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I'm a #Data Analyst, with an interest in #science of all types, inc #Healthcare. Hopefully constantly questioning my thinking, and considering whether an answer is as obvious as it seems.
Love word games and #puzzles, general interest in sport (strictly as a spectator on grounds of incompetence), cynical centre-left politically. "Inside every cynical person, there's a disappointed idealist" - George Carlin
Twitter Migration Class of '22.
Joined Nov 2022
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Can everyone get back on #Twitter for a sec and vote not to reinstate #trump. It was only 53-47 FOR when I voted which considering the top-heavy #MAGA profiles following #elonmusk seemed interesting. #Elon. #TwitterVote. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985?s=46&t=8VCS1oBH109IIlKxOI1ILg
The brass neck on #Verstappen is amazing. He disobeyed a direct instruction that everyone heard him being given, after having plenty of advance warning. He still refuses to explain or justify his petty, selfish behaviour. Then he complains that the reporting didn't give his reasons.
Starting to think the whole #RedBullRacing team is irredeemably toxic. #F1
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Typically, my writing on Health Policy Insight is paywalled, because capitalism.
But Health Secretary Steve Barclay’s speech to the NHS conference this week was so remarkable, I’ve made this piece toll-free. https://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-barclay-banks-on-an-ignorant-audience/
BREAKING: #Twitter is down. #Journalists forced to do some actual research.
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@hadleybeeman I just want Musk to buy Facebook now.
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[back at work after being a stay-at-home parent for many years]
Me: alright, before this meeting starts, I want everyone to go pee. I don’t care if you don’t feel it, you need to try.
Autumn Statement - UK #Politics #Budget
So here's a thing - on top of the pain everyone will be feeling over Hunt's statement, the only way it looks as "good" as it does is by kicking the can down the road.
The OBR calculations, still bad enough, are based on a further planned spending squeeze after the election *and* a 23% hike in fuel duty which Hunt somehow didn't mention, and which has about as much chance of being passed by a Tory Commons as I have of being voted World's Sexiest Man.
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UK Budget
Was a bit surprised to hear Hunt say that he was puzzled about why so many more people are long-term sick and economically inactive.
As a recent former chair of the health select committee, you'd have hoped he might have been aware that there has been quite a big thing going on in the last couple of years affecting health.
PSA: Freezing tax thresholds is a tax rise, the scale of which is dependent on the rate of inflation.
Right now, that makes it a *big* rise.
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Jeremy Hunt's plan is deeply dishonest. On the one hand he says he will close the 'black hole' in government finances, 55% through spending cuts after the general election, but without spelling out a *single specific cut* he actually plans to make.
UK Politics
One of the less commented aspects of Hunt's statement is the way he expects other people to do the difficult stuff.
Derisory pay rises for nurses and teachers, but he expects that private business can simply find 10% more.
Mayors for Cornwall and Norfolk = someone to blame for economic decline.
There's no coherent vision here, other than passing the buck.
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The massive failure of UK energy efficiency policy in one graph
- particularly important given that 'Nearly 38 per cent of the UK’s housing stock was built before 1946 — a higher proportion than in any EU country'
Wackaging gets weirder every day. This looks like the blurb for an uninspired SF short story.
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There are some workmen digging up the road outside my house at the moment.
One of them is bald and was wearing large black ear defenders.
Looking at him from a distance, I though at first that it was the pointy-haired boss from the Dilbert cartoons.
It's strange to find myself siding with the #HumanRights #WorldCup organisers in lovely #Qatar, so I'll just confine myself to saying that this headline and the accompanying article reflect badly on the Guardian.
"World Cup to be surrounded by overpriced products" is barely news.
"Alcohol not cheap in Islamic country" is a Dog Bites Man story.
Running with this looks like a really poor decision, as if they're desperate to find a new negative angle, no matter how tenuous. Sometimes the obvious option is also the best.
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I heard there was a secret note
That William Carlos Williams wrote
But you don't really care for sorries, do you?
It goes like this, they're cold, they're sweet
You saved them for a breakfast treat
But from your fridge, I took the plums and screwed you.
I'm a #Data Analyst, with an interest in #science of all types, inc #Healthcare. Hopefully constantly questioning my thinking, and considering whether an answer is as obvious as it seems.
Love word games and #puzzles, general interest in sport (strictly as a spectator on grounds of incompetence), cynical centre-left politically. "Inside every cynical person, there's a disappointed idealist" - George Carlin
Twitter Migration Class of '22.
Joined Nov 2022
