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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The founders believed that if a madman became president, members of Congress would serve the country’s interest and remove him from office. That seemed a reliable system to safeguard the republic. Boy, did they screw up.

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DAUK GP Team @dauk-gp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Important post: GMC plans to remove the need for medical training to be classed as qualified www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20... @thecanaryuk.bsky.social @drmk.link

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

why does he have $25mn to burn what does he even do

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Ruth Kettle-Frisby 🍉 ☮️ 🧡 @ruthyphro.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@drmk.link is 💯 spot on that: "Dr Eisenhauer’s behaviour was a product of the GMC’s ‘adversarial’ disciplinary model that ‘actively incentivises the “lack of candour” it claims to abhor’.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In Ireland we probably averted about 500 newborn RSV hospitalizations once nirsevimab was introduced last year (~75% risk reduction). Uptake was > 80%, and that's what's threatened by these cynical safety concerns from the antivaxxers in the US government. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 25/11/2025

Hanlon’s razor aside, it’s not hard to wonder if the NHS specialty doctor recruitment fiasco and mass unemployment of doctors is failure by design. After all, policy direction suggests we don’t need doctors and instead just need “differently trained” advanced workforces.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 21/11/2025

It appears Trump wants to end a war and label it peace through almost total capitulation. This short-term approach will strengthen Putin’s resolve and increase the risk of future aggression against NATO’s eastern flank. archive.today/2025.11.21-0...

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance

The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

What Martin said. Independent SAGE were not cranks, not extremists, not over-reacting. #covidinquiry

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

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Lizzi Collinge MP @lizzicollinge.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Yesterday Reform UK were given the Rusty Razor award for the worst pseudoscience of the year. From denying climate change to platforming quacks, Reform propagate dangerous nonsense. www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/10/refo...

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Reform UK win 2025 Rusty Razor award for worst psuedoscience of the year - The Skeptic

Nigel Farage's political party, Reform UK, has been named The Skeptic's 'Rusty Razor' award winner for worst pseudoscience of 2025

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

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Bob Lawrence 🔵 @trumpluvsobama.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A statement of fact for Tuesday, Sept 23, 2025. There is absolutely no link between Tylenol and Autism; however, there is an absolute link between Trump and Epstein. ✊💙

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight. David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach. British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 20/09/2025

Is there anything left worth fighting for in Britain? After 14 years of mismanagement and the last 3 months of open xenophobia and racism, it feels bleak. I’m tied here through co-parenting, but I fear for my daughter’s generation.

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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I was warning about the dangerous nonsense that Malhotra was spreading …over 3y ago. I even warned Nigel Farage in his GBNEWS show bromsgrovestandard.co.uk/news/video-a... Vote Reform get dangerous cranks

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 06/09/2025

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder this man is still under GMC investigation as they agreed to reconsider their rule 12 refusal previously.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 16/07/2025

I’ve had time to read the Leng Review in full. While some celebrate minor cosmetic wins, I see the formal entrenchment of a parallel, underqualified medical workforce — built without medical training.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 14/07/2025

Wordle 1,486 2/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🗣️| @drmk.link: “There's unease at the direction of travel towards a fragmented, task-based model which implies ‘anyone can do it’. "Medicine can't be reduced to checklists and delegated tasks. It's a complex, deeply responsible profession that demands a medical degree and years of further training."

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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🗣️ | @drmk.link spoke on #physicianassociates at the @fflm.bsky.social Conference He will be speaking on the topic at our conference this Saturday. Conference details, including how to join us in person and online ➡️ dauk.org/jenny-vaugha... #DAUKConf25

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The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine @fflm.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

After lunch, we’re diving into two streams— @drmk.link will be leading our Legal Medicine stream with an insightful session on the move from discovery to accountability around the role of the Physician Associate #FFLMConf25

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 10/05/2025

Great to be at the FFLM Conference today. I’ll be speaking later on the move from discovery to accountability around the role of physician associates—looking forward to the discussion. #FFLMConf25 @fflm.bsky.social @thedauk.bsky.social

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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

DAUK's @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social and @drmk.link discuss why Brexit is making it harder to get life-saving treatments in @theipaper.com

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The Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine @fflm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The FFLM has endorsed the National Network of Designated Health Professionals' position statement on the commissioning of child sexual abuse medical assessments. You can read the full statement here: fflm.ac.uk/press-and-po...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 27/03/2025

I always knew ChatGPT would show its value someday.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 25/02/2025

1/ If Trump is kompromat and China is allied with Russia, the PLA may see 2025–26 as the best window to invade Taiwan. Trump’s Congress backs him, and he seems unwilling to spend American dollars defending former allies like Ukraine.

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

‘There is simply no conception (within NHS England) of how pivotal GPs are to the cost-effective performance of the health service - let alone to holistic patient care’ So says the ever-insightful @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

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NHS England has no idea about GPs

Reform will only happen when the organisation confronts how lamentably wrong-headed it has been.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“The postwar era is over. The global architecture built in 1945 is being burned to the ground by Trump. Europeans need to plan for a future where they have to defend themselves without the US. That future does not loom in the distance. It is already here.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen | Jonathan Freedland

His capitulation to Putin over Ukraine reveals a pattern. He’s the patsy: giving everything away, getting little in return, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Our project working on co-creating ways of increasing uptake of cervical screening in Europe has moved over from the other place. Please do follow if you are interested in co-creation, inequalities, stigma, discrimination, etc. Working in Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, France, and Denmark

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 21/02/2025

1/ If you're not looking at the U.S. in existential fear for Western democracy, you’re missing the warning signs. What’s happening now echoes Orbán’s takeover of Hungary—but in the de facto leader of the free world. The consequences will be global.

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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Earlier this week, Ealing Hospital named its boardroom after my dear friend Jenny Vaughan who sadly died last year. I just ❤️it that it’s the Major Incident Room….’got a crisis? ☎️ Jenny!’

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drbarrymonk1.bsky.social @drbarrymonk1.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hello. I am new to this medium, but if you are interested in medicine and in patient safety, please follow me.

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drasifqasim.bsky.social @drasifqasim.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thanks, Matt - pleasure to work with you and others at @thedauk.bsky.social - good to see collaboration with @bma.org.uk too

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Welcome to BlueSky, @drasifqasim.bsky.social. One to follow if you're into interventional cardiology, patient safety, organisation and delivery of NHS services, case-based learning for doctors, and medical leadership. Let's get him posting more on this platform! #medsky #medtwitter

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Prof Liz Lightstone @kidneydoc101.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Completely agree Been hugely impressed by @drasifqasim.bsky.social - his integrity, his deep understanding of UK medicine and his commitment to #patientsafety, #medicaleducation & raising standards. Natural born leader! One to follow and one to watch!

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 01/02/2025

I strongly recommend giving my friend @drasifqasim.bsky.social a follow. An NHS cardiologist with absolute integrity & razor-sharp appreciation of the issues bedevilling the medical workforce & how to fix them. Brilliant on tech, innovation & leadership too. Do follow 💙 asifqasim.co.uk

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Dr Asif Qasim, MA PhD FRCP

Dr Asif Qasim MA PhD FRCP is a London-based Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and former NHS Clinical Director with a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine. Dedicated to healthcare innovation, medical e...

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 01/02/2025

Having worked closely with @drasifqasim.bsky.social on MAPs issues this year, I’ve seen firsthand his willingness to tackle challenges head-on and engage with difficult questions—something many shy away from. Well worth a follow for those interested in the future of the profession. asifqasim.co.uk

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve only got to know @drasifqasim.bsky.social in the last year but I’ve been enormously impressed by his courage and leadership - agree with @copddoc.bsky.social - one to follow - as is Nick!

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 21/01/2025

If it's about state-level destruction of scientific data, a single mirror (e.g., in Canada) isn't enough. A better solution involves a federated, decentralised system hosted globally to mitigate risks like DDoS or targeted erasure.

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Dr Matt Kneale @drmk.link · 21/01/2025

What a grim reality: pardoning criminals, abandoning the WHO at the cost of global health, fuelling the climate crisis, alienating minorities—all led by a man likely propped up by foreign meddling. Donald Trump is a disgrace, driving unspeakable harm.

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’m worried sick about patient safety as highly trained clinicians are replaced by 2yr-trained associates. Does this make me a “social media rabble”? Or is the “be kind” movement being cynically weaponised? Those monitoring my posts, put this on the agenda for the meeting you’ve asked me to attend.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

1/ 🚨 The UK introduced Physician Associates (PAs) as a response to the healthcare workforce crisis. But the journey has been contentious, with lessons for other countries considering similar measures. A 🧵 on the findings from our new paper with Louella Vaughan and Giuliano Russo

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