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Chair of UK Council @bma.org.uk Anaesthetic consultant Fresh here from the bird app where I am thomasdolphin

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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A pleasure to be part of a panel today at the @britishima.bsky.social conference in Glasgow talking about antiracism in the workplace, workforce planning failure, and GMC processes. Really interesting discussion and nice to meet one of our new Council members, Huda, afterwards too!
Dr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer, Dr Sahira Dar and me standing in front of a BIMA displayThe panel members: Asif Qasim, Farhat Mushtaq, Shehla Imtiaz-Umer (chairing the discussion), Azza Elghonaimy and me
(standing in a row at the side of the stage)
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’m pushing my luck sending my voting form for the BMA’s Council election back this late. Don’t miss your chance - post yours back ASAP! It must be back with Civica by 27 April ⏳⌛️
Selfie of me posting my BMA Council election vote back to Civica
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Labour Unions @labourunionsuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🚨 NEW: Joint Statement from National TULO on the right to strike. labourunions.org.uk/right-to-str...
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Marching today in solidarity with all those who oppose hate and division in our society at the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March in London
Doctors and medical students holding BMA placards and a banner that say “ Doctors against division“ and “Doctors for unity“
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A pleasure to meet @werahobhouse.org.uk, Simon Opher, @shockatadam.bsky.social and other MPs today about the risks Palantir poses to our NHS - patients trust us with their most personal information and we have to protect their privacy. Thank you @martinwrigley.bsky.social for sponsoring the event!
Wera Hobhouse MP and me in front of a big banner sign saying “No Palantir in our NHS”; I’m holding a little sign saying the same thing
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 20/03/2026
A reminder to LEDs. Please take a few minutes to answer this quick survey and help us better understand your experiences 👇
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 19/03/2026
Today's Covid Inquiry report recounts the devastating impact on doctors, and our patients.   Watch BMA council chair Dr Tom Dolphin speak to press this afternoon
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Don't forget to return your BMA Council voting pack - I'm standing for Council again, so I can continue to fight for doctors and medical students. We need a strong union, and I'm driving forward our strategy to put power in the hands of the profession again.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Great pleasure to address an all-member open meeting in Belfast tonight. We talked about the shocking health disparity between NI and the rest of the UK, the lack of training posts, the pull of Sláintecare, and how the BMA’s new, strong collective voice can start to address them together ✊
Me holding forth while standing behind a table laid with a BMA cloth, gesturing at the audience while making a point. Alan Stout, Chair of NI Council, is sitting watching from his place as convenor of the meeting. There were loads of people there but they’re all just out of frame, collectivising tooMe and Alan Stout, Chair of NI Council, in front of an old staircase at Riddel Hall in Belfast where the meeting was (but not in the meeting room itself as that was just a standard seminar room and not very interesting as a background for a photo)
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Doctors/med students: fill in @bma.org.uk's survey on advanced practice roles and their potential impact on training and for employers to extend their scope into work only doctors should be doing. It closes this Thurs at 4pm so be quick! (It takes ~10 mins) www.surveymonkey.com/r/MVXCB99
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
After a stormy arrival on Friday, had a full day yesterday meeting members on the Isle of Man; followed by Manx Care’s Chief Exec & MD; then the Chief Minister, Treasury Minister, Health Minister and DHSC’s Chief Officer. Productive conversations, progress on important issues:
Prakash Thiagarajan (Isle of Man Medical Society), Tim O’Neill (Chief Officer of DHSC), Claire Christian MHK (Health Minister) and me in the Isle of Man government office underneath the island government’s crestHelen Robinson-Gordon (BMA head of media) and me crossing the road outside the Tynwald (IoM Parliament)Prakash and me in Noble’s Hospital near Prakash’s department - behind us is the entrance to the children’s ward with an undersea-themed mural
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It's twenty years today since I started my anaesthetic training, at Charing Cross Hospital. In that time I've looked after many thousands of patients, placed innumerable cannulas, injected rivers of propofol, and stuck a pine tree's worth of needles into people. 🧵
A photo of me from (I think) the Daily Telegraph used to illustrate a story where I gave a quote on behalf of the Junior Doctors Committee, roughly around the time of starting my anaesthetic training (that's definitely Charing Cross Hospital theatres...!). I'm in scrubs, with the surgical lights arrayed dramatically behind me and a stethoscope around my neckMe photographed in late 2025 in scrubs (still with a stethoscope around my neck) in front of shelves arrayed with anaesthetic drugs and labels; a pair of shears hangs invitingly on a hook
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 17/01/2026
FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"
Email invitation to Dr. Emma Hilton from Sex Matters about meeting the new chair, Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 17/01/2026
“This conclusively demonstrates that this widely publicised concern as part of the culture war against trans people is not supported by documented evidence from service providers," @translucent.org.uk
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Fascinated by the fruit options at lunchtime 🍎🍐🍌🍇🍋
A fruit bowl on offer at lunchtime at a recent all-day meeting I attended, which includes bananas, plums (for which there is no emoji, weirdly), pears, grapes, oranges, apples, little tomatoes and a single whole lemon
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Rob Fleming @robjimfleming.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Consultant Anaesthetist and BMA Council Chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social talks about the importance of collective action and local organising. If we want medicine to continue to be the viable career, the profession needs to behave as a group. Solidarity matters. #WSM2026
Dr Tom Dolphin at the Winter Scientific Meeting lectern.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @bma.org.uk, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A message for doctors and medical students for the New Year (and check your inboxes 📩): youtu.be/G8uZqQW51wY?... Thank you for all you did in 2025 for @TheBMA, our profession and our patients, and wishing everyone a peaceful and happy 2026. 🕊️
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Tom Dolphin's New Years Message | British Medical Association
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Substitution of expertise with enthusiasm doesn’t work when so much of what our NHS clinical staff do is based on years of training, exams and experience. @bma.org.uk agrees with @rcn.org.uk that we shouldn’t be replacing expert clinicians the way the NHS is currently rushing to do.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Well done @bmacymru.bsky.social on the new resident doctors' contract! Meanwhile in England residents fight on in their campaign and at the same time @bma.org.uk continues work on all the other issues our members care about. This is what an active, member-led union with amazing staff looks like!
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Heading Londonwards from visiting QMC in Nottingham to talk to obstetric doctors there (and management) about strikes and derogations. Clearly a department facing huge challenges, with doctors run ragged to make up for deep-rooted problems. Thank you for the frank discussions. @mbdoc.bsky.social
Selfie in front of Queen’s Medical Centre main entrance, with the facade lit up by green and purple floodlights and with Christmas illuminations along the front canopy. PTS ambulances are jostling for space along the front of the building behind me.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
bbc.co.uk
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Back here for the second time in a week to talk to an MP about the residents’ dispute and doctor substitution by non-doctors on rotas. Bumped into the Consultants Ctte co-chair in Parliament’s reception on her way in to meet another MP - literally a revolving door of @bma.org.uk -MP meetings today!
A quick selfie with Ben Ben/Elizabeth Tower in the background to make clear that I am, in fact, outside Parliament
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 19/11/2025
Today @tomdolphin.bsky.social met @ruthcadbury.bsky.social, Chair of the Transport Select Committee in Parliament. Discussions included pressing issues facing doctors and the Government’s upcoming road safety strategy, including measures to lower the UK blood alcohol limit for driving.
Dr Tom Dolphin, chair of BMA council and Ruth Cadbury MP pictured today at Parliament
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Reading the report really took me back to those days all doctors and NHS workers will remember; knowing it was coming, knowing it was going to be bad. The parts about the opportunities squandered - not just early on but repeatedly - to reduce the impact are really hard to read.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Heading back home now from the GP conference in Manchester. Good meeting at the MRI afterwards; local members sold on the BMA strategy - they really get the importance of shifting to an organising model and how it gets wins in the workplace and on professional issues. @bma.org.uk
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 31/10/2025
The Govt has suggested a pay uplift of just 2.5% for doctors next year, well below inflation. With resident doctors striking next month over pay and jobs, it is “frankly indefensible that yet another Government is once again suggesting real-terms pay cut for doctors," says @tomdolphin.bsky.social
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Doctors of the World @mdmusa.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
🔴 A hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was hit by a bomb on Monday — 4 injured, 57 patients evacuated. Our teams are providing psychological support. Attacks on medical facilities violate International Humanitarian Law. Health is not a target. #NotATarget #Ukraine
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 30/09/2025
"We want to be assured that no one will be left behind in this new online hospital" Our Chair of Council @tomdolphin.bsky.social responds to the Government's announcement www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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New online hospital must pay attention to needs of patients, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from the BMA
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 29/09/2025
The BMA is now 200,000 members strong - and counting. Commenting, council chair @tomdolphin.bsky.social said: "Together we are all the BMA, and alongside our brilliant staff, the members are what give the BMA its voice and strength." Read more: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
An image shows doctors wearing BMA orange at a rally. The text says "We're 200,000 members strong"
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Pleasure to do this great panel hosted by @thefabians.bsky.social along w Nicola Rayner (@rcn.org.uk) and @kevinmckenna.co.uk We covered workforce planning (lacking), AI in healthcare (unready) and how to get from here to the 10 Year Health Plan’s end points (unclear but may be for us to determine)
Sasjkia Otto hosting the panel with the four of us sitting in front of various Fabians/RCN/BMA backdrops. A low table in front of us holds water glasses and various pieces of paper and microphones.Sasjkia Otto hosting the panel with the four of us sitting in front of various Fabians/RCN/BMA backdrops. A low table in front of us holds water glasses and various pieces of paper and microphones.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
A pleasure to chair @bma.org.uk Resident Doctors Committee meeting today for the elections section. Congratulations to the new officer team, and thank you and well done to the outgoing team, who worked incredibly hard this last year for members. The fight to restore our pay continues!
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 22/09/2025
“This announcement will cause a great deal of anxiety and distress to our much-needed and valued international workforce, including international doctors, who are the backbone of the health services in the UK" @tomdolphin.bsky.social Read our response in full www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-ce...
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Reform immigration announcement will cause anxiety and distress to much-needed international health workforce, says BMA - BMA media centre - BMA
Press release from the BMA
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 14/09/2025
"A spiralling crisis and a disjointed health service which demands a solution. So a long-term plan for the NHS is not just appealing but is essential.” @tomdolphin.bsky.social delivers keynote speech at #SRM25, where our members will debate if this plan is the solution to the NHS in crisis.
"A speaker in a white shirt stands at a podium with two microphones, delivering a speech at the BMA SRM 2025 event. The blue backdrop features the BMA logo and 'SRM 2025'. The image includes a quote from Dr Tom Dolphin, BMA Chair of Council: 'A spiralling crisis and a disjointed health service which demands a solution. So a long-term plan for the NHS is not just appealing but is essential.
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 14/09/2025
"When you make a big change, it requires investment... We need more detail about how we're going to get from here to there" @tomdolphin.bsky.social spoke to BBC Breakfast this morning ahead of #SRM25, where our members will debate the NHS England 10-Year Health Plan www.bma.org.uk/what-we-do/s...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/09/2025
Boris Johnson says these are just common sense and reasonable statements
-Gay people should be stoned to death
-Most people are scared when they see a black pilot flying a plane
-Taylor Swift should reject feminism and submit to her husband
-No one should be allowed to retire
-Leftists should not be allowed to move to red states
-British Colonialism was what "made the world decent"
-The guy who assaulted the Pelosi's should be bailed out
-Religious freedom should be terminated
-Multiple black politicians "stole white people's spots"
-MLK Jr was "an awful person"
-The Great Replacement Theory is reality
-Hydroxychloroquine cures COVID
-Vaccine requirements are "medical apartheid"
-Guns deaths are acceptable in order to have a 2nd amendment
-Women's natural place is under their husband's control
-Parents should prevent their daughters from taking birth control
-George Floyd had it coming, the Jan 6th protestors didn't
-The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a "huge mistake"
-Encouraged parents to protest mask mandates
-Mamdani winning in NY is a travesty because Muslims did 9/11
-Muslims only come to America to destabilize Western Civilization
-Palestine "doesn't exist" and those who support it are like the KKK
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 06/09/2025
The 'trans lobby' here is trans people and their families who were - shock horror - consulted about trans health care. David Thompson writes that consulting trans groups is "contradictory to the expert warnings of the Cass Review".
News Letter 6 September 2025 Trans lobby 'co-design' role in clinic criticsed.By David Thompson
newsdesk@newsletter.co.uk

@News_Letter

The influence given to LGBTQ+ lobby groups by the health minister Mike Nesbitt in the design of a controversial gender identity service has been branded “reckless, dangerous” and contradictory to the expert warnings of the Cass Review.

The Christian Institute says that Northern Ireland is “running towards the same disaster” that happened in England around gender services for children by allowing groups such as the Rainbow Project a role in the design of a gender identity clinic.

The Department of Health (DoH) says “service users” were just one element of the “co-design” of the new service – but the review was “steered by expert clinicians”. #TransAgendaClips
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Quick update on a few other things to end the day: Our NHS colleagues are angry; Residents in England are making some progress in talks; GPs in NI are acting collectively; @bma-ni.bsky.social are in dispute over unpaid uplifts; and @BMAstudents have a win on student funding. Have a good weekend!
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Doctors know we need nationally-set scope for PAs and AAs. Local scope will mean local scope creep, without a doubt - we're already seeing it happening. It's not fair on them and it's not fair on patients or the supervising doctors. So why is no-one taking this responsibility?
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
To reiterate; This is how the Guardian describes a tweet that advocates assaulting trans women; “Posts on transgender issues”
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Father Ted creator Graham Linehan arrested over posts on transgender issues
Comedy writer intercepted by five armed officers at Heathrow after flying in from Arizona
Caroline Davies and Dan Milmo
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The writer of TV's Father Ted has been arrested at Heathrow over three social media posts on transgender issues.
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The BMA and many others warned that this was coming, and now it is here. The UK government must act immediately to prevent widespread death in Gaza from hunger. This is entirely man-made and is intolerable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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‘Children are paying the highest price,’ says aid worker as famine confirmed in Gaza City - live updates
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 13/08/2025
Version 1 of email: "Are you insane"
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Version 8 of email: "If someone is instructing you to continue using this process I would be happy to advocate for you."
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Well, @duolingoverde.bsky.social knows where it’s at ✊ Ensemble nous sommes plus forts; ensemble nous gagnerons!
Duolingo screenshot of a French lesson where you are asked to translate “I wanted to participate in the strike” into French - « J’ai voulu participer à la grève »

Under my correct answer Duo posted a green tick and the words “Good job!”, which by coincidence is what can follow from union membership
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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 27/07/2025
Doctors take on huge responsibilities from day one, as @tomdolphin.bsky.social set out to Trevor Phillips today. We’re asking the Government for a credible path to #PayRestoration for resident doctors in England
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Great to speak to the new F1 resident doctors at my Trust today about the role of trade unions in correcting the huge power imbalance between employer and employee, and some of the professional work we are doing as well. Most already @bma.org.uk members, but lots of new signups too! ✊
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Honoured to be at the Barts and The London Rites of Passage ceremony 2025 tonight - St Paul’s provides a magnificent backdrop for this key moment in the careers of these new doctors. 🖤🤍
Graduands wearing their BL hoods going into the north entrance of St Paul’sSt Paul’s cathedral central rotunda with graduands and their families taking their seatsThe west entrance door to St Paul’s
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Tom Dolphin 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @tomdolphin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Resident doctors will be striking in England this time next week. I will be joining them on the picket line in support. The Secretary of State can end the dispute if he has the will to do so. @bma.org.uk remain open to further proposals after yesterday’s constructive talks.
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