John Culkin
boatwrecked.bsky.social
John Culkin
@boatwrecked.bsky.social
NHS/health policy mainly.
To these editors and journalists everything is a game isn't it. No seriousness professionalism or integrity. They'll have been laughing to themselves as they wrote this, knowing full well they'd have celebrated the numbers were Farage or Johnson in #10
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What is this? A memorial for ANTS?
October 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
They literally think it means not definite.
Don't worry about this candle on the bed, the duvet is inflammable
October 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I live v close and just floors me to imagine it as a total ruin long before Horsforth, Headingley etc was there
October 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There's definitely two halves of TokTok in that respect - those who swallow the far right content wholesale, and those who mock it. And the algorithm probably makes sure the two sides never cross paths...
September 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I was v surprised to learn my 13yo daughter knew who Kirk was thru TokTok, and feared the worst in terms of influence. But actually all the content she saw was tiktokers calling out his bs, which was kind of encouraging
September 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
True but most of the senior comms advisers are all about the message not the method - so everything becomes an argument about the content. But fundamentally, good politics is about convincing people of your argument - the content is almost irrelevant, its about tactics and approach, the method.
September 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
And since then he went away and did great things in a different public service role where he probably learned an awful lot and probably changed quite a bit?
September 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh yes totally unlucky for Siraj but think the game finishing on a bit of an oddity helped take the sting out of what has been a bit of a testy atmosphere
July 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Of all the ways to get out too!
July 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Find the % taken as profit to be v high, it can't be true. Private Providers receiver the same money for a procedure as an NHS provider would, and these are nailed down prices, the majority of which is used to pay the drs. Just no way those fees have headroom for 40% profit
July 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The difference is that I can think without speaking. And I can learn things in one context and genuinely test the truth of them in another using my own intuition and intelligence rather than needing feedback from an external source.
July 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
You're right that most spend comes at the end, in the last years or months of someone's life. In that's case, is there that much of a difference between the spending in the last few years of a 50yr old smoker's life compared to an 85 yr old's
May 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The ousting of sue gray, the one person in labour who knew definitely knew something about actually running a government machine, was a very bad early sign that labour was going to do a Cummings
May 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Citing a lack of progress on your new govts objectives as the reason for being frustrated, while also announcing progress against those objectives, and forgetting you also explicitly told everyone to wait for your 10 year plan before making any big changes . Cunning.
March 13, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Saying to my wife "that reminds me of how we got together" whenever people kiss on TV/film, no matter how outlandish, inappropriate or extreme the on screen situation...
March 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Those justices who are Trump appointees and apparent lackeys - they are in post for life right? So it's not like they are still actually beholden to DT - they could just grow a spine and not do what he wants, right? Or is there some other hold he has over them?
March 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Knob...
March 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Totally
February 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM