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Labour is the most trusted party in the Red Wall on every issue EXCEPT Ukraine.Who do Red Wall voters trust the most on…? (Lab | Con)NHS (38% | 22%)Housing (34% | 22%)Economy (34% | 29%)Immigration (28% | 27%)Ukraine (29% | 30%)https://t.co/LAF0h30Asw pic.twitter.com/GnofKrgno9
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https://twitter.com/oybay/status/1707214856682865118
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) melts down as an NBC reporter questions GOP claims of DOJ political interference in favor of Joe Biden before he was president.
https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1707103282001277004
High dropout rate has left health service increasingly reliant on foreign doctors to fill vacancies, report warns
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/27/trainee-doctors-full-time-nhs/ (£££)
Link to the source think tank report:-
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/research/waste-not-want-not-strategies-to-improve-the-supply-of-clinical-staff-to-the-nhs
Looks pretty good to me.
https://nephewjonathan.substack.com/p/diy-geoengineering-the-whitepaper
...Global warming, though not ocean acidification, is quickly and cheaply reversed by ejecting calcite nanoparticles (with an average radius in the ~90nm range) into the stratosphere, using a propeller-based system to prevent particle clumping. The particles should be carried up by hydrogen balloons, and very preferably released over the tropics. The total amount needed will be on the order of several hundred kilotons yearly, and the total cost should be somewhere between $1B and $5B yearly.
Let's go through this piece by piece...
Even if the cost is out by an order of magnitude, it could easily be funded by (for instance) the EU on its own.
To say the debate was chaotic, would be an understatement. The moderators were rubbish, and the candidates spent half the time talking over each other.
Fundamentally, global warming is an energy problem. Change the source and mode and it goes away.
As for judging if it works, the effect of the recent desulphurisation of marine propulsion oil (in raising tropical ocean surface temperatures) was dramatically evident within a couple of years.
You would expect a similar, but opposite effect from this.
Read the article.
And that, for many of them, their family finances work fine with less than FT work?
It's a tricky one. There are people who can be motivated into working unhealthy combinations of hours and pressure by absurd amounts of money. See the racier bits of the financial and legal professions. But a lot of people just aren't wired that way. Good thing too, or we wouldn't have any suburban science masters.
Good people cost what they cost, but that cost is a triad of pay, hours and working conditions. We hear a lot about the first, but one of the reasons for that is that we've let the second and third slip for many people. A lot of PT work in the professions is all about people being unhappy about hours or stress levels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMlVD75RTaw&ab_channel=MeidasTouch
They suggest that the 17-acre Mar-a-Lago property is worth $18m, when half an acre with a house on it next door sells for double that amount.
Zillow - Palm Beach, FL
You don’t have to like the guy, to think that there’s a co-ordinated effort to tie him up in legalities for the next year.
This is the sort of sh!t we see in Africa, not what you’d expect in a first world democracy.
And the case will go before a jury.
Note Trump's lawyer was arguing yesterday that it didn't need to (there are another half dozen charges).
Point is that if it works, it works. If it doesn't, it's just a lot of non toxic dust in the atmosphere for a fairly short time. Which happens every time a wind blows across the Sahara.
The reason did doing it in the tropics is that that's where the effect (as we've seen with what happened with the marine diesel sulphur ban) is most pronounced.
Well now your conversation is indexed in Google’s public search function. You’ll be hoping you didn’t ask it anything too personal, nor ask it anything that might identify you…
https://venturebeat.com/ai/oops-google-search-caught-publicly-indexing-users-conversations-with-bard-ai/
This is a civil case. There is discussion on whether this evidence can form the basis of a criminal prosecution (issues around whether statute of limitations apply, complicated by issues of the clock not running the four years he was President).
But this summary judgement is utterly damning. And cancels the licences needed for the Trump businesses to operate in New York.
The Trump line has been peddled for 24hrs, and even a relative political sophisticate like Sandpit is repeating it.
The accusation is that he declared that as the taxable value, while using the actual value to secure the property against loans, and that the discrepancy amounts to fraud.
Trying to do politics through the courts, is likely to increase his support rather than diminish it. It’s a seriously worrying development in a first-world democracy.
https://www.ft.com/content/86ac2b81-8e7e-4d47-978c-6c8fb7650829
It isn't just pay. People want to be treated with respect by government and management and have some work life balance.
Market forces at work.
"Labour drops plan to strip public schools of charitable status"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66942985
Not a good look.
More and more it seems that the United States of America cannot be described as a first world democracy. First world possibly; democracy, highly doubtful.
We need to make it desirable for people to remain in the professions of medicine and nursing, and not deceive new recruits.
Health care professions are amongst the most transferable skills for people wanting to emigrate. That includes both Britons going to Australia, and Egyptians coming here.
But hey, what do I know.
The narrowest Labour red wall lead since August 2022 is good news for Labour and Starner!!
And in any event, the effects of excessive temperatures on crop growth will be far greater than anything resulting from a small increase in solar energy being reflected back into space.
If there are possible objections to the experiment, I think this one is pretty feeble.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/27/german-greens-block-sales-typhoon-jets-saudi-arabia/
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/london/3d-models-crystal-palace-dinosaurs/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=news
https://heritagecalling.com/2023/08/31/6-historic-places-that-inspired-tolkiens-middle-earth/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=brand
The sums involved with that company are so massive that even the Chinese economy is materially affected. This looks like another credit crunch there which will materially impact on investment, growth and demand this winter. Not a good sign for global growth.
In 2019 the BREXIT election the Tories won the red wall.
Hope that is helpful
Contrary to the Daily Mail and Twatter, the number of murders is small and the number of multiple murders tiny.
If we simply locked up for life everyone guilt if more than one murder or murdering a child, the cost would be a tiny, almost invisible pimple on the arse of the budget.
Our son works in this sector and it is clear that the likes of Eton and other elite schools will see little effect as the wealthy will pay it, but there are many more less elite schools who are at risk of losing so many students they may well close with the loss of many jobs, a problem for local state schools having to admit more students, and the loss to the community of a facility that provides bursaries to the poorest and charitable work to and in the community
I do not want to argue over this, but I am seeing it first hand and it is going to affect those fairly normal families who sacrifice considerably to provide their children with the education they want them to have
Furthermore, it will not raise anything like the expected income and is likely to face legal challenges from the sector
So no, I do not accept labour have adopted a sensible compromise as the 20% VAT charge and possibly the cancellation of gift aid will have a detrimental effect on the sector as I have outlined and an adverse effect for their communities and add to the numbers moving to state schools
They can't strip the charitable status because it would require redefining what a "charity" is - as a few of us have pointed out - but they still plan to press ahead with charging VAT on school fees regardless.
That would require a complex change on VAT exemptions for education in the law, which would mean it also potentially hits private tuition and private nursery fees as well. Anything else wouldn't necessarily hold up in the courts.
Labour have got themselves into a right mess on this and are clearly worried about this opening up a flank to the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives in some of their target seats.
That is what the GOP Congress is currently doing.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/28/medieval-murder-maps-of-three-english-cities-london-oxford-york
Oxford undergrads definitely a bunch of thugs, sex offenders, etc. etc.
https://medievalmurdermap.co.uk/maps/oxford/?t=["homicide"]
NHS employment practises and organisation resembles those of the 1970s U.K. car industry. Incompetent and pointless strife everywhere.
When other car companies came to the U.K. in the 80s, they achieved harmony, productivity and a satisfied workforce. All the while, in the legacy industry, the same old nonsense staggered on. And this was with the same pool of workers and management - most of the people working in the new industry were from the old.
An organisation is a machine to help humans achieve things en masse. Ergonomics, anyone?
Here is the charge, in Joe Biden’s own words:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VG0nAT9xOHk
You may recall, that this exactly the same issue for which the Democrats impeached Trump.
Seems a bit risky to me. Why not just decarbonise our economy instead of creating additional potential risks for the poorest people in the world, who have played almost no role in creating this problem.
The rest of the world manages just fine without supranational courts. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, plenty of democracies around the planet rely upon sovereign national Supreme Courts and the rule of law that way.
The ECHR is a failure. Until last year it maintained Russia as a full sovereign member of the Court and the Convention. Russia wasn't removed because it was a one party dictatorship that has no free press, no free elections, routinely murders its civilians both domestically and abroad. No, Russia was only removed because it invaded Ukraine.
Relying upon the ECHR to protect your rights is like relying upon healing crystals to cure cancer.
The only way to ensure your rights are protected, as we've done for hundreds of years, is to fight for them, fight to maintain them, and ensure them in Parliament. And to vote accordingly, and campaign accordingly.
This Guardian article explains part of what’s happening with GPs: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/18/two-thirds-of-trainee-gps-in-england-plan-to-work-part-time-study-finds Lots of GPs work what is notionally a bit less than full-time, but because of workload pressures, their actual hours are the equivalent of a full-time job.
The proportion of children attending private school is close to zero across the vast majority of the income distribution, and doesn’t rise above 10% of the cohort except among those with the top 5% of incomes. Only half of those in the top 1% send their kids to private school
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2021/02/08/housing-wealth-not-bursaries-explains-much-of-private-school-participation-for-those-without-high-income/
It doesn't make the policy right or wrong, but normal families, even normal professional families, stopped being able to afford private schools out of salaries long ago.
The Prosecutor was not investigating Burisma, and was corrupt and the US and allies (including European countries and the IMF) were united in trying to remove him as part of an anti-corruption drive.
Which is why Biden said that, on the record, publicly, in that clip you shared and it was not something that was done in the shadows like Trump trying to coerce a malicious agenda.
This was all covered years ago:
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD440.pdf
I'm sure PBers will respect this request.
Also: this was in the Graun. Some folk very much a case of wanting to *live* longer, never mind enjoy it!
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/sep/27/over-50s-on-switching-to-part-time-work
America supposedly had a full separation of powers, so under that full separation is abortion protected under the Constitution or not?
Instead of becoming a matter of law, it means there's been a tug of war over who controls the courts and getting your own people to dominate the courts and rule in your favour. Rather than separating powers, that corrupts them.
The Westminster system has a stronger track record on maintaining human rights than almost any other country on the planet.
The problem for the government is that it costs us so much to subsidise the training of a doctor that it becomes an issue if so many of them either do not practise in the NHS at all or only do so on a part time basis.
Trump doesn’t keep losing court cases because there’s a co-ordinated effort to get him. He keeps losing court cases because he’s a serial liar.
We just enlighten the uninformed....
The US is a federation. The UK is not. There is no obligation to import the US system to the our country.
You accuse others of naivety, but are prepared to trust your human rights to Suella Braverman!!!
As an example of the support the school provides to the community they allow him all the time he needs to fulfil his duties as RNLI crew including attending shouts, extensive time in training and indeed for the three days he has been away in Poole this week at RNLI training headquarters
The trouble with geo-engineering is a political and moral one. Climate change through CO2 is attributable to humans, but not to an individual company or agency, or even directly to a country. So people may die in floods or heatwaves but there’s nobody you can realistically sue or prosecute. Geo engineering is a deliberate action that can be traced to a single body or country. Any global change had regional impacts - it would likely reduce overall global rainfall and cause quite directly attributable droughts and crop failures. The affected country, especially if it didn’t sign up to the experiment in the first place, will have a stronger legal recourse. Or if it doesn’t, the farmers will have recourse to their country.
It’s not necessarily true that aerosol injection would have wildly unpredictable results. It can be modelled quite accurately including on a regional scale. Famously after Pinatubo James Hansen at NASA accurately predicted to within a tenth of a degree the cooling impact and duration. And modelling is better now. But that’s also a problem because the losers from any action would know ahead who they are, and would quite reasonably resist it.
So getting someone to press the button seems tricky.
I went home for the night to avoid the inevitable. The bill for damage reached 5 figures and there were a number of assaults and other crimes.
But I forget: you don't want to discuss or argue the matter. Kindly therefore ignore this.
https://twitter.com/Daniel_Sugarman/status/1707131397217951848
Can't be arsed with all the SAS guff but this is pretty good.
https://x.com/The_TUC/status/1707004871877013735?s=20
The ECHR would be awesome for their way of thinking - they just need to pack the court. Mind you, it took the loony Republicans many
decades to work that one out in the US.
Wonder if Orban and chums can read history?
This had some positive effects on the school. The professionals were much more interested in results than those who simply wished to ensure that their kids had a social network that was likely to help them through life. They put pressure on the school to improve results and it worked. Extra help for those who wanted to study medicine, for example, was made available relating to their specific entrance exams.
In the 2 years since my son left there has been a sharp increase in fees. This is partly because of tax changes, notably rates, but also because fees were held down during Covid. We would have found the current fees very difficult to pay from income and if this trend continues it may be that the old money once again becomes more signficant.
It’s clearly something that would be career suicide if he mentioned it in his professional world, and clearly we can’t have a situation where we don’t train women as doctors because you train them then lose a lot for a chunk of their career, but I wonder if it is something that can never be solved because the optics of bringing it up as an issue would be beyond problematic.
However we have a further 300 houses beIng built, which from the look of the estate will soon have residents. We’ve been promised more medical services, but it’s a bit difficult to see them coming.
Our neighbour community has a similar amount of building and as far as I can see there are fewer full-time GP’s than a few years ago.