Mandy

One photo shows a single, solitary ancient sycamore tree destroyed in an act of eco vandalism that has rightly caused outrage. The other photo shows one of 108 ancient, native woodlands destroyed to make way for HS2. Can we get as angry about this too?

The tragic murder of a trans child, a Black schoolgirl being beaten, far-right groups targeting asylum seekers’ hotels. This is the result of Tories peddling hate and stoking fear aided by columnists everywhere. Now you’ll write columns wondering how it happened. #RIPBriannaGhey

In 2023, there must be no fence-sitting. Either you stand with a corrupt govt allowing your health system to collapse, or you're with NHS workers as we fight back against the greatest assault on the NHS in its 75 year history. I know where I stand. Do you? #SOSNHS #UpTheWorkers

Footnote to those '500 people a week dying from A&E delays' stories: the Tories have shut 140 A&Es

Dear @RishiSunak Please put politics aside. Think if it were your wife or one of your girls lying in an ambulance or hospital corridor with no one able to attend to them. Show your humanity and call a state of emergency and urgent COBRA meeting

@thegradmedic @Emma82276796 A veterinary degree is 5 years and starting salary is also around 32K Same entry requirements it’s a good starting wage especially as doctors aren’t fully qualified

In himself, Jeremy Clarkson is nothing: a brief loud noise and a brief bad smell. The arse that emitted him, as I said yesterday, is Rupert Murdoch.

If the Tories did as much for the homeless as they're doing for investment bankers, nobody would be sleeping rough in sub-zero temperatures tonight

Isn’t it grotesque to see our Prime Minister, one of the richest men in the country, lecturing us all about how working people should be satisfied with unfair wages?

@newscientist Starting in seat order from the back to the front: window left window right centre left centre right aisle left aisle right.

"What is the most efficient way to load passengers into an aircraft: randomly; in blocks; or the passengers in window seats first?" We want your answers - the best ones will be published in the magazine. Reply below or email lastword@newscientist.com newscientist.com/lastword/mg256…

If you clapped nurses on your doorstep during Covid, clap them on the picket lines on 15th December. Fair pay for nurses now! Fund our NHS!

Your regular reminder that MPs who are currently berating unpaid workers for going strike have had 9 pay rises since 2010.

So Rishi Sunak deems it ‘unreasonable’ for nurses to receive a pay rise, while Winchester College enjoys tax breaks worth £6million and Sunak buys himself a £1.5million sculpture for his garden with taxpayer’s money. Never forget who the Tories serve: Themselves.

A spokesperson from the Covid19 Bereaved Families for Justice: ‘Matt Hancock isn’t a celebrity. He’s the former health sec who oversaw the UK having 1 of the highest death tolls in the world from Covid, while breaking his own lockdown rules.’ #ImACelebrity metro.co.uk/2022/11/17/mat…

@ChiefVetUK Thank you for sharing. If anyone in the vet community needs to talk Vetlife Helpline is open all weekend, and all day every day. 0303 040 2551 @VetlifeUK

After a very sad and heartbreaking few weeks in our profession this excellent article has been made open access. It’s good to talk, but it matters how we do it' - Allister - 2021 - Veterinary Record - Wiley Online Library bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ve…

After losing three vets to suicide in 2 weeks & another friend to the same last weekend, I know what grief and stress feels like. But not once have I passed that on to someone in the service industry. So if you can just not be horrible to your vet today, that would be so nice.👍🏼

"I fell in love." Matt Hancock. Tell that to all us women forced to give birth alone. One of my friends was forced to do it with a mask on! Tell that to my friends who lived alone and were crippled with loneliness. To those who couldn't say goodbye to loved ones at funerals.