Neil Tester
@neiltester
Interested in most things but especially health, social care and the voluntary sector. Freelance consultant: . Chair, Healthwatch Hertfordshire: My own views, naturally.
Little gem in Peter Snape’s Times obituary. Would that our current crop of politicians exhibited such innate curiosity… www.thetimes.com/article/3e5a...
Facebook served me this uninvited post and my first question was how Russell Brand had slipped through a time vortex.
Walking up Great Portland Street and feeling a strange compulsion to apply for a job in here.
This just in from our watching-Channel-Four-News-cover-the-BBC-Director-General-at-today’s-committee-hearing-and-noticing-someone corespondent. Clearly too hot for the cravat.
This @privateeyenews.bsky.social Lookalike is going to take a lot of beating.
I walk about *a lot* so I thought I’d stumbled across most of the older blue plaques. But I just found this one on Great Ormond Street. #BluePlaque
1/2 Watching the Moldovan Eurovision entry just gave me a flashback to my brief stint running comms at the National Audit Office about 20 years ago, when I had to brief visiting Moldovan public auditors on our comms operation. The delegation lead, sporting an impressive beehive, wanted…
Far be it from me to doubt the accuracy of the Guardian, but I suspect it’s more likely he said this to Progress rather than a ‘leftwing police conference’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Excellent new unit of measurement. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
Just read a comment on my local newspaper’s website decrying “Neigh Sayers” and that’s set me up nicely for the day.
Love this note at the end of the Guardian’s review of the J**n L***s Christmas ad.
While it would make Barry Gardiner MP’s life easier if he represented a one-man constituency, Brett North isn’t going to be pleased with BBC London.
I’ve moved house and I’m still stowing away a whole load of things that I know why I kept but that don’t have obvious places to go. One is this notebook in which I started to note down some of my 7-year-old’s questions. If anyone can answer them, it would help me stop being such a deadbeat dad 🤣
I checked what i have to do with the nine empty spray cans of red paint I used to do up this tin trunk and established that as they’re aerosol cans containing paint I need to hand them to the staff at the council recycling centre. But I just realised they’re also in charge of roundabouts. #Awkward
Not convinced this press officer understands how the Tardis is supposed to work.
Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social for this addition to my “Maybe the people selling us AI ought to learn a bit about how AI works” file…
BBC 1 o’clock news sending subliminal branding messages ahead of a future Streeting leadership campaign?
Someone should tell all those “adulting is really hard” people that apparently all you have to do is stare into your phone camera.
This point about trauma, alongside some other themes in this new #Healthwatch Hertfordshire report (buff.ly/gjdirhB), has made me think about what people said during this project I worked on at The Richmond Group of Charities a few years back: www.richmondgroupofcharities.org.uk/publications...