Mark Doherty

@BenedictSpence You should get out more.

I don’t know a single person who voted for Brexit who thinks it was a mistake.

@MentalHealthCop I’m convinced now that MH services need to be delivered by standalone regional mental health trusts, not by integrated trusts that have to provide everything else as well, and don’t really get mental health.

We don’t really have a mental health system - because it is not designed as and has not evolved as a system. It’s a disorganisation of disparate agencies working in discord with each other.

This is a really important point - Whatever the problems (and there are many), the police, AMHPs, psychiatrists and mental health nurses, etc. were working in a SYSTEM. Those designed, evolved and led the system(s) need to be giving evidence about the structures they created.

@drsanjoykumar Whilst senior people are busy telling you how awful this all is, the structural context is moving towards making these events more likely, I'm afraid. MHA reform, RCRP, deliberate decisions not to train people in legal issues and leadership failures to ensure joint-working.

@MrEddieTarazona @piersmorgan The “great” in Great Britain actually refers to the ancient distinction between the larger British landmass and “minor” Britain or what is now Brittany in France. But I agree — we shouldn’t have sent our head of state to try and appease this arrogant, ignorant president.

And I guarantee you—it won’t change anything. The UK is still approaching this from a position of profound weakness. Environmentalism won’t save you. Diversity won’t strengthen you. And pretending to be the Great Britain of old won’t make the United Kingdom any more powerful. While I applaud the King’s speech, the image was unmistakable: the ruling monarch of what was once the mightiest nation on earth, now standing before the Congress of the most powerful nation in human history—a king with no real power, in need of his former subjects to remain relevant. The “Great” in Great Britain is no more. “Every fallen empire leaves two things behind: relics on the surface, ghosts underneath.”

Brilliant, bold and challenging address by King Charles to the U.S. Congress which was (very unusually!) united in regular standing ovations. The best speech of his life, right when his country needed him to step up and repair the Special Relationship. Bravo, Your Majesty! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

@caroline_gm_d Caroline—love your work but it’s nuCLEEar, not nuCUlar. You’ll be using the word a lot in the coming weeks, I’m sure.

@MentalHealthCop @nuwandiss True enough.

"Right Care, Right Person has definitely made a negative difference in terms of joint working." - @nuwandiss #NottinghamInquiry

@dbfaceofreality No.

Is Ye the (similarly controversial) David Bowie of his age? | The Spectator - goo.gl/alerts/GWh4GY #GoogleAlerts

@evernote not letting me use the Evernote app until I’ve updated it (when I’m not able to access broadband) is NOT cool. Not user friendly. Not what I’m paying you for.

@Bratt_world Would have been good to see the answer. Sone of us still have attention spans.

Who is this amazing guy from Asheville NC?! I would like to buy him many Canadian 5% Beers 🍻

@TerryBriton @hzeffman Bot

@hzeffman Sir Territory Surrender getting some truth bombed has made my day. Hopefully daddy takes Greenland today

No getting away from this being massively embarrassing, even humiliating, for Keir Starmer less than 24 hours after he gave a big speech defending his calm relationship with the US President. It will feel baffling, too, given the US endorsed the Chagos deal in May

@drewidia @pritipatel Go back to sleep.

@pritipatel It’s time for a Vote of no Confidence on Starmer. He is going lay ruin to the UK.

President Trump has said what we've said all along - Labour's £35bn Chagos Surrender is a bad deal for Britain and bad for our national security. We've opposed it from day one and it's time Starmer put the security of our country first and scrap his rotten deal.

@BabyD1111229 @tommyorbell I’m no historian, but I think the concept of breakfast is existed before 1944.

The most successful psyop in human history wasn’t what happened in 2019. It happened in 1944. That was the year General Foods launched a marketing campaign that would change human biology forever. They coined a phrase you have heard your entire life: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Before this moment, eating habits were simple. For 200,000 years, humans were opportunistic eaters. We woke up hungry. We hunted on an empty stomach. We ate when we killed. It was biological. It was sporadic. It worked. Then, the script changed. Suddenly, we were told that if we didn't eat immediately upon waking, we would fail. Why did we switch? Did our metabolism change in 1944? Did humans suddenly require processed grain at 8:00 AM to survive? No. Food companies realized the hunter-gatherer lifestyle had a fatal flaw. Fasting is free. Your body’s natural ability to burn fat for fuel generates zero revenue. That makes it terrible for their bottom line. Breakfast, on the other hand, is a guaranteed daily transaction. But they could not just say, "Eat more so we get rich." So they attacked the empty stomach. They introduced a new angle. The "Fuel" Myth. They told you that your body is a car, and breakfast is the gas. They told you that skipping a meal was "unhealthy." This is scientifically false. Your body performs better in a fasted state ("Hunter Mode"). Evolution designed you to be sharpest when you are hungry, not when you are digesting all the time. But the lie felt true. A highly efficient, fat-burning metabolic state was reframed as "starvation." A sugar-heavy, insulin-spiking morning meal was reframed as "responsible." It is no coincidence that metabolic disease, diabetes, and obesity all skyrocketed the moment humans adopted this "Three Meal" structure. Everything in our society was created by a story. Breakfast is a story! Most people live their entire lives inside stories written by other people. If you want to be a Movement Maker, you must step outside the script. You have to realize that "Normal" is just a story that sold well. To build a movement, you cannot just accept reality. You have to question it. And then you have to write a new one. Don't just sell a product. Sell a new way of seeing the world. 🎩 #Andre

Here I am, not quite dying, my body left to rot in a hollow tree.

@MountainHodler @JonathanPieNews I dunno—he’s quite successful, so hardly irrelevant.

They didn't try to silence you, they just tried to get you out of office as soon as possible coz you were quite clearly utterly mental.

@HelenMagi @GordonBrown And you’re entitled to those doubts, of course. But that does not mean that good palliative care cannot be provided whilst at the same time advancing people‘a right to end their lives at a time and in a manner of their choosing. There is no reason why you can’t do both.

@markdoherty1 @GordonBrown Because there is no guarantee of universal palliative care anywhere in the Bill. Assisted Suicide may well be ''effective'' ie: it ends life, but is it safe? I have my doubts.

It is not too late to put the brakes on assisted dying, and focus on improved palliative, social and end-of-life care theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@HelenMagi @GordonBrown Why so? Why would enhancing palliative care prevent work on an effective assisted dying bill?

@markdoherty1 @GordonBrown Yes, they are.

@JSRafaelism @jamesinnessmith @spectator @DavidBowieReal @simplemindscom @suedeHQ Unfortunately I don’t think he will.

@jamesinnessmith @spectator @DavidBowieReal @simplemindscom @suedeHQ Lol. This is so sour and pathetic. A really poorly written example of "that thing you like is bad" clickbait journalism. In a couple of years you'll be deeply embarrassed to have put your name on this.

Read my latest @spectator piece on the cult of Bowie. Apologies to Bowie fans… #DavidBowie @DavidBowieReal #glamrock #glam @simplemindscom @suedeHQ spectator.co.uk/article/david-…