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Christopher McCabe

@cjmccabe.bsky.social

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🇮🇪 🇨🇦 Professor of Health Economics. Health Policy.
HTA and Innovation.

"I find it a great relief to remind myself how fucking little i understand about anything" @th1ccarus.bsky.social

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1h

"People of Britain! Let a bunch of tax exiles run your country like Man United" is such a daring slogan I think Reform UK should adopt it at once.

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely right.

Mr Burnham must run Britain just like Sir Jim Ratcliffe has run Manchester United.

Like Britain, ManU was once a proud global giant. But like the UK, the club had entered a lengthy period of stagnation.

Since Ratcliffe took over at Man Utd this once proud club has oh wait

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Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) @muslimcounciluk.bsky.social · 5h

@theguardian.com exclusive article on Visit My Mosque weekend, highlights the fears mosques around the country face against far right intruders and Islamophobic hate.

‘The fears begin to fall away’: why Britain’s mosques are opening their doors to public

As attacks on Muslim places of worship rise, this weekend more than 100 mosques offered conversation, food and friendship to challenge prejudice

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Gray @emmathegrayt.bsky.social · 5h

Doubled over a Heathrow baggage trolley, the former British business director is sobbing uncontrollably, exhausted emotionally and physically after being deported from Sweden.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home

Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 6h

“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 7h

Can we add public health too? These issues have enormous consequences for health yet, while some of us do our best to raise concerns, most in my field shy away from anything that could be considered “political”.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Public health in a fracturing world: the erosion of the international rules-based order

One of the greatest threats to public health today is not any single disease, environmental hazard, or conflict, but the erosion of the international rules-based order that enables countries to cooper...

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 7h

It's simple for any party wanting to see an energy transition really- any spare fiscal firepower should laser in on electricity not fossil fuels.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 8h

What? Fascist don’t know how to co-operate with other people? Shocked I tell you, shocked.

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 9h

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 8h

I can't get over how visibly insane he is these days. This is like reading a note from your great aunt who insists she used to be married to Winston Churchill.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

HMRC is an unsecured creditor for corporation and capital gains tax.

It recovers little from bankrupt businesses. Phoenixing also robs the public purse.

HMRC wrote-off £12.8bn in 2025-26.

Changes to law and HMRC creditor status can raise billions for the public purse.

Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 9h

Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9h

There is a deeper problem here in how different intellectual and analytical silos in fields like conflict analysis, region specific political studies, political economy, supply chain management, macroeconomics are not communicating with each other over these concentrations of system fragility

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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show

Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule

www.theguardian.com

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 12h

Petrol and diesel prices are higher than they've been for a long time and people need help now.

Lib DemCampaign poster with bold white text on an orange patterned background reading "10P OFF FUEL DUTY MORE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET,"

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James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social · 1d

All but FOUR Parliamentary constituencies across the UK now support rejoining the EU.
There is only so long MPs can go on closing their ears to this debate.

Andrew Clifford @tscnewschannel.bsky.social · 1d

The Independent — Sunday 20 September — New polling suggests voters across Britain back rejoining the EU, while Trump reaches a security deal with Denmark over Greenland. #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Andrew Clifford @tscnewschannel.bsky.social · 1d

The Independent — Sunday 20 September — New polling suggests voters across Britain back rejoining the EU, while Trump reaches a security deal with Denmark over Greenland. #TomorrowsPapersToday

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Former PM Rishi Sunak in the Sunday Times challenges the rise of ethno-nationalism in British politics, as an argument within the right about Britishness being about ancestry, DNA and ethnicity
www.thetimes.com/article/e89d...

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 1d

I honestly can’t believe this is what has become acceptable in the U.K. why is he not being charged with hate crime? Twitter is a cesspit of antisemitism (and every other ism)

Calvin Robinson has posted an antisemitic diatribe on Twitter that reads “It is the Jews. It has always been the Jews.
Not all of them, but always them.
There is no avoiding this truth. Everything else is a distraction. Once you notice, you cannot unsee.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Bolshevism,
Feminism, Liberalism/Libertarianism,
Anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theories, Neoconservatism, Zionism.”

Robinson’s next antisemitic post on twitter “There is no wonder our Lord did not mince his words when describing them:
"Brood of vipers" Matthew 3:7, Luke 3:7, Matthew 12:34 & 23:33.
"Of your father the devil" John 8:44
"killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets" 1
Thessalonians 2:14-16
"Synagogue of Satan" Revelation 2:9 & 3:9
St Paul knew them well:
"You suffered from your own people the same things those churches suffered from the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets and also drove us out. They displease God and are hostile to everyone in their effort to keep us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved."

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

Do you really want minds of this calibre thinking about important questions?

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Jesper Padkær Petersen @padkaer.bsky.social · 2d

People have forgotten the purpose of the EU. It’s not trade – that’s a tool.
And it’s most certainly not about protection against the outside.
It’s about protecting the members (and the world in general) against each other.

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Markham Hislop @markhamhislop.bsky.social · 2d

India's Oil Demand Won't Support a West Coast Pipeline

Karthik Ganesan unpacks oil consumption in India. We crunched the data.

It's hard to imagine Alberta oil or BC LNG finding a big market in India.

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India's Oil Demand Won't Support a West Coast Pipeline

YouTube video by Energi Media

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

Set fire to my napkin at The Ivy, causing an ex-Marine dining with us to shout ‘fire in the hole and empty the water jug over the middle of the table.

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Marita Hennessy @maritahennessy.bsky.social · 2d

Minister Lawless launches recruitment of first-ever Professors for Ireland's Technological Universities

25 new professorial posts to strengthen research, innovation and skills development in areas including AI, biotechnology, healthcare and climate action

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Minister Lawless launches recruitment of first-ever Professors for Ireland's Technological Universities

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

yep. But that is increasingly viewed as better than economic dependency with the US.

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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 2d

📣 We've added a new appendix to our Commercial Determinants of Health position statement, setting out what's needed to make the polluter pays principle work as an effective public health measure to tackle harmful industry practices and influences.

👀 Read the updated statement ➡️ bit.ly/adphcdoh

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

A key question is whether or not the CUSMA automotive supply chain is already in a long slow death, because of Trumps 51st state ambitions. Canada is behaving is though is thinks it might be.

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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 2d

Danielle Smith on education in Alberta:

“We have the ability, I think, to undo a lot of the damage of wokeism and cancel culture...And so that's part of the reason why we've been able to take ideology out of the schools.”

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

UK's 'dismal' Eurovision Song Contest record to be scrutinised by MPs

UK's 'dismal' Eurovision Song Contest record to be scrutinised by MPs

The UK's "dismal record" in the Eurovision Song Contest is going to be investigated by MPs after years of poor results.

Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 2d

Hot take - people who spend large amounts of time alone need help to avoid self harm (at the ballot box).