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So happy the adults are back in charge 🙄

As someone who's paid off his student loans, I'd be very happy to see this. It could benefit retention and be a big pay rise for newer doctors. If the detail is good, I'd hope the BMA would put a deal including this to the membership.

Encouraging. Personal opinion, but I don't think there's huge appetite for the kind of prolonged industrial action needed to secure a further big headline pay rise. A fair compromise on both sides to avert the strikes would be a good outcome I think.

Quiet bat-people every fucking time.

‘I’m thinking about all the medical staff and medical facilities in Gaza that have been destroyed by the by the genocide by the Israeli Defence Forces.’ Yesterday Metropolitan police made dozens of arrests of non-violent protestors for holding up placards outside Parliament

Retirement at 70, or even later? Retirement is meant to be something to look forward to after a lifetime of hard work. That's now true only for the rich. For everyone else it's going to be a period of ill-health with all your pension spent on care.

This is insane. NHS pensions are linked to the state retirement age. So while the papers attack our "gold-plated" pensions, Liz Kendall plans for us to continue working until 72.

You can bet the med reg, anaesthetist, ortho, paeds etc. being assigned extra duties here haven't been consulted about it. This is what happens. Management decide they won't pay to fill a gap, consultants decide who should pick up the pieces (not them) and juniors get f*cked.

If they change the NHS pension so it can only be taken at 74 without incurring large penalties, how is that going to affect people's retirement plans?

Some encouraging stuff from the Green Party. If someone says they want to shoot migrants it should get the reaction is deserves - horror and disgust. I think too many of our 'mainstream' politicians would instead react with understanding and sympathetic noises.

The Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Island has *asked* if he can be involved in policy-making. Who is he asking?

I will never vote Labour again. Not in my lifetime. I will never forget the skeletal faces of starving children—cut off from food just beyond a sealed border. A border kept closed by choice. I will never forget the silence bought by political donations—or blind loyalty that bind

I could see scrapping GMC fees, exam fees and portfolio fees forming part of a deal. It's effectively a pay rise after all. It would need to be a formal, credible offer though. A promise to "consider" it in further talks is nothing.

Missing a trick with the nerd vote if they don't call the new party CorTana tbh

I can't imagine sending my kid to a school that thinks "because I said so" is all the justification you ever need to give a child. Teach kids that reasoning skills and explaining yourself matters, not that adults are indistinguishable from bullies.

What private healthcare companies expect you to believe:

Weird how one section of society is told they have a moral obligation to vote Labour, no matter what. And another is told they are very special voters whose wishes must always be respected, even if they're horrific.