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The argument that “we need PAs due to a GP shortage” is a lie. The “NHS GP shortage” is deliberate & entirely manufactured 15036 doctors applied for 4096 GP training posts **10,940 doctors** were unsuccessful We have the doctors! NHSE are ensuring there are NO jobs for them!

These chairs are called Chandigarh chairs and come with an interesting history - they were designed for government workers in a new planned city in India in the 50s. The originals sell for ~$20k. Chandigarh is my favorite city to visit in India- it’s like a museum of architecture & urban planning and its order is nothing like the chaos-filled cities in the rest of India. The backstory is that the British divided the state of Punjab into Pakistan and India in 1947, and the capital Lahore ended up in Pakistan, so India had to choose a new capital. Indias first PM Nehru had a bold vision for the capital - he wanted to create a new town, symbolic of the freedom of India, unfettered by the traditions of Indias past. He ended up hiring Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier to design it… in part because he was affordable! India couldn’t pay him much- £2000 a year, but Corbusier was an old man at this point and really wanted to see his theories come to life, and Nehru gave him that chance. So they started building- it was a bunch of farmland and villages that they tore down as a base and then they put up a bunch of tents where the architects lived. Le Corbusier's master plan for Chandigarh was based on the human body, with a clearly defined head (the Capitol Complex, the seat of the government), heart (the City Centre Sector 17), lungs (open spaces), the intellect (cultural and educational institutions), the circulatory system (the network of roads, the 7Vs), and the viscera (the industrial area). Each neighborhood is self-contained with shops schools parks etc. He put his cousin Pierre Jeanneret in charge of the furniture; it had to be functional, aesthetically pleasing, and modern, and had to be easy to mass produce in India - any carpenter need to be able to make it. It was all tied into the overall theme and the spirit of a new India — simplistic yet bold, minimalistic yet functional. So we got the Chandigarh chair. When I see them I think of government offices, because they ended up in govt offices all over India due to their ease of mass production. We’re buying some furniture and will def be getting some Chandigarh inspiration.