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Founder: Comedy platforms Craic + Craic Health; CRAFT (UK Comedy body). Empowering everyone who creates loves needs comedy. @TheCraiclol • @craft_cio

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Proud to launch 'Simon Says, Let's Talk', the men's creative health Podcast-on-Prescription series. Our opening guest is Andy Burnham MP, with his special music playlist—I asked @andyburnham who's funnier @liamgallagher / @NoelGallagher of @oasis: 👉 📹🎙️craic.health/simon-says-lets…👈
Simon Says, Let's Talk is a free, not-for-profit creative health series supporting men's mental health through honest conversations with well-known men from comedy, music, sport, politics and public life. Hosted by GP and MP Dr Simon Opher MBE, the series explores the pressures men often face but can struggle to express — loneliness, finance worries, grief, relationships, identity, fatherhood, shame, burnout, body image, alcohol, gambling, the manosphere, and the pressure to "man up." Honest, funny, and hopeful on men's mental health, Andy Burnham and Lu Jackson (Founder of Craic Health) open the series with Simon to launch the world's first "Podcast-on-Prescription"... and Lu makes the Mayor of Manchester answer the big one: who's funnier, Liam or Noel? Andy curated a music playlist: "Music for Men to remaster themselves: Run To The Kings of the North"... Oasis, New Order, Stone Roses, The Smiths — the soundtrack to getting back on your feet.

ALT Simon Says, Let's Talk is a free, not-for-profit creative health series supporting men's mental health through honest conversations with well-known men from comedy, music, sport, politics and public life. Hosted by GP and MP Dr Simon Opher MBE, the series explores the pressures men often face but can struggle to express — loneliness, finance worries, grief, relationships, identity, fatherhood, shame, burnout, body image, alcohol, gambling, the manosphere, and the pressure to "man up." Honest, funny, and hopeful on men's mental health, Andy Burnham and Lu Jackson (Founder of Craic Health) open the series with Simon to launch the world's first "Podcast-on-Prescription"... and Lu makes the Mayor of Manchester answer the big one: who's funnier, Liam or Noel? Andy curated a music playlist: "Music for Men to remaster themselves: Run To The Kings of the North"... Oasis, New Order, Stone Roses, The Smiths — the soundtrack to getting back on your feet.

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A look at some of the winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 competition
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Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the code that put humans on the moon, has died at 90 🕊️
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Seb Johnson
@SebJohnsonUKSep 14
10 Downing Street is hosting its first ever hackathon. ​The two-day hackathon will bring technologists from outside government together with civil servants to work on real problems facing the state. Anyone is open to apply, although spots will be limited. They're releasing information on the key tracks later this week, although it's going they are going to be focused on solving real problems that civil servants and the government face today. The strongest teams will present their work to the Cabinet Secretary (@AntoniaRomeoUK) and other government leaders in No10. This is a real opportunity for people with a tech background to an impact within government. WE LOVE TO SEE IT. Technology presents such a huge opportunity to improve public services, and it's amazing to see the government embrace this opportunity. Shoutout to @davidgelberg and the team for organising this. Link to apply in the comments below.
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Thanks @KanishkaNarayan, it's fantastic to have this overview.
Kanishka Narayan MP
@KanishkaNarayanSep 4
Last night, @OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, the first model to meet its “Critical” cyber threshold. Britain’s @AISecurityInst independently tested it, including its monitorability. This is AISI’s purpose, providing the government with evidence about powerful AI systems and, by doing so, helping to keep the public safe. 1/6
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Life advice: don’t waste time being pissed. Laughing is much better for your health. And almost nothing matters as much as we think in the moment. Laughing reminds you of that.
Trance Buffalo
@TranceBuffaloSep 1
Replying to @Schwarzenegger
Its great you can have a sense of humor about that. I know id be pissed!
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Hi @andyburnham, the business rates reliefs is wonderful, however can you please include comedy? We emailed you an open letter Thursday. UK grassroots comedy is collasping—the sector needs your help 🙏. @LabourList @LabourWomenTech @UKLabour @Number10cat thecraft.lol/newsroom/craft-…

CRAFT's Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Back UK Comedy — CRAFT

CRAFT has written to the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, requesting an urgent meeting on comedy sector tax reform. Pubs and live music venues get a 20% business rates cut — comedy venues are...

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CRAFT CIO@CRAFT_CIOJul 23
INCLUDE COMEDY: CRAFT (UK Comedy Body) has asked to meet PM Andy Burnham @andyburnham —backed by cross-party MPs + industry leaders including Tom Walker (@JonathanPieNews) + @mattforde — with a package of reforms to give comedy parity of esteem across the tax system. 🧵
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I'm still astonished that 12 months ago most engineers wrote code by hand, and now most code is AI-generated. Makes you wonder what's normal today that's gone by next year.
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🚨: Mia Heller, high school student, 18, invents water filter that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics.
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Thanks for this feature @IndyNurseMag 🙏 #comedyonprescription
Independent Nurse@IndyNurseMagJul 2
How comedy made it on to the NHS's social prescribing list. independentnurse.co.uk/conte…
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Given today’s political banter over @KemiBadenoch's “pair of eyelashes and a black T-shirt” ribbing of @AndyBurnhamGM + his dry correction that it was “dark blue actually”, the timing couldn’t be better for an article by Dr Simon Opher MP asking: Should MPs tell more jokes?
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In his latest op-ed, Dr Opher argues that humour isn’t just entertainment—it’s a serious tool for communication, connection, and healthcare outcomes. Below is an excerpt, or read the full article here: labourlist.org/2026/06/comed….

‘Have you heard the one about the doctor prescribing a good laugh?’ – LabourList

Should MPs tell more jokes? It might seem both trite and ever so slightly insulting to ask this when mental health in this country is…

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#Comedy #CraicHealth #UKcomedy #comedypolitics #andyburnham #kemibadenoch
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Harj Taggar
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My OpenClaw booked a car service to take me to the opening England World Cup game today. When I got in the car, the driver told me he’d used Claude Code to build his whole website and booking system, then asked Claude to optimize it so agents would find him. What a time to be alive.
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SpaceX's IPO is expected to create over 4,000 new millionaires That includes cafeteria workers who have stock options in their compensation packages
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Wow. Interesting.
Tyler Bosmeny
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A mic drop moment @ycombinator tonight @sama just offered $2M in OpenAI tokens to EVERY YC startup in the current batch in exchange for equity Just like Yuri Milner offering to invest in every startup back when Sam was a YC partner I can't wait to see what's unlocked when you let the most driven, creative and formidable founders tokenmaxx
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“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.” — Goethe
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