🧠 Quiz of the Day - Jun 11 🟩 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 Score: 9/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk

A slightly different way to look at fertility from today's ONS release. Women born from 1995 onwards have been having drastically fewer children by the age of 30. Will they catch up in their 30s?

Just think if Prescott had punched that farmer in Rhyl 25 years later all of us would just have assumed it was just a fake AI crypto advert.

This site has become almost unusable because of how many different fake images there are of Farage beating up Andrew Bailey - never seen anything this number... it's like every second post!

🧠 Quiz of the Day - Jun 9 🟩 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ Score: 7/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk

If you could choose which chart the Senior Management Team at your hospital look at each week in order to monitor four-hour compliance in the ED, which of these two charts would you choose? Exhibit A or Exhibit B? Or both? Or neither? Or something else entirely?

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What a time to be alive

Today I had a conversation with @RCEMPolicyVP in which we discussed - amongst other things - the measure: “How many patients were in the ED at the time each patient arrived?” It made me think of the scatterplot I sometimes draw to show how ED crowding affects ED length of stay.

What's wrong with the Internet? Maria Popova has a simple answer: the word content. She says: "I'm allergic to the world content. It's used to sell the container, which is your attention in the advertising." By that, she means: "We have reduced creative work, cultural matter to what we call 'content,' which presumes a container. The content is used to sell the container, which is your attention in the advertising. This is what carries the modern Internet, and we're making everything creative subservient to that. It's the content of the package that is being sold. And I just hate that. I'm allergic to the word content. There's been more and more and more kind of a shallowing of cultural material as the Internet has moved more and more toward clickbait and listicles. I just find it unsatisfying. I'm not moving away from it on moral grounds, although I don't agree with a lot of the business choices Silicon Valley has made. I'm just moving away from it as a human being who doesn't find it compelling."

I'm often critical of Labour frontbenchers, even though I'm @ScottishLabour through and through. But I've just watched @patmcfaddenmp being interviewed by @krishgm on @Channel4News and I was seriously impressed by his performance.

In the eternal absence of meritocracy in politics - if you were writing a job description for the most important policy jobs in government what would you include in it? I would say essential technical knowledge (not skills) should include an advanced understanding of... 🧵

I am unforgivably bored of this notion that saying ‘policy first politics second’ is somehow a hot take. Saying a government should focus on its policy is like saying a restaurant should focus on its food. If you want to change that you have to figure out 1/

Each dot is one of the 90 weeks since September 2024. And for each week I'm plotting four-hour compliance (x-axis) against twelve-hour compliance (y-axis). RIE and GRI show similar patterns, while the QEUH dots are compressed into a smaller area.

Ben Lawers from Beinn Ghlas.

Agency for “the best", who "lack all conviction", and not so much for "the worst", who "are full of passionate intensity”. This is so good from @catehall. substack.com/inbox/post/1981…