Ah yes. Hello darkness my old friend. Night before it's even 5pm. And once again we've made winter even more miserable than it needs to be because of some mad form of national sado-masochism.

This news about Truss’s phone being hacked by Russia with hugely compromising information gathered…

…and then Boris Johnson helping to cover it up to help her PM bid - is massively damaging for the UK.

10 must-know Japanese concepts that will improve your life:

The #DUP won’t let the NI Executive run not because of the Protocol but because they don’t want to be under a Sinn Fein First Minister. If there’s an Election let’s hope the bigots take an even bigger electoral setback. #r4today

Roy Lilley 💙 ambulances queued up out side A&E.
“1. Why?
They can’t hand-over patients.
2. Why?
A&E is chockablock 
3. Why?
A&E can’t move patients onto a ward.
4. Why?
Wards are chockablock 
5. Why?
Because social care don’t have enough money and enough people to organise discharge care”

Open invitation to Tories obsessed with 'north London'. Meet me one afternoon, and I show you levels of deprivation, homeless and food bank queues that will shame you out of ever making such stupid jokes again.

Latest cabinet appointment...

Quick overnight visit to Dublin for the advisory board of the Irish Primary Care Trials Network. Good to catch up with old friends.

This is EXACTLY where direct action protests should be aimed - the murky organisations located at 55 Tufton Street, of unknown funding source, that are denying climate change & trying to undermine our democracy/public services in the name of reducing taxes on the wealthy...

They include:

- Brexit, which does not and never will work.
- Division over Northern Ireland.
- Scotland wishing to leave the Union, to which Tories have no answer.
- Covid, which is crippling the NHS with more cases than ever.
- No progress on climate change.

Vile racist scumbag.

Apparently #C4News has suspended Krishnan Guru-Murthy for being a ‘potty mouth’. If, like me, you’d like to see him
RE-INSTATED
by Channel 4 News, please Like and Re-tweet

Re-upping my editorial for The BMJ “Failures of leadership and judgement”. Mr Johnson did NOT get the big calls right on covid. He led a strategic and moral failure while people died unnecessarily. We want him out, not back.

bmj.com/content/bmj/37…

This, and any reference to 'North London'... They know what they are doing #antisemitism

Our reply to the doctor who wrote to The BMJ to criticise us for failing to acknowledge that long covid is 'functional'.

bmj.com/content/379/bm…

Prof Brendan Delaney #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 Stephen Griffin 👇🏻The ONLY conversation today is this!!!! #GeneralElectionNow

Apparently a great place for a piss up..... as long as they don't have to organise it! #torychaos #LizTrussPM