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Nigel Farage offered Sunderland Stadium of Light visit by club director ITV News Political Correspondent @harry_horton reports: itv.com/news/2026-03-2…

“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.” Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam about AI and its impact on creativity. #Newsnight

The 12 Bournemouth players on the pitch are doing everything they can to get a winner here...

@PaulHeatonSolo @VinceWard7 He's a canny lad that Vince

40yrs ago today we played Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton upon Tees. Just 200 people saw a 1-1 draw. We stayed on the promoter @VinceWard7 's floor as we were staying back up in Newcastle for tomorrow's gig😃😴🛏️

I bet Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is sweating now.

Before anyone starts thinking that #NigelFarage would handle anything better if he gets into office… Here is a reminder of his opinions on the disgraceful appointment of #PeterMandelson as US ambassador at the time - he now says of course that it was a big mistake!

Countdown to 2026: In March, Robbie Leigh shared his story about how difficult it is for resident doctors to find jobs after years of training and debt. Since filming this he has completed his move to Australia – we simply can’t afford to lose more doctors like him.

Thank you to all our incredible NHS staff working over the Christmas period 💙 From nurses, doctors and midwives to paramedics, pharmacists and porters, thank you for continuing to care for our loved ones each and every day.

While you wait hours to be seen in A&E and weeks for a GP appointment, NHS doctors are being forced into unemployment. This year, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 training jobs. Without these training jobs, doctors cannot progress to become the GPs and Consultants the NHS desperately needs. What the public isn’t told is that these training jobs are deliberately capped by the Government. Catastrophic workforce planning has created a farcical situation; patients are crying out to see a doctor, while thousands of fully trained doctors are locked out of the NHS. This year, 14 doctors competed for every single A&E training job. Five doctors competed for every GP training job. The NHS is turning away dedicated, talented doctors at the door. This is one of the reasons resident doctors went out on strike and why we are reballoting. We are training doctors at enormous personal cost; years of study, debt, night shifts, missed family moments, and then telling them there is no place for them in the NHS. This is not just a workforce failure. It is a moral one.

‘Christmas miracle’ as Wes’s ‘super flu’ falls away during Resident Doctors strike The #NHS didn’t collapse & the media look like fools for going along with @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland spin Never was any ‘super flu’ & #NHS was not collapsing gov.uk/government/sta…

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Who was today's #SAFC man of the match?

This is Julia she is a @BMAResidents doctor. She is an F3 doctor who didnt get into training last year She is on strike today for jobs, for the future and progression. She also has friends that weren't lucky enough to get jobs and are doing jobs where they are not seeing patients. We ask @wesstreeting to urgently negotiate a sustainable plan on jobs for doctors so they can train to be the consultants of the future.

£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise £24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors

I've written this open letter to @Keir_Starmer & @wesstreeting because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort. Please read.

You've had over a year to deal with this and you've done nothing. All you've got to show for it are broken promises and 20,000 doctors locked out of training whilst waiting lists are over 7 million. When are we going to call it that @wesstreeting has failed as a minister.

.@fletchjack from the @BMAResidents explains he wrote to Wes Streeting in Nov to ask for negotiations. Streeting didn't bother replying. And now the doctors have been forced to take strike action Streeting has the cheek to accuse them of putting patients safety in danger. #GMB

British trained doctors are being failed by this Government, and the public deserves to know about it. Doctors who grew up here, trained here, paid tax here and took on £100,000+ of student debt are not being put first for NHS training jobs. Jobs they must secure to become Consultants or GPs. This year 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 NHS training jobs. Yet British trained doctors and international doctors already working in our NHS are not being prioritised for those jobs, over those applying directly from overseas. The result as @FraserNelson writes? Doctors pushed into unemployment. Patients stuck on waiting lists. And according to a recent survey, over half of FY2 doctors have no regular work lined up from August 2025. It is a national scandal created by successive Governments and catastrophically bad workforce planning. If Britain wants a functioning NHS, then British trained doctors should be at the front of the queue for jobs; and those international colleagues already here should be protected. Instead, Westminster drags its heels while the crisis grows. The doctor unemployment crisis is one of the reasons doctors are striking again in December. Because if we don’t stand up now, nothing will change. How can we pretend to value our doctors when they aren’t even being prioritised for jobs in their own country?

“Try this cure for the trainee doctor crisis” A remarkably refreshing opinion piece in @thetimes. Unlike our health secretary, @FraserNelson clearly gets it. @wesstreeting @NHSE_WTE @DHSCgovuk @karinsmyth @LaylaMoran @CommonsHealth @BMAResidents 1/3 thetimes.com/article/d4534d…

Hi @FraserNelson! Thanks for being one of the few journalists to try to understand what is REALLY happening with medical training in the UK. It's a complicated topic and I commend you for being mostly right in your exposition. A few points: 1/ thetimes.com/comment/column…

@FraserNelson Daughter is currently FY2 as is boyfriend. Both off to Australia next August because they know they don't have a hope of a job. That's after 5 years at medical school and 2 yrs foundation training and a mountain of student debt. They really would prefer to stay in UK.

Half of trainee British doctors finishing this summer had no job lined up. Yet the NHS is poaching foreign doctors. One in six of Nigeria's are now in the UK. The real scandal isn't pay: it's a broken training pipeline. My column:- times-comment.com/nhs