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James Downs

@jamesldowns

Writer, researcher, creative, patient. Professionally & pathologically flexible. Practicing courage, creativity, compassion 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Diane Abbott (@hackneyabbott) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sure Start centres produced £2 of benefits for every £1 they spent, study shows. Public investment works. It generates positive returns. Public investment is the key to economic recovery. theguardian.com/education/2025…

Disability Rights UK (@disrightsuk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade. Read more👇 disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-100-…

Robert Howard (@profrobhoward) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If we listen to the families of people with schizophrenia, we quickly learn that underfunded, hollowed out services are completely inadequate to support and treat them or manage the risks associated with their illness.

Cal (@psychistential) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you were wondering how they assess for autism in the mice studies, they put a block of cheese and a yellow lego block in a cage. The autistic ones go for the latter.

Dr Annie Hickox (@dranniehickox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need more comprehensive and, of course, better funded, emergency services for mental health & physical health patients. Unless we have parity and integrated services, mental illness (which is too often a medical emergency) will continue to be viewed as less deserving of care.

Royal College of Psychiatrists (@rcpsych) 's Twitter Profile Photo

RCPsych, joined by leading health and social care organisations, is calling on MPs and the UK Government to reject plans to extend police powers - to detain and restrain people in crisis - to medical practitioners, under reforms of the Mental Health Bill in England and Wales.

RCPsych, joined by leading health and social care organisations, is calling on MPs and the UK Government to reject plans to extend police powers - to detain and restrain people in crisis - to medical practitioners, under reforms of the Mental Health Bill in England and Wales.
EDIFYresearch (@edifyresearch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The FREED from ED team want to hear from you! What is most important in #earlyintervention for #eatingdisorders? Those with lived experience, families, clinicians, researchers, anyone involved is welcome to take part. Take the short survey here: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_dc…

The <a href="/FREEDfromED/">FREED from ED</a> team want to hear from you!

What is most important in #earlyintervention for #eatingdisorders? 
Those with lived experience, families, clinicians, researchers, anyone involved is welcome to take part.  

Take the short survey here: qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_dc…
James Downs (@jamesldowns) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yet again… I have 3 accepted research papers with a leading journal in my field which will be delayed by MANY months purely because processes don’t accommodate independent lived experience authors, and I don’t have £6000 lying around. The waiver process is a nightmare, too.

Nation.Cymru (@nationcymru) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The divergence between Welsh Labour and Westminster is now facing hard limits. But this time, the First Minister’s differences are not with a Conservative administration, but with her own party colleagues ✍️ James Downs nation.cymru/opinion/schrod…

James Downs (@jamesldowns) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This will make no difference to how fast it is for Welsh people to get to either Oxford or Cambridge. There is no reason whatsoever for this to be classed as a Wales and England project nation.cymru/news/hs2-all-o…