@methodicalmadness.bsky.social
Welcome to the last gasps of human endeavour. Please drive safely through our dystopia.
Paying the private sector won't lower waiting lists. It'll just bump the wealthiest people/regions to the front. Going to a third party to up capacity will cost more & give us less. And I'd rather the gov got beat up over positivity about immigration than beat up while being a Farage tribute act.
June 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Paying the private sector won't lower waiting lists. It'll just bump the wealthiest people/regions to the front. Going to a third party to up capacity will cost more & give us less. And I'd rather the gov got beat up over positivity about immigration than beat up while being a Farage tribute act.
Nothing is ever "settled" in a democracy, and Streeting has zero authority to tell me or any voter the issue is settled. He's a public servant, that's all. The voters will decide what is and isn't settled, and at the ballot box if necessary. redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/joining-or-s...
April 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Nothing is ever "settled" in a democracy, and Streeting has zero authority to tell me or any voter the issue is settled. He's a public servant, that's all. The voters will decide what is and isn't settled, and at the ballot box if necessary. redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/joining-or-s...
It's a public health emergency.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
March 31, 2025 at 4:31 AM
It's a public health emergency.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
It's part of a public health emergency. But it's never reported.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
March 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
It's part of a public health emergency. But it's never reported.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
I daresay this 👇 should be of more concern to our American cousins. 170 million children exposed to high levels of lead, "824,097,690 IQ points" lost in the US "as of 2015". Certainly explains a few things.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
March 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I daresay this 👇 should be of more concern to our American cousins. 170 million children exposed to high levels of lead, "824,097,690 IQ points" lost in the US "as of 2015". Certainly explains a few things.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/
We can - and should - introduce more progressive tax structures. But we also need to see that welfare is largely acting a corporate/landowner subsidy by supplying increasing tax credits to supplement stagnant incomes & extortionate housing costs. 1/2
March 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
We can - and should - introduce more progressive tax structures. But we also need to see that welfare is largely acting a corporate/landowner subsidy by supplying increasing tax credits to supplement stagnant incomes & extortionate housing costs. 1/2
Exactly. Disability payments aren't the problem. Tax credit/housing spend has grown the most since the 90s - not disability support. Driven by stagnant wages/rip-off rents due to profit over people policy. A subsidy for wealthy landlords & business. Cuts for the vulnerable
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
March 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly. Disability payments aren't the problem. Tax credit/housing spend has grown the most since the 90s - not disability support. Driven by stagnant wages/rip-off rents due to profit over people policy. A subsidy for wealthy landlords & business. Cuts for the vulnerable
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
When you examine welfare spending as a whole, the largest rise in the last 30 years goes to tax credits. Disability welfare isn't a problem. Rather, we're increasingly subsidising businesses who don't pay workers enough, or landlords/banks who fleece us for housing costs.
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
March 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
When you examine welfare spending as a whole, the largest rise in the last 30 years goes to tax credits. Disability welfare isn't a problem. Rather, we're increasingly subsidising businesses who don't pay workers enough, or landlords/banks who fleece us for housing costs.
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
ifs.org.uk/articles/ben...
Women are turning away from the right? What a puzzler 🤦.
February 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Women are turning away from the right? What a puzzler 🤦.
Not only that, but he is perpetuating dangerous myths about our NHS. If he can't be bothered to Google his own moronic and ill-informed opinions to fact check before vomiting them in public, he definitely shouldn't be running the national audit office. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
February 5, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Not only that, but he is perpetuating dangerous myths about our NHS. If he can't be bothered to Google his own moronic and ill-informed opinions to fact check before vomiting them in public, he definitely shouldn't be running the national audit office. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
This is why social media in its current form needs to go. The flow of disinformation is just too unmanageable, and the ones who profit from lies don't have to do a damn thing, because it doesn't matter what the lie is that people believe, as long as it obscures the truth.
January 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
This is why social media in its current form needs to go. The flow of disinformation is just too unmanageable, and the ones who profit from lies don't have to do a damn thing, because it doesn't matter what the lie is that people believe, as long as it obscures the truth.
And my point is that I'm afraid there's no evidence to suggest it will actually bring down lists overall (merely help wealthy areas at the expense of poorer areas - as below from the article shared). And it opens the door to more privatisation - bearing in mind there was no NHS outsourcing pre-'97.
January 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
And my point is that I'm afraid there's no evidence to suggest it will actually bring down lists overall (merely help wealthy areas at the expense of poorer areas - as below from the article shared). And it opens the door to more privatisation - bearing in mind there was no NHS outsourcing pre-'97.
Except evidence shows the improvements had little to do with increased capacity from ISPs & everything to do with increased funding, strict targets/management and hard working NHS staff. We're already using ISP capacity, iand it's made little difference.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
January 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Except evidence shows the improvements had little to do with increased capacity from ISPs & everything to do with increased funding, strict targets/management and hard working NHS staff. We're already using ISP capacity, iand it's made little difference.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
Always see the same replies-that it's short term & necessary. But there's no evidence that the private sector has the capacity to help. Instead, it will increase health inequality/costs. This is the reality, & I can't find any evidence to the contrary.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Always see the same replies-that it's short term & necessary. But there's no evidence that the private sector has the capacity to help. Instead, it will increase health inequality/costs. This is the reality, & I can't find any evidence to the contrary.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
Further, I never see it discussed that there's legal precedent to block websites which routinely break the law. We do so already to protect company revenue (copyright violations). Hate speech is a crime. If the owners can't control it, their sites should be blocked.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
January 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Further, I never see it discussed that there's legal precedent to block websites which routinely break the law. We do so already to protect company revenue (copyright violations). Hate speech is a crime. If the owners can't control it, their sites should be blocked.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Also, locum doctors aren't allowed to set up as limited companies - other sole traders are able to do so, and avoid paying full income tax. Locum doctors always pay full income tax.
www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/insigh...
www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/insigh...
January 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Also, locum doctors aren't allowed to set up as limited companies - other sole traders are able to do so, and avoid paying full income tax. Locum doctors always pay full income tax.
www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/insigh...
www.business.hsbc.uk/en-gb/insigh...
2/2 ...without the expense of hiring someone full time - especially useful when current GPs are off long term sick. There's also the issue of the ARRS contract which allows funding for 18 roles, excluding GPs. There are also many hospital locums, but they never get the same bad press as GPs.
January 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
2/2 ...without the expense of hiring someone full time - especially useful when current GPs are off long term sick. There's also the issue of the ARRS contract which allows funding for 18 roles, excluding GPs. There are also many hospital locums, but they never get the same bad press as GPs.
Unfortunately, there's no evidence to suggest that private healthcare has enough spare capacity to make a difference to waiting lists. Better to spend extra on fixing social care crisis than handing public money to private healthcare shareholders for no gain.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
January 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Unfortunately, there's no evidence to suggest that private healthcare has enough spare capacity to make a difference to waiting lists. Better to spend extra on fixing social care crisis than handing public money to private healthcare shareholders for no gain.
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
The thing to also remember is that it wasn't always so unequal. People treat neo-liberalism like it's the natural order. It isn't. You are producing more $$$ into the economy, but being paid no more to do so, but that wasn't always the case. Change can happen.
January 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The thing to also remember is that it wasn't always so unequal. People treat neo-liberalism like it's the natural order. It isn't. You are producing more $$$ into the economy, but being paid no more to do so, but that wasn't always the case. Change can happen.
To understand the scope of how problematic this really is in the UK - Meta owns the top 3 most used social media tools in the UK. They also make a ton of money here - which means the gov can leverage this to ensure we maintain proper fact checking standards here. But we have to demand it.
January 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
To understand the scope of how problematic this really is in the UK - Meta owns the top 3 most used social media tools in the UK. They also make a ton of money here - which means the gov can leverage this to ensure we maintain proper fact checking standards here. But we have to demand it.
The Independent is wrong to imply causation between gov disapproval/Musk intervention. Disapproval with gov here hasn't changed much recently, and is mostly caused by unpopular domestic policy choices in Aug/Sep. Plus, the more we hear from Musk, the less we like, so causation is unlikely 👇.
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Independent is wrong to imply causation between gov disapproval/Musk intervention. Disapproval with gov here hasn't changed much recently, and is mostly caused by unpopular domestic policy choices in Aug/Sep. Plus, the more we hear from Musk, the less we like, so causation is unlikely 👇.