This is disgusting.

A whole @CadburyUK cream egg in a @Dominos_UK cookie.

These are serious corporate food companies. What are they thinking?

The executive team, the board and the shareholders should be ashamed of themselves.

https://twitter.com/cernycaroline/status/1755561752324895062

I hope the executive team are ashamed.

It’s not illegal. But it’s harmful. It’ll weigh heavily on their future career prospects. And it’s disgusting. They should know better. And use their many talents to find less egregious ways to hit their targets.

investors.dominos.co.uk/investors/boar…

Gobsmacked by huge 200k upward revision of long-term sickness numbers by @ONS.
Overall picture is emphatic. Britain is too sick to work productively.
The economic hit will be HARD. @hmtreasury will be gutted.
Mandarins! We need to address our underlying health! Urgently!

1 of 5 @OBR_UK @xandvt @BrineMP ICYMI. A reminder of Office Of Budget Responsibility testmimony Lords Economic Affairs Committee about terrible impact of Britain's poor health on our prosperity and sustainability of UK public debt. And their fears for the future. My blog here.



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The @KelloggsUKI junk food court victory is a *stonker*.
Industry efforts to overturn the whole basis of nutrition measurement drop-kicked into the stands by Mr Justice Linden.
I've never read a judgement like it.
Junk food industry shd be ashamed.
Here's a few highlights. 1/🧵 Par 234. "The public health case for the approach under the 2021 Regulations is compelling and I am quite satisfied that it is both proportionate and rationale."

Wow! I've never read such a ringing endorsement of Govt policy from Benches. Junk food industry shd take note.

2/8

Terrific briefing with MPs and peers on our support of the UK diagnostics industry during the pandemic, and beyond. 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️
Huge achievements. Increased production capacity of LFD in the UK by over 3000% in less than a year.
More to do. 🚀
🧵1/. INVESTMENT: Transformed three UK manufacturers and supported approval of multiple UK LFD COVID-19 tests.

c£300m in direct and indirect investment that has transformed the operations of SureScreen, GAD and Omega. Secured ~92m 🇬🇧-made tests and created a lasting legacy. 🧵2/-

I’ve been talking to 🇬🇧 tech sector about the launch of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, about ‘what next’, and what about tomorrow? 🧵1/ Problem: The majority of the UK Adult population are overweight or obese.
Challenge: how can we use new technology to make it easier for people to effectively manage their diet and weight? ⌚
Here are some examples... 🧵2/

A busy day ramping up the national effort to boost testing capacity for coronavirus and I am proud we have already had an impressive response from companies of all sizes to scale-up our diagnostics industry

gov.uk/government/new… [1/6] Some of the UK’s top pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies are working together to share expertise and resources to help us achieve 100,000 tests a day by the end of April, with ambitions to go even further [2/6]