Richard Collier

Academic at Newcastle University. writes on law/gender, masculinities,families,legal professions, law and wellbeing. Plays and records folk-pop-post-punk music.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

So, in the end, both France and Britain voted against the far-right.
Doesn't mean the threat is gone, but pay attention to the center, center left, green and center right voters who are still the majority in Europe, everywhere except Hungary.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

We didn't have parties to "boost morale".
We didn't have quiz nights.
We didn't have champagne.
We watched our colleagues die.
We watched the bodies pile high in their thousands.
These lying, cheating, self-serving charlatans need to be flung out of office.
Use your vote. Vote.

[Richard Collier @richardscollier]

Thank you!

[Fernando Del Canto @FernandoDCanto]

Amazing presentation on the deeper socio political meaning of well being in the legal profession. Looking forward to see @richardscollier new book on this @IISJOnati

[Richard Collier @richardscollier]

@FernandoDCanto @IISJOnati Thank you! That is appreciated.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

In 2010, 70% of you were satisfied with the NHS.

Now, only 24% are.

14 years of Tory government understaffing, underfunding & private sector outsourcing have trashed the NHS into a travesty of the service we want to give you.

It is heartbreaking & so disgustingly wrong 😔

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

📽️ Mob rule and the Conservative Party.

Thanks to @gavinesler for narration.

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

I don't want lower taxes.

I want hospital beds.

Trains that run on time.

Kids who aren't too hungry to learn.

Libraries in every town.

Rivers that don't run with slurry.

Local councils not forced into bankruptcy.

Politicians who don't venally line their own pockets.

[Richard Collier @richardscollier]

@rickynow @memorialdevice Thanks Andrew, that’s kind. Here are a few more of same north east folky pop in case might like along with Scottish Polis Inspectors Gina McKee. Appreciated that message.

https://t.co/OKjN1mIMy6

https://t.co/7LnC27Lfbe

[Virginias Wolves @VWolvesband]

RIP Ruth Miller @turquoisehippo the inspiration behind our band and so many others as part of @unglamorous2022 Ruth saw things in us that we never saw in ourselves. An amazing performer and exceptional person. Will forever be missing you 😢 ❤️

[Richard Collier @richardscollier]

@punkgirldiaries So very sorry to hear this and sending love to all who knew Ruth. Sincere condolences. Happiest memories of those Leicester days. Richard x

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

Check in on those around you.

#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans

[David Morrissey @davemorrissey64]

A true artist. He was born a few streets away from were me and my family grew up and his films had a special place in my heart, a scorching insight into how my parents, their friends and neighbours lived. One of our greatest filmmakers IMO. RIP Terence Davies

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Utterly repulsive speech by Suella Braverman referring to a "hurricane" of migration, as her dehumanising rhetoric plumbs new depths. The hurricane I'd like to see is one which sweeps her culture war-stoking, dog-whistling, hard-right party from office. #CPC23

[Scottish Post-Punk @ScotsPostPunk]

Sinead O’Connor & Terry Hall: All Kinds of Everything
https://t.co/FPeiO8ytQM

#RIP @SineadOConnor @terryhall_

[Dr Andrew Meyerson @AndrewMeyerson]

Dear @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK,

For the last 13 years, you have enabled the Tories' devastating assault on our healthcare, serving as lead cheerleaders for policies that have harmed our patients, our colleagues, and our NHS. You have poisoned the country's minds for far too long, and now that you are attacking our colleagues, we've had enough.

2/3 of the public still firmly support us striking NHS workers — not the corrupt govt you so readily defend — and now that you are losing the battle of public opinion, you are desperately going after my colleagues to find any way to smear us. We're not going to tolerate it any longer.

While successive Tory governments dismantled and destroyed NHS services, you did your job of manufacturing consent for their harmful policies from Austerity 1.0 and 2.0 to the 2012 and 2022 health care bills — pieces of legislation that faced near universal opposition from health experts and all of the Royal Colleges — and you enabled those policies to succeed, because what you do isn't journalism for the public good, it's propaganda for the government's wealthy friends.

You then manufacture outrage with myths about NHS managers, immigrants, and NHS funding, never questioning those in govt who intentionally defunded and dismantled the formerly #1 ranked healthcare system of this great country in order to drive more people into private healthcare.

Alongside Tory govt ministers, your publications bear significant responsibility for the NHS crisis we now face. With your cheerleading, patients are now suffering on the longest GP, A&E, cancer, and outpatient waiting lists in NHS history at 7.4 million people long. 500 patients are now dying every single week due to preventable delays accessing NHS emergency care — with over 13,000 dead patients thus far in 2023 alone — all because of Tory policy failures that you championed and you enabled.

We are now suffering through the worst crisis in NHS history — one that your newspapers helped engineer — and because you are so morally bankrupt, even with alarming staff suicide rates, your editors think it's okay to attack my burnt out frontline NHS colleagues, defending billionaires instead of doing real reporting that is in the public interest of our patients.

You could elucidate to your readers why those 13,000 people are dead, or where the billions stolen from the public purse during COVID can be found, or how no one can see an NHS dentist, or how our mental health crisis has let down a generation of children and families, or how the govt still hasn't fixed the broken social care system, or you could investigate how many A&E departments have been closed in the last decade, or how many beds have been shut, or you could look at how much NHS funding goes into the pockets of private companies and never reaches patients, or how govt policy in a dozen other areas has harmed public health, but no, you choose to attack my friend Holly and our colleagues to try and find any way to discredit us.

Holly Turner has more integrity in her little toe than you've got among your entire staff — and certainly among your editorial boards — and we won't sit by and watch as you attack her for sport.

And so to the editors of the Telegraph and Daily Mail: We are not afraid of you. You are mouthpieces for a govt that will go down as one of the most corrupt in our lifetimes and your influence is waning rapidly. It's time to keep Holly's name out of your mouth. It's time to stop cheering the arsonists who are burning down our NHS, and it's especially time for you to stop gaslighting the public into believing that their neighbourhood looks better on fire.

You have never been on the side of patients and you never will be. And no one in the UK who wants reliable and honest information about NHS policy should trust anything that's written in your newspapers.

We fight for our patients. You fight for our billionaires. I think the public knows who to trust.

#SOSNHS #PayRestoration #NHS75

[Marcus Chown @marcuschown]

“They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” (The Great Gatsby)

[Richard Collier @richardscollier]

@DrStellaCoyle @LawatKeele Many congratulations Stella! Wonderful news!

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Voter suppression is in full swing
Incidents all over the country
#ToriesOut301 #SunakOut192 #GeneralElectionNow
https://t.co/KHbJ2BBYPI