Couple more years full time, I then reach official retirement age - might stay on very part- time - plan to do a lot of writing. yourself?

No, three degrees a 34 year long career in critical care & 10 in academia 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wow:

More Corruption from the felon.

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New bowel cancer treatment ‘highly effective’ and reduces need for chemotherapy www.itv.com/news/2026-04...

Notably low I expect, under a particularly strict Stalinist regime, hardly a dictatorship of the proletariat.

Wretched capitalism.

I am inclined to agree, and that perhaps comes into focus as people age / acquire chronic illness?

Trade-offs and risk: benefit analysis?

There is the paradox of ‘booze and fags’ alongside those who choose a sedentary lifestyle

Health lifestyles are I guess determine by affordability?

Wealth and mortality among late-middle-aged individuals in Norway: a nationwide register-based retrospective study Our findings suggest that wealth is an important predictor of mortality, even in an advanced welfare state with comprehensive healthcare provisions, highlighting the need to address inequalities in we...

Wealthier people live longer -- not due to genetics either.
Wealth and mortality among late-middle-aged individuals in Norway: a nationwide register-based retrospective study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Farage complains his candidates face racist abuse Farage wants his supporters to understand that the racist dog whistles only applied to his political enemies - not his political candidates

Farage complains his candidates face racist abuse

Farage wants his supporters to understand that the racist dog whistles only applied to his political enemies - not his political candidates
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

I suggest very many will, not so for me, closing in in retirement but thanks for the invite 😊

If F*rage gets in there will there be an Oily?

Surgeon's mesh surgery cost £20m in compensation A disgraced surgeon whose artificial bowel mesh procedures injured more than 450 patients has cost the NHS more £20m in compensation payments, the BBC has been told. Bristol surgeon Tony Dixon was…

News article on the hub today - Surgeon's mesh surgery cost £20m in compensation (via BBC News).

Agreed, irrespective as to whether one supports Starmer (and I don’t) it is beyond doubt that they are after him - I think I counted 8 pieces criticising Starmer on the BBC News website yesterday - there was nothing like like level of attack against the Tory PM’s (maybe Truss)

The most morally corrupt DOJ in US history.

Starmer is in many ways weak, but as you say, he should stay for stabilities sake - but the media bloodhounds are after him like they went after Rayner (but largely ignored Tice and F*rages Clacton house). I suspect the coming elections will seal his longer term fate.

Reform are repulsive and inhumane - it will be their downfall.

They conveniently forget that the decent people of this country has raised £billions to support all of those who are vulnerable in society, not only in the UK, but right across the globe.

NHS recruitment crisis leaves graduates wondering if they will get work Dozens of midwifery, physiotherapy and nursing students contact BBC over fears they won't get jobs.

This is an absolute scandal, as well as a terrible way to treat young health professionals - what is the point of training people when there is no prospect of employment.
It is a long-term strategic disaster.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fortunately, never going to happen, Reform would have to have a signifcant majority to enact that.

👏👏👏 exactly, this is the media right driving performative politics, because they small the blood.

F*rage has a 'lack of curiosity' about every single Reform person who stands for selection / election - as usual his is a high performing hypocrite.

Here we go, the Tory/Reformagraph running nonsense culture wars again.

Library assistants, administrators, IT workers and other university support staff on the picket line

Solidarity with staff striking at University of Gloucestershire today and Thursday ✊ A 1.4% pay offer, after years of below-inflation pay incrreases, is beyond insulting
southwest.unison.org.uk/news/2026/04...

Spot on, this troubles me daily.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

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Happy birthday George 🥳🤩

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.

Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.

But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.

Trickle down hoax.