That Tom
@thattom.bsky.social
Evolving PhD student. Once a homeless teenage punk expelled from school (experience taught me more than my degrees). Escapee from radical religion. NHS whistleblower. Improvement begins with understanding. Ignorance of our ignorance is our greatest foe.
We entrusted my sister Alison to the care of the NHS because she desperately needed professional help. But instead of being cared for, she was used to gratify the seedy desires of an unprincipled older man in a hospital that enabled and turned a blind eye to his behaviour. alisonsstory.com
Alison's Story
Post by @TominCumbria.
alisonsstory.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We entrusted my sister Alison to the care of the NHS because she desperately needed professional help. But instead of being cared for, she was used to gratify the seedy desires of an unprincipled older man in a hospital that enabled and turned a blind eye to his behaviour. alisonsstory.com
Alison's Story - Groomed & Abused in an NHS Hospital – Failed by the Justice System alisonsstory.com/the-role-of-...
2025; why this website?
In 2016, almost thirty years after grooming Alison Robert Scott-Buccleuch was forced to admit to police he’d had sex on hospital premises. He knew Alison was pregnant and helped arrange an ab…
alisonsstory.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Alison's Story - Groomed & Abused in an NHS Hospital – Failed by the Justice System alisonsstory.com/the-role-of-...
Groomed & Abused in an NHS Hospital – Failed by the Justice System - real life really is stranger than fiction alisonsstory.com
Alison's Story
Post by @TominCumbria.
alisonsstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Groomed & Abused in an NHS Hospital – Failed by the Justice System - real life really is stranger than fiction alisonsstory.com
The following really happened - alisonsstory.com
Alison's Story
Post by @TominCumbria.
alisonsstory.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The following really happened - alisonsstory.com
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November is mental health awareness month. Sadly, we don’t always know the depths of someone’s depression until it is too late.
#SuicideAwareness
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Languages: English, Spanish, Hours: 24/7
#SuicideAwareness
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Languages: English, Spanish, Hours: 24/7
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
November is mental health awareness month. Sadly, we don’t always know the depths of someone’s depression until it is too late.
#SuicideAwareness
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Languages: English, Spanish, Hours: 24/7
#SuicideAwareness
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, Languages: English, Spanish, Hours: 24/7
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My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
Alberta's Attack on the Idea of Canada
Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
My first published story was in The Western Producer in 1985.
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
It took 40 years, but this is my best sentence:
"Democracy dies with a shrug, not a coup"
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/part-ii-th...
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Leaving an entire neighbourhood in Bristol with only faith-based school options fundamentally undermines fairness and parental choice. The local community is clear in its opposition. Decision makers should listen. humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
Save the last non-faith school in Hotwells, Bristol, from closure, Humanists UK tells DfE
Humanists UK has called on decision makers in Bristol to reject proposals to merge Hotwells Primary School, a school of no religious character, with a Church of England Primary school. If the decision...
humanists.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Leaving an entire neighbourhood in Bristol with only faith-based school options fundamentally undermines fairness and parental choice. The local community is clear in its opposition. Decision makers should listen. humanists.uk/2025/11/14/r...
I lost my ###t with a virtual assistant last week. Seeking reasoning from an inanimate object...a low point?
My husband is currently losing an argument with a corgi.
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I lost my ###t with a virtual assistant last week. Seeking reasoning from an inanimate object...a low point?
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Our information about how politicians are privatising the NHS is reaching millions of people. We think Starmer and Streeting are about to announce a plan for even *more* NHS privatisation 🚨
Please help us to continue our important work: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...
Please help us to continue our important work: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Our information about how politicians are privatising the NHS is reaching millions of people. We think Starmer and Streeting are about to announce a plan for even *more* NHS privatisation 🚨
Please help us to continue our important work: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...
Please help us to continue our important work: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...
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"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."
- David Graeber
- David Graeber
The Cairngorms this evening...
October 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Cairngorms this evening...
Concave World theory - like Flat Earth but curvier open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
Concave World theory...
And how are views on the value of a life are limited by what we can see.
open.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Concave World theory - like Flat Earth but curvier open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
Who decides what is in the public interest to prosecute? open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
Who decides what is in the public interest?
Is it people posting racist messages on social media or NHS employees who abuse patients?
open.substack.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Who decides what is in the public interest to prosecute? open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
Cycle ride in the Eden Valley - Wednesday evening :-)
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Cycle ride in the Eden Valley - Wednesday evening :-)
This is super useful www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_h...
Liminal thinking The pyramid of belief
YouTube video by Dave Gray
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
This is super useful www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_h...
Source: The Guardian
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Higher defence spending is pointless without climate aid, says UN chief
Achim Steiner says cuts to development budget are shortsighted in an interconnected global economy
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September 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Source: The Guardian
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September 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is our biggest & most jam-packed issue to date of the Loop Magazine! Featuring leadership journeys, mentoring opportunities & the importance of finding a support network while prioritising your wellbeing
Read It Here: zurl.co/6dNfb 👀👈
@IHM_IOW @NHSEnglandLDN
Read It Here: zurl.co/6dNfb 👀👈
@IHM_IOW @NHSEnglandLDN
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices... open.substack.com/pub/thattom/... #operationraisethecolours
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices...
We're being encouraged to look in the wrong direction.
open.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices... open.substack.com/pub/thattom/... #operationraisethecolours
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices...
We're being encouraged to look in the wrong direction.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Trust me, it's not about the peach slices open.substack.com/pub/thattom/...
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Urgh the obsession in the NHS of individual people going on 'training courses', to address problems that we know are systemic. It's a charade, & an avoidance of actually creating (& resourcing) conditions that will stand a chance of improving things.
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Urgh the obsession in the NHS of individual people going on 'training courses', to address problems that we know are systemic. It's a charade, & an avoidance of actually creating (& resourcing) conditions that will stand a chance of improving things.
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