Finally escaped the mental health system through retirement. Passionate about marine conservation. Landlocked in Stafford, Love Llyn peninsular and County Kerry
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
"Bank suspended Matt Hancock’s team from making payments to PPE suppliers at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic over fears they were being taken in by fraudsters, the High Court has been told."
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
When withdrawal gets labelled relapse.
That’s the trick in these “stay on the pellets” studies.
Pull people off, score the brain zaps, anxiety, and rebound symptoms as the illness returning, then declare the drug a winner.
Classic spin.
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
The 'spiritual' components bears no relation to their original sources, for actual Buddhist's it's a whole way of living, not a treatment.
The NHS versions of Pound Shop mindfulness are excruciatingly awful and unsophisticated, in MH and pain management
Before working with Marsha Linehan, I advocated for what I mistakenly thought was a broad 'bio/psycho/social' model of human nature & psych treatment.
She taught me it was far too narrow because it left out the 'spiritual' aspects of life- the human need to find meaning & hope.
Marsha perfectly embodied/practiced a fully rounded, 4 dimensional 'bio/psycho/social/spiritual' model.
Aaron Beck's last innovation was to add a spiritual component to CBT.
Michael Brazendale retweeted
Ministers have until the end of this year to give notice and get Palantir out of our NHS. Miss it, and we’re locked in for years.
We’re handing £330m of public money to a US spytech firm for software NHS staff don’t even want to use. Any benefits of the system have been shown to be largely unsubstantiated.
We know that there are ready-made, alternatives that could step in and do a better job – keeping our health data under systems owned and controlled by the NHS.
Over 70,000 people have signed the Organise petition. Add your name: the.organise.network/campaig…
Michael Brazendale retweeted
Hmm.... 🤔🤔🤥
Some antidepressants may work better than others over the long term, suggests a new analysis in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Read more: spkl.io/60147bEK2
ALT Research in context panel for a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled \"Comparative efficacy and acceptability of antidepressants in the long-term treatment of major depressive disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis\". Copyright: 2026 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Michael Brazendale retweeted
This new Reuters report is stunning.
A week before the U.S. captured Venezuela's leader, JD Vance reportedly met at a private Montana ski club with John Addison, an oil trader who had given $300,000 to help elect Vance to the Senate in 2022. Vance allegedly asked how fast Venezuela's oil could be sold if America took control of it.
Both men deny the meeting.
Flight records show their planes parked together that day.
Two days after the Venezuela operation, Energy Secretary Chris Wright called Addison and offered his company, Vitol, the job of selling Venezuela's oil. There was no public bidding. Vitol and one rival have since made hundreds of millions of dollars.
Addison and his wife also gave $7 million to help elect Trump, and he now chairs a board advising Secretary Wright.
Congress has a duty to act.
We should bring Secretary Wright, Vitol, and Addison in to testify under oath. We should demand the phone records, emails, and flight logs. We should find out whether anyone got a heads-up about a military operation. And we should require open, competitive bidding before any company profits from our foreign policy.
If nothing was wrong, let’s see the records.
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
Young people to no longer get main sickness benefit, PIP under Milburn plan.
Milburn/Timms reviews will cut social security. Spending, as % of GDP, static since 2013.
Silence on corporate welfare, £741bn of tax not collected over last 19 yrs.
Class war
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
Law professor @ewan_mg explains how @andyburnham can remove Thames Water's licence 👇
If not now, when?
Burnham can take on Thatcher's ideological privatisation
Or he can give US hedge funds a licence to pollute and rip off 16 million so-called "customers"
He can't do both
Michael Brazendale retweeted
🚨Shareholder-Owned National Grid’s £50bn Debt Already Being Loaded Onto Household Bills While Investors Profit
On Wednesday in Parliament, Andy Burnham claimed he is “acting to get people’s energy bills down.”
The claim is a glaring contradiction of what is happening in reality.
National Grid is owned by private shareholders and institutions. It has built up £48.6bn of debt—on track for £60-70bn by 2031—largely to deliver the government’s Net Zero grid upgrades now underway.
The costs of that borrowing, plus the returns paid to shareholders, are already being recovered through higher energy bills which are set to continue rising.
The company calls the debt necessary and secure. In reality the structure shields investors from risk while ordinary households fund the entire programme.
UK law even allows government financial support if the company later runs into serious trouble.
It is a perfect racket: private investors collect the returns, the government claims the green targets, and ordinary households are left to pay the bill with no escape — while Andy Burnham stands in Parliament and insists he is cutting energy bills.
Michael Brazendale retweeted
How do you decide which disabled children get support?
Is it like the doctors at a camp directing left and right?
Michael Brazendale retweeted
The revelation that David Walliams’ solicitor sent a legal letter to intimidate a teenager into not warning others about his behaviour is utterly shocking.
The SRA must investigate Schillings’ work:
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
🔴DIDO HARDING: Track and Waste [sic]
There was no protective ring around care homes; but there obviously is one around Michelle Mone and Dido Harding.
- @David__Osland
Michael Brazendale retweeted
Yes it’s true … British tax payers are going to be forced to bail out the National grid.
Just so you know the ‘National Grid’ isn’t owned by us. Er no….
It’s a privately owned company with international shareholders, with almost £49 BILLION of debt, forecast to reach £60–70 BILLION by 2031.
The massive costs of upgrading the grid including financing costs and shareholder returns (obvs) , is paid through increasing OUR energy bills.
Much of this investment is because of the Government’s Net Zero targets.
And if it gets into serious financial trouble, the law even allows government financial support (paid for by taxpayers)
It’s a bloody brilliant private investment where the investors never lose. And ordinary people always pay.
Now watch what they do with nature.
Michael Brazendale retweeted
🔴KEMI BADENOCH: Housing Benefit
'Taxpayers foot the £2,700 a month rent on @KemiBadenoch's six-bedroom farmhouse in Essex.
Then she goes on telly and argues that taxpayers shouldn't subsidise other people's rent.'
- @David__Osland
@Conservatives
Michael Brazendale retweeted
Using Badenoch's rationale, why isn't she an Olympian or world renowned astrophysicist?
Kemi Badenoch cites a double amputee who ran a marathon and an autistic man who runs a company as justification for cutting disability benefits. There are 268,965 people on PIP whose main condition is autism and 106,087 whose main condition is ADHD. Only around a third of working-age autistic people are in employment. Using two exceptional cases to withdraw support from hundreds of thousands of others is not good policy. It’s people’s lives. This is morally outrageous and shows the utter contempt she has for the most vulnerable.
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Michael Brazendale retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Thames Water's 'best & final offer' to Ofwat includes a demand to waive some penalties in return for a cash payment.
REALLY?? Offering money to be let off illegal sewage dumping??
@Andyburnham it's time to end this farce. Take Thames Water into Special Administration, then public ownership.
Michael Brazendale retweeted
Our friend @AndrewMeyerson appeared on ITV News last night to highlight the shocking normality of corridor care in our NHS.
The @RCollEM now estimates up to 550 people die AVOIDABLY every single week as a result of treatment delays.
What will it take for govt to listen??
