Robin Redmile-Gordon

I’m back! I received Valentines greetings from Nigeria. It started with a phone call just after midnight and in my bleary, harshly awoken state I didn’t register the country +234 code on the calling number. A thick Nigerian accent, in days past, would have alerted me but these days it could be an urgent call from the NHS. I have no idea what was said. I hung up and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later, he called again. Again I have no idea what he said. I just hung up with a polite greeting beginning and ending with F. I was awoken again around 5am by a ping from from my phone. A black banner notification. I reached for glasses and saw an Apple warning that someone was logging into my account from New York. I hit the disallow button and as I’m stumbling around in my dressing gown, urgently changing my password, trying to think clearly, I started joining the dots. I don’t know how they had obtained the password to my X account but I’d made the stupid mistake of using the same one as my AppleID. I’ve spent the last two days changing passwords on dozens of logins and firefighting all the things that break, consequently. Luckily, if I’m not mistaken, I haven’t lost money. I hope. They sent WhatsApp messages and SMS once they’d taken over my X account. I didn’t open them but I took screenshots. Nearly 50 years ago I would get telex from Nigerian Princes offering vast wealth. The it was faxes, even letters, then emails. Now it’s every online interaction we have. Modern day pirates. Be careful out there.

Interesting take. We’ll see.

Apparently I’m not appreciative of Jazz Royalty: Emma-Jean Thackray (often spelled with a hyphen, and sometimes casually as Emma Jean Thackray) is a highly acclaimed English musician, producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and DJ from Leeds, West Yorkshire. She’s widely regarded as one of the UK’s leading figures in the modern jazz scene, often described as a “musical polymath” by outlets like The Guardian. Her work blends jazz with elements of soul, funk, electronica, grunge, pop, and club culture—creating a unique, genre-defying sound that draws comparisons to influences like George Clinton, Kurt Cobain, Alice Coltrane, and Wayne Shorter. Key highlights about her career: • She grew up in a working-class family in Leeds and studied jazz performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, followed by a Master’s in orchestral jazz composition at Trinity Laban. • Her debut album Yellow (2020) won Album of the Year at the Jazz FM Awards in 2022 (she also won Act of the Year via public vote in 2021). • Her second album, Weirdo (released around early 2025 on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings label), is a deeply personal project she wrote, produced, and performed largely solo. It explores themes of loss, grief, recovery, gratitude, and neurodivergence—she’s openly autistic and has ADHD, and the album channels raw emotion with humor and virtuosity. • She’s performed at major festivals like Glastonbury, directed the London Symphony Orchestra in collaborations, toured internationally (including Japan), and built a strong following with tracks like “Sun,” “Movementt,” “Wanna Die,” and others available on Spotify (where she has over 110K monthly listeners). • Her style often mixes live instrumentation with production wizardry, and she’s known for her powerful live shows and self-directed videos.

I’m on a surreal night out “with the lads”, all 30yrs younger than me. We left home around 11am and have been on a pub crawl since we got to town. Had lunch in somewhere called Bob Bob Ricard (what!?!) owned by Russian mafia, good food! Then more pubs, then Ronnie Scott’s with some weird drum and bass meets jazz fusion 😴🥱. Now we’re in this pub and hopefully the car will arrive to take us home before long. Lovely blokes, much pissed, I’m tired but compus mentis. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Origamo3 @anij1306 Oh! Surly doesn’t begin to describe me.

@WhatNowDoc @anij1306 You seem unable or unwilling to back up your statement (and seem rather surly too) . No point in engaging in further conversation.

This isn’t funny. Not if you live in the uk. It’s a documentary. American friends, this is socialised medicine. Yours may bankrupt you but at least they treat you first. 🤨

@Patrici89225734 Oh! So it wasn’t shutting the doors to sick people, emptying the hospitals into care homes so old folks could live out their last days in purgatory and letting the nurses have time to develop their TikTok dance routines…..it was austerity, was it?

This is what the Conservative Party did to all of us! Never let it happen ever again!

@VictoriaZeev @teslaeurope Have you ever experienced human drivers?

@teslaeurope Completing paperwork and tests is progress, but regulatory approval doesn’t guarantee real-world safety supervised FSD still faces unpredictable road conditions and human error

Together with RDW, we have officially completed the final vehicle testing phase for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) and have submitted all documentation required for the UN R-171 approval + Article 39 exemptions. The RDW team is now reviewing the documentation and test results package internally. They have communicated the expected approval for Netherlands date of 4/10, shifting from 3/20 previously and we look forward to successful completion of this cooperation.  Following the Netherlands’ approval, European countries will be able to recognize this approval nationally. We are anticipating a possible EU-wide approval during the summer. Over the past 18 months, this approval has involved a series of intense documentation, development, testing, research & audits. Including but certainly not limited to: – 1,600,000+ km of FSD (Supervised) testing on EU roads – 13,000+ customer sales ride-alongs – 4,500+ track test scenario executions – Thousands of pages of written documentation for 400+ compliance requirements – Dozens of research studies into safety performance/results We're extremely proud of the work conducted with the RDW team up until this point. We very much look forward to the approval in April, and sharing FSD (Supervised) with our patient EU customers!

@oost_marcel I think the first time I did that was, hmm, fifty years ago.

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU–INC, a new framework that lets you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100 Starting a company across the EU today = 27 legal systems, 60+ company structures 🤯 That might be about to change… The European Commission just introduced 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰., a new optional corporate framework designed to make Europe actually function like one market. Here’s what stands out: → Set up a company in 48 hours → Cost: < €100 → Fully online, no minimum capital → One single framework across all EU countries → Easier share transfers & fundraising → EU-wide employee stock options (huge for talent) Especially the EU-wide stock option plans, taxed only when employees actually sell (instead of when granted) is huge. This makes it far easier for startups to attract and retain top talent, finally putting Europe closer to the US playbook. Source/More info: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… In short: This is Europe trying to compete with the simplicity of a Delaware C-Corp 🇺🇸 And honestly… it’s long overdue. For years, European founders had 2 choices: 1. Stay local and deal with fragmentation 2. Move to the US to scale 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰. is trying to remove that trade-off. If executed well, this could be one of the most important structural changes for European startups in decades. What do you think?

@PeterBezz It’s not a chip. I despise it.

@WhatNowDoc Seems you have a chip on your shoulder regarding the NHS

@CaptainCrusty66 Cool.

@WhatNowDoc i have one. i'm building a few guillotines.

@CaptainCrusty66 You need a hobby.

@WhatNowDoc sure. they're making plans to implement the financialization of nature. everything you claim to love is under threat & these mofo's play to win. Capitalism is the #1 enemy of the working class...the essential workers...the ppl who actually PRODUCE things. this is Class war.

@PeterBezz Bully for you. Perhaps you should be asking why “There are only a few hospitals that do hip replacement surgery same day”

@WhatNowDoc so you are an expert on the NHS and Orthopaedic surgery, I never realised. There are only a few UK hospitals that do hip replacement surgery same day. I was in for an extra day due to high blood pressure when trying to walk. My point was I had a very positive experience

@Origamo3 @anij1306 Then go find them, be my guest.

@WhatNowDoc @anij1306 Simply trying to find which stats. For example, per head of population, Scotland has lower levels of corridor care, 7% as opposed to 18% in England and England has twice as many people spending 12 hours or more in A and E than Scotland does.

@petermagellan @guywanderer I honestly don’t care. If someone wants to save a life on his own dime, he’s free to do so. What he’s not free to do is to do it on my dime.

@guywanderer @WhatNowDoc So we should let them die. 😐

@Origamo3 @anij1306 Do I work for you?

@WhatNowDoc @anij1306 Please provide the stats that are worse than England.

@wpoel But I concur.

Send this to every politician. Robin does not point out that the NHS is so broken in many parts of the country, that the private health industry is also overloaded to the point of dysfunction.

@jaquie_f Amazing. So it can be done!

@WhatNowDoc This is nothing like my local surgery. We have online triage that takes seconds. If it's urgent someone will call with an appointment to see you on the same day. If it's non-urgent you will get an appointment for another day. If it's for a blood test, that will be booked...

@PeterBezz You shouldn’t have been, it can be done same day but shouldn’t need more than an overnight stay. That’s a major part of the problem but I’ve no idea what your point was.

@WhatNowDoc Recently had hip replacement surgery on the NHS in a UK hospital I was in for 3 days . Staff couldn’t do enough for me . Stop slagging the NHS.

@CaptainCrusty66 That’s just incompetence, we’ve no shortage of that here, either.

@WhatNowDoc you are wrong. America can & does let ppl die every single day. Capitalism does not demand humanity. quite the opposite, actually.

14 yrs on, two more cancers later, I’m still an awkward bugger, building, creating, loving life and yes, it was well treated, I paid huge amounts of money to ensure that. My only problem has been trying to escape the tentacles of the NHS who complicate everything BUT I have to say my current NHS consultant and the hospital I’m sitting in right now have made enormous strides these last few years.

@WhatNowDoc Robin, thanks for the encouragement. The Practice Manager and I have reached out to our local hospital to understand the numbers visiting A&E when individuals should be seen by their local GP surgeries. I hope your lung cancer has been well treated. 🙏❤️🙏

@anij1306 Yet they have way worse stats than England and most of the worst in Europe. Perfect example of “not what but who”. 👍

@WhatNowDoc I’m lucky I live in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I have access to my gp. Same day emergency appointments and yes, you wait for non urgent. Staff are professional and interested. Consultations are free. Prescriptions are free