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@lukas_ohl A bunch of people in charge of the university give out places which gets the student loans and as a reward the university gets higher student numbers and fees and the people in charge get bonuses knowing it’s all fake. The managers have committed fraud?

@1WorldExplained The first isn’t corruption (it’s just fraud), but the second is closer. It’s a very British corruption: not one corrupt person, but many individuals all turning a blind eye to blatant abuses of the system because their jobs depend on it. (See also: Rotherham etc.)

Britain doesn’t have corruption per se; but we have a professional upper-middle class of lawyers & consultants who make work for each other, leeching off the state in a manner that makes the Motability fakers look like amateurs.

@93vintagejones If only we could spend all that money even on the exact same people doing useful things with their time.

Many people are saying what a chronic waste of money this is, but think how many surveyors, engineers and project managers were kept busy. The point of government infrastructure projects isn't to build things, but to provide a form of white-collar welfare.

@Microinteracti1 Wow are there fighter jets without hot engines????

The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@BenGrahamUK Absolutely no one and it will happen again and it’s happening right now all over the country. Whenever people wonder, why is there no money for anything, the answer is partly that everything we have is wasted.

The A303 Stonehenge tunnel has been scrapped after years of planning. £180 million. Gone. Not a single mile built. Not a single benefit delivered. Just taxpayer money burned. Who is actually held accountable for this?

@KUdissenter But otherwise they might have to spend money on research and teaching! The horror!

Why are so many UK VCs seemingly obsessed with spending £millions on giant vanity projects? Kingston currently has a VC that wants to have a giant new 'legacy' building. No wonder HE is in dire straits.😡

@LopaLeach @timeshighered Risks? It demonstrably already is.

UK academia risks becoming a two-tier workforce timeshighereducation.com/depth/uk-acade… via @timeshighered

@DarrigoMelanie How much did democrats raise and spend in the last US election round?

The maximum an individual can legally donate to a candidate in an election is $3300. Elon donated $277M to Trump in 2024 because of loopholes rich people use to buy elections. If you care about election integrity — overturn Citizens United so our elections aren’t auctions.

@DrSamuelBHume Why would it have an effect? What is the hypothesised mechanism?

Trials of oral semaglutide in early-stage symptomatic Alzheimer’s just published Two big, well-designed trials, and unfortunately, absolutely no effect:

@MauritzPreller Riiight. So you believe that no lives could have been saved if the newer treatments had been rolled out earlier? That is, you believe that everyone on a ventilator would have died regardless, and the other treatments you note could not have saved them, had they been used instead?

@1WorldExplained The ventilators did not kill people. The disease from the virus did. Isn't that exactly what I said.

The “ventilators killed patients” narrative persists for the same reason as many others I've been highlighting here. It exploits a complete lack of understanding of critical care. Ventilators weren’t causing death. They were used in patients already in severe respiratory failure. Many of whom would not survive without intervention. Early in the pandemic, mortality was high because the disease was severe, protocols were evolving, and clinicians were dealing with an entirely new pathology under pressure. Blaming the intervention instead of the underlying condition is basic cause and effect failure. As evidence improved, ventilation strategies changed and outcomes improved with them. That’s how medicine works. Rewriting that history as “doctors killed patients” isn’t analysis. It’s ignorance dressed up as accusation.

@MauritzPreller Your original post was challenging the idea that ‘ventilators killed people’, yet that is sadly true. It was often the incorrect treatment, though people didn’t know at the time. As your articles show. Do you dispute any of that?

@1WorldExplained Did you notice the date of the article? Did I not just share an article? Also, did you miss the points I made in my post including? As evidence improved, ventilation strategies changed and outcomes improved with them. That’s how medicine works.

@MauritzPreller That article says that intubation had inferior outcomes. That is exactly what people have tried to tell you. Best practice evolves. First it was intubation and ventilators, then it was realised this was often bad. Admitting that fact is not a bad thing.

@1WorldExplained South Africa lead with this in July of 2020. 1/2 spotlightnsp.co.za/2020/07/02/cov…

@David__Osland And what would ordinary people do when all the wealth creators have given up because there can be no reward for success?

Polanski's call for a wealth tax would be immensely damaging to ordinary working people. Especially ordinary working people with £10m or more in the bank.

@siimland Wait, didn’t any of them have that magic thyroid condition that stopped them losing weight?

The craziest study ever - The Minnesota Starvation Experiment 32 young men were put on a 40% calorie-restricted diet for 6 months, while staying physically very active They lost 25% of their body weight by the end of it Here's what this study contributed to longevity research

@enzoreds True but that is every job. You work at a company and they will drop you like you’re nothing and no one would ever remember your name.

Please think about the opportunity cost of that PhD. Yes, you’ll have a few years to think and read. But you’ll also be socialised into a cult that will likely expel you after you’ve given it your best years. Or it will keep you on as a marginal servant of sorts. I just got lucky

@DanBoddice @AstroMikeMerri @21percentgroup And you’ve hit the nail on the head. All the academics thought it was a reasonable and good idea at the beginning as they slowly said well I’ll hire this professional person instead of some scatty academic. Then we got this.

@1WorldExplained @AstroMikeMerri @21percentgroup It's not a democracy. Once you have a few politicians in place who value money over academic values they tend to hire other people like them. What began as a fairly reasonable trend to make universities professional tipped over into what we have today

Academics want to do their job well Senior management want austerity that doesn't apply to their own salaries 😉 "University bosses are the problem. I don’t think much will change while they are the only ones in charge" True in UK as well as Australia theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@OJLonTweets @ArchbishopSarah You are free to believe that. Personally I think you’re incredibly naive to believe those reasons for the delay. It seems absurd to say she had to ‘finalise security plans’ (what security does the AB have?) before she could tell people she would vote.

@1WorldExplained @ArchbishopSarah That’s not the case. In any case - the pilgrimage had been in planning for months, the parliamentary vote was only announced on Friday. Have the grace to allow people space to rearrange & finalise plans (including security arrangements) before barking them down.

As I prepare for my installation at Canterbury Cathedral, it feels deeply humbling to be following in the footsteps of those who have walked this ancient route. I’m looking forward to visiting local churches, cathedrals, and holy sites along the route, and to meeting people, praying with them and hearing their stories. As I walk this path I will be praying for our Church and our world and asking God to bless those we meet. Every Christian life is a pilgrimage, a journey with God. As I begin this new chapter in my own life and ministry, I am grateful to be walking with God and with others. archbishopofcanterbury.org/archbishop-sar…

@DanBoddice @AstroMikeMerri @21percentgroup Yes, although you make it all inanimate, as though the jobs give themselves out.

@1WorldExplained @AstroMikeMerri @21percentgroup Originally the people promoted were people good at being academics who then probably did some useful things. But over time those roles start selecting for the kinds of academics who are better at politics and want power rather than being good academics. It's a gradual change...

@OJLonTweets @ArchbishopSarah She hadn’t when I posted! Of course, you may believe it is all just confusion and she always intended to vote but took a while to get round to telling everyone that she would vote. Is that what you believe?

@1WorldExplained @ArchbishopSarah She’s already said she will attend and vote in that?