Jules 🌸

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[Jake Richards MP @JakeBenRichards]

The World Cup starts tonight! ⚽️ But by the end of the first match, we’ll be one man down.

Someone dies by suicide in our country every 90 minutes. Three-quarters of these are men.

I spoke with Luke the co-founder of @andysmanclubuk about male suicide, mental health and the help that is out there. 👇

Andy's Man Club is an incredible organisation that helps men across Britain open up, talk about what is going on in their lives, and help one another. I have been to sessions in my constituency and was overwhelmed by the support they can offer men dealing with all sorts of problems in their lives - small or large.

In each session, a football is passed around the group to share thoughts, challenges, and successes. Simple, but effective and liberating!

As a government, we take mental heath - and men's mental health - seriously. We published England’s first Men's Health Strategy last year, which committed further funding for suicide prevention programmes, recognising that suicide is one of the biggest killer of men under 50.

We are investing £3.6 million in community based suicide prevention projects - and supporting the @premierleague Together Against Suicide initiative with @samaritans.

And this is a challenge for all of us, not just government. As a society we can do more to encourage men to open up, get the weight off their shoulders. That is a key part of our Men and Boys work led by @DavidLammy - amplifying the issues, assuring folk there is help out there.

Enjoy the football, look out for one another, and know there is support out there!

[Barry Thompson @BThompson14783]

@Ang_ryScotsman "Can't afford young staff" but £9m for the CEO. And we're all subsidising those wages through universal credit. The con is getting people to blame the minimum wage instead of asking where the money went. #r4today

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@RobKenyonReform @TiceRichard Ah that’s nice. Flown in specially from Dubai for the day?

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@rutherfojr @thetimes Eventually you have to have two live in carers so that each can have breaks. Do you understand how much that costs? It doesn’t sound like you have direct experience of caring for elderly family members.

[Fiona Hamilton @Fhamiltontimes]

“You could end up killing someone"

That was the warning in July 2020 from one of Valdo Calocane's pyschiatrists.

But instead of livesaving interventions the next three years - before he killed Barney, Grace and Ian - were marked by failings.

Calocane broke a woman's back, but medics wrote it up as "minor injuries".

He was repeatedly hospitalised for violence because he didn't take meds, but he wasn't sectioned for longer nor his treatment changed.

When he assaulted a police officer and had to be subdued with Taser and cuffs - a psychiatrist wrote he was "a normally a gentle, law-abiding young man”. He brought a hammer to a psych ward and it was returned to him when he left. 

It's been more than two years since NHS England wanted to suppress its report into the #Nottinghamkillings failings.
They only published it because The Times outed their plans on the front page.

But the public inquiry into Calocane has really lifted the lid on just how badly it all went wrong.

My report on three years of missed chances.

https://t.co/ktaIiS9mT6

[Oliver @OWS1892]

"Fuck Henry Nowak's family's wishes. My career relies on hatred & division, and I'm not passing up this opportunity."

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@BethRigby If the likes of Mandelson are “frustrated with Starmer” I’ll take that as a good thing. Maybe step back a little? You appear to have lost all perspective.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I promised we would fix our broken railways.

Today Southern, Thameslink, Great Northern and Gatwick Express return to public ownership. Run for the public good, not private profit.

This Labour government is putting passengers first.

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

Who'd have thought raising the state pension age to 67 would result in increased youth unemployment 🤔

[Vince. #RespectOurMandate🌹#COYI @Vinc_Ev_]

Mirror article about Keir Starmer at Soccer Aid. I doubt you'll find it many other places in the media

https://t.co/Kz6xSpStcK

[Kathryn Walker 🌹 💙 🌻 @KathrynDW59]

@jcartlidgemp @Conservatives The Tory defence strategy consisted of a cut to defence spending to 1.8% of GDP in 2018. That represented a 25% cut in the budget that was left by the previous Labour government.

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@vicderbyshire “Threatened to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here 😏

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@fartharda95990 @KayBurley @Bucketyed @AndyBurnhamGM Worsley Mesnes is most definitely in Wigan

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@soniasodha @SarahBlackIsle You are in a media bubble. Who are these “many “ you think you speak for? Many people I know are horrified at Labour colleagues turning on Starmer. He is the most competent Prime Minister we have had for years - and at a time of world events that have really needed a cool head.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail.

He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French.

While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere.

That is his ‘Patriotism’.

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@OasisMania @OasisPlanet_ @liamgallagher @NoelGallagher Berlin please

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

I’ve lost confidence in @wesstreeting. Keep going @Keir_Starmer, focus on the job in hand

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@KayBurley So disappointed with this take Kay. Where have the serious journalists gone? Such demeaning conduct from the likes of Beth Rigby and Chris Mason outside Downing Street.

[Jules 🌸 @APJules]

@rocknrollofall Brothers in Arms

[JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU @MyArrse]

Reform UK activist Matthew Mackinnon who wrote the Reform Wales Manifesto is banned from every Football Ground in The UK for Violent Behaviour.