Anne Booth 💙 @Bridgeanne

Author, agents @AnneClarkLit (Children's books) @JoUnwin for adult fiction. Occasional columnist for The Tablet. (pic by Invi Brenna.) anneboothauthor.com South East, England Joined July 2009

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Anne Booth 💙 @Bridgeanne

6 months ago

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After years of training, NHS doctors are being told there are no jobs for them & being dismissed as “juvenile delinquents” by @wesstreeting. This is not just a system under pressure; it’s a system failing its own workforce. This year, 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 NHS training posts. These posts are required for doctors to progress through their careers to become Consultants and GPs; and the NHS needs doctors at every stage to keep services running safely and sustainably. But the Government has *capped the number of training jobs*. The contributing effect on patients is already clear: - long waiting lists - delays in A&E - weeks to see a GP - months to access hospital specialists. And all while thousands of doctors who want to work are unable to secure the training roles required to continue their careers within the NHS. This is the part the public rarely hears: you can fix waiting lists; but you need to allow doctors to progress through the system, rather than blocking them at the very points where the NHS needs them most. Instead, a Labour Health Secretary has chosen to insult doctors rather than address the workforce planning crisis at the heart of these delays. This is one of the reasons why resident doctors are taking further industrial action. Because how can the NHS deliver world class care while limiting the number of doctors able to move through training and contribute fully to patient care? Patients need doctors. Doctors need fair access to the training posts that allow them to keep delivering care. The current situation is the result of political choices and longstanding failures in workforce planning; and it must be addressed.

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dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law

6 months ago

About time someone with some influence said it

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Help2Rehome Scotland @H2RScotland

6 months ago

Beautiful boy Leo is looking for a cosy home in time for Christmas as sadly his owner has passed away. Leo is very affectionate and a people cat. He loves a pet and gets on well with children. A home with no dogs please. He has lived with another cat. Leo is 6 years old. He is neutered and is both in door and outdoor cat. He likes to go outside but doesn’t usually venture far. Leo eats dry and wet food and enjoys treats too. He will sleep on the bed, sofa, a cat tree and blanket, so anywhere that is warm and comfortable. Leo would suit someone who is on their own or a family. For more information or to offer this lovely lad a forever home please email [email protected]

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

6 months ago

I would like us to remember the Lord’s words: “Truly, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me” (Mt 25:40). It is truly so! If we concretely love those who are hungry and thirsty, those without clothing, those who are sick, strangers, or prisoners, then we are loving the Lord.

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Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB

6 months ago

Mabel is home❤️🐾 Her family are “over the moon” after their beloved spaniel was found alive after being dumped more than a hundred miles away - however her puppies remain missing😔 At 5 weeks old they desperately need their mum 😭😭

Missing Pets GB @MissingPetsGB

6 months ago

URGENT MABEL and her 4 five week old PUPPIES have been #STOLEN from Bury St Edmunds #Suffolk #IP31 They were stolen on 2 December 2025. A male & female broke into their home & stole the dogs & a jewelry box. Please contact Suffolk police if any information doglost.co.uk/dog/201140

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Bury St Edmunds Police @BuryStEdsPolice

6 months ago

Police have located Mabel, the King Charles Spaniel who was reported as being stolen in Coney West, in Kent after she had been dropped over a fence. The four puppies’ location is still unknown, and anyone with any information is asked to contact Suffolk Police: 37/68284/25.

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Lucy Easthope @LucyGoBag

6 months ago

Work with the Royal Society showed how wrong judges can be when interpreting forensic evidence. Juries make counsel work harder to explain and clarify. These “reforms” terrify me

The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret

6 months ago

@DavidLammy This is disingenuous. There is no evidence at all that removing the right to jury trial will make any meaningful dent in the backlog. Also, “victims first” is petty politicking that should be beneath you. Justice means justice for all. Not every accused person is guilty.

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Anne Booth 💙 @Bridgeanne

6 months ago

@ukhomeoffice Why is it temporary? If they have been given refugee status they are deemed to have suffered greatly and have good cause to come, so why do this to them? It feels like performative cruelty. How can families settle & find work and contribute to the country, as you say you want?

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Heather Ryan @DrHFRyan

6 months ago

I cannot believe we are in the crazy situation where patients can't see a GP because there aren't enough doctors... But there are UNEMPLOYED GPs sitting at home because GP surgeries aren't given enough funding to hire them! Somebody make it make sense!!!

Royal College of General Practitioners @rcgp

6 months ago

Practices are telling us they need more GPs but lack the funding to employ them. Thank you to the more than 8,000 GPs and GP Registrars who signed our letter to the Health Secretary urging him to make the 10-Year Workforce Plan a genuine roadmap to train, recruit and retain more

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Anne Booth 💙 @Bridgeanne

6 months ago

@Keir_Starmer @UKLabour

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

7 months ago

Gill is going down for 10.5 years but the bigger picture is that UK is still at risk. @CarolineLucas has been fighting for an inquiry into Russian interference with @allthecitizens since 2020. Why on earth would the govt deny an inquiry now?? What possible reason does it have?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla

7 months ago

Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas

7 months ago

Gill’s conviction for taking Kremlin money is yet more evidence of Russian influence in our politics, as Russia report itself found. So when will Ministers finally investigate this wider interference? Why must we pursue in court? ⁦@allthecitizens⁩ theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

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Anne Booth 💙 @Bridgeanne

6 months ago

@ukhomeoffice @ShabanaMahmood @Keir_Starmer How is this right? Please look at how unfair this is.

Andrew Marshall @AndrewMarshaII

8 months ago

@ukhomeoffice Meanwhile⬇️ This is what we are having to deal with. It’s inhumane…No one is talking about it…using British citizens married to foreigners to get immigration numbers down. I’m a British citizen and the U.K. government won’t let my foreign wife live with me in the U.K. I

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Tanni Grey-Thompson @Tanni_GT

7 months ago

bbc.com/news/articles/… or you can say we’re doing our job scrutinising it.

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Liz "blue tick" Carr @thelizcarr

7 months ago

Campaigners for assisted suicide are fond of telling us it has "massive public support" I disagree & in my experience as an opponent of assisted suicide, the more people learn about the subject, the less they support it Have a look at my BBC documentary: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

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Surgical Resident Doc @anonresidentd

7 months ago

I was told my 1 week bereavement leave had to be unpaid while I came back to resume my on call duties. Do you have to take a pay cut when your family member passes away too @wesstreeting ?? While dealing with life and death everyday??Highly doubt it.

Wes Streeting @wesstreeting

7 months ago

We can deliver on jobs, training places and conditions for resident doctors. Our ability to do so will be hamstrung by unnecessary and irresponsible strike action. My message to the BMA is simple: call off the strikes, come back to the table and improve doctors’ lives.

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Sr Miriam McNulty @BirgitteUna

7 months ago

I’ve been doing some sorting out and realised my collection of pretty letter stickers was bigger than I thought. And then I had an idea for a slightly funky Christmas card.

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Dr Helen Fry | WWII Historian @DrHelenFry

7 months ago

Hugh O'Flaherty, an Irish Catholic priest, saved approximately 6,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in Nazi-occupied Rome during World War II. Operating from the safety of the Vatican, he masterminded a vast underground network of safe houses, farms, and convents to shelter those in peril. Despite relentless Nazi attempts, they never succeeded in capturing him.

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KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa

7 months ago

Some tenants can now force landlords to make their home liveable. What about the thousands who can’t? | Kwajo Tweneboa theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa

7 months ago

Awaabs Law HAS to be extended to the millions of renters in the private sector but also temporary accommodation, where I’ve seen first hand, so many vulnerable families continue to suffer, living in slum accommodation.