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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This one may be of interest too given where thread started. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/pip...

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The weird thing about the whole ‘dementia tax/death tax’ stuff is it implies we don’t already have one. Surely we basically do, we just don’t tell people about it in advance and it’s totally unpredictable and random.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think there is something particularly special that by far the most predominant flag now is the EU flag - pride in country does not preclude valuing partnership with others.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

For reasons I won't bore on about it's been a somewhat rubbish 24 hours. But there was a nice package in the post, and bounty in the allotment. #LookingOnTheBrightSide

Complete set of Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Love this. Where policy meets people.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Am imagining Camilla inside, toes tapping away...

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

There is gonna be one heck of a newcomers’ karaoke night up in that there heaven this weekend.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has gifted over 150 million books (yes, 150 million) around the world. This is what goodness looks like. She ALSO brought us Buffy. She ALSO funded the Covid vaccine. She ALSO wrote “Jolene”. The most remarkable person. donate.imaginationlibrary.com

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Make a donation and support Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in communities around the world and help put more books into the hands of more children.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cut it back very hard, you won't kill it. You can even cut it off a couple of feet from the ground if you really want to regain control, but will be a year or two before it flowers again.

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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We need ‘social care’ to enable flourishing not mere survival - “As a creaking family member of a large square peg, my plea for Casey, Burnham…and my wider sector is for real choice and some vision and creativity. Then the money. Please.”

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I enjoyed Emily Wilson in the @lrb.co.uk and thought she was actually much more balanced in her views than came across in the reports. I thought the scene near the end where weapons were being named as they were posted through the ceiling was hilarious - like one of those shape fitting toddler toys.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Death will not be limited to MAGA children... or the children of MAGA parents. Not that it would be OK if it was, not in the slightest.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Came here to see if it had already been suggested!

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I hope you are providing patient experience feedback. Seriously though hope all OK and they let you out safely soon.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Time to introduce them to Terry Pratchett?

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

They ran a library service. You see the odd reference crop up in novels from the time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_B...

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Boots Book-Lovers' Library - Wikipedia

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Have you got time to get to El Escorial? Astonishing scale.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lime bikes are eminently hackable. They do make a rather giveaway racket when hacked though.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

There's something about the dip and curve that reminds me of the field by Wissington Uplands - where the Jane Walker Hospital was. I have good friends living there.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Will watch - don't suppose he references Ulysses Found, by Ernle Bradford? www.lumebooks.co.uk/book/ulysses... I picked it up in a secondhand bookshop in Cambridge, interesting to read a perspective of someone both sailor and historian.

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Ulysses Found - Lume Books

Ernle Bradford was a great historian of the Mediterranean and its peoples. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War with The Odysseyalways at the foot of his bunk. Having settled in Mal...

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Katharine Wright @wrightkatharine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

‘Again, the possibility that social care exists to support us to live well seems absent from the discussion, with social care cast as an end in itself, not a vehicle for a better life.’ Spot on.

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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is brilliant.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Great advice already, 2 things I'd add. If you're working, these people can help - they have coaches who've been through it themselves. workingwithcancer.co.uk. This book by 2 docs @lizoriordan.bsky.social & @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social with personal experience: www.penguin.co.uk/books/437637...

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

And in doing so yes to contribute to the physical and economic health of the nation, but not just by getting and keeping people out of hospital! And maybe we might remember children's social care, and give people the start in life we would all want? 2/2

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is it too much to hope that today's speech presents social care as a positive thing in itself? Not just an adjunct to healthcare, not just for older people, but a service which can & should enable 1000s of people with physical disabilities, mental health issues, learning disabilities to thrive? 1/2

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Well, yes... up to a point. When you live in a rural area and the bus service doesn't line up with your shift patterns, you're likely going to drive. And probably not be rich.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Basically special exhibitions are expensive because the main collections are free - one funding the other. Which I must know because someone must have written about it, but I don't know who...

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Try this one for size... I am rather less sure than I was before I read it that the destination *is* better... bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Their politics might or might not be my politics, but mostly we can find a way to work together. The Farages are still the exception, not the rule. I think.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

But I also hang on to the fact - or at least my strong belief rooted in decades of personal experience working alongside politicians - that 99% of the thousands of people who put themselves forward for election do so because they want to do something for their communities.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Oh totally. I thought something along those lines just looking at the newspaper headlines this morning.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It matters. But do you remember some years ago the mascot for Hartlepool's football team was elected as Mayor of Hartlepool? Turned out to be sufficiently good at it he was re-elected twice? Sometimes the off the wall things turn out surprisingly well. I admit I'm looking for the positive here...

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My mother and I are both generally described as 'never knowingly undercatered'. The horror of running out...

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THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) @thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk · 29/06/2026

We know that research is better when it’s shaped by real experiences. That’s why we’re launching the Voice and Insight Panel, a new community for patients, carers, and members of the public interested in healthcare improvement research. Find out more: ths.im/4a4iZDt

A young Black woman participating in a discussion in a community centre, with people listening

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Some serious points in the responses but I did giggle a lot...

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I hope you had more success than I did... after 6 hours in the queue I got my slot, chose my ticket, went to checkout... and it timed out three times, after the third time bouncing me back to the start of the queue. Not great, @britishmuseum.bsky.social. I have submitted a contact form.

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Oooh pretty! Gin, lavender syrup, soda?

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Helen Buckingham @hbuckingham.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It was my favourite ever job title (& actually possibly favourite ever job) but I did regularly have to explain it was very little to do with HR...

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