neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 18hAmazed this hasn’t featured in Slow Horses as a Jackson Lamb eatery… 020 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 16/10/2026...and on launching the Big Care Conversation elected to make remarks on Today, LBC and to the Times suggesting too many people were being classified as disabled & directed towards support 'when they could work'. As yet we have absolutely no sight of thinking around working age adults. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 16/10/2026I think the politics is with the debate around older people. The Casey Commission TOR explicitly says working age disabled people's support to be addressed separately. Interesting she is also on the advisory group for the Milburn NEET review increasingly the vector for PIP/DLA reform.... 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Telegraph headlines aside, to the extent this does represent a sharp increase in the number of children experiencing disability or serious health conditions, the whole debate about the future of social care is presently focused only on demographic change as it relates to ageing. 110 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Not an original comment I'm sure, but the new Fontaines album is a pure masterpiece isn't it? Rosalia! Amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxS3...youtube.comFontaines D.C. - Where Is Gone? (with Rosalía)YouTube video by Fontaines DC 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026That's also a misunderstanding of what vaccines are for and achieve. Go live on X. 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Social media will, if we get through it, prove more harmful than smoking. 200 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026people rang very trued in that moment. And it's just above all else, so sad. Bright, intelligent, articulate people have gone down rabbit holes and it's impossible to pull them out because they're clinging on to a 'reality' and the certainty it offers. What is her son learning from her? 200 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026I could see her scrolling on her phone, flitting between online clothes and beauty products and what looked like conspiracy theorists. The night before I'd been to see 'The Social Reckoning'. It's a bit of a shite film, but the central premise that social media companies have actively radicalised 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026...and then she told me climate change wasn't real... that 'typhoons' were 'created'. I asked her by who, and why whoever created them would do. She said 'that's a good question'. And I took the opportunity to say I needed to get back to some work I was doing. 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026...and then it took a turn. She told me she'd been pregnant during the Covid lockdowns, and hoped we never return to such 'authoritarianism'. She said 'Fauci' had invented the '666' (?) related to social distancing.... 200 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026We ended up joking about it, and then chatting for a bit. It started innocuously, about her 5 year old's school presentation about their pet parrot, which she said they'd inherited from her parents, who'd died, and which she told me could imitate their voices.... 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026At Lancaster a woman in her 40s got on and sat down beside me, first checking it was ok and 'not really annoying'. She seemed nice, kept herself to herself until about 20 minutes later she laughed as he got up to get off and asked 'do you think he understands what it says on his hat?' 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Yesterday afternoon I got a train from Glasgow to London. When I say down I noticed a man wearing a red baseball cap say at a nearby table seat. Emblazoned on it in white was the word 'Twat'. It looked like this. 230 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Was in Edinburgh Monday & bought what I thought was a lovely autumn jacket which I felt really good in. I slung it on tonight to walk my 12 year old daughter to guides & she said "I don't like your jacket - you look like a farmer". The power of a 12 year old daughter's critique is off the scale. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Just watched episode 1 of the new series of #Time. Fucking hell. 231 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 07/10/2026We can't stop dementia. We can make living with dementia better and help people avert crisis. And so we should. sharedlivesplus.org.uk/live-more/li...sharedlivesplus.org.ukLive More evaluation report - Shared Lives Plus 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Was a special moment for me to share this film today and the evaluation of Live More that goes alongside it. My involvement has been rooted in my own experience of my dad's 'journey' with Alzheimer's, and equally my mums of supporting him and what it has meant since. The film says it all really. 100 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026And yet across Europe populists are winning, connected with and inspired by MAGA. Doesn’t add up… 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What if..... rather than allowing people and families living with dementia to reach crisis, we reached people earlier, not with 'care' but with a relationship that helps people to be and do with the things that matter to them? Watch out for the full report and film tomorrow #LiveMore #SharedLives 020 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The debate about the future of adult social care is missing a vital question: why? socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...socialcarefuture.org.ukMissing the Why: A Personal Take on Plans for a National Care Service - Social Care FutureDr Anna Severwright reflects on what recent political developments could mean for working age disabled people – and why the debate about a potential National Care Service risks focusing on the ‘what’, such as free personal care, while missing the ‘why’. 011 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Was with my 12 year old daughter yesterday morning, looking at some ‘vintage’ clothes in a local flea market. They were from the ‘1990s’. And the horror was compounded when it struck me that the 60s clothes we shopped for in Afflecks Palace in 1988 were more recent. 020 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 03/10/20263 October, walking along Oxford Street in a t-shirt and I’m feeling too hot. Christmas decorations are up. 130 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 02/10/2026After a dip last series I’m loving the new #SlowHorses especially the interactions between Gary Oldman and Lenny Rush 020 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Burnham's National Care Service will "provide free personal care – support with the most basic human needs: eating, dressing and bathing.' And only, it seems, for older people Why 'free personal care' isn't the solution neilcrowther2.substack.com/p/free-perso...neilcrowther2.substack.comFree personal care is not the solutionAndy Burnham has expanded on his Party Conference speech by saying older people will be entitled to free help with ‘eating, dressing and bathing’. But nothing else. 020 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just been to the cinema to see Bad Apples. Fabulous. For some reason Wednesday night at the Brixton Ritzy has this ‘social connection’ theme and people are invited to stay and discuss the film afterwards. Never seen a cinema theatre empty so quickly. 040 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Agree Frances, but this looks set to be the sweetener for restricting access and extending work related conditionality to PIP. 120 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 22/09/2026static.klipy.comRobert Downey Jr: It's Okay to Be ScaredALT: Robert Downey Jr: It's Okay to Be Scared 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Countless attempts to get social care reform over the line over the past quarter century have failed. All of them have missed a vital dimension: a new social settlement. Can this time be different? neilcrowther2.substack.com/p/settling-s...neilcrowther2.substack.comSettling social careCountless attempts to get social care reform over the line over the past quarter century have failed. All of them have missed a vital agreement: a new social settlement. Can this time be different? 021 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is just toooooo good open.spotify.com/album/4IA176...open.spotify.comApples For Isaac - Album by Echo & the Bunnymen | SpotifyEcho & the Bunnymen · album · 2026 · 11 songs 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Setting Sun was an incredible song wasn’t it. Let Forever Be was a rubbish ‘tomorrow never knows’ pastiche tho. 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Strong recommend this book, but it makes me not want to live in London anymore… 001 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Just back from #Pride the musical at @nationaltheatre.org.uk which was so moving and uplifting. If you’ve seen the movie, imagine it mixed with Come From Away. I believe it’s moving to The Bridge theatre soon. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Whatever your position on assisted dying, it’s important to listen to the genuine anxiety that many disabled people have about the legislation being debated before Parliament today, a great deal of which is about the context into which it would be introduced. spectator.com/article/disa...spectator.comDisabled people will suffer if assisted dying becomes lawOn 11 September, MPs will decide whether to proceed with the latest Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, sponsored by Lauren Edwards. Despite hours of scrutiny and amendments in the Lords, it’s s... 101 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Well, the final episode of #ColinFromAccounts was perfection. To end on that song… please pick me up off the floor. 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Have to say, I was quite tempted by all of it…. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Ah season 3 of #ColinFromAccounts is just about perfect so far. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"‘J’, the live-in carer, was dropped off at my mum’s house like a child evacuee in the Second World War...." On my family's recent (poor) experience of homecare and why it doesn't work 15 Minutes of Same neilcrowther2.substack.com/p/15-minutes...neilcrowther2.substack.com15 Minutes of SameHomecare is broken, and it isn’t simply down to money or the way local councils commission it, as my family has recently experienced. 000 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I was rescuing a kitten from a freezer on the island of anti Paros when I heard the news. The locals kept saying how sorry they were. Being abroad we didn’t register the gravity of it all at first. Later with a British beach-bar owner the 3 of us sat listening to the world service under the stars. 010 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Just finished this which was such a beautiful read. Led me to listening to McCartney II which is so brilliantly bonkers open.spotify.com/album/48rypP... 000 0
Reposted by neilmcrowtherTheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Look, everything is rubbish so let's take a moment to remember that chap who - during the Lockdowns - spent his time making increasingly disturbing and unsettling fried eggs. 35618 0
Reposted by neilmcrowtherNeil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/202629th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London! 511656711 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Dodged a bullet not sending our daughter here, thank Crist. 280 0
neilmcrowther @neilmcrowther.bsky.social · 17/08/2026‘Influencers getting too close to sharks’ A headline that delights and depresses in equal measure. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...bbc.co.ukInfluencers getting 'too close' to sharks, scientists warnIncidents of sharks biting humans are incredibly rare, but at least three influencers have been bitten by the animals in less than a year. 010 0
