Ruth Bowyer

🔊 On Weds 23rd at 10am we have Dr Tom Beaney present their work on: Simplifying complexity: generating multi-resolution clusters of chronic diseases in 10 million people in England

UKIP 2015: 3.8m votes - 12.6% Reform 2024: 4m votes - 14.3% The media narrative could easily be: why hasn’t the hard-right made more progress in the last ten years? But it isn’t.

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🚨 NEW: The Green Party 2024 manifesto in full Immigration: - End immigration detention unless a public safety danger - Allow asylum seekers to work during application process - End the hostile environment - Remove minimum income requirements for spouse visas - Provide safe routes for those fleeing persecution - Replace the Home Office with a new Department of Migration - Abolish 'no recourse to public funds' condition Nuclear weapons and NATO: - Dismantle nuclear weapons, cancel Trident, remove foreign nukes - UK to sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) - Increase focus on global peacebuilding - Commit to 'No First Use' of nuclear weapons Climate aid: - Increase international aid to 1% of GNI by 2033 - Increase climate finance for Global South to 1.5% of GNI by 2033 - Contribute to a new Loss and Damage Fund Social support: - Increase Universal Credit and legacy benefits by £40 a week - Abolish the two-child benefit cap - End the ‘bedroom tax’ - Introduce universal basic income - Restore disability benefits, immediate 5% uplift - Reform eligibility tests like PIP - Free transport for 16-18 year old pupils with special needs Housing: - Spread small developments across local areas - Ensure new developments include local service investments - All new homes to meet Passivhaus or equivalent standards - Include solar panels and heat pumps in new homes £29bn over five years for home insulation to EPC B standard - £4bn over five years for other building insulation - £9bn over five years for low-carbon heating systems - Provide 150,000 new social homes annually - Implement rent controls and end no-fault evictions - Tenants' right to demand energy efficiency improvements - Private tenancy boards for dispute resolution Democracy/human rights: - Replace first past the post with proportional voting - Replace House of Lords with elected chamber - Votes for 16-year-olds - End violence against women and girls - Scrap laws eroding protest and free expression rights - Support self-identification for trans and non-binary people - Scrap Prevent, tackle hate crime and restore trust in police - Invest £2.5bn in renewing the court system Energy: - 70% of UK electricity from wind by 2030 - Deliver 80GW offshore, 53GW onshore wind, and 100GW solar by 2035 - Invest in energy storage and efficient distribution - Community ownership of energy sources - Cancel recent fossil fuel licenses, stop new projects - Remove oil and gas subsidies - Introduce carbon tax on fossil fuels Economy: - Invest £40bn annually in green economy Introduce carbon tax - Public ownership of railways, water, and major energy companies - Invest £12.4bn in skills and training for green economy - Encourage community ownership in energy projects Implement Wealth Tax on high-value assets - Reform Capital Gains Tax - Align tax rates on investment and employment income - Remove Upper Earnings Limit for National Insurance - Set up regional mutual banks - Provide £2bn annually for business decarbonisation grants - Encourage community ownership in zero-carbon transition International: - End occupation of Palestinian land - Uphold self-determination and international law - Support Ukraine against Russian invasion - Re-join the EU when politically feasible - Bilateral ceasefire - End arms sales to Israel - Secure release of hostages - Ensure equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians - Reinstate funding for UNRWA, support South Africa’s ICJ submission Education: - Abolish university tuition fees - Increase school funding by £8bn, with £2bn for teacher pay - End high-stakes testing in all schools - Abolish OFSTED Work: - Repeal anti-union laws, introduce Charter of Workers’ Rights - Implement 10:1 pay ratio - Raise minimum wage to £15/hour - Equal employment rights from day one - Move to a four-day work week Health: -New NHS dentists’ contrac taiting lists annually - Guarantee access to NHS dentist - Guarantee rapid GP access - Boost NHS staff pay, restore junior doctors’ pay - Increase primary medical care funding by £1.5bn by 2030 - Restore public health budgets with £1.5bn annual increase - Fund smoking cessation, drug treatment, and sexual health services - National Commission to reform UK drug laws -New NHS dentists’ contract - Invest £3bn annually in NHS dentistry by 2030 - Fund community hubs for free dental nursing - Support mental health rights - Increase mental health care funding - Access to evidence-based mental health therapies within 28 days - Trained counsellor in every school and sixth-form college - Tailored mental health services for diverse communities - Support for neurodivergent children in schools - Legalise assisted dying - Aim for no more HIV transmissions by 2030 Caring: - Introduce free personal care - Increase pay rates and career structure for carers - Add £3bn for high-quality children's social care Arts, sports and culture: - Invest £5bn in community sports, arts, and culture - Keep local facilities open - Remove VAT on cultural activities - Limit media ownership to 20% - Implement 2012 Leveson Report reforms Animals: - Create Commission on Animal Protection - Ban all blood sports - Protect marine life in UK waters - End badger culling - End factory farming, enforce maximum stocking densities - Ban close confinement and unnecessary mutilation of farm animals Transport: - Increase subsidies for rail and bus travel to £10bn - Free bus travel for under-18s - Invest £19bn in foot/cycle paths and electrification - Public ownership of railways - Increase local control and funding for bus services - Aim for 50% of trips in towns/cities to be walked or cycled by 2030 - Introduce frequent-flyer levy - Ban short domestic flights - Halt airport expansion Nature: - Introduce Rights of Nature Act - End sewage discharge by taking water companies public - Expand access to green spaces with Right to Roam Act - Protect 30% of land and seas by 2030 - Ban bee-killing pesticides - Enact Clean Air Act for the right to clean air Agriculture/farming: - Triple financial support for green farming transition Improve biodiversity and soil health - Reduce pesticide use - Provide free school meals daily to all children - Offer free breakfast clubs in primary schools - Include food growing, preparing, and cooking in curriculum - Reduce food waste "We are prepared to borrow to invest."

Some of the key points in the Green Party election manifesto 👇

🔊 For our 3rd seminar of 2024 on 21st May at 10am we are delighted to be hearing from Prof Rafael Perera of @UniofOxford on his work 'Characterising Multimorbidity Across the Life Course: Leveraging Longitudinal Data to Illuminate Health Trajectories'

🔊 Our 2nd seminar of 2024 is taking place tomorrow (Weds 20th @ 10am!) Join to see Dr Oly Todd present their work “Considering frailty in the management of cardiovascular disease in older adults: potential applications of routine healthcare data to tailor management"

Very excited to finally have my PROMOTe trial paper out in Nature Communications! We showed that a prebiotic food supplement can improve cognition versus placebo. The gut microbiome holds huge promise as a therapeutic target for age-associated morbidity. nature.com/articles/s4146…

🔊Our first seminar of 2024 is taking place 10am, 10th Jan (next weds!) We are delighted to have @m_pikoula presenting their work 'Evaluating patient (dis)similarity in the context of cluster analysis for phenotype discovery'.

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🔊The deadline for abstract submission for our next meeting has been extended for a *FINAL* time to this Friday 17th November🎉 (1/3)

Are you the same guy who dropped his house building targets? Because I’m the guy who started building more council homes than the rest of England combined, exceeded your affordable homes targets & built more homes of any kind than since the 1930s. This is desperate nonsense.

Here’s the video of my debate with @AllanRSavory: “Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?”. Allan requested the debate and insisted on the title. I wondered how he would argue a case for which there's precisely no evidence. OMFG.🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=rhwEaC…

@YoungGeris @NIHRresearch This is FANTASTIC news Mary!! So well deserved!!!

Over the moon to have been awarded an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award to continue researching after my PhD!! Thank you @NIHRresearch

🔊Our next session will take place next Weds 31st May at 10am, with @BelindaStats of @tilda_tcd presenting work on "Multimorbidity Patterns in Older Irish Adults"

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Congratulations to @maryniloc for leading this great study! 👏👏👏

Great to be a part of this research on behalf of @TwinsUKres along with other brilliant cohorts @CLScohorts @genscot @CO90s @usociety @BiBresearch and led thanks to @RJ_Silverwood and Prof Tilling

@talktellme @AyoCaesar Rail workers in other countries leave gates open while continuing to run services, targeting bosses without inconveniencing travelers. The Conservatives made this practice (called a revenue strike) illegal in the UK specifically so that they could pit customers against unions.