Latest threads on NHS performance data for all four UK countries:
NHS England Dec In Progress - bsky.app/profile/gmdo...
NHS England Nov Complete - bsky.app/profile/gmdo...
NHS Scotland - bsky.app/profile/gmdo...
NHS Wales - bsky.app/profile/gmdo...
NHS Northern Ireland - bsky.app/profile/gmdo...

29/ RTT performance December - Some charts on the work done in IS providers - %age of total completed pathways by specialty.
Latest month for Ophthalmology:
- IS Admitted 35.49%
- IS Non-Admitted 10.51%
public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

28/ RTT performance December - Some charts on the work done in IS providers - %age of total completed pathways:
IS Admitted 14.39%
IS Non-Admitted 6.91%
public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

27/ RTT performance December - Details at national level for the Independent Sector for all specialties and by specialty - Covering Incomplete, Completed Admitted and Completed Non-Admitted Pathways - public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

26/ Dashboard for NHS Providers performance data - RTT vs Diagnostics waiting lists and performance - public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

25/ Dashboard for NHS Providers performance data, covering:
- A&E for January
- RTT for December
- Diagnostics for December
- Overnight G&A Bed Data for September
- Covid Bed Occupancy to January 31
public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

24/ Dashboard for NHS England performance data - RTT vs Diagnostics waiting lists and performance - public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

23/ Dashboard for NHS England performance data - RTT waiting list year-on-year change - public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

22/ Dashboard for NHS England performance data, covering:
- A&E for January
- RTT for December
- Diagnostics for December
- Overnight G&A Bed Data for September
- Covid Bed Occupancy to January 31
public.tableau.com/views/Englan...

You may have read
the headlines & assumed someone had done due diligence & checked the facts before publishing

You’d be wrong

You may still need Doctors in the future, although Nurses ARE amazing at their jobs &
couldn’t do without them

www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls.

Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us?

My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Premium: The AI Data Center Financial Crisis Since the beginning of 2023, big tech has spent over $814 billion in capital expenditures, with a large portion of that going towards meeting the demands of AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.  B...

Premium Newsletter: AI data centers are low-margin, high-capex time bombs with low gross margins possible only in perfect circumstances, fueled by junk-grade debt. Without $100bn+ in new, non-hyperscaler demand by 2028, the majority of these loans go unpaid.
www.wheresyoured.at/data-center-...

Irony, Irony laced with Karma, and Terror Brief updates on some previous stories

Irony, Irony laced with Karma, and Terror - Gary Marcus
garymarcus.substack.com/p/irony-iron...

Cruel and unusual punishment.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages. The directive comes amid a broader shake-up at the US National Institute o...

TAT: [Attacking Science]

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

Workers at the Social Security Administration have been told to share information about in-person appointments with agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The order to share information, which was recently communicated verbally to workers...

TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening Civil Rights]

The Trump administration has halted the release of almost $135 million to build electric vehicle charging stations in blue states. More than 2,600 charging points would have been constructed with the money, but last week the Office of Management and Budget told th... [link]

TAT: [Attacking Science]

Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate. "It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers". This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration. Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast. It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson'

Here is the link if you want to do something like this.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign. Hundreds of thousands of audit logs spanning a month show police are searching a national database ...

TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening Civil Rights]

Nigel Farage claims "Look at net migration numbers. Oh, it isn't good that net migration is coming down".

"Do you know why? Its because there is an exodus: those of a situation + a financial position to be fortunate to have a choice"

A v misleading exaggeration/narrative of falling net migration

Forget Jim Ratcliffe’s half-apology: to speak of immigrants ‘colonising’ Britain is wrong and sinister | Sunder Katwala He fused an echo of Enoch Powell with the spirit of the far right’s great replacement theory. This is no way to progress a humane migration debate, says Sunder Katwala, director of British Future

I wrote for the Guardian about why Jim Ratcliffe's talk of Britain being "colonised" by immigrants crosses the line between legitimate debate and inflammatory rhetoric. It fuses echoes of Powellism with great replacement conspiracies of "civilisational erasure"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now Following the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.

while no surprise this BBC exposition of all the lies Andrew M-W told in his interview with @maitlis.bsky.social is pretty devastating!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

Farage claims democracy in Ukraine 'destroyed' by Maidan revolution and those wanting closer links with Europe - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Rep. Jamie Raskin on X: "I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure" / X

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin (Maryland) reported he found inhumane conditions in ICE detention facility in Baltimore during a visit. These included over 60 men in one cell with only one toilet and no shower facilities.

TAT: [Nationalism]

Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds EPA’s records show one environmental consent decree filed in last year – 26 were filed in year one of first Trump term

Enforcement of environmental laws against major polluters has virtually ground to a halt under the Trump administration, a new analysis of Environmental Protection Agency records from January 2025 to January 2026 shows.

TAT: [Attacking Science | Undermining Democracy]

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’ Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has now formally revoked the endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare. The finding which had been in place since 2009 gave the EPA the ability t...

TAT: [Attacking Science]

Waiting list recovery stalls as admissions fall England's RTT waiting list returned to long-term growth in December

Waiting list recovery stalls as admissions fall - Rob Findlay HSJ - www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-...

21/ Diagnostics performance December - Details by provider - Some continuing extremely low performance (target 99%) - King's College still hit hard by the deployment of Epic and the IT problems at the Diagnostics provider but recovering - public.tableau.com/views/Englan...