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Georgie Holmes-Skelton

@georgierose.bsky.social

Dabbler in nature, heritage, climate policy. Head of Public Policy for a UK conservation charity. Former House of Commons clerk and general purpose nerd. All comments in a personal capacity. She/her

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Georgie Holmes-Skelton@georgierose.bsky.social · 6d ago

Every time I see commentary like this in the US I wonder what voters there really understand by “democratic socialism”. Because I have a feeling it’s not what the rest of the world thinks it is.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6d ago

The Democratic Socialists of America has grown, yet Americans remain divided on its meaning. A new poll found less than half of all Americans say they would vote for a democratic socialist candidate. https://wapo.st/4wvuVXV

Georgie Holmes-Skelton@georgierose.bsky.social · 2w ago

So many stories I can't/shouldn't share. Being called, as a relatively junior official, to explain to an entire govt department's leadership group what a hypothetical minority govt might entail for govt policy making remains one of the more surreal. 2015 was a more innocent time, constitutionally.

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.

what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.

Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · 3w ago

Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not

Alice Lilly@aliceolilly.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's England's world cup semi-finals day. Forget team selection dilemmas and xG analysis. What you really want is a really nerdy deep-dive into football, pub opening hours, and what they tell you about the most important form of legislation that you may never have heard of. Let's go.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of: improved recognition changing help-seeking behaviour institutional incentives pressures within existing service pathways Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including: real increases in distress in some groups improved recognition of previously unmet need changing expectations about support systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need. In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services. The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.
Gabby HC@scriblit.bsky.social · last mo.

Reject trumpist & fifa corruption, RETVRN to Original Rules Football (half of a whole working class town against the other half, played over several miles on Pancake Day, you're allowed to shank your neighbour if you write an apology to the pope, chance of the game starting a 6 month civil war)

Georgie Holmes-Skelton@georgierose.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a fun game. 1) Single parent family, on free school dinners for a time, descended from welsh miners and scouse ne'er do wells. 2) Attended a private school for sixth form, have a PPE degree.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.