Better times will return

RT @ejrosetta: Modern Bearding - A Queer History Lesson for Pride Month (EJ & ED) So I was 23 & had just Come Out from within the safety o…

Wow! The gulls did NOT appreciate a visit from the eagle 😲

If humans were to adopt monkey economics, we too could enjoy the luxury and wealth of monkey civilization.

See how it works yet?

So fascinating that Africans reached Australia and Japan before they got to most of Europe.

“It should be obvious that messing with the healthy endocrine system of immature young people is not healthcare and should be stopped immediately.” @DerryBanShee in @Telegraph on the investigation of the WellBN practice in Brighton and Hove telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

In 1910, nonconformist Liberal MPs were angry when risqué dancer Maud Allan came to one of Asquith's garden parties. A colleague remarked to him that it was characteristic of their party that 'so many Members who object to meeting the lady were able apparently to recognise her'

One of those things where you try explaining it to not very political people and you just end up sounding completely mad dailymail.com/news/article-1…

My story has attracted so many heartbreaking replies from people who have had similar experiences including losing loved ones because of ambulance delays There are some obvious things that could be done eg motorcycle paramedics used for triage and allowing private ambulances to respond to emergencies At the other end of the process, if there are issues with bed blocking we need to build halfway house type facilities where patients who are well enough to not be in hospital but not well enough to go home without support packages can be looked after eg along the lines of the Nightingale hospitals And better integration with the private sector. Ban NHS hospitals from ignoring private diagnostics. If a patient got a scan privately that says they have xyz then assume they have xyz unless there's a real clinical reason to doubt the diagnosis Private GP care is affordable for many people. Not everyone. But I pay c£400 per year for unlimited appointments and an annual health check. Because I need monthly appointments this works out well for me It won't be right for everyone but people shouldn't be discouraged from going privately if the NHS isn't meeting their needs and be able to move back seamlessly if needed (try getting a monthly GP appointment on the NHS) This whole NHS or nothing attitude needs to stop. The focus should be on getting people better not fussing about whether they got some of their care privately And leaving seriously ill people lying in car parks or on the street is totally unacceptable @WelshAmbulance: if the patient has stopped breathing they probably won't need an ambulance so that's not a sensible basis for triage. And fix your system so calls regarding the same incident are linked @NHS @NHSEngland @PublicHealthW @WelshAmbulance @SCAS999 @StuartAndrew @KemiBadenoch @TiceRichard @Nigel_Farage @wesstreeting @jamesmurray_ldn

Free, albeit intermittent, WIFi on a transatlantic flight. Soothly we live in mighty years.

Dr Michael Foran, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, has been forced to cancel his four-part lecture series halfway through following sustained abuse from trans activists. The lectures explored themes from his new book, examining how sex and gender have shaped the law in debates over single-sex spaces, freedom of expression, privacy, sport and sexual intimacy. As Foran prepared to begin his first lecture on 29 May, two protesters marched to the front of the hall and addressed the audience from the lectern. They returned to disrupt the second lecture on 5 June. One protester claimed that Foran “masks his transphobia behind a thin veneer of academia”. He went on to say: “If you are here in a critical capacity to challenge his ideas… that is not the same as refusing to platform him. He will not be convinced by your arguments. Please join me in walking out and refusing to platform this bigot.” This episode is a damning indictment of universities’ inability — or unwillingness — to uphold free speech and academic freedom, and to discharge the responsibilities placed upon them by law. Read more below 👇

The 1938 stock red Underground trains on the Northern Line were always my favourite. And here's a fascinating fact about the distinctive seat moquettes: It, and the moquette for other tube lines, was designed by Karl Marx's cousin in London; Enid Marx. #london #underground #tube

🚨 UK Police Arrest a Man For Saying “You’re Chatting Sh*t” Despite High Court Ruling That Swearing Is Protected Speech A man is calmly explaining to a police officer that swearing in public isn’t automatically illegal. He correctly references the High Court ruling (Lord Justice Bean) that everyday swearing is part of normal expressive language and protected under free speech, unless it’s genuinely threatening or abusive under the Public Order Act. Instead of listening, the officer warns him, gets defensive, and then arrests him for a public order offence simply for saying “you’re chatting sh*t.” Classic example of police abusing their powers and ignoring established case law just because they don’t like being challenged. This is why trust in policing keeps dropping.

Here comes Streeting thinking he’s one of the good guys 🙄 He wants platforms to be held financially liable for ‘riot’ content, and pay towards of ‘disorder’ Meaning platforms will obviously censor any protest or gathering they think they may be blamed for publicising. What does riot mean? it will mean any protest or gathering the government doesn’t agree with.

PSA for anyone flying from Heathrow Terminal 3: the loos accessed from the duty free shops are much less crowded than the main ones by the restaurants

This is so YooKay - the phenomenon that dishonest commentators still pretend is a racist RW meme

I used to work in the ambulance service. . It cannot be fixed. It actively recruited yes men over my 12 year period. It took on too much. It went from accident and emergency plus serious medical refer transfers to a catch all for every social problem in the country. It started with every out of hours GP request. So from 5pm to 9am we took on most those calls. The service then open up the 999 call handling centre to cheaper unqualified staff who followed crib sheets. Previously, older experienced paramedics went into call centres as they got too old to be hauling 25 stone men and women up and down stairs. So more ambulance were sent to "non jobs". Then there was a benefits boom. I had a call to a girl on benefits who didn't have the money to get a taxi to the GP who was 1 mile from where she lived. She didn't want to walk with the push chair. Her child had the sniffles. It was the beginning of the state dependent generation. I had a female with a missing tampon after sex, she lived 400 yards from the local hospital. I drove 20 miles across the county on blues before getting the real story. It was not the reported haemorrhage. Then we started getting everything, Pissed up at the weekend and cut yourself in your beer bottle, call an ambulance to get your pissed up arse 20 miles to the nearest hospital for stitches Having a pissed up mental health crisis at 2am, call an ambulance. Flown in from America for recently diagnosed af, get an ambulance, Need out of hours cancer care, call an ambulance. Every other NHS department closed is doors at 6pm and everything went to the ambulance service. Granny got d&v, call an ambulance. Having your 5th child so you can get a bigger house on benefits, you get an ambulance to take you to hospital. When I started, we used to get 2 to 3 real calls per 12 hr shift. 5 was busy. You worked within an area. When I left there was no such thing as a 12 hr shift. 14 hr became norm, you drive over 3 counties and never stopped. When I started the training was free, in-house and you could qualify within 2.5 years. Now it's A 4 year expensive degree. Plus extra driving licence upgrade costs. No-one I worked with remained within the ambulance service. Everyone has left. The crap you're sent to is astonishing whilst the really sick people die on the streets. All the good staff and managers left. Only the yes men stayed and the decline continues. I'm out of touch now but it doesn't sound like things improved. There aren't more ambulance stations, there are fewer. There were fewer ambulances in my time also. There was always plenty of money for courses in diversity, bed sores, the patients rights when they are attacking you etc. Human resource departments and tick box departments certainly grew more than the front line staff department, in line with every other NHS department. The culture of state dependency is also irreversibly high Everyone feels they are entitled to an ambulance, because we've encouraged everyone that their truth is valid. In the meantime, those that really need it, go without. The population continues to rise, the aging population rises but the amount of ambulances doesn't. For those who think illegal immigrants don't use the NHS , you need to realise they are the first to use it. If you think illegal economic migrant numbers are ok, just wait till you here about the illegal health care migrants. Even before we opened our borders to 3rd worlders, when the EU first opened up to Poland and then Bulgaria, the health care migration was astonishing. I previously had no idea about the mismatch We took in thousands that didn't have access to mental health centres or even deaf support. But that's a story for another day. We're in the mess we put ourselves with prime in charge incapable of turning it around. My advice. If you can get yourself to hospital, do it. You could die waiting for that ambulance to save you.

Towel rails. That's his level. Could be building boring, reliable nuclear energy right now. Instead we get petty nonsense about bathroom heaters. Unserious people.

I don't accept this from students and we shouldn't accept this from a full chair at a R1.

Bathing Machines, Eric Ravilious, 1938. This is one of a series depicting Aldeburgh beach in #Suffolk. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery. (The Hen is a vending machine!)