Two young lads decided to throw 2 bricks through Hays Travel Sunderland today. Why? Seriously why? We’re a Sunderland based business who do huge amounts for the local community, dedicate nearly £1m a year to charities across the UK, we’re taking on more than 500 apprentices. Why?

Do you remember when Gary Lineker said some of the dehumanising language used by the last Tory government about migrants and asylum seekers was reminiscent of Germany in the 30s. And the right were furious. Outrageous they screeched. Well, he wasn't wrong was he.

Awful seeing these attacks and violence all around the country. Anyone supporting the attempted murder of migrants and inciting violence against innocent people needs to face the harshest punishments possible. Scumbags- nothing less.

So yesterday far right racist rioters in Sunderland threw rocks & missiles at Filipino NHS nurses on their way to provide emergency cover at the hospital. Your silence is deafening Nigel Farage MP & your band of inciters of racist hate. Shame on you. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/s…

Twitter is an absolute cesspit now. Never thought I would see its ‘genius’ owner Elon Musk quoting Joe Rogan, lapping up certain right wing extremists and sharing false media stories. Logging out for a while and hopefully Musk goes back to playing with his toy cars.

A pleasant break from X only to see a post this morning from someone who refers to herself as ‘Miss Donuts’ giving bold medical advice discouraging childhood vaccinations, thrown in with a veterinary consult. Neither a health professional nor a vet. X is a crazy, dangerous place.

Delighted to co-author with one of our outstanding third year nursing students, Katie Redford, who has lead on this output. Thank you Prof Barry Hill for always supporting both colleagues and students with academic publication.

How did we get to this? We know patients are going without skilled #nursing care but newly qualified #Nurses cant get jobs.

Five years after we published a paper on misleading job titles there is still a failure to #ProtectNurse In the UK employers are referring to people with no nursing qualification or registration as #nurses Even those struck off the register can call themselves #nurse

Well that escalated quickly…

Our Primary Care Clinicians #PhD programme is open for applications. Applicable to #PrimaryCare #clinicians incl. GPs, nurses, health visitors, dentists, pharmacists & optometrists: bit.ly/SPCR-PHDPCC 🗓️Closing Date: 11.59pm 12 Dec 2024 NIHR School for Primary Care Research Wellcome SAPC

Went for a run on lunch break. Went from comfortably playing footy 5 days a week to barely being able to drag myself around the estate for 3km. Felt like I was towing a tractor. Age and takeaways have not been kind!

Yes, 100%

Over 37,000 people in 🇯🇵 Japan died alone in their homes in the first half of 2024, with almost 4,000 being discovered over a month after they died, according to the National Police Agency, amid loneliness problem exacerbated by an ageing population.

Glad I didn’t waste my Saturday trying to get Oasis tickets, looks like a total dogs dinner. The ‘in demand’ pricing system is dreadful- shame for anyone who sat through hours of waiting to be faced with that. Cant imagine Oasis were agreeable to this, really hope not anyway.

People who leave their Metro DaySaver tickets on the machines for others are the best of the best.

Football managers who refuse to sing the national anthem should be sacked, according to a newspaper whose owner refuses to pay tax in Britain

Had a great night celebrating with our graduates, can only apologise for any dad dancing. Congratulations nursing graduates 2024!

Delighted to say I’ve generously donated approximately 15 golf balls to the woodland area surrounding Gosforth golf course.