Over last couple of years, me and my partner have spent lots of time reading to each other. One of the things we've read to each other is loads of Enid Blyton books. Both of us had an affection for the world without adults of the Five and the Seven. And what have we found out? The main thing we've found out is that Jack Black in The Viz is absolutely bang on the money. A favourite game is imagining Peter from the Seven as a domestic tyrant and racist, constantly trying to get the other grown up members of the gang to join him on racist adventures

You may not know this, but Social Spider CIC (the social enterprise that I am co-director of with @davidsocialsp) publishes community newspapers & one community news website. We're working towards building a business model for local news that saves it from terminal decline (1/5) @davidsocialsp Our three borough wide publications @WFEcho; @HaringeyCP and @EnfieldDispatch have readerships of approx 45,000 each monthly edition and print runs of 15,000 each. They're available for free across their boroughs and publish news online, too (2/5)

Can't get enough of this tune tonight: 'Everything is Temporary' by Ski Patrol Also this by Girls at Our Best: 'Warm Girls'

Pandemics are failures of social organisation to contain the spread of an infectious disease. If the social organisation does not increase spread, there's no pandemic. I feel like UK has done everything it can to prevent changes to social organisation to mitigate covid-19. You might think we made few changes because of Spanish Flu pandemic, but that's why your radiators used to be underneath your windows. I feel like we've refused underlying changes to the way we live life and are like 'I wonder why this disease is still around?'

He's a proper treasure is our @davidsocialsp. Thanks for the kind words about our papers, Rhiannon. We love the job of making news deserts bloom again.

https://twitter.com/RhiannonDavies/status/1537451671936241666

For anyone puzzled by what a 'news desert' is, it's the title of a new report this week about the way absence of local news media affects communities. I live in Lewisham, one of the areas they looked at. Our papers are working to bring back local news

https://twitter.com/CharitableJP/status/1536319878772436992?s=20&t=LkItzmpRojTgLvGQkZlCpg

When I tried to get a degree over twenty years ago I was a right dickhead about it, but not perhaps in the way you might anticipate. And it was to do with money... uk.news.yahoo.com/government-sup… via @yahooNewsUK @YahooNewsUK I began university in September 1998. I'd spent the prior two years being on the dole, being a Community Service Volunteer then working in social care for a local authority. I'd left Newcastle in Spring '97 and had been making my own way financially. My mother died in Summer 97

I would like there to be more youth hostels across the UK. I like basic accommodation. I like travelling the UK by train. I think everyone should be able to have a weekend away for circa £50 for return travel somewhere and a night somewhere warm and safe. It'd change the country Seriously, £50 quid all in for travel and an overnight somewhere nice, discounts for families. Grants available for it if you're struggling. End the culture of second homes by making the UK a place where it's easy to go and stay somewhere else for cheap

I really don't think the UK is doing a very good reckoning with the grief, sadness and loss of the pandemic because overall it feels we still listen too much to the voices of those not affected that much by the pandemic at the cost of those really harmed by it #partygate We seem to be unable to situate such a massive (and ongoing) event within our public sense of what the world is about, and so desperately look to reassuring voices that tell us little has changed. I don't know I have the language to really discuss it from my own experience

I'm not a legal experts so I'm looking for a bit of help understanding the online safety bill in regards to 'the cloud', where 'content' could be both shared and also private. Things like google docs, any online server of user-uploaded content bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137 What I'm wondering about, really, is the extent to which big providers of web-based services are, to be on the safe side, likely to introduce algorithmic processes to remove content in bulk where there is a risk that some of it contravenes any Online Safety legislation

I've been live tweeting all day for #beyondtheroom from #quality2021 (internationalforum.bmj.com/europe/program…). In the thread below are links to the threads of my tweets from each of the talks and workshops on quality improvement I attended if you want to read back at your leisure (1/5)

https://twitter.com/MarkOneinFour/status/1402566439945580545?s=20

Welcome back to my live tweeting from #quality2021! The final session I'm covering today is "The Role of Leadership in People Wellbeing: Addressing Front Line Burnout Through Culture and a Systems Approach". It runs up to 17.30 (18.30CEST). I'll be tweeting throughout Our speakers for this session on burnout and how to avoid it are Ingrid Gerbino, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health; USA and Wendy Korthuis-Smith, Virginia Mason Institute; USA #quality2021

Welcome to the next session at #quality2021 (internationalforum.bmj.com/europe/) "Optimising the medication pathway: Meeting the WHO 2022 target of 50% fewer medication errors and clearing patient backlogs through automation". It runs through to 14.15GMT. Thanks for joining me This is the abstract for the session. Basic summary: using automation to reduce medication errors internationalforum.bmj.com/europe/2021/03… #quality2021

Hello! The next session I'm live tweeting for you from #quality2021 (internationalforum.bmj.com/europe/) is "Creativity as core in QI - using the Arts to empower and build co-production". It will run until 13.00GMT. We're hearing from Polly Bowler and Leanne Sedin about work at @NHS_ELFT Amy Price is introducing the session. Says we'll be hearing about the East London Foundation Trust's #ELFTin1Voice projects. Polly Bowler is Head of Arts Therapies for ELFT’s Bedfordshire & Luton. Says improving lives is the aim of what they do. #quality2021

Right, first session of today at #quality2021: Quality Improvement at National Scale: The theory and results of two national collaboratives using QI to address human rights issues and safety in mental health. Amar Shah is welcoming us to the session. We're being joined for this session at #quality2021 by Ajibola (Aji) Lewis, Sal Smith and Kate Lorrimer. Shah says patients in hospital for mental health reasons experience same risks as other hospital patients, but with other risks to their safety related to their mental health

I'm live tweeting for next three days from #Quality2021, International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare Europe 2021 ofr #beyondtheroom. I start at 11GMT with "Quality Improvement at National Scale: using QI to address human rights issues and safety in mental health" For wondering what QI is, it's not the smug telly programme about telling people they're wrong about stuff. QI stands for Quality Improvement. Here's a good intro to the whole approach in health health.org.uk/sites/default/… #quality2021

Sitting outside in the dark. The fox cubs have been and gone. There is a cat on the roof. The fox cubs are back. They move on tip toes. The vixen is grumbling to herself. She looked at me through the gate and we nodded at each other in a most neighbourly fashion.

We aren't going to make it out of this pandemic without changing how society works. We aren't going to make it out of this pandemic without changing how everyday life. We aren't going to make it out of this pandemic without thinking about how to make sure we keep what's important We won't be going back to how things were before the pandemic. We will be remaking what was there before, not returning. We can choose the best post post covid-19 world or we can let it just happen and hope for the best. The best will not be best and will not be fair, either

I got zoom fatigue really early

https://twitter.com/MarkOneinFour/status/1260959976249589766?s=19

https://twitter.com/techforecastis/status/1365654420072108034

One thing my early zoom fatigue makes me think is we should always listen to Disabled people first. Disabled people aren't outliers to whether something is usable. Disabled people are people with fewer options and/or energy to adapt to how something works: an early warning system

Grief hides in everyday things like a sweet in the pocket of your third best coat or jam on the knife you spread virgin butter with. Grief is like a cough, like the alarm you forgot you set, like the annual subscription to the app you used once. Grief hides in everyday things Grieving is opening a letter to find another letter inside. Grieving is a performance forever rehearsed for an audience who never come. Grieving is sowing a garden with dead flowers in hope they'll grow again. Grieving is talking an inventory in knowledge the shop will close

You might think that the vaccination effort in the UK is a story about vaccines. It isn't. It's a story about primary care, administration, infrastructure and team work. Vaccination is one intervention that rests upon an almost infinite number of publically funded interactions Getting vaccination to everyone is a very different thing to getting vaccination to everyone who turns up. That we can move quickly to vaccinate is not pinnacle of the NHS, it's a result of everything else the NHS is. The vaccination is a result made possible by everything else

Some of you will probably know I'm currently grieving. It's a month since my fantastic sister died. I've been thinking a lot about loss, progress and reckoning and coming to terms, both personally and as a society. And I've been wondering: how will we remember the pandemic dead? The UK is filled with memorials to the dead of wars, of disasters, of lifeboat crews and atrocities. We are a landscape haunted by attempts to remember the brave and the innocent. Villages, towns, businesses, communities: all grouped together to pay for plaques, statues, gardens