Natasha
@natashaeu.bsky.social
GP working in Out of Hours, interested in politics, baking, reading, being social online!
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There are far more masculine-seeming women than trans women.
Also, for every instance of a woman being challenged in a public place someone thinks they don't belong at, there are hundreds of cases of low level hostility: words, looks.
It is mostly cis women who suffer, are made to feel unwelcome.
Also, for every instance of a woman being challenged in a public place someone thinks they don't belong at, there are hundreds of cases of low level hostility: words, looks.
It is mostly cis women who suffer, are made to feel unwelcome.
December 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There are far more masculine-seeming women than trans women.
Also, for every instance of a woman being challenged in a public place someone thinks they don't belong at, there are hundreds of cases of low level hostility: words, looks.
It is mostly cis women who suffer, are made to feel unwelcome.
Also, for every instance of a woman being challenged in a public place someone thinks they don't belong at, there are hundreds of cases of low level hostility: words, looks.
It is mostly cis women who suffer, are made to feel unwelcome.
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Wow! Congratulations to Andrea Egan, the new General Secretary of UNISON.
As a UNISON member, it was my pleasure to support Andrea. She will be a voice for all members, and will fight for the fairer society they deserve.
See you on the picket line.
As a UNISON member, it was my pleasure to support Andrea. She will be a voice for all members, and will fight for the fairer society they deserve.
See you on the picket line.
December 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Wow! Congratulations to Andrea Egan, the new General Secretary of UNISON.
As a UNISON member, it was my pleasure to support Andrea. She will be a voice for all members, and will fight for the fairer society they deserve.
See you on the picket line.
As a UNISON member, it was my pleasure to support Andrea. She will be a voice for all members, and will fight for the fairer society they deserve.
See you on the picket line.
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NEW: A critic of Keir Starmer has been elected general secretary of the UK's biggest trade union in a blow to Labour
Starmer critic becomes new leader of UK's biggest union in blow to Labour
www.thenational.scot
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
NEW: A critic of Keir Starmer has been elected general secretary of the UK's biggest trade union in a blow to Labour
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Former Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll has joined the Green Party.
It is time for other Left Wing members of the Labour Party to ask themselves why they are in a Party which they constantly have to vote against and which completely ignores them.
It is time for other Left Wing members of the Labour Party to ask themselves why they are in a Party which they constantly have to vote against and which completely ignores them.
December 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Former Labour Mayor Jamie Driscoll has joined the Green Party.
It is time for other Left Wing members of the Labour Party to ask themselves why they are in a Party which they constantly have to vote against and which completely ignores them.
It is time for other Left Wing members of the Labour Party to ask themselves why they are in a Party which they constantly have to vote against and which completely ignores them.
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MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
December 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
MI6 Chief gives speech. Speech may contain words that are interesting. But because MI6 Chief is a woman @telegraph.co.uk prints an article about her appearance, with no mention of the speech’s content.
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These retirement ambitions may change in the UK.
Post-2012 medical students frequently graduate with UK£100,000 student debt, which continues to compound in the early decade of career due to high interest rates exceeding payments. For many now in 30s, retirement in 50s is probably implausible.
Post-2012 medical students frequently graduate with UK£100,000 student debt, which continues to compound in the early decade of career due to high interest rates exceeding payments. For many now in 30s, retirement in 50s is probably implausible.
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
These retirement ambitions may change in the UK.
Post-2012 medical students frequently graduate with UK£100,000 student debt, which continues to compound in the early decade of career due to high interest rates exceeding payments. For many now in 30s, retirement in 50s is probably implausible.
Post-2012 medical students frequently graduate with UK£100,000 student debt, which continues to compound in the early decade of career due to high interest rates exceeding payments. For many now in 30s, retirement in 50s is probably implausible.
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New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
🚨David McLennan is Reform UK's first elected councillor in Scotland. He won a by-election in Whitburn last week.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
He claims to be a retired police officer, but David actually left the force after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, we reveal tonight.
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The "fabric of space-time" is a fiction. There are only intervals of time (measured by a clock) and distances (also measured by a clock, knowing the speed of light). Relativity predicts the relations between these for observers moving relative to others or in different gravitational fields.
We constantly refer to the fabric of space-time but what is the fabric, what is it made of? And how does it differ from Newton’s ether?
December 14, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The "fabric of space-time" is a fiction. There are only intervals of time (measured by a clock) and distances (also measured by a clock, knowing the speed of light). Relativity predicts the relations between these for observers moving relative to others or in different gravitational fields.
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A friend of mine - a longstanding highly rated and senior servant to the Labour Party - wrote to me some weeks back saying 'This is the worst Government of my life time.' He hadn't forgotten Liz Truss but he credited her, inept though she was, with, unlike Labour, at least knowing what she wanted.
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A friend of mine - a longstanding highly rated and senior servant to the Labour Party - wrote to me some weeks back saying 'This is the worst Government of my life time.' He hadn't forgotten Liz Truss but he credited her, inept though she was, with, unlike Labour, at least knowing what she wanted.
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IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT FOR SAS DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND:
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How Specialty Doctors can be regraded to Specialists in NHS Scotland
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Information and links to webinar registration below
Webinars:
16th December
8th January
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www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-cont...
@sascollective.com
@bmascotland.bsky.social
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How Specialty Doctors can be regraded to Specialists in NHS Scotland
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Information and links to webinar registration below
Webinars:
16th December
8th January
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www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-cont...
@sascollective.com
@bmascotland.bsky.social
How specialty doctors can be regraded to specialists in NHS Scotland
BMA Scotland has agreed with Scottish Government and NHS employers in Scotland a new process for Specialty Doctors or Dentists in NHS Scotland who meet certain criteria to apply for regrading to Speci...
www.bma.org.uk
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT FOR SAS DOCTORS IN SCOTLAND:
👇🏻🏴
How Specialty Doctors can be regraded to Specialists in NHS Scotland
👇🏻🏴
Information and links to webinar registration below
Webinars:
16th December
8th January
👇🏻🏴
www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-cont...
@sascollective.com
@bmascotland.bsky.social
👇🏻🏴
How Specialty Doctors can be regraded to Specialists in NHS Scotland
👇🏻🏴
Information and links to webinar registration below
Webinars:
16th December
8th January
👇🏻🏴
www.bma.org.uk/pay-and-cont...
@sascollective.com
@bmascotland.bsky.social
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Interesting bellwether stats:
Labour Party membership down c.100k since Election to <250k.
Lib Dem’s have dropped yr-on-yr too - at 83,174 they have fewer than half the membership of the Greens 🧐
The centre ground is emptying out, with Farage and Polanski the party leaders to benefit.
#bbclaurak
Labour Party membership down c.100k since Election to <250k.
Lib Dem’s have dropped yr-on-yr too - at 83,174 they have fewer than half the membership of the Greens 🧐
The centre ground is emptying out, with Farage and Polanski the party leaders to benefit.
#bbclaurak
December 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Interesting bellwether stats:
Labour Party membership down c.100k since Election to <250k.
Lib Dem’s have dropped yr-on-yr too - at 83,174 they have fewer than half the membership of the Greens 🧐
The centre ground is emptying out, with Farage and Polanski the party leaders to benefit.
#bbclaurak
Labour Party membership down c.100k since Election to <250k.
Lib Dem’s have dropped yr-on-yr too - at 83,174 they have fewer than half the membership of the Greens 🧐
The centre ground is emptying out, with Farage and Polanski the party leaders to benefit.
#bbclaurak
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The question is…. What can be done about it?
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The question is…. What can be done about it?
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Streeting says he can't rule out harm or death over Christmas caused by the resident doctors strike.
In fact, he is the one responsible since he ignored resident doctors' requests for meetings in October and November to resolve the issues.
His f***ing job is to keep us safe
He is playing politics
In fact, he is the one responsible since he ignored resident doctors' requests for meetings in October and November to resolve the issues.
His f***ing job is to keep us safe
He is playing politics
@fletchjack.bsky.social from the BMA explains they've been trying to get round the table with Wes Streeting for several months but Streeting didn't even bother replying to their letter
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
Now we're in Dec with a Flu epidemic & Streeting is accusing resident doctors of endangering patients
December 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Streeting says he can't rule out harm or death over Christmas caused by the resident doctors strike.
In fact, he is the one responsible since he ignored resident doctors' requests for meetings in October and November to resolve the issues.
His f***ing job is to keep us safe
He is playing politics
In fact, he is the one responsible since he ignored resident doctors' requests for meetings in October and November to resolve the issues.
His f***ing job is to keep us safe
He is playing politics
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Interesting discourse. Resident doctors offered at the alter of flu. Their fault not limited hospital bed capacity. Not lack of universal free vaccination. Not lack of structural preventive measures against airborne viral spread. Not fear of angering the anti-masking ideology. It’s resident doctors!
Resident doctors, a fair deal is on the table. Please do not strike at this moment of crisis for the NHS | Keir Starmer
Resident doctors, a fair deal is on the table. Please do not strike at this moment of crisis for the NHS | Keir Starmer
A super flu epidemic is sweeping the country. Let us come together to protect the institution we all love, says Keir Starmer, the UK prime minister
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Interesting discourse. Resident doctors offered at the alter of flu. Their fault not limited hospital bed capacity. Not lack of universal free vaccination. Not lack of structural preventive measures against airborne viral spread. Not fear of angering the anti-masking ideology. It’s resident doctors!
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So all the Covid-Denialists saying "it is just Flu"
Now it *is* Flu
Are they gonna be saying "It is just a cold"?
(and that old favourite "viruses don't exist/don't cause infections/can't be vaccinated against/can't spread/have never been isolated")
Now it *is* Flu
Are they gonna be saying "It is just a cold"?
(and that old favourite "viruses don't exist/don't cause infections/can't be vaccinated against/can't spread/have never been isolated")
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
So all the Covid-Denialists saying "it is just Flu"
Now it *is* Flu
Are they gonna be saying "It is just a cold"?
(and that old favourite "viruses don't exist/don't cause infections/can't be vaccinated against/can't spread/have never been isolated")
Now it *is* Flu
Are they gonna be saying "It is just a cold"?
(and that old favourite "viruses don't exist/don't cause infections/can't be vaccinated against/can't spread/have never been isolated")
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An inconvenient truth for the racists and xenophobes:
Low birth rate in the UK inevitably means fewer young supporting ever more older people.
Immigration brings in young people and eases the problem.
Without it, everyone must work longer.
Low birth rate in the UK inevitably means fewer young supporting ever more older people.
Immigration brings in young people and eases the problem.
Without it, everyone must work longer.
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
An inconvenient truth for the racists and xenophobes:
Low birth rate in the UK inevitably means fewer young supporting ever more older people.
Immigration brings in young people and eases the problem.
Without it, everyone must work longer.
Low birth rate in the UK inevitably means fewer young supporting ever more older people.
Immigration brings in young people and eases the problem.
Without it, everyone must work longer.
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🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🏺 Top tip for British Museum visitors: go across the court, up rotunda stairs, cross bridge into upper floor, head past crowds aiming for Egypt and Mesopotamia, and go straight to Rooms 50 and 51 where the most stunning array of glories from later prehistory await you!
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We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
We've written & published a short summary statement regarding the Sandie Peggie V NHS Fife Health Board employment tribunal case & the judgment given yesterday. Much of the media coverage has missed key information, the most important aspect being that all claims against Dr Beth Upton were dismissed
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Currently 90% of the NHS is nationalised, it does 96% of the work.
10% of the NHS is privatised, it does 4% of the work.
The solution is nationalising Medicine, the Government could pass a law requiring all Medical Staff have to be employed by the Government.
Problem solved.
10% of the NHS is privatised, it does 4% of the work.
The solution is nationalising Medicine, the Government could pass a law requiring all Medical Staff have to be employed by the Government.
Problem solved.
December 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Currently 90% of the NHS is nationalised, it does 96% of the work.
10% of the NHS is privatised, it does 4% of the work.
The solution is nationalising Medicine, the Government could pass a law requiring all Medical Staff have to be employed by the Government.
Problem solved.
10% of the NHS is privatised, it does 4% of the work.
The solution is nationalising Medicine, the Government could pass a law requiring all Medical Staff have to be employed by the Government.
Problem solved.
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In case you’re curious to know what X is getting outraged about now….
Non-binary biscuits.
Non-binary biscuits.
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
In case you’re curious to know what X is getting outraged about now….
Non-binary biscuits.
Non-binary biscuits.
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Also- it’s time. Being going back and forth on this decision for over a year. But I can’t in all conscience stay. In a week or so, Bluesky it is wholesale.
December 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Also- it’s time. Being going back and forth on this decision for over a year. But I can’t in all conscience stay. In a week or so, Bluesky it is wholesale.
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Two former SNP and Labour councillors have joined the Scottish Greens
Ex-SNP and Labour councillors join Scottish Greens
www.thenational.scot
December 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Two former SNP and Labour councillors have joined the Scottish Greens
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
On why Farage doesn’t apologise for his schoolboy racism:
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
“if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too.’ ”
Exactly.
He is racist. So are his voters. He can’t be pissing them off by saying sorry.
#NeverPM
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...