Why do we need driverless taxis?

When you use public transport outside of the UK, it's really striking how normal and polite everyone seems

‘More than half of all skilled worker visas issued since 2021 have gone to medical professionals, nurses and care staff. In the state funded health and social care sector, foreigners make up around a third of doctors and care workers in England’.
www.economist.com/britain/2025...

It's that time of year again where I make a joke about being back at Scarborough

Great to share & discuss research findings on self-funders & adult social care with Hampshire Care Association. It's reassuring that findings resonate and match reality. It's also fantastic that providers are proactively thinking of how they can best and most responsibly support self-funders.

That's the league cross country season finished. 7th for Stourbridge RC. Happy with that. Brilliant club to be part of.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YiR_vb…
From an NIHR School for Social Care Research funded project, we have co-produced an animation to help people who are self-funding their care navigate through a complicated system and plan for the future

"It's not a shortage of ideas that's the problem" but as the political party in government, we are going to dodge taking any action over the duration of this Parliament, and hide behind an ideas gathering exercise