Robert Lomax

Small Talk Saves Lives - Everyday small talk youtu.be/VDchxgZxjcM via @YouTube

🏗️ Proud to announce we’ve completed Purdown View, the UK's largest low-carbon student accommodation, ready for students this September! This #Passivhaus-certified development offers 900 eco-friendly bedrooms, reducing energy use by 81% and carbon emissions by 79% per room.

David nails it here - it’s not just the shift from Conservative to Labour that these papers are bewailing… it is their own loss of power, loss of reputation, and loss of stranglehold the print press held on politics. They have become overtly ridiculous at their empire’s end.

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"Britain is back of the race" - @Kevin_McCloud We’ll be seeing the Govt in court on Tuesday with @RightsClimate 👀

So Rishi Sunak claims not to know about this in order to dodge questions, as did Jeremy Hunt. Just copying them in here (as well as having emailed and posted it to the PM) @RishiSunak @Jeremy_Hunt please share so they cannot pretend to claim they don't know.

Yes Minister on bringing back national service

Tories want to bring in national service for 18yr olds 1️⃣ 12 months full time in armed forces or 2️⃣1 weekend a month voluntary work What they mean is poorer kids go into military & richer kids can help out locally As if young people didn’t have enough reasons to vote this lot out

The timing of the election might cause problems for some, esp students coming to the end of term or those who have holidays booked (whoever they intend to vote for). The solution is to apply for a postal vote. Here’s the link to do so. Please share. gov.uk/apply-postal-v…

Watch this historic meeting, a few days ago. The World Health Organisation, United Nations, UK parliamentary group and British mental health experts call for move away from damaging medical model and coercion to a human rights based, psycho-social approach.

His name was Connor Sparrowhawk, he loved London Buses, mermaids and his family, and he had good ideas about his future… I really would have loved to have met you, Connor. But I also guess I did, in some weird and magical way - in the darkness. Strange… Wonderful… Cool.

Brexit was when logic lost the argument and ours became an irrational country.

“Our problems in this country are not arriving on a beach in Kent from France. They’re arriving because of the oligarchs and the billionaires that run our society.”

Well done , Keith!

Joined the @SFBikeBus today: kids and parents biking to school together, safely. The Netherlands knows: Cities are cleaner and safer when people bike. And people are healthier and happier when they bike. Thank you @LukeBornheimer for for having us!

Please see our new article: ‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @BASW_UK @socialworkengland @LGANews @BristolUni @UniofBath @Jeremydixonsw Open access - available now

.@radeksikorski on 🔥. The kind of diplomacy I can get behind. Everyone should watch this clip today

#HealthInequalities are avoidable, unfair and systematic differences in health between different groups of people. Check out our latest nutshell to examine the key data on this complex and wide-ranging issue. 📊 kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

Book now for ‘What is the (ongoing) value of the sociological imagination in social work practice and research?’ a free online event by @WorkBsa 26 February tinyurl.com/f99yf9rs #Sociology

Bristol Council withdraw disability care policy bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Looking forward to presenting at this free online @WorkBsa event with @RDL7 and @rosie_buckland on the use of sociology in social work practice and research. It will be held on 26.02.24. at 6-7pm GMT. Registration at britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…