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As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke

"We would never tolerate a government that chose to defund 70% of neonatal services, gambling that charities would fill the gap. Yet this is exactly the situation for end-of-life care."

Please read my piece on the travesty of NHS palliative care underfunding 🙏

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Joyce Carol Oates roasting Musk's arse for not reading

Well played to Joyce Carol Oates

The Telegraph had to correct its multiple lies about "illegal immigrants" in London at least three separate times.

The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability

Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions

Alan Carr should legit be a spy. Not only did he win Traitors but just by taking his specs off and not smiling he transforms himself into a man with questionable views on Alan Carr

To be fair, I doubt Farage gets much pleasure from remembering that his side lost World War Two.

Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

this article really evidences my claim about the insularity of the british elite

Yes, I read the article – that proposal definitely hits me. I do understand there are no good options for this govt & they’re still trying to fix the Tories’ mess, but at this point it’ll honestly just be better to simply raise income tax rather than implementing lots of damaging tweaks like this

On Twitter I’m not the only millennial (& Gen Z) annoyed by this. Our generations already know we won’t get the state pension when we get old & there’s no final salary pensions for us either. But this govt seems to want those of us who are not rich but still trying to fund our futures, to get fucked

There are plenty of us earning FAR less than £100,000 using salary sacrifice that will be hit too. Those of us who are young enough to know we won’t get a state pension either & been trying to provide for our own retirements best as we can in a cost of living crisis. But we can get fucked, I guess?!

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

John Healey and MPs bask in nauseating non-mea culpas over secret Afghan relocation scheme | John Crace Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response Route

This is the only coverage I’ve seen that highlights the disgraceful coverup of a leak that betrayed to the taliban a list of names of Afghans who risked their lives helping British forces. All other coverage focuses on immigration. WTF?!

Back in the good old days, we Brits would have just said "she's an idiot, ignore her"

The article is titled "your rights if a hotel refuses to serve English food on a foreign holiday", but the actual advice is buried low down in the article and will disappoint those who travel abroad but don't want to eat "any of that foreign muck".
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If we want nicer, more productive politics, we could start by getting rid of “briefing against”: a thing that doesn’t exist in other countries, as far as I know. Politics types use it to anonymously backstab, slander, wreck and undermine each other, with no rules except what seems fine to the hacks.

Non dom exodus hits London market for butlers

shit just became very, very real

"entering a lottery to be allowed off your doomed island" feels a bit on the nose

Reporter: Are you going to deport Elon Musk?

Trump: We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.

Chat GPT is not your lawyer, your doctor, your librarian, your accountant, your therapist, your lover, nor your friend.

All of those roles require a level of complex judgement that a word calculator is not capable of.

U.K. Plans July Pillar 2 Guidance Amid U.S. Revenge Tax Reversal | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

U.K. Plans July Pillar 2 Guidance Amid U.S. Revenge Tax Reversal | My report from the @ox.ac.uk Saïd Business School #tax conference on Friday for @taxnotes.com ($): www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

New Report Claims 16,500 Millionaires Will Quit U.K. Over Tax | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

"The TJN said that the 0.2% migration rate 'is not only consistent with the average migration rate from 2013 to 2024, but is proportionally smaller than migration rates in 2016, 2017 and 2018, contrasting Henley’s claim of a record scale of migration.'" @taxnotes.com
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The United States has reached a tentative agreement with its G7 partners that would exclude U.S. companies from OECD pillar 2 taxes in exchange for it abandoning the section 899 retaliatory tax, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced.

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Starmer suggests welfare bill revolut just 'noises off" as he denies being bad at politics

'Starmer denies being bad at politics' is a great headline ngl.

Occasionally I remember that Keir Starmer stood down Labour's popular young candidate in the seat that Farage went on to win, because he was jealous that the lad was getting more attention on Tik-Tok than he was. Literally sent him across the country to campaign somewhere he wasn't a candidate.

Widening U.K. Tax Gap ‘Hints at Where HMRC Might Crack Down’ | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

Widening U.K. Tax Gap ‘Hints at Where HMRC Might Crack Down’ | My article, published today, for @taxnotes.com ($): www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

U.K. Corporation Tax Receipts Soar 112 Percent in 10 Years | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

U.K. Corporation Tax Receipts Soar 112 Percent in 10 Years | My article, published today, for @taxnotes.com ($): www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...

Could Future U.K. Tax Rises Miss the Wealthy and Hit the HENRY? | Tax Notes Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

Could Future U.K. Tax Rises Miss the Wealthy and Hit the HENRY? | An article of mine from last week for @taxnotes.com ($): www.taxnotes.com/tax-notes-to...