Tony Blair: “I remember a conversation in the Brexit debate He said to me ‘you're this typical elite, trying to say you know more about it than I do’ But do you know what I said to them? I DO know more because I've been prime minister for 10yrs”

‘My jaw dropped’: Bat loss linked to death of human infants | Science | AAAS science.org/content/article/…

MSc Educational Assistive Technology - full fee scholarship opportunity! We are delighted to announce that our MSc EduAT scholarship has been renewed to support the January 2025 start.

England cricketers in post-match interview: “yeah a great performance from Rooty, Smithy and Woakesy, they hit the bally with the batty so we beat the other teamy to win the gamey, really looking forwardy to the next testy at Lordsy next weeky.”

The NHS may be broken, according to @UKLabour @wesstreeting, but here’s how to fix it. Prevention, Prevention, Prevention, Prevention…. 1. Prevent poverty. It’s the single biggest determinant of ill health, and health and social care demand, both now and in the future. Blair and Brown made good progress in reducing it. So it can be done. 2. Prevent illness, with a relentless focus on living well, self-care, mental health support and tackling the commercial determinants of illness. Dental disease is the commonest cause of childhood operations, and yet it’s almost 100% preventable. 3. Prevent existing risks and diseases getting worse, with evidence-based screening and a substantial shift in resources to primary, community and social care 4. Preventing waste and medical harm, by ensuring patients receive the right care, in the right place, from the right people at the right time. This is the toughest nut to crack, as it requires adequate numbers of well trained and well rested staff working in safe, clean environments with the right equipment. We currently spent three times as much litigating harms from maternity care than we do on maternity care. This is a permanent disaster and would be a very good place to start. Instead of repeating our mistakes, we need to learn from them. For more detail see @PrivateEyeNews and come to the shows @edfringe @theSpaceUK Aug 2-17 tickets.edfringe.com/whats-o… tickets.edfringe.com/whats-o…

I think the most compelling @RestIsPolitics Leading interviews @campbellclaret I have done is with Deputy PM @AngelaRayner - particularly from 8:35 - she is so frank, self-reflective, and brutally insightful about life its lessons - an extraordinary person podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

Shocked and disappointed by the hustings yesterday. Service should be above political point scoring. My time as Royal Marines Commando is a privilege of a lifetime. It would be an honour to serve Plymouth in Parliament, as I served our nation before. plymouthherald.co.uk/news/pl…

Behold, something Witty and Freudian. Actually, this is probably my favourite joke. A very good evening to you.

Wonderful book - go and buy one. :-)

BREAKING Best foot forward: Brits urged to wear flip-flops or sandals for Euro passport checks from Oct 2024. When the Entry Exit System begins, UK travellers to the EU will have to give toe prints facial biometrics. Aim is to swerve legal cases over right to take fingerprints.

2019: Theresa May, "After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall" 2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, "A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water" World famous #TheBoatRace2024 @theboatrace between Oxford and Cambridge affected by raw sewage dumped into the River Thames after the Conservative party promised our environmental standards would not fall after Brexit. Yet it has been the Conservative party who have repeatedly voted to allow water companies to continue to dump raw sewage in our rivers and seas - shame on them, and on anyone who continues to vote for them

I’ve said this before but it can’t be said too often. Of the many beautiful and perfect things about Detectorists, birdsong accuracy is one of my favourites.

Greatest scene & writing of all time #MontyPython

I am quite happy looking at this video for a very long time

"It's all a conspiracy Ted, the deep state, dark forces are railling against us" "If you say so sir, I wouldn't be knowing about that sort of thing"

Just found out that A Tale of Two Cities was originally serialised in two local newspapers. It was The Bicester Times, it was the Worcester Times.

Accurate

Read the attached statement made by ex Post Office investigator Stephen Bradshaw for why the Post Office should insist a 47 year old mother and sub postmaster, Jacqueline Macdonald, should be found guilty of theft and not just false accounting. It is shocking. He says that if she was done only for false accounting, the integrity of the precious Fujitsu Horizon system would be undermined in future cases, and the appeals of wrongly convicted sub postmasters would have credibility. Bradshaw had his way. The judge in the trial agreed with him. This woman of no previous convictions was sentenced to 18 months in prison, for theft and false accounting. The point however is that Bradshaw was an employee. The big question is who further up the management ladder incentivized him to pursue sub postmasters, most of whom were innocent of any wrongdoing, while denying all the many flaws in Horizon - and to pursue them through the courts in such a single minded and determined way. This was just one of the many harrowing disclosures in today’s profoundly depressing session of Wyn Williams’s statutory inquiry into the Horizon scandal. It has been impossible to watch without feeling fury and great sadness at the brutal treatment of sub postmasters.