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Guy Baily

@guybaily.bsky.social
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Interested in health politics, global health and left politics generally. KONP. Retired infectious diseases physician. London (also second rate bird photography)

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting funding defence by cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable? Just saying.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Andrea Suozzo @andreasuozzo.com · 15/09/2026
When my colleagues and I started digging around in CDC data on pregnancy-related deaths, we noticed something surprising: the rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths had more than doubled in recent years. Nearly 200 women died between 2020 and 2025. So we set out to learn why 🧵
A chart showing an increase in the rate of deaths after an ectopic pregnancy, normalized by the number of live births. In the three-year period starting in 2014, the rate is a little above 4 deaths per million live births. The rate rises sharply for the 2020-2022 period and continues to increase, to 9.8 deaths per million births, in 2023-2025.
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What a buggers muddle! Streeting has left a pile of horse shit for someone to sort out And for those of us who said he was way out of his depth BEFORE July 2024 GE it doesn't make it sweeter just a more difficult pill to swallow myemail.constantcontact.com/Responsibili...
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Email from nhsManagers.net Failure on a grand scale View as Webpage Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Weather IHSCM Academy of Fab' Stuff nhsManagers.net 7th Septemeb
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! “The upper class keeps all the money and pays no taxes. The middle class pays all the taxes and does all the work. The poor are just there to scare the shit out of the middle class.” - George Carlin
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/09/2026
The latest data is once again showing the preliminary global sea-surface temperature at a record high. "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There's a debate to be had about the level of the cap, but really disappointing to see Burnham retreat from this. It's even more absurd that some trade unions are campaigning against restricting the power of billionaires and corporations to influence our politics www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Jonny Brick @countrywol.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
You know how a long time ago people would just type 'this', because the box asks them 'what's happening'? Well, this. God bless Hardeep and Byline, and maybe by the end of this week The Times or the Telegraph or the Spectator or the Mail will notice some stuff. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/17/t...
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There Will Be Another Jason Arday
There is no check to fetter power when unfettered power resides in the check
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Äpplesche 💚 @aepplesche.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like: 😁
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
There is only one European nation with fewer hospital beds per capita than the UK Sweden but they have the highest number of care home & nursing home beds 26% fewer care home beds 23% fewer nursing beds Fewer hospital beds Then people wonder why A&E is blocked
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
'Patriot News' reporter Chris Atkins (scatatkins.bsky.social) was just kicked out of Liz Truss' CPAC conference for asking the wrong questions. So much for free speech.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I gave my usual sermon on this the other day. Non-scientists look for studies that support their hypothesis. But there are studies that show almost anything if you look hard enough. Citing one or two studies isn’t research. It’s confirmation bias.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
In this excerpt from "Keeper of the Flame" (1942) Christine Forrest (Katherine Hepburn) explains how a nation can fall to fascism: so-called patriotism, fear, racism, bigotry, hatred of others, all guided by a small group of powerful, wealthy individuals. #USA #UK #auspol youtu.be/_abRxAL3hnw?...
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excerpt from keeper of the flame
YouTube video by beverly crusher
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.maptap.gg July 8 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 98🔥 97🏅 Final score: 985 I don’t normally post this sort of thing but vanity won out this time
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Exactly. Wanna do something about harmful social media? Change the law so the platform's owners are classed as publishers, and become responsible for harmful / unlawful / slanderous/ offensive content. Same standards you'd apply to any print publisher. And enforce it with hefty fines.
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is extraordinary. Read the the account in the link. The editor in chief of the principal journal of the ADA is escorted from their national conference by police for handing out his editorial, in their journal, that criticises Trump biomedical research policy.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Members of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) were removed by police during the organization's annual meeting on Friday as they handed out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to U.S. biomedical research. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
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Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting
Researchers told they could no longer attend the annual scientific sessions
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Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If the government doesn't act, there's a serious chance that Twitter rubbish leads to somebody being killed. We regulate broadcast media but Labour seems terrified to regulate broadcast social media. Why?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“…today the White House unveiled major changes to how federal funding is allocated & distributed. For the 1st time, they’re sharing plans to permanently & systematically move American science from a system that values evidence-based evaluations to a political patronage system.”— @chanda.blacksky.app
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It's the End of American Science As We Know It
We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/05/2026
How about: a) I believe the UK should rejoin the EU; but b) Neither we nor Brussels are ready for a formal negotiation; and c) EU membership would not be a panacea for our national challenges; so c) I will work to build trust and lay foundations with the EU, while advancing other priorities.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It’s pretty clear this chaos only stops when Andy Burnham is allowed back into Parliament. It’s what most Labour members, MPs and voters want and the NEC/powers that be should just get on and make it happen asap. The alternative is Farage in No 10.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
One problem here is that members have been given powers they should not have (like picking prime ministers) and denied powers they should (like choosing local candidates).
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It was not a carnival of democracy watching 0.25% of the public, who no one had elected & no one could hold to account, decide whether Boris Johnson/Jeremy Hunt, or Liz Truss/Rishi Sunak should wield the highest office in 2019/22. It was a wrong turn, made with good intentions. It needs reversing.
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
For the love of God, when will the labour right understand this? There is a right block and a left block. Voters move within their blocks but v little between them. Reform voters will not vote for Starmerish reform-light but he can massively piss off the left vote by trying to woo them.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The “Blue Labour” strategy still being promoted by some on Labour right is premised on being able to win social conservatives while holding on to social liberals. Failure state for this strategy is failing to win social cons while alienating social liberals. Here is a map of that failure state:
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Ahem #ReformUK
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10/04/2026
If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 11/04/2026
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Simon Scarrow @simon-scarrow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Christianity is the biggest, most profitable scam in America.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Even before the latest fiasco of sky-high ticket prices, calls for a Trump World Cup boycott keep growing meme via Ian Almond
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
UK govt take note: "we’re living in an era when a handful of large firms, mostly from Silicon Valley, are embedding themselves deeply into the back end of government, in ways that are designed to be hard to remove" - Ben Tarnoff in NYT How ever they behave we will struggle to get rid of Palantir
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
And the deeper problem underlying this is a political culture where populists who simply lie with abandon are on the rise and moderate incumbents, terrified of these opponents, have become incapable of telling voters uncomfortable truths they don't want to hear.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
On World Poetry Day, here’s a reminder of the power of poetry and its potential to change the world.
The Power of Poetry
 
with things falling apart
and anarchy let loose,
 
it was only poetry, he found,
which had any use,
 
so he reached for his copy  
of The Complete Works of Yeats
 
and bludgeoned the President
of the United States


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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Wes Streeting having the chutzpah to tell the story about the NHS. He doesn't tell the bit about how much he's accepted from private healthcare and the risk our NHS is at under this Labour Government. And most of all, lots of questions about his meetings with Palantir. #BBCQT
Who's got a piece of Wes Streeting?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Why gas sets the price of electricity, and why the economics behind it makes no sense www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...
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Why gas sets the price of electricity, and why the economics behind it makes no sense
The way electricity prices are determined in the UK is widely misunderstood. Many people assume the price reflects the cost of producing electricity from the cheapest available sources. It does not. I...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
NEW: Two senior MOD whistleblowers with inside knowledge of Palantir's systems have come forward to @thenerve.news to say government ministers are ignorant of the grave national security risks the technology poses. Hugely important by @charlienotold.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...
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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security
Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...
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Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So to review: Oil > $100 a barrel, ~30% increase at pump. Mortgages >6%. We replaced one Supreme Leader with his more hardline son, whose whole family we killed. We murdered ~160 girls. Everybody in world but Bibi is pissed at us. Spent more in 1 week on war than USAID costed for 6 months.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir is such a great fit for the NHS.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
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In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic
While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28/02/2026
I wonder if a hard-line successor will assume power and further destabilize the region just like every other time this has happened
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fitovazquez.bsky.social @fitovazquez.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
www.fitovazquez.es/2026/02/ataq... @marujatorres.bsky.social
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Guy Baily @guybaily.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You can kill people with air strikes- but there are always more people and quite likely they will be worse
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Rep. Ansari Statement on United States Attack on Iran.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Far Right thugs beat someone up, then the Police arrest the VICTIM. What the hell?
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is the chart in question
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