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Asylum Magazine @asylummagazine.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

thepsychopoliticalbody.substack.com/p/how-labour... @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social "Substantial risk", a legal safeguard inside Universal Credit,is designed to protect people at risk of suicide, hospitalisation, medical collapse, if DWP puts pressure on them [...] now it's under threat"

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How Labour is Gutting 'Substantial Risk'

The government is quietly dismantling legal protections that keep vulnerable disabled people safe from DWP pressure

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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

1/2The manor of Rotherhithe & Bermondsey was owned 1801-1816 by Martha Goldsworthy, governess to daughters of George III where she met Jane Gomm, also a royal governess (below aged 13). Neither lady married & lived together upon retirement. Martha left the manor to Jane her “good and worthy friend”

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

My latest post on covid in England (levels low and stable) & state of the NHS (bad and stable). christinapagel.substack.com/p/quick-upda... 🧵1/7

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Quick update on Covid & state of the NHS in England, April 2025

Slight uptick in recent weeks, but overall Covid levels still low and stable. NHS indicators remain bad.

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BillyBob @billbobagginsx.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Recently Discovered photo......

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

For them, it seems, the only speech that should be free is hate speech.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 16/02/2025

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Today we had the sad task of updating the number of covid dead. ❤️ #CovidIsNotOver

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The third book in our series of narratives of discrimination in the mental health system: Racism & Antisemitism in the Mental Health System is now out on sale! cuckoosnestbooks.bigcartel.com/product/raci... £9 each, plus £2.50 for postage.

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RACISM & ANTISEMITISM IN THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM

Psychiatry and psychology both have deeply embedded racist beliefs in their foundations. Have they moved away from these spurious, repellent ideals...

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