Alison Rodger

Used to be much more interesting

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@ScotRail why are you trying to creep us out with your robot announcements? Just use a real person & not a disturbing attempt at one.

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@LucyAJackson_ Nope.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Starmer's Britain.

Not even subtle.

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@dramachannel
What's up with the sound quality. Switched Cranford on & it sounds like it's under water..

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@Keir_Starmer English Industries....English Steel....English jobs...
Securing England's Future

[C4 Gogglebox @C4Gogglebox]

Unprecedented scenes @leegogglebox

Watch live at 9pm or catch up on @Channel4
📺💻📱👀
#Gogglebox #FreshEveryFriday

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

The photo of Rubio sitting opposite Lavrov in Riyadh will forever be fixed in the historical album of infamous capitulations.

[John O'Shea @politicalhackuk]

“People who disagree with him… on a statistically unlikely level fall out of windows in Moscow”

Sir John Major on understated and devastating form today #wato

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

⚡️ BREAKING

The Israeli army has opened fire on Palestinian high school students in their schools in the Old City of Nablus, West Bank. A number of casualties have been reported.

[Elisabeth Potter MD @EPotterMD]

On January 7th, 2025 I shared a video, after I was asked to call UnitedHealthcare from the operating room to answer administrative questions about the patient who was having surgery to treat breast cancer. Despite my efforts, they denied her stay.

UnitedHealthcare didn’t stop at calling me during surgery. Now, they’ve sent me a legal threat—and even worse? They ended up denying my cancer patient’s hospital stay. Exactly what I was afraid would happen.

Staying overnight after major surgery isn’t optional—it’s medically necessary. But UnitedHealthcare decided they know better than the doctors caring for the patient.

When they called me while I was operating, I knew that if I didn’t step out and respond immediately, they might deny her stay—leaving her with a massive bill. So, with another surgeon in the OR, I scrubbed out and called them back. But after all of that? They denied her stay anyway.

And instead of fixing their broken system, they sent me a legal threat for speaking out.

I’m sharing their response in full, letting their words speak for themselves.

Let me be clear: I stand by everything I said. I told the truth. I was honest about what’s happening in our healthcare system. And I will not be silenced by legal threats when it comes to advocating for my patients and my ability to care for them.

Denying an overnight stay that a doctor orders is dangerous. The doctor caring for the patient should be able to make these decisions without delay, pressure, or harassment.

If I don’t speak up, I lose—my integrity, my voice, and the opportunity to make a difference. And while it’s intimidating to receive a letter like this from a company as powerful as UnitedHealthcare, I know where I stand.

I am a woman taking care of women affected by breast cancer. I do this work with all of my heart, and I will continue to speak up for my patients—because they deserve better.

I ask you to follow along, share this story, and have these conversations in your own communities. I know I’m not the only one dealing with this, and real change will take all of us telling our stories and standing up for what’s right.

I’m here for it. Are you?

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

Elon Musk is the bloated government spending he’s trying to root out.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Britain: we have to understand wtf we’ve done. We’ve allowed one of Trump’s closest allies have access to our entire NHS data systems. This is the CEO of Palantir telling shareholders that ‘when it’s necessary to scare enemies & on occasion kill them’

[Scotland’s Story @80_mcswan]

The Joseph Rowntree foundation
“ Scotland will be the only part of the U.K. where child poverty falls”
29th January 2025.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Industrial scale looting by the IDF. Televisions, satellite receivers, sound systems, gen set all gone here. Same true in thousands of demolished homes in Khiam.
Met neighbours same plus all their antique carpet collection gone.
Vast scale must involve miltary transport.
Much lower level looting by Russian army in Ukraine got massive coverage in MSM. I have never seen Israeli looting mentioned once there.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In 2016 when 14-year-old Jade Hameister did a TedxTalk on skiing to the North Pole she got sexist ‘make me a sandwich’ comments from trolls. In 2018, she skied to the South Pole and posted ‘I made you a sandwich… Now ski 37 days and 600km to the South Pole and you can eat it.'

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

Our film is nominated for an Oscar, the community it is about is now under attack by settlers.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

So ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ tells Ed Miliband: ‘I hate tree huggers - I'm not interested in hope & change’ . Well Keir there a lot of unhappy ‘tree huggers’ now and a lot more people who voted for ‘hope and change’ who are beginning to wonder what’s going on
https://t.co/YiYXVMnzaq

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Video from near Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor showed crowds ducking and running for cover as Israeli forces opened fire on displaced Palestinians waiting to return to northern Gaza.

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@Keir_Starmer If it's a voluntary union how does Scotland leave?

[Alison Rodger @alirodger]

@RachelReevesMP Yeah, but we want you to work with the EU, sod Trump.
I also want to hear more on the Freeports & SEZ's why are you imposing corporate governance on us without telling us the detail?