NHS worker. Alumni of NHS graduate management scheme. Liverpool fan. 🇲🇹🇪🇺 he/him

Joined September 2013
Alex Borg retweeted
Apparently concert venues are having a hard time getting Millennials to fill the seats. Well, hello. Millennial here. I think I can help. DEAR CONCERT VENUES: 🎟️ Just tell me what the ticket costs. I do not want to select a $79 ticket and discover at checkout that it is actually $146 because of a facility fee, service fee, processing fee, and a fee for having successfully paid the other fees. 📱 Stop making ticket buying a military operation. I should not need three apps, a verified fan code, a presale password from a credit card I don’t own, and 11:00 AM availability on a Tuesday to buy two seats. 💺 Assigned seats. We did our time standing shoulder-to-shoulder at shows in 2008. Some of us have mortgages now. Some of us have sciatica. 🕖 Start earlier. A 7 PM show is not embarrassing. In fact, I would like to formally recognize whoever invented the 7 PM show. ⏰ And tell us the actual times. “Doors at 7” is not useful information if the opener starts at 8:15 and the person I came to see appears at 10:07. 🚗 Parking instructions written for a normal person. Tell me which garage to use, what it costs, and whether I will spend 55 minutes trying to leave it afterward. I am willing to pay $20 for certainty. 🍺 I will buy your $14 beer. I have accepted this. But if I miss three songs waiting for it, you have broken the social contract. 🚽 Enough bathrooms. We are in our 30s and 40s. Half of us have had children. This is now infrastructure. 🔉 It can still be loud. We are Millennials, not the Greatest Generation. But some of us are bringing earplugs now and we are no longer ashamed of it. DEAR ARTISTS: ⏰ Please go on roughly when you said you would. We have babysitters. The babysitter has an end time. This is now a logistics problem involving several adults. 🎤 Play the songs from 2004–2014. You know which ones. We know which ones. Nobody needs to pretend otherwise. 🎶 Play some new stuff. Absolutely. We support your continued artistic development. But there is a point in the evening when you need to play the song that was on our iPod Nano while we drove to high school. 📵 You can tell us to put our phones away. We secretly want someone to make us do this anyway. 🪑 An intermission would not offend us. We can use the bathroom, answer the babysitter, check whether the dog has destroyed anything, and look at Zillow for eight minutes. And please understand: Millennials still like concerts. We have disposable income now. We are nostalgic. We will absolutely spend irresponsible amounts of money to hear a band we first discovered on LimeWire. But we also have jobs, children, dogs, mortgages, lower-back problems, and a very clear memory of when concert tickets cost $35. You want Millennials back? Make it easy to buy the ticket. Tell us when the show actually starts. Give us somewhere to sit. Play the song from 2007. We’ll be there. We just need to be home by 11.
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Alex Borg retweeted
We are deeply saddened by the passing of the legendary Kevin Keegan and mourn his loss. His indomitable spirit and remarkable contribution will be forever etched in our history and his legacy will live on. Rest in peace, Kevin. 1951-2026

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Alex Borg retweeted
Retweet for a chance to win! We are giving away 4 Charlatans bucket hats They will be available to order from our online store from 10am Friday May 29th to 11pm Monday June 1st (winners announced 9am Friday)
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Upcoming industrial action is highly likely to cause significant service disruption across all East Cheshire sites including Macclesfield, Knutsford and Congleton hospitals. Read more ➡️ ow.ly/gR9n50XpcrT
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Today we start the journey in Parliament to ensure that the 97 children, women and men who lost their lives at Hillsborough will receive a fitting legacy when the Hillsborough Law is laid down in Parliament. #JFT97
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Alex Borg retweeted
The Anfield Wrap
@TheAnfieldWrap28 Apr 2025
What a video to start your morning Champions.
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This is Liverpool. This is history. 🗣️ Words by @OfficialJRbrts
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Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
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Any mental health students who have interviews coming up, Ward Manager @JohnBWaldron offers some fantastic tips to prepare for interviews, see @YouTube link: youtu.be/TOnw3Frkh6c We hope you find the advice helpful 🤩🍀 @lanternpublish
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🏥 As performance league tables are to be introduced in the #NHS , it is worth revisiting these #openaccess articles by Russell Mannion @CoSS_Birmingham @unibirmingham and colleagues on the dysfunctional consequences of performance metrics and incentive regimes in the NHS. 👇
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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
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This week is #SASWeek24 - recognising and celebrating the incredible work and expertise of specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors. Happy SAS week to all of our incredible SAS doctors!
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The NHS needs to confront the serious problem of racism within the service nhsconfed.org/articles/nhs-n…
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I know a few fellow women footballers across the NHS… which made me curious… do we have an #NHS Women Team or Network? If not, do you fancy starting an NHSWomeninFootball movement? - physical and mental wellness - connect to brilliant colleagues - energising DM me 🙏
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Our message is simple. There is no place or no excuse for racism or discrimination of any kind. Unity is our strength. #OneTeamBWC by your side. Read our Trust joint statement in full on our website: orlo.uk/JLgBH
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Forget riots - why not compete in the The EDL-ympics! 🎾🥋🏓 A safe space to express your misdirected hatred 😃
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Wrote some more about productivity. I look at the key theories of what’s going on from capital, digital, complexity, age of the workforce to the McDonalidasation of tasks- they all have a role in mending a broken NHS. None more than psychological safety: nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-it…
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Replying to @wesstreeting
@wesstreeting comments that the NHS is broken has been widely reported. He also is clear that it can be mended. I agree. Since reading his comments I have thought of #kintsugi - the Japanese art of mending ceramics so they are more beautiful than before . Here’s the hope.
It is now the policy of the Government that our NHS is broken. It will be the mission of my department, every member of this government, and the 1.4 million people who work in the NHS, to turn our health service around. That work starts now.
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🎉 Today marks one year since the return of our maternity services at Macclesfield District General Hospital! 💙 Thank you to all staff who provide excellent care and compassion to so many women and families every single day. What a year it's been! ⬇️
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Feelings of anxiety and depression can affect us all. This #MensHealthWeek, if you need help with your mental health, you can refer yourself, or your GP can refer you to NHS Talking Therapies. ➡️ nhs.uk/talk
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