Andy McKay

What proportion of apprenticeships are made up of opportunities of this quality? Seems like exploitation to pay people less than they otherwise would be.

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Not second hand, but you’ll often find last years unsold TVs half the price of the current ones in a special area in shops like JL. They’re unused, so good qual.

It’ll be a few hundred pounds still for the most, but the TV will be much better + should last longer, and w/ big shop return guarantees.

We can say the next election will be messy, but there’s nothing messy in terms of where the power resides if the aftermath is a big reform majority. There’s few checks and balances in the UK against a determined commons majority.

And this before a new Leftist party grabs another ~single figures %.

The best time for electoral reform was years ago. The next best time is right now.

I don’t think people quite understand what is about to happen. The BMA survey indicates just over 50% of F2 doctors will have no employment next week, after years of university and work. My own personal experience of talking to F2s backs up that stat.

Given the massive unemployment faced by lots of my doctor colleagues next week at changeover - it’s good to see that the BMA are bringing training posts into the dispute with the government. F1s to be balloted on this shortly also it appears.

Talk of airdrops or trucks solving the level of starvation the people in Gaza are experiencing due to the Israeli government is way short of the mark.

Reintroduction of normal foodstuffs in severe malnourishment can cause a refeeding syndrome and death. They need proper hospital level care.

Very sad to see such a tepid response to criticism by Trump towards Sadiq Khan, especially when we know the racist undertones to his statements. ‘He’s my friend’ he says… not a word of defence of his record. You’d expect more from a Labour prime minister.

People think they are qualified to do ‘research’ when they are not. Theres mocking of doctors searching for things sometimes, but it’s actually backed by years of experience of knowing where and how to look, so it’s mostly reassurance rather than starting from near zero like some people do.

What’s terrifying about the UK political system is that there are very few checks and balances to a HoC majority who want to vote for something.

And if they win it won’t be like the Labour win in 2024, which whilst at a record low percentage, had broad support from many other parties’ supporters.

It’ll be a victory on a record low % due to FPTP’s inability to cope in a multiparty system.

Another day of pointless self flagellation by the BBC and of the BBC by much of the rest.

Anything to try and gotcha away the fact that the Israeli Government is currently systemically displacing and killing Palestinians.

Scenes as the ticket inspector presses some lads on their ticket status, eventually letting them stay.

Asks the what seems to be the obly genuine 1st class ticket holder on the carriage if we can all stay first though. She is literally drinking champagne out of a flute, but agrees we can stay.

Beautiful British trains. Cross country, the UK’s ?worst train company has rammed carriages - likely approaching 45-50 degrees celsius with people visibly struggling. No airflow or aircon. Meanwhile space in an airconned 1st class. Ridiculous.

This is catastrophic for UK journalists trying to use this platform vs Twitter, will kill DMs for most users and make the experience shit for newbies.

All to stop teenagers accessing porn on a site with no teenagers and where the most arousing content is some graphs posted by policy nerds.

Russia's intensifying drone war is spreading fear and eroding Ukrainian morale Ukraine is in danger of being overwhelmed by deadly strikes as Russia sends in swarms of drones.

A very worrying read as you get the impression things could quickly collapse if a solution is not enacted. European governments must do more.

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I think as time progresses, other issues are more pressing.

Unemployment is a big one. I know of lots of good doctors who will be unemployed within weeks because the government refuses to invest in training jobs, whilst choosing to invest in expensive scope creep elsewhere instead.

People feel Streeting promised a path to restoration and has stalled at the first opportunity. No one expects it all in one year.

Worth noting the 28.9% is over 3 years with a high inflation background, and if anything highlights the impact of frozen pay for over a decade prior.

To be clear, people should vote what they want and I don’t like the splitters arguments the big 2 have historically made. However, this could be significant and another representation of why our electorate no longer suits a FPTP system.

It probably would get low single digits. But with polling as it is, and with a FPTP system, 2-3% could make a vast difference to outcomes.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Do not understand at all why any Labour rebel would change their vote over grandfathering or speed of change. Either you are for the eventual system proposed or you are against.

I see the Reform lot are calling for future BBC Glastonbury coverage to be cancelled. Absolute killjoys and snowflakes.

Millions enjoy the coverage every year, and probably a lot of them are going to be shocked when everything like it abruptly ends in a few years time if Farage is elected.

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What a lovely day it would be for a bathing site dip!

*Checks status*

Ah - Thames Water are currently pumping shit in to the river just upstream of Oxford.

Very notable how quickly Israeli jets turned around when ordered to do so by Trump. Makes the complete disregard for Gaza by him even more awful.

As an NHS Doctor I have to spend a full day a year (minimum) doing training like this - rather than adjusting to a new job.

Was worse at medical school where I might rotate to a new trust/area every 2-3 months. So you’d spend several days a year doing it. Would love to know lost time in cost.

Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no ‘selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world.

They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment.

New column 👇

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Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it:

"These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening."

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Managed to get an NHS dental appointment today. I only booked it a couple of days ago. As if I lived in a functioning healthcare system.

Is this becoming more common across the rest of the country? Feel like this stuff is very important for the government.