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"Look from your side to this side, see these white cliffs and we're looking across at you feeling we want to be together and we will be together before long I'm sure."

If you want to understand why today’s youth support Zack Polanski, look no further than the replies on this post. It’s a sea of illiterate boomers telling the young they’re stupid to demand a different system to the one that has priced them out of home-owning and familyhood.

There are only two problems with 'independent regulators' like Ofcom and Ofwat; they're not independent and they don't regulate

An entire week of every other service asking us to solve their problems really is taking it's toll. We want to see our patients not be the secretary for other teams. If General Practice fails, the NHS fails.

Your solution: Force GPs to deal with unlimited numbers of patients every day. Reduce waiting lists by allowing hospitals to reject GP referrals. Share confidential GP records with private companies. I’ve never known a health secretary show such hostility to General Practice.

Over 100 Israelis in Tel Aviv holding photos of children killed in Israel, Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon during the ongoing war with Iran.

No @KirstieMAllsopp, he’s not just the only man on the shortlist, he’s the only one without any broadcast experience.

Caroline Lucas: “Do you trust this man (Reform’s James Orr), I would like to ask you?” Caroline Lucas: “Because I have a vision of a bus with £350m” Everyone Laughs. Fiona Bruce interrupts unnecessarily with "but there are people in this audience who support Reform" And?

He's cancelling Christmas. For the first time, a politician is *actually* trying to cancel Christmas. #womp #womp

So all the performance art and fantasy of the petrol station last week Not one Reform MP was in Parliament to vote on the fuel duty issue this afternoon

Hospitals boasting that they have check in screens as a huge win is hilarious. GPs have been using them for 15 years plus. We have had electronic notes for even longer. We are seen as the luddites and get reduced funding. They get more funding and do less each year.

@drgandalf52 @Parody_RCGP How interesting. I hadn't read this til now but my silent reflection on my drive home was how often I have had to apologise for saying no on behalf of another service today. And how much I don't want that to be my job anymore.

She wasn’t angry because she hadn’t been listened to. She was angry because she had—and the answer was still no. A thread 🧵 Patient with a seborrhoeic keratosis. Assessed. Derm advice done. Reassured: harmless. But removal? Not funded. Not commissioned. Not within ICB criteria. No service available. She didn’t want private care. Completely reasonable. From her side: “Why can’t this just be sorted?” From mine: Because the system has already decided it won’t be. That’s the real shift in general practice. We’re no longer just managing illness— we’re managing access. And increasingly, restricting it. The consultation was about to tip. Then a loud beeping started. Louder. Louder. I woke up. It was my alarm. And that’s when it hit me— I’m now dreaming about resource management. Not burnout. Something else. The cognitive load of constantly holding: • patient need • system limitation • policy decisions • shrinking capacity With April contract changes coming led by @wesstreeting and @DHSCgovuk, this tightens further. Set nationally. Felt locally. Patients aren’t the problem. GPs aren’t the problem. But we’re the ones in the room when the system says no.

Britain is 6% Muslim. Germany 5%. France 10%. Sweden 9%. Belgium 7%. At this rate of Islamic conquest, Europe will be majority Muslim sometime around the year 2847. I’d pencil in some mild concern for around 2600 and see how things look then. Now. The refugees. Since someone asked who’s paying for all this. Let’s follow the money back a bit further. America invaded Afghanistan, spent 20 years there achieving absolutely nothing, then left in such breathtaking chaos that people were literally hanging off aircraft. It then invaded Iraq over weapons that turned out not to exist, killed somewhere between 150,000 and a million people, and converted a functioning country into a sectarian hellscape. This is before we even get to the drones over Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. The people washing up on European shores are, in very large part, the direct human wreckage of American foreign policy. America created the disaster. Europe is housing the survivors. And America is on the internet asking why Europe keeps letting people in. Remarkable cheek, really. As for eliminating indigenous culture: the United States actually eliminated its indigenous people. Deliberately. With rifles and government paperwork. Europe took in Syrian doctors. These are not comparable situations, and pretending they are requires a truly heroic indifference to history. The culture is fine. France still has the cheese. The Louvre is still there. Bach is still there. Nothing has been eliminated except, apparently, the ability to read a percentage.

Reuters didn't just "reveal" Banksy. They reminded us what journalism is capable of which makes the silence around Epstein even louder.

When oil becomes scarce, the price rises. When doctors become scarce, we get shouted at and told we are lazy and should work harder.

If you want to know what Nelson thought of Muslims, you may want to factor in Nelson's column. See that thing on his hat? It is a 'chelengk'. Nelson was the first non-Muslim to be awarded one - as thanks for his victory in the Battle of the Nile. It was gifted to him by Sultan Selim III, who was literally the Caliph at the time. Nelson was so proud of it, as well as wearing it on his hat, he added it to his coat of arms. It is now the literal highest point of Nelson's column - a gift from the leader of the Muslim world to a devout Christian.

Healthcare workers who have been immersed in it with inadequate PPE? Anyone? Anyone? No….expendable as before

When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians. A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.

Advice and Guidance is going to move NHS waiting lists to the community ‘From Hospital to Community’ that’s what @wesstreeting meant It doesn’t reduce referrals the data proves this there are more A&Gs but no fewer referrals It will remove patient choice & undervalues GPs

I don’t get it. If Hezbollah had flats in this block (unlikely in central Beirut but not impossible) why did the Israelis give everyone inside an hour to get out — including those they wanted to kill? And if there weren’t any Hezbollah people there, why destroy a building with dozens of civilians in it?

It's now unarguable that the war on Iran is one of the most blatant crimes of aggression in history. You now have not 1 but 2 external participants of the US-Iran talks (Oman’s foreign minister and the UK's National Security Advisor) who confirm that the US and Israel attacked despite Iran effectively meeting US conditions for a deal - ensuring it could never build a nuclear weapon, permanently. As per The Guardian article (theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…), Jonathan Powell "believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon," and "UK officials [...] were impressed that Iran was prepared for the deal to be permanent." Concretely, this means the war wasn't a failure of diplomacy but a deliberate destruction of it. And it also means that the US and Israel have irresponsibly plunged the entire world in an unprecedented energy crisis, affecting the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide, when it was completely avoidable. It's beyond me how you can look at this and not conclude that the real threat all along wasn't Iran but the US-Israeli axis - they're the only parties at the table who wanted war and are making every person on the planet pay the price for it. Extraordinarily, even the UK National Security Advisor is now basically saying this.