Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means. His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide. Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers. Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations. Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered. theguardian.com/politics/202…

7am and I have watched this clip around 7,000 times. I think I will watch it 7,000 more 😁 📹 @BBCSportScot

Here's "Wandsworth Prison Blues" - a bit of Johnny Cash, a shot at @DavidLammy, and a dash of a Disney song that Rolf Harris once sang 🐊🎶😬 P.S. If you like our stuff, only hours left on our Kickstarter to help us launch a debut album in 2026: kickstarter.com/projects/mar… 🙌

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📰 NEWS: Our director Jeremy Howick has shared what he has learned from building the Global Empathy in Healthcare Network in the Times Higher Education. The network is shortlisted for the @timeshighered International Collaboration of the Year award 🔗 tinyurl.com/593tcmyu

Improving prescribing in polypharmacy is hard. Primary care, joint pharmacist-physician complex intervention did not improve outcomes in IMPPP trial doi.org/10.1016/j.lanhl.2025… in 37 practices/1950 patients. We need better ways to optimise polypharmacy.

Doctors have criticised SNP plans to adopt English-style GP walk-in centres in Scotland, warning that they risked making the crisis in the NHS worse thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…

GP walk-in surgery plan 'won't address critical staff shortages', say doctors. i.stv.tv/4olCo7J

Now I wonder why the @BBC in general wants to shut down much-needed discussion about #NathanGill and his Russian involvement. We desperately need answers, and for journalists to do their jobs.

I'm deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Jane Goodall, our dear Messenger of Peace. She is leaving an extraordinary legacy for humanity & our planet. I'm grateful for her lifelong environmental protection efforts & her strong support for the @UN .

“[AI] is working against the working man, his liberty and his worth. It is operating to install a rich and powerful elite. It is undermining many of our cherished ideals. And if that keeps on, AI will work to undermine America.”

Alan Milburn was a key architect of NHS reforms under Tony Blair. Now he’s back advising again. Our new blog digs into his comments, his connections, and what his return signals for the NHS 👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-p…

Proposed model of empathic leadership to address crises in contemporary management bmjleader.bmj.com/content/ea… via @JeremyHowick et al

Demand is rising, yet GPs are leaving or reducing hours. Newly qualified GPs face under-employment despite the NHS needing them more than ever. Why? A lack of investment in GP recruitment & locum cover. Just 0.44 fully qualified GPs per 1,000 patients -down from 0.52 in 2015.

RT @MrMatthewTodd: It’s too scary for most people to face

Come and join us at CHERI! We’re recruiting a 3 year full time post doc researcher for a project investigating experiences of doctors with disabilities using an institutional ethnography approach. Deadline 19thAugust! abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/ME…

Exciting opportunity to work on an important project with a world class team 👍🏻

Listen to our latest podcast where we chat to Dr Peter Cairns about the work of community link workers "...link workers have been transformational for our patients...link working is really skilled and valuable work." Listen now at piped.video/AIrIm2ENA1Y?si=jwmz… @VHSComms

What is Therapeutic #Empathy? New research reveals surprising alignment between patients & healthcare practitioners 1/10 BACKGROUND: Most definitions of therapeutic empathy come from practitioners. But what do PATIENTS think it means? Our study @Empathy_Centre asked both sides.