For many years, at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, a very small group of us campaigned for more beds and more hospital staff to run them. This was not really visionary thinking, given a growing and ageing UKpopulation. We were comprehensively ignored. @RCollEM @NHSGIRFT

Save the Children is among the INGOs that have been denied re-registration by Israeli authorities to continue providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian communities from 1 January 2026. Read our full statement here: bit.ly/4srvdxv

Israel approves 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank bbc.in/4an5ik1

At the request of the illegal “Havat Maon” settlers, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian children, aged 8–12, for gathering wild vegetables and flowers near the settlement.

I have been reflecting much on Katie’s comment here. With her I pray also for Wisdom & her gifts of discernment & humility for Sarah as @OfficeofABC. Primarily I pray for that in relation to the many victims & survivors of abuse @churchofengland who are looking for that repentant sea change of culture that all of us require with urgency. It is the victims and survivors who who have been damaged in our communities who are closest to the Christ of this Advent season. Christ comes to us both as a vulnerable human child & as judge of all human in/action for the good of God’s Reign of justice & peace. It is those who have abused in our communities who mediate Christ in vulnerability & in judgement for us. They are the ones who tragically in the present reveal God’s unmasking in Christ’s life & the paschal mystery of all our human abuse & sinfulness among us. This is the fundamental theological & missional question that is all so overlooked when we put Safeguarding into a box of just another thing we do. To follow Christ is to be called to give Life in all its fullness. To be a priestly people is to embody that. To abuse people is to destroy Christ’s mission. The mission @churchofengland in the present needs much more humility. In the face of difficulties now being revealed in her time as bishop of @dioceseoflondon I pray that Sarah things very carefully about what it may now be necessary to do for her ministry & God’s ministry through the Church to have any moral credibility. At the very least, she needs to postpone her becoming the archbishop, commission an independent review into the Safeguarding culture of the Diocese of London in her time, and when that is reported upon outline a timeframe within six months in which recommendations will be completely actioned.

This is simply not correct as it compares a family with disabilities on benefits with a working family without them. See Centre for Social Justice which (sort of) makes that clear. Without disabilities the result is very different.