Phil Whitaker
@pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social
Doctor, novelist, medical commentator, medical editor of the New Statesman. 'What Is a Doctor?' a narrative non-fiction exploration of the trouble with medicine today - and how to put it right - is published by Canongate.
There are so many reasons to hope @countbinface.bsky.social prevails in the Clacton by election, not least the question of whether he’d turn up to give his maiden speech in the House of Commons in full Binface regalia. And whether Black Rod would feel a tinge of costume envy.
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 4d agoThere now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...
What do these companies have in common: -Amazon -Walmart -FedEx -McDonald's -Dollar General -DoorDash -Instacart They're all highly profitable, give their CEOs lucrative salaries, and pay thousands of workers starvation wages — making them reliant on SNAP and Medicaid.
A brilliant, depressing, yet heartening essay on the seemingly unstoppable extinction of the humanities in the academy, why it matters crucially that we stop the unstoppable, and how to do it using the very weapon writers are preeminent at wielding. open.substack.com/pub/professo...
Know Your Enemy
This essay has been on the boil for a while, so bear with.
open.substack.com
BJGPLife: Magnifica Humanitas: On safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, by Pope Leo XIV bjgplife.com/magnifi... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
This is how you do it. This is what we should be talking about rather than “no one’s doing anything,”
Summer Solstice captured from Stonehenge yesterday. At first light, the sun climbed up behind the Heel Stone and threaded itself straight through the center of Stonehenge exactly where the builders aimed it nearly 5,000 years ago. Ethereal Earth on FB
Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1
This 👇👇👇 is what you get when you DON'T elect a narcissistic, grifting, con man who's so insecure and weak that he has to slap his name and face on everything.
As we approached the airport the pilot started banking. A ridiculous time for a career change, I felt.
Obama: "As algorithms keep feeding us a steady stream of distraction and outrage, as only the loudest most extreme voices get attention, fanning our prejudices, appealing to our basest most tribal instincts, it's tempting to give in to cynicism and even despair, to stop trying."
