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🚨 Tony Cascarino on Arsenal demanding answers over the Sunderland penalty:
🗣️“Arsenal won the game 2-0, the penalty was saved, and they still want a meeting about it.
If this is how Arsenal are going to behave every time a referee makes a decision they dislike, then we might as well stop playing football and let Arteta referee his own matches.
They want every decision explained when it goes against them, but when decisions go their way, suddenly it’s ‘part of football.’
You cannot spend an entire season talking about referees and then expect people to take you seriously when you call yourselves title contenders.”
Paul Youlden retweeted
Not the result we wanted. But thanks to everyone who came up to speak to me today.
Appreciate all the advice and agree with the main consensus: “Get new running shorts.”
The one bit that sticks most in my mind? “You need to be clearer that Labour left us. We didn’t leave Labour.”
I agree. From here on, I will say it more clearly: mine is a campaign to change Labour back to the party people used to know. A party solidly on the side of working class people. Make no mistake about that.
Despite what happened on the pitch, Everton FC once again excelled off it. It gave me hope that, despite everything, we can re-build more unity in our country. 🙌🏻
#bradleylowery @Bradleysfight
Paul Youlden retweeted
“Ukraine should not have started a war against russia. When you start a war, you got to know that you can win the war. You don’t start a war against somebody who is 20 times your size.”
Donald Trump
Paul Youlden retweeted
“AI is basically sucking up all human knowledge and throwing it back at us - and charging a price.”
Talking Heads founding member David Byrne speaks to @faisalislam about AI and its impact on creativity.
#Newsnight
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The 12 Bournemouth players on the pitch are doing everything they can to get a winner here...
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Before anyone starts thinking that #NigelFarage would handle anything better if he gets into office…
Here is a reminder of his opinions on the disgraceful appointment of #PeterMandelson as US ambassador at the time - he now says of course that it was a big mistake!
Paul Youlden retweeted
Countdown to 2026: In March, Robbie Leigh shared his story about how difficult it is for resident doctors to find jobs after years of training and debt. Since filming this he has completed his move to Australia – we simply can’t afford to lose more doctors like him.
Paul Youlden retweeted
Thank you to all our incredible NHS staff working over the Christmas period 💙
From nurses, doctors and midwives to paramedics, pharmacists and porters, thank you for continuing to care for our loved ones each and every day.
ALT A group of NHS colleagues in blue surgical scrubs stand and smile together. Festive decorations add a seasonal touch. Text on the image reads: “Thank you to all NHS colleagues working this Christmas!” The NHS logo appears at the top of the image.
Paul Youlden retweeted
While you wait hours to be seen in A&E and weeks for a GP appointment, NHS doctors are being forced into unemployment.
This year, 40,000 doctors applied for 10,000 training jobs. Without these training jobs, doctors cannot progress to become the GPs and Consultants the NHS desperately needs.
What the public isn’t told is that these training jobs are deliberately capped by the Government.
Catastrophic workforce planning has created a farcical situation; patients are crying out to see a doctor, while thousands of fully trained doctors are locked out of the NHS.
This year, 14 doctors competed for every single A&E training job. Five doctors competed for every GP training job.
The NHS is turning away dedicated, talented doctors at the door.
This is one of the reasons resident doctors went out on strike and why we are reballoting.
We are training doctors at enormous personal cost; years of study, debt, night shifts, missed family moments, and then telling them there is no place for them in the NHS.
This is not just a workforce failure. It is a moral one.
Paul Youlden retweeted
‘Christmas miracle’ as Wes’s ‘super flu’ falls away during Resident Doctors strike
The #NHS didn’t collapse & the media look like fools for going along with @wesstreeting @DHSCgovuk @NHSEngland spin
Never was any ‘super flu’ & #NHS was not collapsing
gov.uk/government/statistics…
Paul Youlden retweeted
£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
Paul Youlden retweeted
I've written this open letter to @Keir_Starmer & @wesstreeting because, though I am desperately worried about NHS patients over the next 5 days, I know this strike by resident doctors is a desperate act of last resort.
Please read.
Paul Youlden retweeted
You've had over a year to deal with this and you've done nothing.
All you've got to show for it are broken promises and 20,000 doctors locked out of training whilst waiting lists are over 7 million.
When are we going to call it that @wesstreeting has failed as a minister.
"I think that is probably the worst thing the BMA have done since they marched against the foundation of the NHS in 1948"
Health Secretary Wes Streeting criticises the British Medical Association for voting to carry on with "unconscionable" strike action.
#Newsnight
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.@fletchjack from the @BMAResidents explains he wrote to Wes Streeting in Nov to ask for negotiations. Streeting didn't bother replying.
And now the doctors have been forced to take strike action Streeting has the cheek to accuse them of putting patients safety in danger. #GMB
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British trained doctors are being failed by this Government, and the public deserves to know about it.
Doctors who grew up here, trained here, paid tax here and took on £100,000+ of student debt are not being put first for NHS training jobs. Jobs they must secure to become Consultants or GPs.
This year 30,000 doctors applied for just 10,000 NHS training jobs. Yet British trained doctors and international doctors already working in our NHS are not being prioritised for those jobs, over those applying directly from overseas.
The result as @FraserNelson writes?
Doctors pushed into unemployment.
Patients stuck on waiting lists.
And according to a recent survey, over half of FY2 doctors have no regular work lined up from August 2025.
It is a national scandal created by successive Governments and catastrophically bad workforce planning.
If Britain wants a functioning NHS, then British trained doctors should be at the front of the queue for jobs; and those international colleagues already here should be protected.
Instead, Westminster drags its heels while the crisis grows.
The doctor unemployment crisis is one of the reasons doctors are striking again in December. Because if we don’t stand up now, nothing will change.
How can we pretend to value our doctors when they aren’t even being prioritised for jobs in their own country?
Paul Youlden retweeted
“Try this cure for the trainee doctor crisis”
A remarkably refreshing opinion piece in @thetimes.
Unlike our health secretary, @FraserNelson clearly gets it.
@wesstreeting @NHSE_WTE @DHSCgovuk @karinsmyth @LaylaMoran @CommonsHealth @BMAResidents
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thetimes.com/article/d4534d9…
Paul Youlden retweeted
Hi @FraserNelson!
Thanks for being one of the few journalists to try to understand what is REALLY happening with medical training in the UK.
It's a complicated topic and I commend you for being mostly right in your exposition.
A few points:
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