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Wow! This is appalling. 2 years worth of extensive evidence ‘lost’ in our case, resulting in colossal detriment. Judge personally apologised, saying the court system had failed us, but offered no explanation. Now this!

Beautiful. Thank you for keeping me in thought, Gaz. Nature is indeed a miracle, a provider of comfort and so much more. Seeking solace in the rain this morning, welcoming the gentleness of its message

Thank you from the heart 🥀

I have little presence here but would like to thank those who have kindly made contact over the past 3 days following the death of my precious little sister, Mary. She meant the world to me. My heart is broken.

Health service, not wealth service, sticker

Research has found that privatisation of health services reduces quality of care.

@franbaum.bsky.social‬ and colleagues look at how the concept of "enshittification" applies to health services and their decline with privatisation
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

'Peter Mandelson's Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions' Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

🔴‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’

Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report

bylinetimes.com/2025/04/25/p...

Meet Sam Jones

Former CEO of biggest private general practice corporation (then owned by US giant Centene)

Former Boris Johnson main NHS advisor then his No 10 head troubleshooter

Favourite book is Machiavelli’s The Prince (she says, cheerily)

Now Streeting’s pick to head the health department 😳

Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years Fewer than five criminal cases were brought against those who aid tax dodgers in 2023-24, down from 16 in 2018-19

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Sunday read: I often stand in the stillness..and think of Ruskin’s words: “There is so much reason for singing in the sweet world when one thinks rightly of it.”
Contd... www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal...
📸 St Mary the Virgin, Llanfair Kilgeddin, Wales taken with my tilt-shift lens.

It’s one of those doors that draws you in as if it has cast a spell. Decorative metalwork on the door at Selby Abbey, Yorkshire. This has to be one of my all time favourite doors. Worth waiting for the light to move around and frame it.

'Automated systems of state- corporate decision-making' In this context, there's no shortage of tech corporates branching out into health consultancy, and health corporations rebranding themselves as information companies. For example, Optum's data- driven products are being used in the NHS to remodel healthcare, allocate funds and workers, influence decisions about referrals and prescriptions, and predict which will be the most 'expensive', highest 'risk' patients). Palantir is another company that has supplied the NHS with technology to 'support ... patient/citizen risk scoring and stratification'.

I’m seeing a lot of the Clever Health Insider Commentariat doing a lot of brain waggling about the NHS England closure like “oooh who’s gonna make the decisions if we cut NHSE & ICBs” and it’s like they haven’t noticed where all the smart £ has been piling into for years (Optum=United Health, btw)

Remembered with great fondness. An Aladdin’s cave to many a child

🎓Rydym wedi’n lleoli ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth, lle mae’n ymchwil yn llywio’r gwasanaeth rydym yn ei ddarparu i bobl hŷn. Heddiw, rhannodd ein Cyd-Gyfarwyddwr Rebecca Zerk y dull hwn mewn darlith, gan ddefnyddio Dewis Choice fel esiampl o sut mae ymchwil yn gallu gyrru newid ystyrlon.

🎓 We’re based in the Law & Criminology Department at Aberystwyth University, where our research informs the service we provide to older people. Today, our Co-Director Rebecca Zerk shared this approach in a lecture, using Dewis Choice as an example of how research can drive meaningful change.

Assisted dying plan outsources provision to private companies Ministers have ‘no in-principle objection’ to outsourcing it, if the law is changed, to minimise the effect on existing NHS services

www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Stunningly beautiful, Libby

Diolch yn fawr, John. Ac i titha hefyd

Oof! Every single time…

this

🥶One of my favourite photographs I took of St. Mary's Abbey in York reminds me of Camus: "In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." 🌞

Quint Buchholz German Children’s book. illustrator

Why thank you, John. Nowt like a little romance in life. Once heard it was solely for the young. Balderdash, I say.

Why thank you, Kate. And a very good morning to you.

OH returning home from Cairo tonight. I’m layered in Parfum D’Empire’s Cuir Ottoman, tweeds & jazzy new Aran waistcoat. Roses & seathistle are nicely arranged, sateen sheets freshly laundered, & herbed Welsh lamb is gently cooking. Wondering to self…Stepford wife or hopeless romantic 🥰

The Walworth Clinic, Southwark, 1936.

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T’was a fab place to stay. That double aspect view! And the exploring…xx

Old Cataract, Aswan

📸 by me 2020

#AdoorableThursday
#Egypt

Lovely memories

Why, that’s really kind of you to say so, such a lovely welcome. It’s of course ditto😊