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Malcolm Clark

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Public health senior policy manager & campaigner. Streatham, W Norwood & Lambeth.All views my own.

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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 4h
💫 Event 💫 Register for our webinar on #TobaccoIndustry disinformation, being held as part of London Global Cancer Week 2026. 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobacco-indus… #PublicHealth
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Tobacco industry disinformation: emerging tactics and lessons for public health
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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 12h
Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 06/10/2026
A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...
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Here lies Jeffrey Archer
The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
📝This report by @thekingsfund.bsky.social highlights the impact of cuts to public health funding — which means DsPH are facing difficult decisions about which services & initiatives to fund to develop healthier places for us to all live, work, & grow in. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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What does the health and care system look like for children in England? | The King's Fund
Niamh Buckingham explores which key groups work together to support children's health in England and examines the key challenges facing the system, including rising demand, long waits, workforce press...
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Michelle Mitchell @michellecruk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great to be able to share this news! Mariam’s leadership on some of our key research programmes, as well as her wider scientific and clinical knowledge and understanding of the challenges research orgs are facing, puts her in a great place to help us beat cancer for everyone.
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Green Party conference just voted in favour of this motion, and this time, in the hall itself, specifically voted against an amendment which would have removed the element about “Zionist Synagogues”. As a result, for most Jews the Green Party will now be considered to have a policy of antisemitism.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Obesity Health Alliance @oha-updates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As Scotland introduces restrictions on multi-buy promotions and England marks 1 year of the regulations, in our latest guest blog @malcolmjclark.bsky.social of @cancerresearchuk.org explores the UK's journey so far and why further action is needed ⤵️ obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2026/10/02/m...
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Guest Blog: One Year of Restricting Multibuys of Less Healthy Food - What Have We Learnt? - Obesity Health Alliance
BOGOFs (Buy-one-get-one-free). Once synonymous with the supermarket experience, and inspiring a myriad of similar multi-buy type deals. Together with sweets at the checkouts, they rightfully became th...
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Public health, not profits, should drive the regulation of tobacco and nicotine products.
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📅 Today marks 1 year since restrictions on multibuy promotions for foods ⬆️ in fat, sugar & 🧂were enforced. Now, DsPH are building on this progress to ensure more measures are in place to tackle harmful commercial tactics ⬆️ sales of unhealthy food & drinks. Read our recommendations ➡️ bit.ly/adphcdoh
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Liveable Streatham Wells @liveablewells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Streatham High Road is where bus priority is needed. It takes 25 minutes to go the couple of miles to Brixton and is relied upon by everyone. Hope that Lambeth and TfL will review these plans and deliver the promised improvements for bus users on the A23.
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Liveable Streatham Wells @liveablewells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The proposals for bus priority on Streatham Common North are fixing the wrong problems in the wrong places. - fewer crossings when we need more - even worse cycling infrastructure - nothing for the bottleneck junction with the A23
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Vaping Products Duty comes into effect today, meaning a new duty of £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid will apply to all products entering the market. You can read more in our blog here: ash.org.uk/media-centre...
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big news. Thank you Andy for firing the starting gun on change. So many have campaigned for PR, some of us for decades! Recognise the scale of challenge ahead to make it happen. But a moment to celebrate the work of Make Votes Count/Matter, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Compass et al.
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham: "We don't let people sell food that damages health" Umm, I don't think many people - or even his own Health Dept - would necessarily agree with spirit of that. 10Yr Health Plan recognises need to change current situation: committing to introduce Healthy Food Standards reporting & targets.
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kath Dalmeny, CEO of @sustainweb.org, giving a great shout out to local food hero @lucyantal.bsky.social and Queen of Greens social enterprise getting fresh produce to communities in Liverpool - at PLMR fringe on food & health at Labour Conference.
Photo of panellists on PLMR fringe on healthy choice the easy choice at Labour Party Conference
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Cancer Research UK Policy @crukpolicy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Attending #LPC26? Come and visit us at stand C5 to learn more about our Unlock Cancer Breakthroughs campaign, calling on the Government to: 🧪 Speed up clinical trials 🌍 Attract more global talent to the UK 💷 Protect future funding for cancer research
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Conservative party recently announced proposals to change the benefit system so that recipients could not use their welfare payments to buy tobacco. Our new blog explains why the best solution is targeted quit support & access to free alternatives for those on low incomes and benefits. 👇
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If people on benefits are struggling to quit smoking, then the cost-effective, compassionate solution is cessation support - ASH
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Significant knock on benefits for areas of S London not currently well served too. You're right, the Gatwick case has much greater upside on regional benefits / additionality. And boy Croydon needs some love!
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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobac...
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨True cost of UK’s food system is nearly £300 billion a year, and rising 📈 Updated analysis from @timjackson.org.uk shows the economic cost of the UK’s unhealthy food system has risen to £298 billion a year, up from £268 billion just two years ago. Read 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today is 100 days until the smoke-free generation comes into force on 1st January 2027, and new data from ASH shows that 62% of 11–17-year-olds who have ever smoked say that, if they could go back in time, they would not start smoking. 📆🚭
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Obesity Health Alliance @oha-updates.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are you attending Labour Party Conference from 28th-30th September? Make sure you join us for this exciting Recipe for Change Panel Event - happening this Sunday (27th) at Hilton Liverpool City Centre from 1-2pm. No registration required! More info ➡️ www.recipeforchange.org.uk/news-and-blo...
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📢 The Govt is consulting on proposals to reduce the appeal of vapes to young people. You can respond here: consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/tobacco-and-... ASH's guide on responding is HERE: ash.org.uk/campaigns/th...
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Tobacco and vapes: packaging, appearance and display - Department of Health and Social Care
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Advertising is one of the key mechanisms by which harm from obesity happens." 👀 Read @felly500.bsky.social comments in today’s BBC Sport, looking at junk food advertising during the football World Cup & why reducing exposure to marketing is key to tackling obesity. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🎥 Watch our Policy and Public Affairs Manager John Waldron give evidence to the London Assembly Health Committee on youth vaping.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Regulatory Policy Committee has turned down meetings with tobacco lobbyists - who are opposing plain packaging for cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, shisha, snuff, and smokeless/heated tobacco. And they've published the lobbying letters from the industry. Makes for interesting reading IMO...
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RPC correspondence: tobacco industry representatives
Correspondence published in line with UK government requirements under article 5.3 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last week the APPG on Smoking & Health and the APPG on Poverty & Inequality hosted a roundtable on smoking and poverty in Parliament. Attendees heard from Gillian & Hannah, experts by lived experience, about the toll that smoking placed on their finances, relationships & health.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Global tobacco company, British American Tobacco, were the sole sponsors of delegate lanyards at Reform Party Conference. It is a cause for concern when any political party accepts funding from Big Tobacco, whose products kill two thirds of long-term users.
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British American Tobacco sponsored Reform UK conference
Nigel Farage has promised to scrap the law that will ban everyone born after 2008 from smoking
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Obesity Health Alliance @oha-updates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today marks an important day for school food, with the government confirming the first overhaul to the School Food Standards in over a decade - AND for the first time ever, the standards will be properly monitored ☑️ Our Exec Director was quoted in the government's press release ⤵️
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you for Sharon for championing school food improvements and uptake in all your roles; and helping to make the changes happen. Particularly pleased to see the bit on schools needing a lead governor for school food from next Sept - a step up in ownership & accountability.
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Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In a new study, Dr Alice Fabbri, @brittakm.bsky.social and Katherine Smith consider the types of research and knowledge translation activities which influence policy change across the Commercial Determinants of Health #CDoH. Read #research: doi.org/10.1136/bmjp...
“To effectively counter the commercial determinants of health, we need to understand evidence as a jigsaw where different types of research play critical roles across the policymaking process.”
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My party has got this very wrong. Instead of sending members a fundraising request after the two mega £m Reform donations, Labour should be telling me how they are going to legislate or regulate big money (& crypto money) out of politics. We are in government. There is a Bill to tack it. Just do it!
Text from Labour fundraising email asking for donations after big donors give to Reform
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Malcolm Clark @malcolmjclark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Feels strange bringing in Jewish New Year after solemn afternoon remembering events in US 25 years ago, and those whose lives were lost or affected. A circle of seasons & life moment. But also timely reminder faith can be distorted & misused by a tiny minority, but that shouldn't be used to tar all.
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Read our submission to the Autumn Budget which details why the Government should: ⭐ Adopt a Health in All Policies approach across the whole of Government. ⭐Invest more in public health. ⭐ Implement MUP in England. 👀 Read in full ➡️ www.adph.org.uk/resources/adph-autumn-budget-submission-2026/
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...
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Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive Judaism
As we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Ed Miliband: "I speak as a proud British Jew.. I don't accept that in this country we can't stand up for values of the rule of law, freedom & dignity of all people.. and also counter antisemitism" Absolutely. Opposing apartheid & genocide is not antisemitic.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The logic of this from the Chief Rabbi seems to be: there is nothing that the Natanyahu Govt could do that would merit sanctions, as it would "feed into" a "hostile discourse" about Israel. And it dangerously conflates all Jews with the actions of Likud. Dire on so many levels.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?
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Cancer Research UK @cancerresearchuk.org · 08/09/2026
Today we launched our new cancer manifesto for Northern Ireland. Cancer remains the leading cause of death in Northern Ireland but, with the right investment & action, the next Northern Ireland Executive could help save around 5,900 lives between now and 2040. cruk.ink/4yqzoMm #CancerPolicy
A photo of campaigners stood on the steps of Stormont in Belfast holding up pink and blue Cancer Research UK placards.
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Eunice Goes @eunicegoes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@joemulhall.bsky.social is absolutely right. The Burnham government has to respond to far-right activity far more forcefully than it has shown so far. Patriot Platform has ‘illegitimate concerns’ about immigration and should be treated accordingly. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Dover and Portsmouth showed us a new kind of far right – and the authorities were caught out | Joe Mulhall
This is a new and dangerous development: a network of vigilantes who have mobilised as politicians and police have failed to act, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate
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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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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ryan Bridge - Founder of "Raise the Colours" flag protests - charged with 14 offences including common assault. Danny Thomas - ringleader of Dover/Portsmouth thuggery - an ex-con jailed for attempted kidnap at knifepoint. Almost like they're not "ordinary people with concerns" but criminals.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Said it before but important to say again: I hate how easily public discourse is sliding into it being at all ok to say that citizens who were either themselves born outside of the UK or whose parents or grandparents etc were are in some way not "properly" British.
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