Charlotte Villiers

Delighted with our new book! A fabulous experience with my brilliant, inspiring colleague Nina Boeger @bristolunilaw and all our wonderful contributors

@JaneyGodley Sending love to you. You have been a wonderful beaming light of joy through some dark times.

I’m now at end of life care - palliative care-and will be going into a hospice for the foreseeable - thanks to everyone who sends me love and support- you’ve been amazing

@BlahBla54235665 Sending love to you. Thanks for all your beautiful humour.

Oh Janey, I'm so sorry. You are one of the few bright spots on here 😭😭 Your bravery, wit and skits will be sorely missed.

@Punderwood_Law Good luck in your new academic home, Peter. You will be magnificent. Stay in touch! All the best to you.

New Academic home

@Channel4News @cathynewman What? She abstained in the first ceasefire vote!!

"The party's got a problem." Former Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire, who lost her Bristol seat to the Greens, exclusively tells @cathynewman that her party's "lack of a strong narrative" around Gaza during the election "had consequences".

Palantir, Amazon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Fujitsu, Deloitte, PwC, EY, Google, The City of London Corporation, BP, Goldman Sachs, Thames Water, BlackRock, BlackStone, Telstra Health, Macquarie, Meta, SGN, EDF, Leonardo, BAE Systems, Cadent Gas, National Gas, Natwest, Virgin Atlantic, Abrdn, Barclays, Coinbase, The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, Bluebird Care, Edelman These are just some of the firms that have met with senior Labour figures over the last 12 months

I read this and felt so depressed- nothing’s going to change, is it? 😳 Labour and lobbyists: Starmer’s policies shaped by bankers and consultants, investigation reveals | openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

Good news from France but let’s not let relief dissipate the shock of how well the far-right have done. Both the UK/French results are papering over some pretty big problems. The rising far right isn’t about single elections, it’s about a direction of travel over longer periods.

BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

@MikeDeadman3 @EuropeanPowell Yes, very scary.

@CharlotteV64 @EuropeanPowell A bit short on detail but full of "drift to the right" imagery Scary path we're walking down

It’s called ‘sleeping with the enemy’. Senior Labour MPs were guests at the Heritage Foundation, the USA’s leading rightwing thinktank, in Washington DC this week. This is where we see the continuity of right-wing libertarianism and 'exit' strategies smoothly taken on board by Labour. Brexit is a relay race where both Cons and Labour eagerly exchange the baton of vulture capitalism. It is no coincidence that obscure deregulatory projects like Freeports and SEZs were put forward by Boris Johnson and Shanker Singham (the brains behind Brexit) as the entry point for the Singapore-on-Thames model intended to further separate the working classes from the asset classes. Divide and conquer. Sunak's 12 Freeports and 74 SEZs are tax evaders, and money launderers dreams come true, free from the EU's publicly owned ports deemed at odds with the UK economy, this was stated in a Jan 2024 Govt report on the REUL bill.👇🏻👀 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65ba2e3a… Two days before leaving the EU the Dept for International Trade tweeted that it would be developing ambitious new Freeports to ensure towns and cities across the UK would begin to benefit from post-Brexit trade opportunities, free of regulation, free from taxation, a goldmine for venture capitalists, private equity, big pharma/agri/tech/tobacco/healthcare Sarah Elliott, head of the US unit at Legatum and wife of Matthew Elliot (a key figure in the Leave Campaign) who was also present at Labours meeting with the right wing thinktank The Heritage Foundation, added that Labour are “definitely putting an olive branch out and showing an openness to work with Republicans.” 'The much coveted US trade deal would be a major victory for a Keir Starmer government if Labour could succeed where the Tories failed' So just think about that, 'a victory for Starmer' but chaos for ordinary working people and small businesses, as councils go bankrupt, public assets and services are sold off and absorbed by big business, corporate governance in SEZs is absolutely on track to perforate holes in the fabric of the nation. I have been warning about this for years. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@MikeDeadman3 @EuropeanPowell independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… This from the Independent provides some details about who attended

@EuropeanPowell Who was there from the Labour Party (your second sentence)?

@EuropeanPowell Happy birthday to you David - as others have said, you look very youthful still. Yes, we must all do our best to stay positive. Things will get better - they have to! Enjoy today at least 🥂

Today I turn 55, outside there's hailstones, rain, wind, and sunshine here in The Hague. Thinking of T.S Eliot - 'April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain'. Things are pretty terrible in the world right now, we must all do what we can to improve the situation, where there is fecundity, there is renewal, I'm optimistic.

Imagine starting out on £15/hour with £100k of student debt - while not even knowing what part of the UK you'll be sent to in 3 months' time. What a disgraceful way to treat our junior doctors. How dare the government permit this?

@RoryStewartUKin @RestIsPolitics Do freeports really ‘bring investment’? They cause ‘displacement’ - when companies that were operating in ‘normal’ business conditions outside a Freeport move into the Freeport for ‘favourable’ conditions. Who benefits? @campbellclaret 🧵

@EuropeanPowell You do a brilliant job and I share your information widely. I think you and @garyseconomics together could make a huge difference - much of what you say supports his observations about wealth transfer.

As usual I'm being accused of scaremongering every day, and it's exhausting. I am part of a small team of unpaid volunteers whose research exists in the public domain and in book form. I provide links to all the data, we are raising awareness on Sunak's 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports.

@maryfordneal @BryanWang26 Likewise 🥰

I’m so glad that I passed my PhD viva with minor amendments today! Very grateful for the support from my supervisors Dr Mel Kenny and Professor Kenneth Norrie. Huge thanks to my wonderful examiners Professor Charlotte Villiers @CharlotteV64 and Dr Mary Neal @maryfordneal

“We’re creating PAs to support NOT replace GPs” IS A COMPLETE LIE! The practice I locum in have now replaced me with a PA 😞 I’ve been a GP for 10 years & can’t get work?! My GP colleagues CANNOT GET work! We ARE being replaced, by significantly less qualified people?!

@cpcl_Bristol Thank you for hosting! I really enjoyed the conversation 😊

Huge thanks to @CharlotteV64 for her presentation on 'The Sustainable Development Goals and a Compassion-led transition to sustainability". A large audience enjoyed an excellent discussion of corporate governance (and greed) and the need for compassion. A masterclass!

#PhysiciansAssociates and #AnaesthesiaAssociates After further consultation, & flood of representations, I have put down "fatal motion" that _could_ stop government plans. But want to be clear, I don't expect to be able to, without Labour Party support