The BMJ has published a comprehensive new report setting out how the Government consultation on the packaging, appearance and display of tobacco and vaping products was subject to a significant amount of industry lobbying.

💫 Event 💫 Register for our webinar on #TobaccoIndustry disinformation, being held as part of London Global Cancer Week 2026. 📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 https://www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobacco-industry-disinformation-emerging-tactics-and-lessons-for-public-health/ #PublicHealth

Column on Greens, anti-Zionism and why the people who pathologically hate something are not the most reliable people to define it accurately www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr

A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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📝This report by @thekingsfund.bsky.social highlights the impact of cuts to public health funding — which means DsPH are facing difficult decisions about which services & initiatives to fund to develop healthier places for us to all live, work, & grow in. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

What does the health and care system look like for children in England? | The King's Fund

Niamh Buckingham explores which key groups work together to support children's health in England and examines the key challenges facing the system, including rising demand, long waits, workforce press...

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Great to be able to share this news! Mariam’s leadership on some of our key research programmes, as well as her wider scientific and clinical knowledge and understanding of the challenges research orgs are facing, puts her in a great place to help us beat cancer for everyone.

Cancer Research UK@cancerresearchuk.org · 3d ago

We’re pleased to announce Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani as our new Chief Clinician! 🎉 Mariam is Professor of Cancer Genomics and Metastasis at UCL Cancer Institute and has led on a number of our key research initiatives. Join us in welcoming her to the role! cruk.ink/4jGWABC

Green Party conference just voted in favour of this motion, and this time, in the hall itself, specifically voted against an amendment which would have removed the element about “Zionist Synagogues”. As a result, for most Jews the Green Party will now be considered to have a policy of antisemitism.

Daniel Sugarman@danielsugarman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Although it feels like I am shouting into the void about this sometimes, I want to share some further thoughts on the “Zionism is Racism” motion which the Green Party is due to debate in the next 16 hours. Just to address various points which I think people in general should know. A thread:

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 6d ago

New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer

As Scotland introduces restrictions on multi-buy promotions and England marks 1 year of the regulations, in our latest guest blog @malcolmjclark.bsky.social of @cancerresearchuk.org explores the UK's journey so far and why further action is needed ⤵️ obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2026/10/02/m...

Guest Blog: One Year of Restricting Multibuys of Less Healthy Food - What Have We Learnt? - Obesity Health Alliance

BOGOFs (Buy-one-get-one-free). Once synonymous with the supermarket experience, and inspiring a myriad of similar multi-buy type deals. Together with sweets at the checkouts, they rightfully became th...

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Public health, not profits, should drive the regulation of tobacco and nicotine products.

📅 Today marks 1 year since restrictions on multibuy promotions for foods ⬆️ in fat, sugar & 🧂were enforced. Now, DsPH are building on this progress to ensure more measures are in place to tackle harmful commercial tactics ⬆️ sales of unhealthy food & drinks. Read our recommendations ➡️ bit.ly/adphcdoh

Streatham High Road is where bus priority is needed. It takes 25 minutes to go the couple of miles to Brixton and is relied upon by everyone. Hope that Lambeth and TfL will review these plans and deliver the promised improvements for bus users on the A23.

The proposals for bus priority on Streatham Common North are fixing the wrong problems in the wrong places. - fewer crossings when we need more - even worse cycling infrastructure - nothing for the bottleneck junction with the A23

The Vaping Products Duty comes into effect today, meaning a new duty of £2.20 per 10ml of vaping liquid will apply to all products entering the market. You can read more in our blog here: ash.org.uk/media-centre...

Big news. Thank you Andy for firing the starting gun on change. So many have campaigned for PR, some of us for decades! Recognise the scale of challenge ahead to make it happen. But a moment to celebrate the work of Make Votes Count/Matter, Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Compass et al.

Make Votes Matter@makevotesmatter.bsky.social · last wk.

💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.

Burnham: "We don't let people sell food that damages health" Umm, I don't think many people - or even his own Health Dept - would necessarily agree with spirit of that. 10Yr Health Plan recognises need to change current situation: committing to introduce Healthy Food Standards reporting & targets.

Kath Dalmeny, CEO of @sustainweb.org, giving a great shout out to local food hero @lucyantal.bsky.social and Queen of Greens social enterprise getting fresh produce to communities in Liverpool - at PLMR fringe on food & health at Labour Conference.

Attending #LPC26? Come and visit us at stand C5 to learn more about our Unlock Cancer Breakthroughs campaign, calling on the Government to: 🧪 Speed up clinical trials 🌍 Attract more global talent to the UK 💷 Protect future funding for cancer research

The Conservative party recently announced proposals to change the benefit system so that recipients could not use their welfare payments to buy tobacco. Our new blog explains why the best solution is targeted quit support & access to free alternatives for those on low incomes and benefits. 👇

If people on benefits are struggling to quit smoking, then the cost-effective, compassionate solution is cessation support - ASH

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

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📅 Tuesday 3 November 2026 🕜 12.30pm GMT 🔗 www.bath.ac.uk/events/tobac...

🚨True cost of UK’s food system is nearly £300 billion a year, and rising 📈 Updated analysis from @timjackson.org.uk shows the economic cost of the UK’s unhealthy food system has risen to £298 billion a year, up from £268 billion just two years ago. Read 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...

Today is 100 days until the smoke-free generation comes into force on 1st January 2027, and new data from ASH shows that 62% of 11–17-year-olds who have ever smoked say that, if they could go back in time, they would not start smoking. 📆🚭

Are you attending Labour Party Conference from 28th-30th September? Make sure you join us for this exciting Recipe for Change Panel Event - happening this Sunday (27th) at Hilton Liverpool City Centre from 1-2pm. No registration required! More info ➡️ www.recipeforchange.org.uk/news-and-blo...

📢 The Govt is consulting on proposals to reduce the appeal of vapes to young people. You can respond here: consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/tobacco-and-... ASH's guide on responding is HERE: ash.org.uk/campaigns/th...

Tobacco and vapes: packaging, appearance and display - Department of Health and Social Care

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Action on Smoking Health (UK)@ashorguk.bsky.social · 2w ago

Whilst vapes are an effective smoking cessation tool for adult smokers, they should not be used by children or young people. Yet, they are being displayed in plain view of children, with bright and colourful packaging.

"Advertising is one of the key mechanisms by which harm from obesity happens." 👀 Read @felly500.bsky.social comments in today’s BBC Sport, looking at junk food advertising during the football World Cup & why reducing exposure to marketing is key to tackling obesity. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.

🎥 Watch our Policy and Public Affairs Manager John Waldron give evidence to the London Assembly Health Committee on youth vaping.

The Regulatory Policy Committee has turned down meetings with tobacco lobbyists - who are opposing plain packaging for cigars, cigarillos, pipe tobacco, shisha, snuff, and smokeless/heated tobacco. And they've published the lobbying letters from the industry. Makes for interesting reading IMO...

RPC correspondence: tobacco industry representatives

Correspondence published in line with UK government requirements under article 5.3 of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.

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Last week the APPG on Smoking & Health and the APPG on Poverty & Inequality hosted a roundtable on smoking and poverty in Parliament. Attendees heard from Gillian & Hannah, experts by lived experience, about the toll that smoking placed on their finances, relationships & health.