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My Mother's post-natal depression led to chaotic life of drink, drugs, divorce and ultimately, when I was nine years old, her death. I have spoken about this to the podcast "Past Imperfect" with Alice Thomson and Rachel Sylvester in The Times. 1/4

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

3 hours

Great news on natal and peri-natal mental health outreach. Big clap to #NHS colleagues. Such interventions would have saved my mum, bless her.

NHS England

@NHSEngland

3 hours

A record 57,000 new and expectant mums received specialist mental health support over the last year. Megan was one of those mums, who after recovering herself, now works to help other new mums at @NHFTNHS . Find out more about the support available.

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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Important intervention by Conservative MPs and Peers on the smartphone ban in schools. Doorstep response and mounting empirical evidence of harms is fuelling growing Westminster momentum. Expecting more action on this as summer approaches.

Miriam Cates

@miriam_cates

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Just 1 in 10 secondary schools has an effective phone ban ( @Policy_Exchange ). With @NeilDotObrien & 60 Conservative MPs & Peers I‘ve written to the Prime Minister asking government to fund phone lockers in all schools so our children can be free to learn.

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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Highly profitable companies making £billions from unhealthy products targeting our kids! 🎰Gambling "games" 🤖 Addictive algorithms 🍭Disposable vapes 🥤 Caffeine drinks 🐣 Chocolate "eggs" Management should be ashamed. Shareholders should be worried.

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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Pleased to hear that 888 are withdrawing these aggressive ads - sensible, proportionate decision. 🙏 And well done to @HBowdenJonesOBE for her campaign on this. I agree. A train carriage is not a casino.

Henrietta Bowden-Jones

@HBowdenJonesOBE

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No it’s not a casino, it’s a London Underground train carriage. I took this photo. A child in school uniform was sitting below this gambling advert. ⁦ @TfL ⁩ ⁦⁦ @SadiqKhan when is this going to stop? ⁦ @GRHAPPG ⁩ ⁦ @pgreform ⁩ ⁦ @TheBMA ⁩ ⁦ @cagauk ⁩

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

11 hours

Don’t forget to vote!

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The Lancet

@TheLancet

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Global study in @TheLancetPH reveals stark differences in major causes of disease burden between females and males, underscoring the need for gender-responsive approaches to health.

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@JimBethell

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Very powerful on kids and tech from the French government. “We want [the industry] to know we’ve seen what they’re doing and we won’t let them get away with it.” Quite right. And good politics to boot.

Stop children using smartphones until they are 13, says French report

Children should be banned from most social media until 18 amid attempts to ‘monetise’ them, says Macron-commissioned study

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Critchlow

@ASCritchlow

2 days

This recent story makes for a grim read. @NickTriggle ’s @BBCNews article summarises the wide variety of factors impacting the health challenges we face as a nation. The 2008 financial crash, Brexit, Covid and the cost of living crisis have all played their part in the perfect…

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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Punchy on TikTok from @vonderleyen . 🇪🇺 EU banned TikTok from its phones. 🇪🇺 Investigation into harms to kids. 🇪🇺 Pushed back on TikTok Lite. 🇪🇺 Now ruling-in TikTok ban if no sale. It’s time for 🇬🇧 to make clear its TikTok strategy.

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

2 days

A very powerful report. It makes no sense for our kids to spend 6/7/8 hours a day on their phones. School performance is clearly being hard hit. With impacts on attainment and socialisation. It’s time to get serious about getting phones off school campuses.

Policy Exchange

@Policy_Exchange

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1/ NEW REPORT DISCONNECT: THE CASE FOR A SMARTPHONE BAN IN SCHOOLS 📱🏫 A new @policy_exchange report published today, authored by @IGMansfield @SeanPhillips91 and Niamh Webb, sets out the case for a smartphone ban in schools

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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Spot on. We don’t have a benefits problem. We have a mental health problem. We desperately need to look upstream at what’s causing this. And to our health system about modern treatment provision.

Isabel Hardman

@IsabelHardman

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Can you really reform sickness benefits if you haven’t done the foundational work with the NHS? A look at the green paper

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

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This from @AllanNixon @ukonward is so powerful. 👇 Tackles fundamental questions for 🇬🇧 policy makers … how do we seal the deal on the “global science superpower” thingy? So important … 👨‍🔧 Jobs 💰 Tax income 🔬 Health tech 🤖 National security Let’s please nail this. 🔨

Allan Nixon

@AllanNixon

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🚨 New @ukonward research🚨 Why are we struggling to be a science superpower? The answer is at the frontier. Future Frontiers - new research from @anastasiabekt & me - explains why Britain is struggling to build an edge. Subscribe to new substack! 1/8

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Matt Hancock

@MattHancock

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For 50-years we've had a legal choice over who to love, for a decade we've had a legal choice over who we can marry. The time has come for Parliament to vote on changing the law to allow assisted dying, to help prevent terminally ill people from suffering very painful deaths.

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@JimBethell

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NHS chair Meddings is right. We’re being crushed by the flow of disease. 🇬🇧 will not prosper and NHS won’t cope until we tackle the underlying causes of poor health. 🍔 Child obesity clinics? Madness! 🎰 Gambling clinics? Profligacy! #HealthyBritain

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Visegrád 24

@visegrad24

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BREAKING: French police drag students out from Sorbonne University. The French students were trying to set up tents and create a “Liberated Zone” in the same fashion as students in the U.S. It didn’t work in France

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Stewart Jackson 🇮🇱🇬🇧🇺🇦

@BrexitStewart

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Superb and disturbing presentation by #jonathanhaidt on his book The Anxious Generation about the rewiring of childhood, social contagion, and mental illness caused by social media since 2010.

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Laura Harth

@LauraHarth

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UN - F***ING - BELIEVABLE! Italy lending itself to worst possible combo of Uyghur Forced Labor meets BRI by welcoming China-Europe train carrying tainted goods to Salerno 🇮🇹. This train should simply be stopped from entering EU territory! Excellent spotting by @GabrieleCarrer

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Lord Bethell

@JimBethell

3 days

Good list. (3) particularly resonates.

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@sib313

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I'm going to add to my list of zombie ideas for fixing the NHS. There is a widespread belief among medics that everything would be fine if Doctors ran the system entirely by themselves...

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