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James Booth

@jtjbooth.bsky.social
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GP; safeguarding, LMC and BMA work. I like chess but I’m terrible at it. All of my hobbies I do from a sitting position.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
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Man, what are the Lions doing?
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think the prime minister should have said this
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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respectuk.bsky.social @respectuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This new report from Respect’s early response programme, Make a Change, shows that long-lasting referral pathways from GP healthcare that connect people causing harm to behaviour change support are not only possible, but scalable. 🔗 Link to read the report in comments below.
Quote card showing quote from Jess Asato MP that reads: 'This important project, that builds on what we know works, demonstrates the significant impact that using Recognise, Respond, Refer can have on health professionals working in general practice.' Quote card from James Booth, Co-Chair of the National Network of Named GPs, that reads: 'We must be able to identify and respond to those who perpetrate abuse and Respect's Recognise, Respond, Refer training helps build the confidence of general practice staff to do just that.'Quote card with Make a Change logo and Respect logo showing quote from Hillary Lloyd, Chief Nursing Officer at the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, that read 'This report shows the important role general practice can play in recognising harmful behaviour, starting difficult conversations, and connecting people with specialist support.'
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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 29/08/2026
Gamers have an interesting way of expressing their feelings.
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The V and A should buy the lot.
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Bloody terrifying
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Best thing I have ever seen on here. 10/10 no notes
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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
An elaborate shitpost - which took me forty-five minutes when I should have been trying to sleep, and which was a fun exercise in gilding the lily - but a shitpost nonetheless
These eyes have seen a thousand wonders shine:
Great miracles, in heaven and on earth,
And though my life be short compared to thine,
A thousand years could not contain its worth.

I watched great ships of war sweep through the night,
New constellations 'gainst a starlit haze,
Where, bested by Orion's ancient might,
They roared their glory in a final blaze;

And softer still, in silent darkness stood,
I saw two worlds, and, passing inbetween,
I witnessed there what no Man ever could -
The light of God in thrall to a machine.

As tears in rain are lost like morning dew,
I give these echoed sights, in death, to you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/06/2026
The algae always comes back... meidasplus.com
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
That is beyond awful.
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Amy Chen / 陳阿美 @soberamie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
One of my favorite artists has died... David Hockney. This is my homage to his work... such pure, simple lines that bring so much complexity with them.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.
We must not allow the tragic murder of a
young woman turn into attacks on men
and attacks on the police
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields @asmforchestra.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Put your headphones in and disappear. ASMF Chamber Ensemble performing Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings, written when he was just 16, and still one of the most euphoric pieces ever composed. Recorded live in October 2022 at George Flynn Classical Concerts, The Morgan School.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Romans were known to create tombs for their dogs and gave them epitaphs to remember them by. One such inscription reads “I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home with my own hands 15 years ago.” Original post
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group
Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle
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Helen Salisbury @helensalisbury.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
A scary canter through Streeting's final 'gift' to the NHS. The single patient record aka Single Palantir Record will have all your medical data, available to whoever the sec of state sees fit, to sell or use for 'any legitimate purpose' with no opt outs. First task for James Murray is to bin this.
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Dr Tom Riddington @drtomriddington.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Utterly astonishing. Wes Streeting's last move. "There is no obligation in the Bill for all uses of NHS data to be consensual, safe, or transparent – indeed, many of the provisions allow the opposite."
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Wes Streeting’s final Bill | medConfidential
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Julius Streicher would have published this one.
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This iconic 1984 photo is often called one of the most terrifying space images ever. During STS-41-B on Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first person to perform an untethered spacewalk. Image credit: NASA (Bruce McCandless II during STS-41-B)
An astronaut floats alone above Earth during a spacewalk, surrounded by the blackness of space, with the blue curve of the planet visible below.
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Saddam Hussein would have found that a bit much
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Gregory Sievers, American (1951- ), The Theater, oil, 36 x 24 in, private collection
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Despite a year of warnings that strikes would harm patients, ministers have scrapped 1,000 desperately needed NHS training posts to punish doctors for taking industrial action tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/the-...
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The Government Is Punishing the NHS
Despite a year of warnings that strikes would harm patients, ministers have scrapped 1,000 desperately needed NHS training posts to punish doctors for taking industrial action.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
That's home. That's us.
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We all feel like that now and then - by Shaun Usher share.google/uO5Uvxlcu0w0... he also wrote this incredible letter.
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We all feel like that now and then
On this day in letters
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“Farage has said he wishes the party "hadn't bothered" to take minority control of Worcestershire County Council, because of its financial problems” V much summing up his approach to power. Grifting and gobshiting - yes please. Hard work and responsibility - god no. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Nigel Farage regrets running 'bankrupt' Worcestershire Council
The Reform UK leader says he wishes the party
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'
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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Latest from me: By dint of its relationship with the trade unions alone, Labour still plays a vital role in our democracy – but it also looks dangerously like an archaic legacy party. Its old majoritarian dreams are over www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is stubborn in defeat because it knows this: we face the belated end of the political 20th century | John Harris
In Gorton and Denton, I heard again and again that people wanted seismic political change – Labour and the Tories are no longer part of that conversation, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/02/2026
as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Righteously brilliant from Crace on Mandelson’s disgrace
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No more get-out clauses, no way back. It’s surely the end for Peter Mandelson, finally | John Crace
The only question now is how it took this long for Labour’s greedy, reckless Prince of Darkness to meet his reckoning
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
It is truly disgraceful.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the government would be trying to regulate the company out of business.” Lewis Goodall
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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life and your family’s lives worse talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/01/28/d...
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Dear voter, sick of the other parties and tempted by Reform UK? Don’t be daft. Don’t do it. They’re not your friends. Unless you are already rich, this report proves that they will only make your life...
From the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) yesterday: Reform UK have announced plans for cuts to income tax in Scotland if they were to win the Scottish Parliament elections in May. They say they …
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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"Apparently characters include Mikhail Minsk, Donetsk Duck and Pyotr (Five Year) Plan"
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Robert Jedrick was Minister for Immigration.
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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)
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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Apparently he’s since decided to head further into Essex and film The Witham Man”
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Dr Adam Evans @a-b-evans.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“Apparently they’d been looking for LIDL Bo Peep…”
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
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Jacob deNobel @denobel.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
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James Booth @jtjbooth.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Hard to tell if this is an Epstein reaction or a cut scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey
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📺~CRT~📺 @crtvheadvt.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.
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