Mark Dorset
@merkymonkey.bsky.social
Living the dream in the South West of England.
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Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social spoke to David Harper on @lbcnews.bsky.social about the need for our Primary Care conference last weekend.
"Over the last 20yrs the percentage of the NHS budget given to primary care has fallen to 8% and the average number of patients is now 2,200 per GP."
"Over the last 20yrs the percentage of the NHS budget given to primary care has fallen to 8% and the average number of patients is now 2,200 per GP."
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Our Co-Chair @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social spoke to David Harper on @lbcnews.bsky.social about the need for our Primary Care conference last weekend.
"Over the last 20yrs the percentage of the NHS budget given to primary care has fallen to 8% and the average number of patients is now 2,200 per GP."
"Over the last 20yrs the percentage of the NHS budget given to primary care has fallen to 8% and the average number of patients is now 2,200 per GP."
Private Eye Magazine.
November 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Private Eye Magazine.
Syphoning off money to shareholders who then pass it on to the boss is just posh money laundering.
Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm
Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm
Company says extra payments relating to work for Kelda Holdings were covered by shareholders not billpayers
The boss of Yorkshire Water, one of Britain’s biggest water suppliers, has received £1.3m in previously undisclosed extra pay since 2023 via an offshore parent company, the Guardian can reveal.
Nicola Shaw received £660,000 from Yorkshire Water’s Jersey-registered parent company, Kelda Holdings, in the 2023-24 and the 2024-25 financial years. The size of the fees was not disclosed in the annual report of the regulated subsidiary, Yorkshire Water Services. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Syphoning off money to shareholders who then pass it on to the boss is just posh money laundering.
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Salman Rushdie on what people often misunderstand about “Slaughterhouse-Five” and its refrain, “So it goes.”
What Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” Tells Us Now
Salman Rushdie on what the books “Slaughterhouse-Five,” by Kurt Vonnegut, “Catch-22,” by Joseph Heller, and others tell us about the nature of war and humanity.
www.newyorker.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Salman Rushdie on what people often misunderstand about “Slaughterhouse-Five” and its refrain, “So it goes.”
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Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, apparently.
New research explains how the two foods are related:
New research explains how the two foods are related:
Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, 9 million years ago, apparently.
The modern-day potato evolved from the hybridization of the ancestors of tomato plants, and another potato-like plant, in South America, researchers say.
wapo.st
August 1, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Where did the potato come from? Tomatoes, apparently.
New research explains how the two foods are related:
New research explains how the two foods are related:
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Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
www.newyorker.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
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As Greece burns and Turkey is in flames, remember Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are working to reverse Britain's progress on renewables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildfires rage in Greece and Turkey as extreme heat persists
Firefighters warn of a
www.bbc.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As Greece burns and Turkey is in flames, remember Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are working to reverse Britain's progress on renewables www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
