracts handed to private providers & charities. 15 years of austerity has seen 334,327 human beings die prematurely because of impact of austerity
Link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...
Labour will continue with austerity
All of our services are being sold off & privatised. NHS contracts handed to private providers & charities. 15 years of austerity has seen 334,327 human beings die prematurely because of impact of austerity
Link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...
Labour will continue with austerity
Over 300,000 ‘excess’ deaths in Great Britain attributed to UK Government austerity policies
Recent evidence has shown people across the UK are dying younger as a result of austerity, with people living in the poorest areas hardest hit. A new study published today now quantifies the scale of ...
www.gla.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 9:00 AM
#AssistUsToLive
All of our services are being sold off & privatised. NHS contracts handed to private providers & charities. 15 years of austerity has seen 334,327 human beings die prematurely because of impact of austerity
Link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...
Labour will continue with austerity
All of our services are being sold off & privatised. NHS contracts handed to private providers & charities. 15 years of austerity has seen 334,327 human beings die prematurely because of impact of austerity
Link: www.gla.ac.uk/news/archive...
Labour will continue with austerity
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The multi-millionaire who bought farmland to avoid tax…
And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career
…are now the self-appointed saviours of farming
On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds.
Listen on link below…
And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career
…are now the self-appointed saviours of farming
On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds.
Listen on link below…
November 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
The multi-millionaire who bought farmland to avoid tax…
And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career
…are now the self-appointed saviours of farming
On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds.
Listen on link below…
And the man who decimated farming to progress his own career
…are now the self-appointed saviours of farming
On today’s pod we discuss how people have lost their damned minds.
Listen on link below…
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The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest.
Two tier justice indeed.
Two tier justice indeed.
November 20, 2024 at 6:15 PM
The 'farmers' protest is a good time to remind people of the Just Stop Oil protestors who got 21 years, just for planning a protest.
Two tier justice indeed.
Two tier justice indeed.
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This week's newsletter is about how the 'swing' to Trump amongst male Black voters is overblown, and how you wouldn't really know that from most of the headlines. Includes a 'hear me out' plug for Bluesky.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
The Long Wave: Unearthing the real story of Black voters at the US election
Trump undeniably made gains but alarm over a rightward shift among African Americans is overblown. Plus: Kenyans embrace standup
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:18 PM
This week's newsletter is about how the 'swing' to Trump amongst male Black voters is overblown, and how you wouldn't really know that from most of the headlines. Includes a 'hear me out' plug for Bluesky.
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
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No, Democrats should not respond to their election defeat by throwing minorities under a bus.
Instead, they should offer a compelling economic vision for struggling Americans, which forces the Republicans on the defensive.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Instead, they should offer a compelling economic vision for struggling Americans, which forces the Republicans on the defensive.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast | Owen Jones
An economic populism for the majority – irrespective of gender, race, religion, sexual or gender – is the way forward, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM
No, Democrats should not respond to their election defeat by throwing minorities under a bus.
Instead, they should offer a compelling economic vision for struggling Americans, which forces the Republicans on the defensive.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Instead, they should offer a compelling economic vision for struggling Americans, which forces the Republicans on the defensive.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...