The length of GMC’s public consultation document on PAs - an eyewatering 300 pages - looks almost designed to be a barrier to meaningful engagement.

The BMA has produced a precis.

Please read. Please engage.

This is your NHS - make your views heard.

Thank you 💙

Did you know you can become a Friend of Mane Chance? We have 2 different options, both of which support our work with rescue horses and ponies, plus the opportunities we offer to those in our community who benefit from spending time with our animals.

“If you change your point of view, you see the world in a different way.” ― Lee Bacon

Thank you to bookishbecca for this photograph.

An excellent article WITH MATHS by That's Anne with a Plesiosaur on why it’s so hard to make a living writing books. And here u will repeat the advice my agent gave to me when I signed: ‘don’t give up the day job until your advance is 3 times your salary’. awfullybigblogadventure.blogspot.com/2024/04/how-ca…

A new painting taking shape on the easel this week. This landscape, story & location tells it's own story.
It will be on show this May at my studio during Oxfordshire Artweeks with 𝙃𝙚𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙮 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚 & Abi Panzeri. artweeks.org/v/abigail-panz…
We'll be open for the last two weekends of May.

At a time when we need to power up Natural England, these MPs are undermining it all. Underhand & cynical. Not for people or nature or the farmers & landowners that support nature.

Pls read this thread-story about the planned, sustained, in-plain-sight destruction of a SSSI bluebell wood in Kent by illegal waste-disposers.
The inaction of multiple authorities, the broken system for nature protection; it’s all there.
Pls sign the petition, pls share the 🧵on

‘I’m a little bit tired’: Briton becomes first person to run the length of Africa theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Have you ever seen it so quiet in Queen’s Park on a Saturday? Come visit, we’re lonesome! 😢📚

Working with a client on a picture book ms. last night, I pointed to the last sentence in the first para. 'Why is this here?' I asked. 'It doesn't come up again, and it wraps up your story right at the beginning.' The client replied, 'That's the sentence that AI wrote.' [1/3]

These animals started their ordeal in Georgia & were being taken to Saudi Arabia. This morning the ship ran aground off Pserimos, Greece.

Animals are not cargo, they are sentient beings. No amount of regulations will be able to prevent accidents & disasters. #BanLiveExports .

There’s nothing like getting up close & personal with a #rhino to remind one that, despite its many sorrows, it is still a beautiful world, & every vulnerable sentient being deserves to feel safe, free & cherished ❤️ ⁦Born Free Foundation⁩ ⁦Mane Chance⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦

Tories order further massive real-terms cuts to performing & creative arts courses in England + hard cut of funding for widening access programmes to higher ed.
Economic madness (creative industries bring in £115bn in value pa), cultural idiocy & an assault on social mobility.

We'd like to say a great big THANK YOU to everyone who has held a birthday fundraiser for us on Facebook - these have raised much-needed funds for our horse sanctuary! If you'd like to learn more about how we use the money donated to Mane Chance, please visit our website.

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

First the first time, sharing in person my account of being off-grid in Papua last year - do come along, if you're in reach of lovely Sherborne and the great South West. sherbornetravelwritingfestival.com

An exciting proof mailing galloping out of the Faber office today… 👀🐎 Lauren St John

#NewIllustrationoftheDay so far
Angela Harding/Oliver Jeffers/Claire Powell/Chloe Savage/Jason Cockcroft/The Fan Bros/Fiona Lumbers/Aaron Becker/Mariajo Ilustrajo/Eliza Wheeler/Herma Starreveld/Sarah Massini/Richard Jones/Reza Delvand/Britta Teckentrup/Sophie Bass
Names to know.

What are we waiting for? Shifting towards plant-based food and away from meat as the norm could have such huge benefits - for animals, for climate, for biodiversity and for human health. Isn't it a no-brainer for anyone prepared to think about it? #plantbased #FutureofFood #meat

Dear 🇬🇧,

14 years ago, the Tories inherited the #1 ranked healthcare system on the planet and look what damage they’ve done: We now have the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waits in NHS history at 10 million people. They don't deserve power. They deserve prison.

#SOSNHS