Shattering news from Ukraine. At least 24 people, including 3 children, killed in yesterday’s attack on Kyiv. It is so vital we don’t let this pass us by, nor glaze over, nor turn away. Russia will keep on murdering civilians in Ukraine for as long as it can. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

At least 24 killed in Kyiv in one of deadliest Russian attacks since start of war – Europe live

The death toll included three children, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

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Delighted and honoured to be speaking here in Dublin this afternoon @rcsi-medprof.bsky.social 💚🤍🧡

RCSI Centre for Professionalism in Medicine and Health Sciences@rcsi-medprof.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@drrachelclarke.com is an NHS palliative care doctor and the author of multiple The Sunday Times bestselling books about medicine. We are delighted to have Dr.Clarke join us @ #MedProf26 @rcsi.bsky.social #Dublin @fergalbowers.bsky.social @irishmedicaltimes.bsky.social @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Honoured and delighted to be joining @rcsi-medprof.bsky.social's conference in Dublin on Friday 15th May. I'll be talking about the vital importance for our patients of speaking out with candour, even when the message may be difficult to hear. Full details via the QR code below.

RCSI Centre for Professionalism in Medicine and Health Sciences@rcsi-medprof.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Register for #MedProf26 - www.rcsi.com/dublin/about... We are pleased to announce the annual #MedProf26 Conference on 15th May 2026 @rcsi.bsky.social Professionalism in Healthcare: Education, Experience and Example Supported by @medicalprotection.bsky.social & Bon Secours Health System Ireland

💥💥 Tonight! 💥💥 Please join me, @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social & Sarah Perry online at 7pm discussing April's @hayfestival.bsky.social book club choice, Paul Kalanithi's wonderful "When Breath Becomes Air". Sign up is free 💙📚🩺

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.

"Care is being undermined from every direction – from corporate kindwashing to the tech bros’ definition of empathy as weakness, from populist politicians stoking grievance & hate to the notion that if it can’t be counted, then it doesn’t have value."

Dr Rachel Clarke@drrachelclarke.com · 4mo ago

I am incredibly honoured be giving this year’s State of the Nation Lecture at Cambridge Lit Fest on Saturday 25 April, 12pm, in the beautiful setting of the Cambridge Union. My talk is entitled: “A Kindwashed Nation? Who Counts, What Counts and Making Britain Care Again” (1/4)

I am incredibly honoured be giving this year’s State of the Nation Lecture at Cambridge Lit Fest on Saturday 25 April, 12pm, in the beautiful setting of the Cambridge Union. My talk is entitled: “A Kindwashed Nation? Who Counts, What Counts and Making Britain Care Again” (1/4)

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó gave Russia inside access to EU meetings by calling Lavrov during breaks and sharing real-time updates, WaPo reports.

Thank you so much @tomgatti.bsky.social & @theobserveruk.bsky.social for showcasing the richness of non-fiction by women & the vitally important work of @womensprize.bsky.social in championing women's voices in literature. (1/2) observer.co.uk/culture/book...

‘This was literature as gelignite’: writers on life-chang...

Ahead of the Women’s Prize for nonfiction 2026 shortlist, we asked some of our favourite writers to share the books that shaped their writing lives

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What an absolute BLAST of book this is! Pure joy from start to finish. The sheer exuberance of these rollicking, riotous, fabulous pages. Francis Spufford is a storytelling genius. Thank you for giving me so much fun. Read this book, everyone - make your life sing!

Suboptimal for writing, but superlative for love #Harley 🩷

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

Heather Stewart@guardianheather.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Culture war latest: the Bank of England has announced that after a public consultation, to which it received 44,000 responses, the next new banknotes will feature native wildlife. Tories: "It is deeply depressing that under Lab our national heroes are considered too 'divisive' to be on bank notes."

On #IWD2026, it feels fitting to sing the praises of this extraordinary book, read beautifully by Emma Thompson. If you’ve yet to read it, please do. Gisèle Pelicot’s strength, courage & basic human decency ring out from its pages - as does the grotesque misogyny of her courtroom experience...

I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3

Just a reminder that this stuff doesn’t stop until men acknowledge the problem and start calling each other out on it.

Dr Rachel Clarke@drrachelclarke.com · 5mo ago

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

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Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Delighted to join @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social in Oxford on Tues April 14th to discuss her vitally important new book, 'Anywhere But Here' - a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system & how it fails us all. Please join us if you can. Tickets £6 from @blackwells.bsky.social.

Tuesday 14th April, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social will be talking about her book, 'Anywhere But Here' with @drrachelclarke.com - a powerful exposé of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails us all. Tickets just £6 on sale at @blackwells.bsky.social now

Overjoyed to be hearing Jackie Morris & @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social discussing the magnificent Book of Birds in May in Oxford. Avocets, yellowhammers, dippers, dunnocks, kestrels, kingfishers… I cannot wait to hear Jackie & Robert sing their marvellous praises. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jackie-mor...

Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane THE BOOK OF BIRDS

Join us at the Sheldonian Theatre for an evening with Jackie Morris & Robert MacFarlane talking about their latest collaboration.

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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.

The nurses are pissed

Horrified & heartbroken by the latest ICE murder in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse & beloved son. Americans, please know how many millions of us here in the UK are sickened by Trump and his fascist thugs, and stand in solidarity with all of you resisting them 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.