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@riverlorien

My interests inc health, welfare & disability policy, media, hospice/palliative care, the environment & animal welfare. Happy to have left the other place :)

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River@riverlorien· Jun 2

Yes - far too many vile opportunists are ignoring the family's clear wishes to spread hatred. (I've added alt text for anyone who needs it.)

In a statement outside court. Nowak's father.
Mark Nowak. said: "We want to use Henry's
heartbreaking story to make change for the
better.

"We do not want his death to be used to create
further division. hatred or tension. We want his story to help make our streets safer for everyone."

He added: "As the KC for the prosecution
summed up in court: This is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This
is a case about murder"

River@riverlorien· May 11

This is part of the govt's response to the loss of so many progressive voters - even *more* cuts to essential support for ill and disabled people. Trussell Trust Dec '25: "...three in four people turning to food banks are disabled."

BBC News:
Welfare cuts - The
government is expected
to make a fresh attempt
to reduce the amount
spent on welfare after it
was forced by its own
MPs to water down a
package of cuts.

This bill would restrict some benefits, including
potentially banning
under 22s from claiming
incapacity benefits
Further changes to
disability benefits are
due to come later
following the conclusion
of the Timms Review

River@riverlorien· Apr 14

This always moves me...

Sam saw a white star
twinkle for a while. The
beauty of it smote his
heart, as he looked up
out of the forsaken land
and hope returned to
him.

For like a shaft clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing:

there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

River@riverlorien· Apr 7

(With alt text)

Dear Imagination Library Graduate,

My, how time flies. It seems it was only yesterday when your family and friends read you your first story. You were just a baby. Now you're five years old and about to go to school. How exciting.

This may be your last book from my Imagination Library but you have
to promise me you will keep on reading. If you go to your local public
library you will find a great number of books just for kids your age.

Every book is a treasure and every time you open one up you will meet new
friends and take wonderful journeys to magical places.

I hope you have a great time in school. I bet your school will even have
a library where you can check out books. You and all of your friends are
very special. There is no limit to what you can do or how far you can go.

Just remember the lessons my family taught me - dream big dreams; learn everything you can learn: and care for all those who care for you. You do all of these things and you can be anyone you want to be.

You are terrific, and remember...

I Will Always Love You,
Dolly

River@riverlorien· Mar 13

This graphic from The Nerve shows how embedded in govt they are already

A graphic with a picture of Peter Thiel in the centre and a list of 12 government bodies that have multi-million pound contracts with Palantir

River@riverlorien· Mar 9

@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social also has a podcast that posts all his reports - inc those for LBC :)

Screenshot showing Simon Marks' podcast. 'Ongoing news reports from Washington and elsewhere by award winning reporter'

River@riverlorien· Mar 6

If Nazgul (the wolfdog) races again she can do both 😂

Nazgul, the wolfdog, crosses the downhill skiing finish line at the recent Winter Olympics

River@riverlorien· Dec 31

Wishing everyone a very happy new year! Sending love especially to anyone who's finding life tough at the moment x

The darkened skyline of London with a backdrop of colourful fireworks

River@riverlorien· Dec 12

River@riverlorien· Nov 26

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

Juries are not perfect.

Many of the worst
miscarriages of justice
have followed jury trials.

But the merit of juries is
not so much the power
they have, but the power
they prevent others from
having-

They mean a judge
cannot just nod-along
with prosecution
evidence and give a
guilty verdict.

River@riverlorien· Oct 4

River@riverlorien· Sep 26

Such a good piece about Digital ID and the (highly dangerous) failure to change the toxic narrative around immigration

We have tried, again and
again, to placate anti-
immigrant forces by
accepting the premise of
their argument. We have
ruined our country in
order to satisfy them. We
have torn families apart
This government is
currently in the position
of disemboweling itself
in order to placate them.
It never works, because
the debate on
immigration is not
grounded in empiricism
but in perception.

The solution is to
challenge the nativists
right, not kneel to it. It is
to make the case for
immigration in a way
that Starmer is plainly
incapable or unwilling to
do. It is to make the case
economically, culturally,
socially and morally - to
tell a story about the
beauty and triumph of
Britain, a truly patriotic
story, which lionises our
present instead of
apologising for it.

River@riverlorien· Sep 23

Maybe he could also tell McFadden to stop scaring ill and disabled people (who simply can't work) with talk of more cuts to essential support... His quote yest: ''I'm not ruling anything out."

Picture of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Pat McFadden, from the BBC website, with the quote 'Welfare reform must happen, minister says'

River@riverlorien· Sep 15

Thanks. Such a powerful post. (I've added alt text for anyone who needs it)

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the
Tommy Robinson march on 13/9

'I was the anaesthetic consultant on call at St Thomas'
Hospital yesterday. It is on the south side of the bridge that
these racists marched over for 5 hours; right under the
windows of the hospital chanting their hateful, vitriolic,
violent slogans.
It was not lost on me that in our emergency handover
meeting of around 15 people at 8am, I was one of only two
white British members of staff. The NHS would collapse
without the remarkable work that colleagues who are
immigrants and the children of immigrants do.
This "protest" was not peaceful as we know. Many broke
through what were pretty puny barriers to get into the
hospital grounds. Security (all non-white and being
incredibly measured) had to fend them off at the main
entrance. No police. No other help. Lots of very scared non-
British workers inside the building. Lots of the staff on duty
with me were really scared about getting home safely. Many
booked rooms in the nurses' accommodation overnight
because they didn't dare leave. I drove several to nearby
stations to avoid what was by 5pm an intimidating, abusive,
drunken rabble.
Our chief exec sent a weak email on Thursday saying,
effectively, everyone is valued in our hospital. She was
nowhere to be seen on Saturday.

Colleagues and I are going to write to her to say that the
Trust's response before and on the day was wholly
inadequate but I also think NHS leaders and the government
need to denounce the overtly racist elements of the march
(i.e. most of it) and publicly support non-British NHS
workers. They must stop equivocating for fear of offending a
group of the electorate that they foolishly think might vote
for them, and take a damn stand. They are leaving a vacuum
for the radical right; either fight or step aside and let
someone else try to save the soul of the country.
I was shocked to see lots of families with their teens proudly
marching. People need to get involved and counter this
appalling rhetoric. It's completely disgusting. We need to try
to understand why they believe the far right's lies, counter
those lies and offer a genuine alternative for ordinary people
otherwise we will be in the US's shoes with Farage at the
helm. I will do whatever 1 can to help in this cause but it is
urgent. Labour are not doing anything effective. Those
groups/parties planning to provide an alternative need to
get their A's into G and start campaigning loudly. Farage
spent the summer holding weekly press conferences while
the government went on holiday.
I felt embarrassed to call myself British in front of my
incredibly brave but distressed colleagues yesterday. I'd
welcome everyone's view about the most useful steps that I
and others who are equally appalled by yesterday and the
rise of the far right here can most usefully do to fight back.
Wishing everyone a peaceful evening.

River@riverlorien· Sep 15

'Hospices are on the brink. Surging costs have led to many services being cut back – just as demand is rising, fast, because of our ageing population. As it stands, roughly two in five hospices are planning to make cuts this year' Guardian 12 Sep 25 #ThisIsHospiceCare www.thisishospicecare.org.uk

River@riverlorien· Sep 10

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc From 29th July, '25 UN Under-Sec Gen for Humanitarian Aid Tom Fletcher confirmed a UK doctor's report that IDF snipers were shooting *children* in a particular part of the body each day (including the groin) as though it's a game.

River@riverlorien· Sep 7

We managed to get a pic of this visitor hiding an acorn in a plant pot the year before, but they likely retrieved that one

A grey squirrel holding an acorn - sitting in a pot of flowering plants

River@riverlorien· Sep 7

We found an oak seedling in a plant pot (of flowering plants) this year. We've seen a squirrel digging there and assume that it forgot where it had left part of its stash :)