New paper from our group: Monshi M, Jalal Z, Pontefract S, et al Developing Quality of Medication Error Reports (QoMER): A Consensus-Based Preliminary Framework Using a Modified Nominal Group Technique in the UK BMJ Open 2026;16:e115872. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/9...

Very much looking forward to Farage benefiting from hitting the cap on the number of times publications are allowed to mention him so that his dodgy financing can't be reported.

Despite faults, journalism is a major truth seeking mechanism in open democratic societies. Neutering journalism in the fall out of a University standards scandal (meant to be truth seeking organisations), worsens the remaining mechanisms we have to protect free societies. 1/2

As a member of the Scientific Committee for the ISOP Mid-Year Pharmacovigilance Conference, I'd like to invite you to attend. • Abstract submission deadline: 7 March 2026 • Notification of acceptance: 26 March 2026 • Presenter registration deadline: 14 April 2026 1/2

Some research from an excellent PhD student on developing assessments for safe prescribing: Alhossaini, R.M.; Cox, A.R.; Pontefract, S.K. Feasibility of Script Concordance Test Development: A Qualitative Study of Medical Educators’ Experiences. Int. Med. Educ. 2026, 5, 8. doi.org/10.3390/ime5...

How did the UK get like this? We are 25 years post Deborah Lipstadt beating David Irving in court, when it seemed like everyone was on the same page about this stuff. Since, we have progressively crept into a very dark place. www.thejc.com/news/uk/reve...

Revealed: Police quizzed wrongfully arrested Jewish mother over her faith - The Jewish Chronicle

MPs blast ‘unacceptable’ interrogation and urge the force to explain itself

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Mark Urban 'the BBC can’t find an effective way to thrash out questions of bias internally, then it’s in big trouble.' markurban.substack.com/p/liberal-bi...

Liberal bias? Us?!

What we learn from a leaked report on the BBC

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'Clumsy error'. Hilarious misrepresentation of what happened. Trump isn't even the biggest editorial failure. People like Rusbridger, Yelland, Aaronovitch, Campbell etc are going to damage the BBC through their tribalistic ignorance of bad practice, and hand the BBC over to its enemies.

Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · 11mo ago

The BBC made a clumsy error in editing clips of Donald Trump. But its governance structure should cause more concern—including the role of former Tory spin doctor Robbie Gibb, writes @arusbridger.bsky.social.

Interesting post on self-isolation: 'I’m warning today’s Centrists that hiding themselves away from voters in Leftist sinkholes and treating the views of the voters’ outside with contempt will give them exactly the kind of government they profess to be terrified of' substack.com/home/post/p-...

A quick post about the whole paracetamol thing, and can people stop saying there is 'no evidence'. There is, but the balance of evidence and the strongest studies don't show a link. www.anthonycox.uk/p/you-say-ac...

You say acetaminophen , I say paracetamol

Let's call the whole thing off

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Excellent piece in the BMJ on the Assisted Suicide bill. I use that term because of this text in the piece. blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2025/...

What a bleak view of the lives of others. It perhaps says more about the inner life of the writer than the wider world. When reading how anti-human movements like eugenics became normalised in the past, you wonder how people let it happen. But it can happen. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

There are no rules, the UK is now just following the law that was already in place. Following the Equality Act 2010 to enable sex-based rights for women is not going to make global fascism stronger.

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · last yr.

the UK's new anti-trans rules are indefensible & will make global fascism stronger my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Have people read the replies and QTs to this post? bsky.app/profile/jay.... People should spend less time on X and Bluesky, because they are both causing brain rot and bubble thinking.

Stephen Graham@stephengraham.bsky.social · last yr.

The best time to have left X was the instant he threw a Nazi salute. The second-best time is now.

I feel like Mehdi may be taking the wrong lesson from this.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · last yr.

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

The moment of a Russian UAV strike on Kharkiv today. The Russians hit the building of the National University of Pharmacy.

Well @jessesingal.com was right in the end. 'We should recognize that while we do, in a very real way, dominate most cultural and educational institutions (even if we’re pathetic at gaining political power), you never know who will control things tomorrow.' jessesingal.substack.com/p/please-sto...

Please Stop Sharing This Viral But Misguided Free-Speech Comic (Unlocked)

xkcd is great but it really whiffs on this one

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15 September 1931. | A Dutch Jewish boy, Joseph Karel Vos, was born in Kempen. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 November 1942 in a transport of 709 Jews deported from #Westerbork. He was among 667 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

There isn't a slippery slope with assisted dying, there's a ratchet. Once you cross the line, the line keeps being pushed. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

New Zealand shows why UK politicians must be wary of assisted dying reassurances

I strongly encourage British parliamentarians to look at what has happened in New Zealand since the introduction of assisted dying.

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Cal Newport on how to respond after events like the Kirk murder. ‘there’s often a public conversation about the appropriate way to respond. Here’s one option to consider: Quit using these social platforms.’ calnewport.com/on-charlie-k...

What is Blueskyism www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

The United Kingdom has been accused by other Council of Europe states of adopting a “maximalist” approach to human rights, the justice secretary disclosed yesterday. Shabana Mahmood was answering questions from the House of Lords constitution committee. rozenberg.substack.com/p/do-we-go-t...

Do we go too far?

Other supporters of human rights accuse UK of ‘maximalist’ approach

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The UK has avoided the surgical inventions in these vulnerable children with gender dysphoria (who often have co-morbidities that are ignored - see Cass). The evidence for gender dysphoria resolving after puberty is far better than the benefits of medical interventions.

Herb@dropthet.bsky.social · last yr.

Claire had a "gender affirming" double mastectomy at age 14, as well as other extreme medical interventions as a young child. By age 16 she had already detransitioned.

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Graham Linehan thinks I'm a "cynical, careerist hack" because I don't share his views. I think he's an obsessive, rude jerk. But I also don't think that should be illegal. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Arrest That Demonstrates Europe’s Free-Speech Problem

The arrest of the comedy writer Graham Linehan reveals a chill on free speech.

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Green

Aseem Malhotra is now an advisor to Reform UK on health. Terrifyingly, none of the ‘sensible’ parties seem able to pivot to where the public is, as some in Europe have, or look vaguely competent. So there we are. Still at least sensible as can speak to each other on Bluesky.

‘The idea that the withdrawal of anonymity might inhibit the free exchange of ideas or the examination of controversial subjects is quite simply beyond the comprehension of at least eight-tenths of the sort of people who now serve in parliament’ thecritic.co.uk/in-defence-o...

In defence of online anonymity | Chris Bayliss | The Critic Magazine

“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”. This comment by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt probably comes closer than any other to…

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