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@doctor_oxford Well there’s a path for NHS reform right there! @wesstreeting

As a doctor, I would simply like to observe that we do not, routinely, conduct ward rounds with a flock of attending bald eagles, nor assess patients with bolts of light emanating from our palms, nor have satanic angels rising from our toupees. Other than that, the AI pic of Dr Trump was spot on.

@MrsEmmaWebber You are an extraordinary human, and an even more extraordinary parent. Generations of young people will be safer because of your bravery in speaking so fully and frankly about your family’s private tragedy. I can’t applaud you enough. Sadly that is all I can do. Sending love.

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@etaknipsa @AllForProgress_ Nor should it be. But it is mis-sold as such to many young people, at great expense.

@KatCongleton @AllForProgress_ HE is not a pipeline for jobs.

The University of Leicester has pulled nearly three hundred UCAS offers for students who were expecting to start Modern Languages and Film Studies this September. The departments are being shut down. The students, many of whom will have turned down other universities and planned their year around going to Leicester, have been told to naff off and find somewhere else. Leicester's UCU co-chair called it a "language-learning desert in the East Midlands." Nottingham has already suspended intake for over forty courses. Essex is closing its entire Southend campus this summer; eight hundred students told to commute to Colchester, four hundred staff let go, international enrolments down fifty-two per cent since 2021. Thirty thousand university jobs have gone across the sector in three years. And the instinct, naturally, is to call this a crisis. I think it's something different. There is no more transformative force for good in all of civilisation than education; and nothing better explains the straits we find ourselves in in 2026 than to consider how much better we were educating people in 1926 than we are now. Nevertheless, an education industry is not the same as a culture of education. And I think what's happening across the tertiary education sector might be something closer to a long-overdue correction of a model that was, at bottom, a racket. The British university sector spent thirty years expanding on the following proposition: charge every eighteen-year-old nine thousand two hundred and fifty pounds a year, regardless of aptitude, regardless of whether the degree has any labour-market value whatsoever. It's great business. You are nominally giving the appearance of investing in your young by building a credential pipeline whose main output, as Rachel Reeves all but admitted earlier this year, is the never-ending interest payments on student loans that allow government to continue spending money on black-hole entitlement schemes, while keeping your brand new confected middle class in debt slavery forever after. Once you've got the domestic student body enlarging at a sufficient clip, you start to really bolster the institutional funds with a parallel stream of international students paying three times what the locals pay for the privilege of a British institutional stamp on their CV. You take the money, build a vanity campus in a satellite town, pay the vice-chancellor £666,000 a year (Oxford, since you ask, though perhaps they've earned the right), and then act stunned when the international pipeline dries up and the sums stop working. These institutions were not, in the main, parsing the frontiers of human knowledge. They were running a fee-collection operation with a graduation ceremony bolted on. The students were the revenue line; the degree was the packaging; and now that the customers are thinning out, the factories are closing, and the people who ran them would like the taxpayer to treat this as a tragedy rather than a consequence. If they cannot serve to demand, if they do not have a service worth providing, if they are in excess to the demand that would sustain them, then we must them close. Let the ones that are genuinely excellent survive on merit, and for those that do not, let something be built in their place that fills in the gaping craters in our economic firmament by teaching people to do things the country actually needs done. Britain managed to produce Newton, Darwin, and the entire Industrial Revolution - managed to establish a system that spread more intelligence throughout the world than any other nation before or since - before anyone decided that fifty per cent of school leavers needed a three-year residential degree whose value as a credential has been utterly annihilated by academic inflation, and economically voided by a lack of graduate jobs.

@MrBonMot Every wine. You’re welcome.

Can anyone recommend a wine that compliments a Greggs Steak Bake?

@cmclymer @Jgs_x Or indeed the Constitution. Or indeed America. Or indeed anyone at all, beyond themselves, their bank balances, and sometimes their fragile, power-hungry egos.

If it wasn't already clear, you can definitively mark today, the morning after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ, that congressional Republicans fully revealed themselves to not actually care at all about Christian values. It was always primarily a grift.

The best of Twitter, the best of @NASA

@JamesEsses And not just any delusional patient: a delusional patient (actually, probably making it up) who was also a convict who was racially abusive to her and who had tried (succeeded?) to physically assault her… Where did common sense go?

Today, the NHS has had to pay out an unknown settlement fee (from taxpayer funds) to nurse, Jennifer Melle, because she was suspended after refusing to use the ‘preferred pronouns’ of a delusional male patient. Gender ideology must be eradicated from the NHS once and for all.

Okay, who did this? 😂

@Regenerate_SOT @RosieKayK2CO I grew up a few miles away and drove through Barlaston weekly. I don’t understand this at all.

Wedgwood Memorial building Barlaston. This breaks my heart it really does

@fesshole 😂🤦‍♀️💪🏻🔥

Worked in a call centre for a big pensions company. A very rude client called to change addresses, to ensure his pension and investment information did not go to his wife, who he was divorcing. Somehow a full account summary immediately got posted to his wife.

Can we please ask for your help to share Busters appeal? Sadly his previous offer fell through, Buster is a 11 year old male Mixed breed. He is available for rehoming and would suit a nice quiet home. Sadly his owners have passed away. Buster is good with dogs and children, due to his age we'd suggest a home with older kids so Buster can relax. He eats wet and dry food and can be left on his own for up to 6 hours. Buster is registered at the vets and fully house trained. He does have some arthritis in his back legs which doesn't seem to be troubling him. At night Buster sleeps in his own bed in the bedroom. He isn't keen travelling in the car. Buster hasn't lived with cats but has seen them in the garden. He likes to play with toys and loves to meet new people. For more information or to offer Buster a new home please email info@help2rehome.com

BREAKING: In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, voters in Hungary today will vote against Orban’s authoritarianism. Today’s the day Orban’s reign ends. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.

77,000 at Twickenham for the women's six nations. Unthinkable even 10 years ago. Great stuff.

Channel 4 Dispatches went undercover inside the Financial Ombudsman Service @financialombuds. What they filmed should have shut the place down. Their own staff said this on camera: "I'm not proud to admit it but I've done it myself. Just taken a chance and just slung stuff through, with any old decision." "You're more likely to meet your targets if you're not upholding them." 11,000 cases fell into a black hole for two years. Some of those letters said "I am going to lose my house." @UKParliament demanded answers. Baroness Ros Altmann called it shocking. MPs threatened a full inquiry. FOS said the footage was "not representative." Nothing changed. Fast forward to today. My own complaint against @rsagroup / @IntactInsurance is now being formally handled by Gary Smith @G8GWS of @MeridianLegals. Gary is the lawyer leading the FOS Litigation Group, a group built on over 1,000 documented FOS failures. He is preparing a judicial review of the FOS. My case has been submitted by Meridian as my regulated representative because what happened to me fits the same pattern Channel 4 filmed. If you have had a complaint dismissed by the FOS and you believe it was handled without proper scrutiny, contact Gary directly at Meridian Legal Services. 0121 516 0675 @MeridianLegals The full transcript of what @C4Dispatches filmed inside the FOS is in the comments. Read it and tell me this is not exactly what is still happening today.

So many young girls have found their new role model.

@buitengebieden @Harry20211959 Douglas and Margaret

Today it’s International Pet Day! 🎉 Let’s celebrate this day together and create a big thread of our pets! Please share a picture and the name of your pet(s) in the comments! 😊 And give your pet an extra treat and hug from me.. ❤️

Foster Mare needed*** Freshly born TB foal, mare needs to come here (Devon) can pick up from anywhere. Please share 07536021449 North Devon

@KatarinaHill2 I have the biggest girl brain crush on that fabulous woman

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Just unblock their nest holes, @networkrail. Please share! theguardian.com/environment/20…