With my partner's blessing, I share our recent personal journey trying to access mental health help. My OH just started full time work again, after eighteen months off sick. At every point, the system was a set-back instead of help, it LENGTHENED and WORSENED his problem. 1/ ~AA

Oh this is too good not to waste half an hour of a Friday afternoon on!

So here it is!! The new Shopping Forecast fielding positions!

Campaign to make cricket instantly understandable by replacing the names of fielding positions (silly mid on, short leg etc) with those of the shipping forecast areas (Humber, Wight etc)

An important point about the PM's speech on the UK's 'sick note culture'.

He stated: 'Of those who are economically inactive, fully half say they have depression or anxiety.'...gov.uk/government/spe…

Gross misrepresentation seems to be the defining feature of Sunak's government and the man himself.

i'm shocked, shocked i tell you bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

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Boris Johnson breached UK government rules by failing to disclose his relationship with hedge fund Merlyn Advisors which organised his visit to meet Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Feb.

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Sick leave is a complete irrelevance and a terrible focus for policy (especially as the proposal is to add more bureaucracy and cost into the system.)

There is an issue with rising long-term disability but not one that will be solved by making people's lives more miserable.

Brexit border checks delayed again as will cause higher costs and disruption at the border

UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays on.ft.com/446Ws4K

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: A Tory MP is under investigation over allegations that he misused campaign funds and abused his position after making a late-night phone call saying he’d been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding thousands of pounds | ✍️ Billy Kenber thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-m…

For anyone who has been interested in my lawsuit against the Sun, the news is that  I’ve had to settle my claim out of court before it gets to trial. A 🧵…

Especially accounts set up in the last two years.

Very strange that, after I suggest a popular account is pushing far right, fascist messaging, the people who are Very Mad about this seem to be...f^¢king Nazis. 🧐

My timeline is awash with lovely things like this👇

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excellent thread. and of course the replies are full of paid-for blue-ticks either missing the point or just posting full-on racism

Conservative MP Adam Afriyie, who accepted £19,000 worth of all-expenses paid trips to speak at Tobacco industry conferences in the past two years, says that smoking bans 'don't work' and are 'ridiculous'.

Then why do you force them by law to hold a daily act of broadly Christian collective worship?