Claire Madigan

Come and do a PhD with me- fully funded about weight loss in secondary care settings: lboro.ac.uk/study/postgrad… @Amanadadaley09 @JeremyHowick @LboroCLiMB @LboroSSEHS @lborouniversity @hgraham913

This is ethnic cleansing, plain and simple. But will the UK government condemn this?

new @JAMA_current paper from me and @maddie_trem highlights specific strategies for having supportive and helpful conversations about weight with people living with obesity. @OxPrimaryCare @OxfordMedSci

Male footballer bites an opponent - 10 Match Ban Female footballer calls a man a man - 10 Match Ban The case of a THIRD female footballer punished for stating that a man is indeed a man has yet again highlighted the gross misogyny at the heart of the @FA. In the latest case, a female player reportedly received a 10-match ban for shouting ‘go on big man’ at the male footballer Blair Hamilton. Hamilton is the 6-foot tall male who has played on the England women’s university team, Hastings United, and Saltdean Women, and was also picked as substitute goalie for Sutton United Women’s team by their male manager Lucy Clark. This third case of the FA punishing a female player for stating the truth has emerged in an interview with Hamilton on the 'Football versus Homophobia' podcast, which was broadcast in March 2024. Hamilton describes a ‘red mist’ descending when he was called a man, which led to him making a formal complaint to the FA. The FA duly obliged by hauling the unknown female player through its disciplinary process and banning her from her sport, says Hamilton. This is the same punishment meted out to former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez for biting an opponent in 2013. The latest case of female players being punished for stating the obvious follows the cases of two teenage girls, who were brought before the FA’s National Serious Case Panels and handed out match bans for saying what they were seeing – men on the pitch. Despite FA charges, outcomes, and fines being published on a monthly basis, these cases don’t appear on the FA website. Why is that? How many other players, fans or clubs have been sanctioned for calling out men playing in the women’s game? What is being hidden from us? The FA is discriminating against women and girls by allowing males into the female game. Then further discriminating by handing out excessive punishments when this unfairness (and the truth) is called out. It's a means to silence women and prohibit any further challenge. We call on the FA and @lisanandy, the Secretary of State for Sport to make football fair for females. No males in the female game.

I never thought I'd have to write these words in 2025. The mere suggestion of forcibly removing an entire population from their homeland should send chills down our collective spine. Yet here we are, confronting a proposal that stands against everything international law and basic human dignity represent. The mass deportation of Gaza's 2.3 million people isn't just wrong – it's a textbook example of what international law was created to prevent. The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits the forced transfer of protected persons from occupied territories, regardless of motive. This isn't just some dusty legal doctrine. It's a fundamental protection written in the blood and tears of World War II, when the world said "never again" to mass deportations and ethnic cleansing. Think about what this means in human terms. We're talking about children who've never known another home. Elderly people who've lived their entire lives in Gaza. Families whose roots go back generations. Each one has a name, a story, dreams, and rights that can't simply be erased with the stroke of a pen or a political speech. Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, forced deportation of a civilian population constitutes a crime against humanity. There's no ambiguity here, no legal gray area to hide behind. The statute specifically condemns "deportation or forcible transfer of population" when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against civilians. But beyond the legal framework lies an even more fundamental truth: We cannot solve conflicts by erasing entire communities from their homes. History has shown us, time and time again, that mass deportations create generational trauma that echoes through centuries. From the Trail of Tears to the Armenian deportations to what Palestinians and Jews experienced in 1948 – each instance has left deep, unhealed wounds in our shared human story. The suggestion that 2.3 million people should be uprooted and scattered across other countries isn't just impractical – it's morally bankrupt. These are human beings, not pieces on a geopolitical chessboard. They have the same right to home, to dignity, to existence that any of us would claim for ourselves and our families. When we stay silent in the face of such proposals, we become complicit in normalizing the unthinkable. Every human rights convention, every international treaty, and every lesson we claim to have learned from history demands that we speak out. The world cannot stand by while the mass deportation of an entire population is presented as a solution to anything. The path forward must lie in addressing the root causes of conflict, in building peace through justice and mutual recognition, not in schemes that would create a new generation of refugees and a deeper cycle of suffering. We must remember that our humanity is bound together – what diminishes one people diminishes us all. To even contemplate such an action in 2025 shows how easily we can slide backward and how fragile our moral progress can be. But it also allows us to stand up and say: Not this. Not now. Not ever again.

Have you taken part in a funded weight management programme, and put some weight back on? Would you like to share your views on what support is needed? Join the SHARE study: loughboroughssehs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4U…

@Fortnums @Amoparmar1 This appears to be your normal service this year….absolute awful service. I will not shop with you again.

@Amoparmar1 I am so sorry to hear about the issues you have experienced with your order. Please note this is not a reflection of our usual standards here at Fortnum & Mason. Please kindly send us a DM detailing your issue so we can investigate this further. Kind regards, Emily @Fortnums

@Fortnums why have you ruined my family Christmas, was on hold for over 3 hours and gave up , no reply on what’s app. Even if you could reply and advise customers you are not getting your turkeys we could make alternative arrangements instead you take £300 and keep us hanging

@Fortnums I definitely agree with this. I was sent the wrong items and then they won’t refund me until the items have been picked up. 2 hours on the phone then they pretended they couldn’t hear me and hung up.

❓ Is #surgery always the best option? For some people, it might not be. Our latest Collection brings together research that could reduce the need for surgery and free up #NHS resource. Read it here: evidence.nihr.ac.uk/collection/is-… @RCSnews @svig2 @HSJEditor

'I first became aware of NIHR when others around me at the @unibirmingham were writing fellowship applications. I was a fresh-faced lecturer, and I didn’t really know what a fellowship was, but I was curious to find out.'' Read reflections from @Amanadadaley09 on her path to NIHR research professorship and how NIHR career development supported her to develop the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB) @LboroCLiMB @lborouniversity

Last week #LboroCLiMB director @amanadadaley09 visited @THRU_ZIM to discuss promoting physical activity and weight management in Zimbabwe. Great to have so many new ideas for future collaborations together and to see examples of public engagement at its best.

IMPORTANT PLS SHARE. It's rumoured the English £9,250 tuition fee cap may be raised this pm for the 1st time in 8yrs, as University's finances are strained. As student finance misunderstandings abound, I've bashed out a few notes to help... 1. Higher tuition fees WON'T change what most pay each year. For most, they're paid for you by the student loans company and you repay afterwards only if you earn over the threshold. The amount you repay each year (9% over the threshold) solely depends on what you earn not on what you borrow. 2. Increasing tuition fees will only see those who clear the loan in full over the 40yrs pay more. That is generally mid-high to higher earning university leavers only, so the cost of increasing them will generally be born by the more affluent. Most lower and middle earning university leavers will simply pay 9% extra tax above the threshold for 40yrs (and higher tuition fees won't change that) 3. The rise is tuition fees is likely to be trivial compared to the changes the last govt made for 2023 starters. 2023 starters had their repayment thresholds dropped to £25,000 (from £27,295/yr) and had the time they had to keep repaying for (unless cleared) extended to 40years from 30years. So these higher annual repayments for longer, increased by over 50% the amount many graduates will eventually have to pay back for going to university. Yet they were almost stealth changes because people can't intuitively feel the seismic impact. Changing tuition fees is a more obvious rise, but in reality has far less of an impact on the amount most will repay (though combined with the 2023 changes it does certainly up the cost). 4. The biggest practical problem for students isnt tution fees (even if raised) its the fact maintenace loans aren't big enough. English maintenance loans have not kept pace with inflation. I'd urge the govt to couple the tuition fee loans with bigger living loans - if not it is a real risk to social mobility, with those from the poorest backgrounds likely to be worse affected. I could write more, but will stop here, hopefully this gives an idea the issues are less straightforward than many feel.

This was great to contribute to and Laurel has done a wonderful job of pulling the evidence together. A must read! @JeremyHowick @Amanadadaley09 @LboroCLiMB

Dear @Keir_Starmer, Is the burning body of a 19 yr old boy not enough? Is the beheaded body of a 3 month old baby with her nappy still on not enough? Is the 6 year old girl being shot at in the head not enough? Is the mother cradling a shroud of her child not enough? Is the father desperately scraping the earth with his fingernails to get to his children buried underneath not enough? What more will it take for you to stop sending arms to Israel & do the right thing?! Is this not enough?!

Massive thanks to everyone who attended the 1st Virtual orthopaedic Prehab study day @Fit4Surgery_LLR @Leic_hospital a fantastic turnout from attendees & excellent presentations on various topics from different professions - it wouldn’t have happened without you! #ortho #prehab

Does the UK government oppose genocide? An urgent letter to the Foreign Secretary from the Independent Alliance.

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?

BREAKING - The Guardian can reveal that Israel used a US-munition in its strike on central Beirut last night, its deadliest attack on the capital city since the war began a year ago - killing 22 people and wounding 115. theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

@amy_ahern Very well deserved- a lovely research culture xx

Honoured to have been nominated by my team for Leadership and Concern for Professional Development and delighted to see so many good friends and colleagues recognised at this celebration of positive research culture.

Huge congratulations to #LboroCLiMB senior lecturer @Claire_WM on being awarded a prestigious @NIHRresearch Advanced Fellowship to investigate the impact of weight loss before surgery. Read more: lboro.ac.uk/research/climb… #WeightLoss #Surgery #Research

My aunt wrote to me “It is eerily quiet. We are awaiting death”. I feel on edge watching events unfold in the Middle East. Being from certain countries should become a risk for many long term chronic conditions. I had a persistent headache & pain in my chest all week #stress 💔