Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦

[ComputerWeekly @ComputerWeekly]

Home Office sitting on data about scale of eVisa errors https://t.co/Xl0SmLodWu

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@PolitlcsUK Shouldn’t Lib Dem’s be +1 and not -1

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@SorchaEastwood We need more MP’s like you!

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sorcha Eastwood with a Q for the PM "What was it about the twice disgraced paedophile adjacent self styled prince of darkness that you found so attractive to put into this job?"

Starmer is the frontman for a faction Mandelson was a key part of, he wanted the job, so he got it

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@PoliticsJOE_UK @SorchaEastwood We need more MP’s like this . 👏

[PoliticsJOE @PoliticsJOE_UK]

Sorcha Eastwood absolutely DESTROYS Labour's utter failures in the handling of the Mandelson fiasco 🔥🔥🔥

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@SorchaEastwood in the House of Commons just now.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1946 the British government introduced free school milk for every child in the country. One third of a pint, every school day, from the age of five to the age of fifteen.

The milk was whole. Full-fat. From British dairy herds. It was delivered to the school gate in small glass bottles with foil caps and left on the doorstep in metal crates, where it sat in the sun until morning break if the weather was warm and developed a slightly suspect taste that an entire generation of British adults can still describe with uncomfortable precision.

The generation that grew up on school milk was, by every anthropometric measure, the healthiest generation of British children ever recorded.

Average height increased. Bone density improved. Dental health, despite the sugar in everything else, improved. Iron deficiency rates among school-age children dropped. The growth charts that the Ministry of Health had been keeping since the war showed a consistent, measurable, year-on-year improvement that tracked precisely onto the introduction of the milk programme.

In 1971 Margaret Thatcher, then Education Secretary, cut free school milk for children over seven. The tabloids called her Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. She was vilified. She kept the policy.

The next generation of British children, the ones who grew up without the daily third of a pint, were measurably less healthy than the one before.

The growth charts show it. The dental records show it. The conscription medicals, while they lasted, showed it. The thing the milk had been providing, the calcium, the vitamin D, the vitamin A, the complete amino acid profile, the conjugated linoleic acid, the fat-soluble nutrients that a growing skeleton requires in order to reach its genetic potential, was no longer arriving at morning break in a glass bottle with a foil cap.

It was replaced, eventually, by nothing. Or by a carton of fruit juice. Or by a packet of crisps from the vending machine that appeared in the school corridor in the 1990s.

The generation that drank the milk is now in its seventies and eighties. They are, on average, taller, stronger-boned, and longer-lived than the generation that came after them.

The milk was not magic.

The milk was milk.

It was the thing the body needed, delivered at the time the body needed it, at a cost the government considered acceptable until it didn't.

The cost of not providing it has been rather higher.

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

Couldn’t agree more !

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: The Independent's Political Editor, David Maddox, has published messages showing No 10 was told last September that Peter Mandelson may have failed security vetting

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense.

https://t.co/9Zp14BGCoD

[Lisa O'Carroll @lisaocarroll]

German woman living in UK with settled status prevented from returning to Edinburgh from
Düsseldorf after Home Office error . The3million says UK decision to issue digital only status after Brexit is to blame

https://t.co/07w2FxAyJ6

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@spce33 @Jonathan_Hinder @NHS Who is WE!
All patients should be treated equally. How would you feel if a staff member made a comment about you and/or why you were in hospital and then justified it based on their religious beliefs .
“God is punishing you for your sinful ways ….. Praise De Lord”

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@spce33 @sheawilliamsy @Jonathan_Hinder She brought religion into the discussion !

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@CConcern “Melle explained she could not use female pronouns due to her Christian faith but offered to use the patient’s chosen name.” As a gay man, when I receive health care from certain communities , you are always aware that their religion affects how they treat you. #discrimination

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@sheawilliamsy @Jonathan_Hinder For all the comments below , nobody is defending the actions of the patient. The problem is that religious beliefs trumped a duty of care.
That is a very slippery slope.

[Andrew Tingley🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @AndrewTingley]

@Jonathan_Hinder “Melle explained she could not use female pronouns due to her Christian faith but offered to use the patient’s chosen name.” As a gay man, when I receive health care from certain communities , you are always aware that their religion affects how they treat you. #discrimination