Suren Kanagasundaram

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Inviting EOIs for MPT Co-Chair: International Committee 🌏

Work with Dr Jinadu Yusuf Olanrewaju to strengthen global #KidneyCare through education, training, mentorship & collaboration.

📧 Apply via ukka@ukkidney.org by 27 Nov 📆

#GlobalHealth #Nephrology

📢 New UKKA guidance on anticoagulation in advanced CKD now available - covering both VTE & NVAF.

Includes:
💊 updated DOAC advice,
📏 LMWH dose adjustments
🤝 Recommendations for shared decision-making in CKD 4-5 & dialysis.

Guidelines available here: www.ukkidney.org/hea...

Timeline cleanse

🔬 Did you know Icodextrin, now key in #PeritonealDialysis, was developed at Manchester Royal Infirmary

Originally a dietary glucose polymer, it became a CAPD breakthrough after the MIDAS trial & used globally.

An innovation with real impact – & a twist in the tale.
🔗www.ukkidney.org/75-...

We’re going up at a rate of 700 signatures an hour currently. In the time it took me to boil the kettle it went up by 50. Keep the message in minds folks. Fair coverage is what we want so we hear from ALL parties not just the narrative of one. Sign and pass on petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today.

Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

Glad that some sections of the UK media not just kowtowing to and stoking the far right hatred and misinformation gathering steam here. I wish the BBC would take note with its "legitimate concerns" false equivalence BS.

🚨An important reminder of the trauma faced by asylum seekers.

Not just in fleeing persecution abroad.

Not just in the perilous and desperate journey to these shores.

But by the hatred and vitriol put on them by the right wing in this country for callous political gain.

ENOUGH of the BBC legitimising anti-asylum protests! YouTube video by Zoe Gardner

I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.

I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...

Eye witness report of UK surgeon who has witnessed deliberate destruction of health care facilities in Gaza alongside other war crimes such as Israeli soldiers using children for target practice and torture of health care workers.

An Oxford university consultant surgeon on recent experiences in Gaza, noting UK govt complicity in genocide, as well as multiple Israeli war crimes of the most grotesque kind, including soldiers using children for target practice. ('Eye-witness report' Private Eye 1655 @privateeyenews.bsky.social )

Little taste of what’s be happening and going to get worse for these workers. Would this customer asked questions and wanted to see I.D if the delivery driver was white British or white European with broken English? No.

Political language matters because it affects people at work and society.

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

Newcastle Airport - among many others - has announced plans to nearly double flights, expand the terminal, extend the runway to enable more long-haul flights

So speeded up sea-level rises, more intense & frequent extreme weather

Please sign this petition
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ⛔️🙊🔥🌴🪔 when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/

The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ⛔️🙊🔥🌴🪔 when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/

The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ⛔️🙊🔥🌴🪔 when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/

The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ⛔️🙊🔥🌴🪔 when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/tapanuli-orangutan-pongo-tapanuliensis/

The rarest species of #orangutan, the #Tapanuli is on the verge of being lost forever due to #palmoil and #mining #deforestation destroying 80% of their range. Say no to #ecocide ⛔️🙊🔥🌴🪔 when you shop #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/19/t...

A future rooted in books: why the Lit & Phil still matters On a quiet stretch of Westgate Road in Newcastle, just a stone’s throw from Central Station, stands a building that has quietly shaped the North East - and arguably the world - for more than two centu...

A future rooted in books: why the Lit & Phil still matters
On a quiet stretch of Westgate Road in Newcastle, just a stone’s throw from Central Station stands a building that has quietly shaped the North East -and arguably the world- for more than two centuries

northeastbylines.co.uk/region/tynes...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Palestinian mother holding starving small child

There is no context - none at all - that justifies the deliberate, calculated starvation of children.

#Gaza

Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

This is the political video I've been waiting to see.
I have no party affiliations, but if I were in the Greens, I would vote for @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Mark Thomas , your eponymous hero, stands hands in pockets listening to another man , Steve Ignorant from Crass and now Steve Ignorant's Slice of Life. Both wear the campaign T shirt Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign , the t shirts are back with white lettering and the famous picture of Lesley Boulton standing holding camera with her arm up as a cop on a horse aims a truncheon at her. They stand amidst campaign banners, Steve clutches a can of beer.

Orgreave: Cops riot, set up striking miners, media accuse miners of attacking cops.

Proud to have done benefits for Truth and Justice Campaign, here's Steve Ignorant and I backstage at one.

Sheep are destroying precious British habitats – and we taxpayers are footing the bill | Chris Packham Large parts of Dartmoor have been denuded of wildlife, harmed by farming and a mess of government schemes that are costly in every way, says naturalist and broadcaster Chris Packham

0.1% of Dartmoor in good ecological condition. And each Dartmoor ewe loses its owner £16.90 – the ecological and economic craziness of the current sheep grazing regime well explained by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. Time to change how this amazing place is managed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Water firms across the country are announcing hosepipe bans.

All while:
- 3 billion litres of water are wasted daily through leaks.
- Not a single major reservoir has been built since privatisation.

Time for public ownership: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

Thirteen individuals have died while detained by ICE this year…….. Say their names ✊🏾

1. Genry Ruiz Guillén (29, Honduran) — died January 23 at Krome Processing Center, Florida 

2. Serawit Gezahegn Dejene (45, Ethiopian) — died January 29 at Eloy Detention Center, Arizona 

Moygashel: Contentious bonfire set alight An effigy of refugees in a boat on top of a bonfire in County Tyrone is described as inhuman by the leader of the Church of Ireland.

Loyalists topping a giant bonfire with effigies of refugees in a boat in Northern Ireland is yet another illustration of how deep, putrid racism can endure for centuries within societies whose origins are colonial.

Whole identities are built on being superior to others.
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All those private healthcare donors watching Wes cash in on their investment.

"No money left" is a political fiction used to protect the super rich from fair taxes.

Rather than take different political choices, Health Secretary is acting like an influencer for privatisation.

Neom | Civils progress update and last indigenous people forcibly evicted | New Civil Engineer What is Neom? Neom is the world’s largest civil engineering project, described as a giga-project, and is located in the northwestern corner of Saudi

Saudi state owners of @NUFC forcibly evicting indigenous people from their homes to make way for the NEOM project.

'(A) former intelligence officer said he was ordered to shoot those who refused to leave.'

Incredibly @NewcastleCC remains silent ...

www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/neom-...

Yep

I wonder how many of this lot have propped up the bar and ranted about how young people are lazy and can’t turn up on time.
(Via @reformexposed.bsky.social)

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you

It has been a long, slow decline. But this is the moment the BBC died as a public service broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The UK must not fail Gaza—a call for government action For nearly 20 months, since October 2023, Palestinians in Gaza have endured a relentless campaign of annihilation. The statistics alone defy comprehension: over 56 000 people killed—one third of them ...

A world in which we allow what is happening in Gaza to be unchallenged is one where senseless mass death is normalised, human beings are dehumanised, dignity is stripped away, and the sanctity of life is lost and inequity and oppression are entrenched.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...