Steve Miller
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I am not one half of the problem.
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I can remember when it was a scandal if the 18 weeks wait figure dropped below 95%. It was only about 10-12 years ago.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
New NHS England stats, via NHS Confederation:
"The total waiting list for procedures and appointments has dropped to 7.39 million in September, down from 7.41 million in August.
"The proportion of people waiting less than 18 weeks for care stood at 61.8% in September, up from 61.0% in August."
"The total waiting list for procedures and appointments has dropped to 7.39 million in September, down from 7.41 million in August.
"The proportion of people waiting less than 18 weeks for care stood at 61.8% in September, up from 61.0% in August."
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I can remember when it was a scandal if the 18 weeks wait figure dropped below 95%. It was only about 10-12 years ago.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
The collapse in NHS performance under the last government was truly staggering, and went well beyond the pandemic.
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The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
November 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The official investigation into the January 6 riots concluded Trump “summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack" in an effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
No billion dollar lawsuit can change reality.
The BBC should call this convicted criminal’s bluff.
We’re trying to see if we can watch “Angel Falls Christmas” every year as part of a terrible new Christmas tradition…
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
We’re trying to see if we can watch “Angel Falls Christmas” every year as part of a terrible new Christmas tradition…
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Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
Vic Reeves Big Night Out - 30 April 1989
YouTube video by Peter Brooke Turner
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Good God, someone's just uploaded to YouTube a nearly 2-hour long video of one of the original Vic Reeves Big Night Out live shows at the Albany Empire from 1989. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPU...
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If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
100% this - though please forgive me a mention of “Amateur”
Someone might read this and say "Hey, Where is Guys Like Me? Where is It's Not, where is You Do? Where is Freeway? Where is Little Bombs" But I say, Hey, there are enough amazing Aimee Mann songs to go around because the woman can do no wrong.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!
Thirty years on from the release of her acclaimed album I’m With Stupid, we count down the sucker-punching best tracks by the US singer-songwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:28 PM
100% this - though please forgive me a mention of “Amateur”
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New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
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Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Will Klein in a "Rapinoe/Kaepernick 2020" shirt
1 episode to go …
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1 episode to go …
So to Sunday, and off to the cinema for the final instalment in their screening of Twin Peaks S2.
Fair play to them for doing this as a tribute to David Lynch - seeing episodes on a big screen has absolutely brought out their quality and I’m delighted to have had the chance to see them like this.
Fair play to them for doing this as a tribute to David Lynch - seeing episodes on a big screen has absolutely brought out their quality and I’m delighted to have had the chance to see them like this.
October 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So to Sunday, and off to the cinema for the final instalment in their screening of Twin Peaks S2.
Fair play to them for doing this as a tribute to David Lynch - seeing episodes on a big screen has absolutely brought out their quality and I’m delighted to have had the chance to see them like this.
Fair play to them for doing this as a tribute to David Lynch - seeing episodes on a big screen has absolutely brought out their quality and I’m delighted to have had the chance to see them like this.
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Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
www.curbed.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.
Watching the Brookside appearances in Hollyoaks this evening - it occurs to me that it just needs a Tapehead column in Saturday’s Guide to really cap it off.
October 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Watching the Brookside appearances in Hollyoaks this evening - it occurs to me that it just needs a Tapehead column in Saturday’s Guide to really cap it off.
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Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today.
Probably not total indifference.
Probably not total indifference.
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Trying to imagine what the reaction would have been if the Govt had casually announced they were replacing A-levels with no details, as they have done with post-16 vocational qualifcations today.
Probably not total indifference.
Probably not total indifference.
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ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉
📈 125,000 members and counting.
📈 125,000 members and counting.
October 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
ICYMI Green Party membership numbers have now overtaken the Conservative Party's! 🎉
📈 125,000 members and counting.
📈 125,000 members and counting.
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Idlewild were immense last night- so good to seem them still so vital and up for it after 30 years as a band.
October 18, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Idlewild were immense last night- so good to seem them still so vital and up for it after 30 years as a band.
As I sit on a very busy and very hot late train back to Northampton, I fondly remember the days when trains had windows that passengers were alllowed to open to cool themselves down. Why can’t we do that any more ?
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
As I sit on a very busy and very hot late train back to Northampton, I fondly remember the days when trains had windows that passengers were alllowed to open to cool themselves down. Why can’t we do that any more ?
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Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!
October 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Sugar is back! New music at sugarcopperblue.com PLUS May 2026 live shows in NYC and London. All the info is here!
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Sugar are back!!! First new song in over 30 years: youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk?...
So far just 4 shows, May 2nd and 3rd in NYC at Webster Hall, May 23rd and 24th in London
So far just 4 shows, May 2nd and 3rd in NYC at Webster Hall, May 23rd and 24th in London
Sugar – House of Dead Memories (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Sugar Copper Blue
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October 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sugar are back!!! First new song in over 30 years: youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk?...
So far just 4 shows, May 2nd and 3rd in NYC at Webster Hall, May 23rd and 24th in London
So far just 4 shows, May 2nd and 3rd in NYC at Webster Hall, May 23rd and 24th in London
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An already bad bill just got a whole lot worse for wildlife. This dreadful government's attitude towards nature is contemptuous.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nature groups rebuke Reeves for ‘cynical’ 11th-hour planning bill changes
Chancellor accused of removing environmental protections to win short-term growth and save her budget
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
An already bad bill just got a whole lot worse for wildlife. This dreadful government's attitude towards nature is contemptuous.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Can you believe it! The highest number of voters so far (a staggering 38) and including my vote for Culture Club, this ended up a tie at 19 votes each! So the fairest way to do this IS, the next vote in will decide it once and for all. Must be someone who hadn't voted already though.
#Singles1982
ROUND 4 - MATCH 7
I SECOND THAT EMOTION
Japan
VERSUS
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME
Culture Club
ROUND 4 - MATCH 7
I SECOND THAT EMOTION
Japan
VERSUS
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME
Culture Club
October 15, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Can you believe it! The highest number of voters so far (a staggering 38) and including my vote for Culture Club, this ended up a tie at 19 votes each! So the fairest way to do this IS, the next vote in will decide it once and for all. Must be someone who hadn't voted already though.
Crowds at Royal Parks Half Marathon were amazing - however Parkrun has taught me to be super-polite to encouragement, so I thanked everybody who said “Go on Steve!” and I almost lost my voice.
October 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Crowds at Royal Parks Half Marathon were amazing - however Parkrun has taught me to be super-polite to encouragement, so I thanked everybody who said “Go on Steve!” and I almost lost my voice.
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What’s that? Moonlighting is on the STV player? Back in a bit.
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
What’s that? Moonlighting is on the STV player? Back in a bit.