Dear 🇬🇧,

This is the anatomy of a militant takeover of your public healthcare system:

- Take the #1 healthcare system on Earth
- Defund it by £320 billion over a decade
- Force doctors and nurses to leave country
- Engineer the longest waitlist in NHS history
- Hold patients…

Holy cow. Seth Meyers spent 90 seconds on his show last night reminding his viewers everything that Donald Trump has said I done & it is absolutely perfect. This is how it’s done & we need so much more of it. Watch & share this.

Sadiq Khan calls for £1 billion of property owned by Russian oligarchs in London to be seized to fund 4,000 new homes.
Do you agree?
RP

Oof this is blisteringly good from John Crace on Sunak’s little stunt last night 🔥theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Trump inviting Russia to attack NATO allies should be one of the biggest stories of this election. The fact that it's not even on the front page of the NYT or Washington Post (while stories about Biden's age are) is a disgrace to journalism.

Wealth being put to good use kudos to Mark Cuban.

Come and join us on this Virtual one day Emergency Cardiology day Stuart Lloyd David Hartin School of Emergency Medicine 💙 Adham Khalek Deborah Swann Christopher Adcock Penny Largent Andy Scott-Donkin Jeff Mercer

Douglas Barrowman's businesses made £100m+ mis-selling tax avoidance schemes on an industrial scale to people on modest incomes.

We have new evidence that the schemes involved fraud against their clients and HMRC.

Thread:

£42 for each child raped from the Home Office who. £169,000 per person in the failed Rwanda plan. No hours of debate on the child abuse inquiry, no Tory rebellion that not 1 of recommendations has been done by Govt. No amendments from 5 families. No extra judges for rape victims.

Thanks for highlighting Jeremy, we agree that low NHS productivity is a real problem

A quick thread to explain the causes and why the strategies that led to productivity improvements during the 2010s likely contributed to some of the current problems

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What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network behind their policies.
This week's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

SALARY FACTS: MPs vs junior Doctors

2008: 
MPs – £61,820
1st year doctors – £28,274

2016:
MPs – £74,962
1st year doctors – **£32,398

2023:
MPs – £86,584
1st year doctors – **£32,398

And the government have the AUDACITY to call junior doctors greedy?!

Ten years ago, over 70% of new doctors (FY2s) in England stayed on in the NHS to complete specialist/GP training

By 2022, more than 70% chose not to stay on.

The U.K. govt are driving away the future of the NHS

Please watch this video.

When I need to call out a plumber I’m grateful to pay £40/h because I don’t have the first clue how to fix my boiler, or the skills to fix a burst pipe.

Doctors are asking for half of that, to fix your kids.

NEW: we need to talk about NHS staff retention.

At a time when Britain’s healthcare system is acutely short of workers, *1 in 7* UK-trained doctors are practising overseas. No other developed country is like this, which immediately tells you there’s a problem.

Let’s dig deeper:

I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? #MrBatesVSThePostOffice you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stri… via 38 Degrees

An impact crater, roughly 1.5 km wide, on the surface of Mars, captured by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 257 km above the planets surface.

📸: NASA/JPL/UArizona

Gun Country

Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together
- My article in The Guardian for the New Year. Wishing everyone hope and a better 2024. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…