Microsoft laid off hundreds of workers last week. In total, it has laid off over 2500 employees so far this year. Its CEO was paid $48.5M in 2023 — 250x the company's typical worker. Yesterday, the company announced a $60B stock buyback program. Textbook corporate greed.

Another suspended sentence handed down today to a 57yo man accessing abuse images of children as young as five. This time his defence blamed problems in his marriage. He was also ordered to do 100 hour unpaid work and give a £150 fine. Pathetic. islandecho.co.uk/suspended-sent…

Francis Ford Coppola really hates Brexit (from Empire interview)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund The investigation found that if the EGM had been held earlier, ‘the concerns raised would have been fed into the parliamentary process and may have affected the passage of the legislation’. This is truly incendiary stuff - a Royal College potentially manipulating UK law. (7/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund We are now in the extraordinary position where - rather than listen to the concerns of multiple doctors, professional bodies & patient groups - GMC is using the new law to justify steamrolling ahead with rushed regulation of PAs by the end of this year. (8/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund Worse, GMC - despite holding doctors to account through national scope & standards of practice - insists it does not need to do the same for PAs. These doctor substitutes, with no medical degree or post-grad exams, can apparently have their scope determined "locally". (9/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund PAs are now being used as doctor replacements on on-call rotas in hospitals, to see undifferentiated patients in general practice, & even to perform intra-abdominal operations on patients (who are not even aware, sometimes, of this fact - hello, informed consent, anyone?) (10/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund And GMC - the very regulator that is supposed to protect the public from unsafe practice & from anyone impersonating a doctor - is absolutely fine with this. No, not fine, zealous. They are doing everything in their power to push & promote PAs as doctor substitutes. (11/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund They are even suppressing the results of a public consultation to ascertain people's views of PAs. I have asked GMC every day for the last 3 weeks to release the data from the consultation, which ended on 9 May. To no avail. (12/n) x.com/doctor_oxford/…

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund .GMC are dodging multiple FOI requests from doctors for this data too - on the spurious grounds that their public survey was, in fact, 'research' and therefore legitimate to suppress. To which I can only type 4 words, in rage. NHS. Duty. Of. Candour. (13/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund For many of us, the PA debacle boils down to this: Either a medical degree and post-grad medical training are necessary to be a safe doctor - or they are not. So which is it? Clearly NHS England, GMC, NHS England Workforce, Training and Education & Department of Health and Social Care believe they are not. (14/n)

Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ Health and Social Care Committee Royal College of Physicians GMC Department of Health and Social Care The King's Fund NHS England NHS England Workforce, Training and Education In which case, we might as well urge all would-be doctors to ditch the slog of medical school, the £100k of debt, the gruelling post-grad exams - everything that currently ensures UK medicine has the highest standards of expertise & professionalism. (15/n)

I'm pretty certain there isn't a single person who wants Brexit. To prove it, if you don't want it Like, if you really don't want it RT.

I am seeing so many people talk about Dilation and curettage following the death of Amber Thurman and my blood is boiling. D&C’s are used to treat miscarriages, criminalizing them in ANY capacity doesn’t do ANYTHING but put women in danger. Killing women is a policy choice!

WOW! Leaked Russian documents reveal that the Russian IT group, the Social Design Agency, explicitly identified Marjorie Taylor Greene as aiding their efforts to spread misinformation about Ukraine. The next two months are going to be flooded with lies and manipulation. Please,

Everyone in this picture, including Trump, are the children of immigrants. Every. Single. One. Mostly only a generation or two back.

An absolutely scorching 🔥 thread from Dr Rachel Clarke Please read and digest the whole thread.

There once was a boy called Elon Musk Who tweeted Russian propaganda from dawn to dusk Promoting religion With the vocab of a pigeon And a soul that was merely a husk.