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Ellie Broughton

@elliebroughton.bsky.social
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Freelance writer @the-independent.com @inews.co.uk @theguardian.com @theleaduk.bsky.social @therevealer.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social @newhumanist.bsky.social ✉️ elliebroughton@gmail.com

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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
People of Reddit annoyed by the emergency alert
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
High time for a savoury Magnum. Cream cheese and salmon? Goat's cheese and dill?
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Haven't enjoyed a feature this much in a long time, especially the bit about the dream of the woman 'who used to be Hitler': www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Together in prosaic dreams: anthology reveals Europeans’ anticlimactic subconscious
Collector of dream stories from across continent finds ‘surprising consistency’ in the way they are structured
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk · 23/03/2026
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Netpol @netpol.org · 13/02/2026
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Had my first AI dream last night
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thank you again to these campaigners for publishing my FOI!
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I couldn't place this FOI anywhere, so it was kindly supported by @madintheuk.bsky.social: www.madintheuk.com/2026/02/peop... I asked trusts about maximum wait times, and one reported that a patient waited over three years. Another trust reported that over 40% waited more than 90 days for help.
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Follow back or email elliebroughton@gmail.com for more info! 👋
Looking for psychoanalysts, analysts and psychoanalytic practitioners for a trend feature on dreams
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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Hi! For a story for Bustle, looking to speak with folks about the cost of their mental health care. Particularly interested in people who do somatic treatments incl. art/dance/equine therapy or have in-patient experience. First names/anon ok! Can DM here or email me: rebeccafishbein@gmail.com
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... dietitians have been warning about this two-year problem for weight loss jabs from the outset. There is no offloading plan when you start jabs - only a warning to stop at two years. V good to have a study demonstrating it
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People who stop taking weight-loss jabs regain weight in under two years, study reveals
Analysis finds those who stopped using medication saw weight return four times faster compared with other weight loss plans
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
From 12:18, a really good summary of what's going on for GPs: –training more –fewer full-time –lots un/underemployed (newly-qualified and experienced) The only logical conclusion for me is that there's simply not enough cash to pay for the GPs we already have. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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More or Less - The Stats of the Nation - Health - BBC Sounds
Tim Harford explores the numbers that help explain the state of health and the NHS.
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Xmas decs are down but you can unplug these warm-toned fairy lights over my dead body
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Beats the Pantone discourse. Happy New Year
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 29/12/2025
young people have always looked for a safe place to put their secrets that can’t judge their feelings! it’s why kids like to keep diaries. the difference is that a notebook will never actively encourage mental illness or explicitly validate suicidal ideation
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
For UK therapists and counsellors, many of whom in private practice, the budget's probably not good news: 👉 Freezing tax and NI means less take-home pay 👉 More of the high-earners will slip into the £50k+ bracket 👉 New ISA rules seem annoying and divisive ... But: nice commitments to schools/NHS
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
For GPs who missed the budget: some vague good news. 📍 "£4.9bn" from efficiencies will be spent on 'more nurses and GP appointments'. 📍 NB that's a good chunk of the £26bn of tax rises. No mechanism or detail yet but given the sessional GP workforce crisis, any news is positive.
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Looking for named or anon case studies of people who've had low-cost therapy, or therapy from a trainee therapist. #journorequest #therapistsconnect
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Looking for UK therapists and counsellors who went into debt to train for anon interviews. You don't need to be in debt any more to take part! Please email elliebroughton@gmail.com – we can talk it through before you decide to work with me. #TherapistsConnect #TherapistSky #BlueSkyTherapists
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Late to this story (out last week) but it's a very cool finding about doxycycline: www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
independent.co.uk
The commonly prescribed drug that could reduce schizophrenia risk
Scientists may have found a new use for the ‘broad-spectrum’ antibiotic commonly used to treat infections and acne
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Seeking former religious people (de-converts, 'dones', lapsed, exvangelical...) with an OCD diagnosis to talk briefly about their experience of both, and how they relate to one another (if at all). Quite a specific request! Anon is fine. Pls email elliebroughton@gmail.com, subject in caps if poss
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Xmas sandwiches and it's not even Halloween 🥰
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If I was an editor I would simply commission 5k words on orange peel theory
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
When you hear, 'This episode of Tara Brach is sponsored by BetterHelp'
Sad Keanut
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Writing about spirituality, about to cull my dozens of references to 'exploring'
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Hi all! Looking for someone who dabbled in conspiracy theories/antivaxx ideas, ideally who's also had therapy. Named/anon both fine. I'd also love to hear from anyone whose friend/relative/partner got lost in misinformation 💙
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Psychiatrists of BlueSky, if anyone wants to talk about the open letter to the RCPsych please let me know! Keen to cover 🏳️‍🌈
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Great piece, just working on some case studies about women's debt in the UK and shopping debt has come up a couple of times. So much of life is unaffordable or relies on debt rn, Klarna is not it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’
Female shoppers are being pushed toward buy-now-pay-later services.
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Must-read. US and UK case studies: #therapy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
If anyone needs to know how my day is going, I just deleted 750+ bookmarks of recipes I never cooked
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Hiya! 👋 Looking to speak to UK women 18-45, currently in debt, for a feature. Contributions will be ANON and we can work by email/DM/phone/WhatsApp etc – it should only take five mins. #journorequest #debt
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Looking for musicians raised religious, who left the fold – any more ideas?
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A very good 16-min listen about a pre-print paper: www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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‘AI psychosis’: could chatbots fuel delusional thinking? – podcast
There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed ‘AI psychosis’, has raised concerns that features built into large language mod...
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Still hearing anecdotal reports of 'low-cost counselling services' charging patients up to £70 to see... Trainee therapists. 📢 Clients and would-be clients, if you are paying for a low-cost service I HIGHLY recommend you seek a trained, qualified therapist. Lots offer sliding scale fees.
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Shocking to read this particular case from Sheffield just 11 years ago: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Gay man subjected to ‘exorcism’ at Sheffield church receives compensation
Matthew Drapper at C of E’s St Thomas Philadelphia was told that ‘sexual impurity’ had let demons enter his body
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Looking for a single woman 30-45 who wants to be a parent for a UK women's title. Anon is fine. Please DM or email elliebroughton@gmail.com for more info. Thanks!
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Today years old when I learned trans youth released 6,000 crickets at an LGB Alliance conference 🖤
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Fantastic result on PAs – thanks to a lot of grassroots campaigning: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Physician associates to be renamed to stop them being mistaken for doctors
Exclusive: Government-ordered review concludes term in NHS should be changed because of risks to patients’ safety
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Finally! @novaramedia.com got Dale Vincent on. Good stories about Ecotricity, being a New Age traveller, Battle of the Beanfield, Just Stop Oil donations etc
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New Couples Therapy episodes! Tangential, but a really long time ago (2021) I wrote this about D/deaf therapy: patient.info/news-and-fea...
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Can deaf people have therapy?
The Deaf community is statistically at a higher risk from social isolation. Can deaf people have therapy?
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New from me for @glamouruk.bsky.social: Lobular breast cancer is the second-most common form of breast cancer, so why have so few women heard of it? www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/lobu... @lobularbcuk.bsky.social
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Saw @medicinered.bsky.social on the bill and dived for it – lots and lots of good speakers: revsoc21.uk/festival2025/
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Festival of the Oppressed 2025
rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Big up the new Cosmopolitan x @bpas.bsky.social campaign to decriminalise abortion in the UK: www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...
cosmopolitan.com
How to demand your MP backs bodily autonomy in Parliament
Together with BPAS, we've drafted a simple email template - it couldn't be easier to take action
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British Pregnancy Advisory Service @bpas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This morning a group of medical bodies and healthcare professionals has welcomed a cross-party amendment laid by @tonia-antoniazzi.bsky.social to the Crime and Policing Bill which would stop the prosecution of women under abortion law. 🔗 Find the full details here - bpas.org/about-bpas/p...
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Looking forward to an audience with Jim Mackey at his @mja-uk.bsky.social event this evening – if you're coming too say hi :)
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Medical Journalists' Association @mja-uk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
2025 MJA Awards Now Open for Entries mjauk.org/2025/05/06/2...
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2025 MJA Awards Now Open for Entries
It’s that time of year again. Start hunting through the archives for your best work because entries are now open for the 2025 MJA Awards. As ever, we’re expecting hundreds
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Ellie Broughton @elliebroughton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Hi – looking for anyone who's lost faith or left a religion/religious community and happy to speak about it named/anon. Contact for more info – no commitment expected. elliebroughton@gmail.com
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