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This is why the Tories are set to get hammered – politicalbetting.com
This is why the Tories are set to get hammered – politicalbetting.com
I mean, this is quite striking, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/KUVtaNueBi
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Unlike most of the people waiting for treatment.
Well done for going private though, the more higher income people take out private health insurance and use private hospitals, the less the pressure on the NHS. Best wishes for your recovery after your op.
My fellow Russians.
Today I give you the facts as they really are:
1) cars run on gravy
2) Bananas are marsupials
3) Salmon live in trees and eat pencils
4) Russia is winning the war in Ukraine!
(cue the music)
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x64bid6
When did you manage to opt out of learning maths?
Still, well done on congratulating OGH for going private, I am sure that has aided his recovery and eased the pain in his wallet no end.
Personally think Pres. Zelenskyy MIGHT beg to differ IF he wasn't otherwise occupied (in more ways than one).
Waiting lists under Labour from 2005 to 2010 and the Tories from 2010 to 2020 were in roughly the 100 to 200 range.
Only Covid since 2020 has taken waiting lists to 250 to 300 in the range
(I hope you are right, obviously. But I would have thought that that unilateral retreat means no negotiating leverage.)
https://twitter.com/QuantaMagazine/status/1673404326109396992
Nobel laureate in 2019.
The Tories should follow the example of the Coalition Howard government in Australia in 1997 which introduced that so more can follow the excellent example of OGH, go private and cut pressure on the NHS.
The Howard government in 1999 also contributed up to 30% of the private health insurance premium of people with their Medicare universal health coverage
It would be the most brutal defeat of a governing, or recently governing, party since Baldwin managed to reduce Labour from 287 MPs to 50 in 1931.
There is little point being a Conservative if you don't pursue more conservative policies is there? Conservatives believe in choice in public services with private options too, in healthcare as much as anything else
https://twitter.com/_adamcherry_/status/1673404639876640771
Daniel Korski was in the middle of a London mayoral hustings when the Times story dropped. I'm told his aide signalled him over to deliver the bad news. He left.
https://twitter.com/aliciasadowski6/status/1673367042483798029
Putin begins his speech by "welcoming the coming together of society" - claiming Russia is "united" in the face of "this danger".
Then blames the West and the "neo-Nazis" in Kyiv.
Claims the "overwhelming majority of Wagner are also Patriots" - praises them for "turning back".
Putin claims the "organisers of the rebellion will be brought to justice"... So no pardon for Prigozhin, as was promised.
Calls on Wagner fighters to go back to their homes.
The big headline from Putin's speech - no immunity for Prigozhin (and presumably Utkin) - they're going to be "brought to justice".
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1673409419730644996
There is also no point the Tories fighting a battle on who will spend more on the NHS, as Labour will always win it as they are more willing to raise tax higher to pay for it.
The Tories should instead shift the argument to encouraging patient choice in healthcare too
Of the last 2 Susan Hall is probably the best though, at least she has held elected office for the party in the London Assembly, the other candidate has never even stood for the party that I can see
Also: covid deaths = some folk off the waiting list.
Our country has fallen so far, so fast, that just a few months ago the Japanese Prime Minister actually said he felt "sympathy" for the United States. Sympathy! When I am your President, the rest, the rest of the world won't look down on us with pity but up to us with respect again.
Don't you mean racially? But it isn't particularly true. Just look at Ireland.
But after a lifetime of being told the NHS is about to collapse, it actually seems closer to being true than it ever has.
Vladimir Putin will "make a number of important announcements tonight", according to Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman.
https://twitter.com/JimmySecUK/status/1673397962020364307
The Republic of Ireland is of Celtic origin mainly and Roman Catholic heritage.
We also still share the King with Australia and New Zealand, we don't now with the Republic of Ireland.
We got trade deals with Australia and NZ post Brexit, the Republic of Ireland was pretty obstructive to our getting an EU trade deal unless on their terms
There wasn’t ever a threat. I’d have smashed Wagner. None of us were nervous at all, despite my nervy statement over the weekend. But I’ve made a deal with Wagner I intend to keep. You know, instead of smashing them like I could so easily do. But they can go to Belarus. But we’re all very united. So that’s good.
That one wont be filed under ‘coherent.’
Besides pro-Trump sophistry, that is?
Everything this Government touches is reactive rather than proactive. Maybe there is more opportunity for grift in reaction rather than proaction.
@Mortimer - Thank you for your kind post. Appreciated. My dad died aged 96 in February. Just the selling of the house now, which has suddenly turned manic.
@Stuartinromford - I agree completely with your post re maths and eventually everyone hits the buffers in the end, it is just a matter of when. Definitely happened to me. If I had my time again I would do a joint degree of maths with economics or philosophy to put off hitting the maths buffers.
@HYUFD - Thanks for the link re philosophy degree & logic questions. I'm interested but the link didn't work - Page not found. One thing to note (and I say this without having read the link) is the logic you do in a maths degree is far more advanced than stuff you do in a philosophy degree (or in particular questions they may set in an interview) by the nature of the prerequisites. In fact the notation itself will be gibberish without the previous preparation. That is not to say a question set in an interview will not be as difficult, it might in fact be more difficult. There are plenty of everyday logic questions I can't do that an untrained but clever person can do, but which doesn't involve complex logic. And as you know, I don't have a logic degree (I don't even know if such a thing exists), but said it as a riposte to @Miklosvar, although my specialist subjects in my 2nd & 3rd year of maths were all logic topics.
@TheScreamingEagles - I enjoyed your post on deciding your degree/career.
@DecrepiterJohnL - Your post about many Doctors regretting their choice and moving to other careers. I agree. They are often talented in several areas and it follows from my argument of going down the science line first and then wishing they had done something they had more passion for. For most of us we do a degree, and move on, but for a Doctor it is a career. There are so many in the public eye who are ex-Doctors doing non doctoring stuff. My wife (a doctor) often feels the same.
@Miklosvar - You are an arse. When you first appeared on PB I had a pointless pedantic exchange with you and decided to avoid you. Today I made a half serious comment for comic effect that was at the expense of historians/lawyers and people like @TheScreamingEagles and @ydoethur respond accordingly, in fun. You on the other hand responded appallingly, as you nearly always do. I've noticed you have done this with others. With @kinabalu for instance. And your reaction and jumping to the wrong conclusion when I politely said I had to leave for a few hours, but would reply on my return, was an example. Would you have preferred it if I had been rude and just ignored you.
You're rude, pedantic, irrational, and tangential. You appear to be an exceedingly unpleasant person. Not bad going for someone who has only made a few hundred posts.
A waiting list is a dynamic balance between input and output. We know that. We also know that GP sugeries were shifting - as indeed were many of their patients - to infection control measures in February 2020. There was a de facto lockdown before the arguably delayed one that was "official".
Trump 74 million votes
Australia is increasingly American in style, I think.
Whatever will be, will be...
Repeat every Day.
It said nothing really new, but obviously he saw the importance if reappearing.
https://news.sky.com/story/smokers-and-ex-smokers-aged-55-74-to-be-offered-free-lung-cancer-screenings-12909605
Also after reading the Michael Crick biography of Jeffery Archer I rather have a soft spot for him, although he should never have been let anywhere near the possibility of being London Mayor (or my wallet if it comes to that)
As fires begin torching Olympic National Park, the Columbia Basin and elsewhere, Pacific Northwest lawmakers and fire officials are bracing for a wildfire season that could be worse here than anywhere else in the U.S.
Experts predict an above-normal potential for wildfire for all of Washington, parts of Idaho and Montana and Oregon. It’s the culmination of lots of available grassy fuels, and hot and dry conditions expected through the summer months.
Washington saw the least acres burned in a decade last year, after the second- and third-worst fire seasons on record in 2020 and 2021.
But the Bolt Creek fire, which tore through more than 22 square miles of wilderness in eastern King and Snohomish counties last fall, may have been a dress rehearsal for more frequent fires along the western flank of the Cascades as climate change drives warming summers.
Experts say all of Washington will be vulnerable to fire this summer, and Washingtonians should prepare their homes for fire and smoke.
Last year’s quiet start to fire season highlighted the importance of a cool, wet spring. By mid-July, wildfires burned about 7,100 acres, or about 11 square miles, compared with roughly 320,000 acres the previous year.
This May, Western Washington saw precipitation around 5 to 25% of normal, said Matthew Cullen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. It was the second-warmest May on record. . . .