Peterborough, England
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Anne upton retweeted
This Manhole is older than Israel…
An old manhole cover in Haifa, still bears the inscription "Government of Palestine" because it dates to the British Mandate for Palestine (1920-1948).
Anne upton retweeted
Never Forget Srebrenica….
On July 11, 1995, more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered in the Srebrenica genocide.
NEVER AGAIN MEANS NEVER AGAIN FOR EVERYONE‼️
Anne upton retweeted
What have doctors lost:
1. Any real say in how the NHS is run; using government appointed advisors is no substitute for properly representing doctors - which should be democratically determined by election from within the profession
2. Any real say in how doctors are regulated; the GMC council is now 50% lay and all appointments are made or agreed by the privy council
3. Any real say in how doctors are trained; ultimately formal training numbers are constrained by government and fiduciary concerns and training phas historically relied on a lot of pro bono work and goodwill from within the profession
4. Any real say in how healthcare is delivered; most doctors oppose doctor substitution but are ignored as government seeks healthcare professionals who are quicker and cheaper to train and employ and more malleable in terms of specialty and geography
What’s really invidious is that patients and the public are not being properly informed about the huge changes in healthcare that are already happening and being planned.
The care of patients and the public is being put at risk without any truly informed and transparent public debate.
@TheBMA
Anne upton retweeted
People need to understand that Israeli officials wearing noose pins & popping champagne to celebrate the systematic extermination of thousands of Palestinians held in Israeli torture camps is functionally no different from nazis gloating about their gas chambers.
Evil incarnate.
Anne upton retweeted
I’ve had loads of abuse for this, predictably, and plenty of people have accused me of supporting Hezbollah. But no one seems keen to explain why targetting the Lebanese medics who came to help the 3 TV journos was justified.
Anne upton retweeted
Alex Crawford reports on a graveyard of ambulances in S Lebanon 🇱🇧:
‘More than 40 health workers murdered by 🇮🇱 in 2 weeks’
‘Lebanon 🇱🇧 say it’s 🇮🇱 attacking healthcare infrastructure’
‘To force people from S Lebanon 🇱🇧’
Ethnic cleansing
A land grab.
Anne upton retweeted
This is Apartheid.
It's morally disgusting - and comes at the same time as Israel is committing an ongoing genocide.
To see the Labour Government defend Israel repeatedly will horrify the British public - it cannot go on like this.
Anne upton retweeted
Has the government forgotten its job?
It’s meant to provide patients with specialists.
Pulling training posts for doctors is a massive own goal from a government that claims it wants to cut waiting lists.
How do you reduce waiting lists without specialists?
Anne upton retweeted
MESSAGE
I wholeheartedly endorse the powerful appeal for peace made by the Holy Father, Pope Leo, during his Palm Sunday Mass. His call for the laying down of arms and the renunciation of violence resonated profoundly with me, as it speaks to the very essence of what all major religions teach.
Indeed, whether we look to Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism or any of the world's great spiritual traditions, the message is fundamentally the same: love, compassion, tolerance, and self-discipline. Violence finds no true home in any of these teachings. History has shown us time and again that violence only begets more violence and is never a lasting foundation for peace.
An enduring resolution to conflict, including the ones we see in the Middle East or between Russia and Ukraine, must be rooted in dialogue, diplomacy and mutual respect — approached with the understanding that, at the deepest level, we are all brothers and sisters.
I urge for and pray that the violence and conflicts may soon come to an end.
DALAI LAMA
31 March 2026
Anne upton retweeted
“Controversial” ? Seriously?
How about: “immoral”, “unethical”; contrary to all democratic norms”? How about: “in breach of international law”? How about “heinous”, “stomach-turning”, “irredeemably revealing of a sick society in need of help”?
Israel’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis in acts of terror, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians in similar circumstances. ft.trib.al/iabissb
Anne upton retweeted
I must qualify this statement in the interests of accuracy:
Not even apartheid South Africa codified executions for only one ‘race group’. Israel is now the most racist state the world has known since Nazi Germany.
As the son of a Holocaust survivor who lost dozens of her family, I say this cautiously & with extreme pain.
But it is now fact!
Anne upton retweeted
No one who belongs to that land would ever do such a thing. No one native to the region would violate the olives in such a way. These people are foreign colonizers to their core—soulless, cultureless, and morally destitute.
Anne upton retweeted
Astonishing that Christians who support Israel, especially the evangelicals, are silent about Israel’s attacks on churches and Christians in Palestine
Anne upton retweeted
Why does @wesstreeting thinks this overnight staffing situation at ICUs in a major hospital is satisfactory? He is needlessly endangering patients lives by his decision to replace qualified drs with inferiorly trained staff who lack the depth of knowledge required for these roles
Anne upton retweeted
This is the crux of it for me. The @RCPhysicians, @rcpsych and @GeriSoc have all said they can’t support this Bill. They have also said it does not adequately protect vulnerable people.
What do these Peers (and the 314 MPs who voted aye) know that these institutions don’t?
I can’t think of a single Royal College that supports the Bill as written.
Will peers calling for @UKHouseofLords to rush through approval of the Bill just dwell on that fact for one minute and listen to themselves?
Anne upton retweeted
*HALF of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up*
Are the public aware that the government are deliberately funding for direct doctor replacement with PAs, ACPs etc as:
Paediatricians
Anaesthetists
GPs
Gastroenterologists
Oncologists
Radiologists
…
Half of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up.
Yet the NHS is poaching foreign doctors. One in six of Nigeria's are now in the UK.
The real scandal isn't pay: it's a broken training pipeline. My column:-
times-comment.com/nhs
Anne upton retweeted
It ought to be an international scandal that the United States has sanctioned the UN special rapporteur, stripped her of bank accounts. Same with ICC. In order to defend Israeli atrocities in Gaza the US (aided by Britain) is trashing all legal and moral international norms.
Anne upton retweeted
Gaza 🇵🇸 is drowning. Disease is spreading
Israel 🇮🇱 is blocking aid and reconstruction
The UK 🇬🇧 is still trading with 🇮🇱; still selling arms to 🇮🇱
Sanctions against 🇮🇱 now
Boycott 🇮🇱 now.
