Ali Burdon

Carer, MA student in Christian Spirituality at Sarum. Eclectic tweeting. Wildlife tweets: @NatureUptheRoad

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@JWhitzend Haha, that is marvellous 😆 I reckon it's a sparrow...

[Sophie Blake @sophieRblake]

I am beyond angry that women with Stage 4 secondary breast cancer are being left to die before their time in this country, while the rest of the world moves forward with life extending treatments.
Women like me are dying because proven cancer drugs are being denied on cost grounds. Friends are gone who should still be here with their families and children. So many of the amazing women featured here, many of them my friends, have now tragically died.
Despite a median life expectancy of just 3–5 years, secondary breast cancer was reclassified by @NICEComms from “severe” to “moderate severe”, reducing access to funding for the latest life-extending treatments and diverting it elsewhere.
Secondary/metastasic breast cancer is one of the biggest killers of women between 35-64, yet patients are denied drugs that are routinely available in other countries. This is a political choice and women are paying with their lives.
#Enhertu is approved in the US, EU, Japan, China, Canada and Israel, and is available in Scotland.
Yet women in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are deemed “not cost effective”.
Why can all these countries provide this treatment while we cannot?
Why are women with secondary breast cancer treated as expendable? @Keir_Starmer @wesstreeting @BBCWomansHour @AshleyDalton_MP @UN_Women @UKLabour @NHSuk @METUPUKorg @BreastCancerNow

[Adam Jogee MP @AJogee]

You can say that again.

[Philip Murray @philipmurraylaw]

Heartbreaking story on cuts to hospices on @BBCNewsnight tonight. Imagine choosing a state-funded assisted suicide system over properly funded palliative care. The House of Lords have a choice here. They should vote down the wicked assisted suicide bill.

[Fleur Elizabeth @fleurmeston]

We shouldn't have hospices funded on bake sales and fun runs and a suicide service funded on our taxes

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@JWhitzend @womensart1 Wow, that is gorgeous ❤️

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@CarlBovisNature Tidy gardens are a culprit here! Earwigs love leaf litter, compost heaps etc. Plenty hanging round our compost heap.😆

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@JWhitzend Oh very true 😂

[laudablePractice @cath_cov]

"Andrew Davison [in his recent Church Times article], from within the Anglo-Catholic tradition, has offered important, thoughtful, and welcome encouragement" to those who value Sunday Morning Prayer as a main liturgy.
https://t.co/Bzt74Ygjpo

[Nicky Clark @MrsNickyClark]

Imagine you finally get the opportunity to govern the U.K. and top of your list of people who need to be dealt with due to imagined privilege, are …disabled people claiming crucial benefits in order to live.

[Susanna Rustin @SusannaRustin]

Violence against women is sex-based. Eg in conflict zones, pregnant women are explicitly targeted, face specific risks. @UNSRVAW is absolutely right that denying this, in favour of trendy idea that identity is what matters, is dangerous

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott: “What could be more unjust than losing your life to poorly drafted legislation?”

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@AJogee I am so very sorry to read this. Thank you for the choice you made to stand up for the vulnerable.

[Disability Rights UK @DisRightsUK]

Devastated at the #AssistedDyingBill passing through the House of Commons - a tiny majority of 23 on a Private Member's Bill is no way to pass through legislation that will drastically alter how Disabled people trust and engage with healthcare professionals.

[louis appleby @ProfLAppleby]

Opposing the #AssistedDyingBill isn’t being immune to painful patient stories or dismissive of choice.

It’s about social responsibility, our duty to help people through despair. About the value we place on human life.

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[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@brupe Congratulations Ruth! All the very best with this marvellous endeavour.

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

Wow this looks wonderful - looking forward to seeing how it develops as a venue. ❤️

[Kathie McInnes @Kathie_McInnes]

Just been for a look round the Goods Yard in Stoke. This stunning vault will soon be home to a food hall / beer hall and music venue.

[Barnaclebum6 @barnaclebum6]

Disability Charities Consortium Issues stark warning to Government over Benefits cuts.
With the huge numbers of independent voices raising their concerns...it's time for Starmer Reeves Kendall & Timms to admit they got it wrong #CutswillKill https://t.co/m7TR8i8Rqe

[Ali Burdon @msalibee]

@JWhitzend You're looking lovely - suits you ❤️

[Sonia Sodha @soniasodha]

These are very good. It's a *huge* problem that there is so little time available for debate in the Commons that the detail of some of these points is not going to be properly explored before MPs vote at third reading. No way to make law on such a serious issue.