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We live in a country where this didn’t make the press.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions. To enter just repost. Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances. Winner chosen randomly from all entries.

submitted 29 days ago • 70 comments

TODAY IS LONG COVID AWARENESS DAY! On #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay, help raise #awareness by sharing facts about #LongCOVID! #FactsMatter 15 Facts | 15 Hours | #FiveYearsLater See the thread below for individual facts to post! Share them all, tag a friend. #longcovidawareness2025

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

Lisa's story is just one of many we hear from nursing staff who have been severely impacted by long COVID. On #LongCOVIDAwarenessDay, we reiterate our call for the government to recognise it as an occupational disease. If need support with long COVID, visit our website: buff.ly/Z490BtH

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Trump (the genius) is about to place a 200% tax on Guinness the week of St Patrick's Day...

submitted 64 days ago • 128 comments

“The Taxing Wealth Report shows that by making up to thirty relatively simple changes to existing UK taxes, up to £90 billion of new tax revenue could be raised a year, entirely from those who are well off or who are straightforwardly wealthy.” taxingwealth.uk

submitted 64 days ago • 5 comments

As I sit here working away on an adaptation of one of your books, it’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since I put Pongo on your bed to sleep for the night and you went to sleep for a bit longer. Miss you always, Dad. ❤️❤️❤️

submitted 65 days ago • 84 comments

The average MP is claiming more than £40,000 in personal benefits, including for ridiculous things like new phones, electricity, heating and food. Which everyone has to purchase. Why don't we talk about this benefit fraud?

submitted 67 days ago • 29 comments

Seeing various articles this morning about issues for children 'starting school' but 95% plus of children are now in settings (including school based ones) way before they start Reception. Their needs are their needs, developmentally. What's required imo is flexibility in curriculum and approach.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

Imagine for a second if the Government actually ran things, and they worked, and we didn't have billionaires who constantly put up the prices but stole all the money so they don't. Seems impossible? No that was the 1940's to the 1970's and everyone always says how great it was.

submitted 85 days ago • 9 comments

Never leave the important things unsaid. 😂

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning Bluesky! Yeah, I’m not a morning person, it’s like 9:00 and I’m still in Jammie’s drinking coffee. I’ll conquer the day at a reasonable time. 😂 #writer #author #poet #booksky #tiredass

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Council Tax shouldn't exist, it should be paid for by a mixture of Income, Wealth and Business taxes.

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

Unless you've been living under a Big Ominous Rock, you'll know that 2025 will be the year that Night Watch is published as a Penguin Modern Classic! This much-deserved edition includes annotations by Dr David Lloyd & Dr Darryl Jones - Pre-order yours here: www.discworldemporium.com/product/nigh...

submitted 116 days ago • 2 comments

2/3rds of the people in the UK on 'benefits' are State Pensioners. Of the other 1/3rd 60% are working. The other 15% are the long term disabled people that you get in every country. Don't listen to the Daily Mail.

submitted 123 days ago • 29 comments

JFC it's almost like the BBC are trying to deify Trump and his band of arseholes

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk isn't ill, Capitalism has made him think he can do whatever he wants because he is so rich, and Ketamine abuse makes him spout it all on Twitter. It's all self inflicted.

submitted 129 days ago • 25 comments

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

submitted 129 days ago • 135 comments

Yesterday #LongCovid cost me my job. 20 years working as a Learning Disability Nurse for the #NHS. My livelihood gone, my role in life gone, my ability to help others gone. Long Covid ruins lives.

submitted 148 days ago • 48 comments

Interesting to see public health officials get sufficiently desperate that they’re prepared to actually do the public health thing

submitted 149 days ago • 6 comments

Despite ICC arrest warrants & the ICJ's interim ruling, the UK continues to export components for F-35 jets, facilitates arms deliveries via RAF Akrotiri & conducts daily surveillance flights over Gaza. The UK is not a passive bystander to genocide. It is an active participant.

submitted 151 days ago • 14 comments

submitted 163 days ago • 545 comments

The UK spent 715m to send 4 people to Rwanda. This is equivalent to 71 Michelle Mone yachts or approx 715m Iceberg lettuces AKA Liz Truss.

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

A good <5 minute read not only about Long Covid, but also the web of limitations and neglect in American society for those who are disabled and/or otherwise physically and cognitively compromised by disease, injury, and other factors. www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

No, it’s not “unfair” for a sexual predator to be openly called out and “cancelled”. Autism or mental illnesses are never excuses for sexual predatory. There is no maximum timeframe for someone to disclose it. It’s never the victim’s fault. Men need to call it out.

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

Not a single mention of Long Covid in the Get Britain Working White Paper. Govt still ignoring NHS staff & frontline workers, who put their lives on the line during the pandemic, now suffering with the condition. We urgently need to recognise Long Covid as an occupational disease.

submitted 171 days ago • 27 comments

"In her closing statement of the mass rape trial that has sent shockwaves across the country, survivor Gisèle Pelicot said it was time for “macho” society that “trivialises rape” to change. “I’ve lost 10 years of my life that I’ll never make up for,” she added." 🦸‍♀️ www.france24.com/en/france/20...

submitted 178 days ago • 9 comments

What gets to me most is that the UK government enabled foreign states to loot our essential infrastructure, milking it for profit and leaving it in ruins. Those states must think we're insane. The Chinese government would never let us walk in and seize its assets. But we've let it do just that.

submitted 178 days ago • 67 comments

Let’s say this loud and clear: Exercise is not the goal, recovery is the goal so one can exercise. Listen to this man - he’s a world leading expert on PEM/PENE #ME #Longcovid

submitted 181 days ago • 15 comments

United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere It has presided over suspected illegal sewage spills for more than 500 days over a period 2018- 2023 in Windermere & surrounding area www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 181 days ago • 29 comments

RFK Jr.'s involvement in this tragedy needs to be more widely known. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/measles...

submitted 181 days ago • 20 comments

The measles vaccine has saved 94 million lives over the past 50 years, and it plus vaccines against 13 other pathogens have cut infant mortality by 40 percent and saved 154 million lives. 154 MILLION LIVES 🧪 Anti-vaxxer RFKJ is a menace to global health www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

submitted 182 days ago • 69 comments

OK, I'm bringing out the big guns to test Bluesky engagement😀 Repost & follow to be in the draw! One randomly selected person will get this signed (& dedicated) copy of the Locked Library special edition of THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T BURN.

submitted 182 days ago • 109 comments

I can feel the leer in that reply 🙄

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

Could we get something the straight: The world isn’t divided into a) the MAGA crowd and b) "the left” (defined as everybody who finds MAGA intolerable, no matter what else they may be thinking). This is exactly what authoritarians want everybody to believe, don’t fall for it.

submitted 183 days ago • 8 comments

Whoever thought up this catchphrase deserves a raise

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

"If you control enough of the information ecosystem, truth no longer matters." Disinformation has far reaching implications for society, including health. @martinmckee.bsky.social, @chrischirp.bsky.social, and Kent Buse outline the challenges and propose a way forward www.bmj.com/content/387/...

submitted 185 days ago • 18 comments