The Blumen Kindren - the flower children - lay flowers at the graves of the men who fell during Operation Market Garden. Many wear maroon and airborne symbols as they honour the heroes who fought for Dutch liberation 80 years ago. #Arnhem80

Please watch this. So many people in so many ways are so damaged by the pandemic.

It is indeed! Top Telly 👍

This is excellent.

One view: ‘The partygate scandal was overblown’ - Kemi Badenoch Another view:

What's the earliest we get to find out if sanity has prevailed? Asking for the free world

"There is deep disappointment and a feeling of betrayal now, with doctors divided as to whether this blow to our practices is deliberate harm or just incompetence." The budget will damage GPs’ trust and goodwill, says @HelenRSalisbury bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Head of the OBR, Richard Hughes, say the treasury broke the law by not disclosing a multi billion pound black hole in public finances. The casual suggestion that Labour lied about the conservative overspend and obfuscation by Tory MPs (and Tory media) is completely unfounded.

In a week of bleakness, one very bright light - this piece from a 4th year med student. Jeremy Howick Richard Lehman Jamie Hayes

Bye. It’s time. The tipping point has been reached. See you on the other side. stokemacca.bsky.social

Jane Maher💙also on Bluesky Ash Paul U.S. FDA Haute Autorité de santé In his wonderful, wide-ranging new book Rebalancing Medicine stokemacca describes how NICE was born in the late 1990s out of a cost-benefit debate about interferon for MS. There is no better insider account of what followed and how we got to where we are.

‘Choosing to suffer is a privilege’ I need to your help… can anyone get this unbelievably powerful video to Sir Chris Hoy Chris - Lucy is raising money for MOVE AGAINST CANCER Charity and is sending this LEADING the Montane Spine Race 225miles in. Can people Retweet this to see how far it can go…❤️

The original vignette was shocking in its failure to recognise the strength of primary care and general practitioners - strong primary care = better health system, better care, lower costs. I haven’t seen anyone say “Sorry”. Vignette just withdrawn. 🤯🤷‍♂️

Hear hear. Backlash on fewer targets is misguided. Bolder cutting of targets required; doing half of the wrong thing is better, but still not great. Targets often / usually distort clinical priorities. Performance measures should focus on failure demand.

Did a Ray Cooney farce with this comedy genius. He was playing the butler. Stole the show every single night without even trying. One of the kindest, gentlest, most generous actors I had the good fortune of working with. A true comedy legend. RIP Brian Murphy.

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I was the on call Anaesthetic resident for emergency theatres last weekend and a trainee SCP was first assist for certain cases e.g lap appendix and was doing other cases e.g abscesses with local supervision. I felt really uncomfortable with this. 1/n

John Mandrola, MD

Enough of this. FFS. 🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️🙇🏼‍♂️ ACPs are great but ARE NOT DOCTORS, and most of them know they aren’t and are entirely happy not to be.

Au naturel 🔢 City's initial first team squad numbers for 25/26 have been confirmed 👇