The claim “removed from the waiting list” is not equivalent to “safely treated and cured.”

This....

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And neither the #Tories or #Labour did anything about it, they simply don't bloody care!

They're NOT on our side.

#VoteGreen

Hope you are well enough Charlie.

Parker Palmers idea of The Tragic Gap might be worth exploring. How to live with dignity and fulfilment in a world that is both so beautiful and so horrific.

Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.

Lovely People.

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Police data for London doesn’t show knife crime is up 72% in a year – Full Fact A claim from Conservative MP Esther McVey isn’t supported by police statistics, which show knife-enabled crime fell by 11% in the year to September 2025.

Conservative MP Esther McVey claimed last week that knife crime in London “is up 72% in a year”.

That figure’s not correct, according to police statistics on knife-enabled crime, and we’ve not found any data to support it.

Do we understand the environment better now than we did in say the 14th century?

We know much more about it, but do we understand it better?

Do we live in it better? Live with it better?

Is it about how much we listen?
How well we listen?
Or how open we are to finding our personal response to what we are sensing?
And then sensing and responding again?

President Trump, "We should have Greenland to protect the world against Russia and China"

"The USA should not be paying trillions to NATO"

- Since the founding of NATO in 1949, the US has contributed $45 billion, nowhere near a trillion, let along, trillions

The US does not pay ‘trillions’ into NATO.
It pays about $900 million a year into NATO, with a further $900bn in defence spending…
He casually lies again….

They need the challenge of actually thinking as much as the rest of us!

The ‘org have everyone truly aligned’! Yuk! Too controlling for me! Unless truly does a lot of work to allow for aligned with respect for, and insights from, genuinely held difference.
Have everyone relating? Attuned? Participating?

I think there is some digging that would need to be done on the semantics… what is intended by certain words…

Choosing a corner might be the beginning of self knowledge…

Whether we are in or out (false binary?) we ‘relate’…and the relationship is not fixed, but dynamic, processual and never fully known…

It’s the narrative that irks me. “We can’t afford to defend ourselves while we have such an enormous welfare bill”

The welfare bill is no bigger than it was 10 years ago as a % of GDP.
The pattern of governments taking money from citizens and diverting it into the hands of private sector profiteers has to be questioned…

The future value may lie in expert-led work on complex, high-variation, high-consequence problems.

The systems through which this work is commissioned are optimised for scale, standardisation, and defensibility.

So the capability most needed is often the least visible to the market.

I wonder if affiliate could become relate?

I’m not saying any of it is ok.

Stop this wickedness. NOW!

Where genuine forms of meaning, care, and shared purpose are thin,
counterfeit forms of transcendence tend to rush in.

But we will. Gulf war, Bosnia, Kosovo, Falklands. Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq all spring too easily to mind…and Sierra Leone, Syria and Northern Ireland…

I like this a lot! If only it were as easy as changing words on a 2x2! The shift from a consequentialist ethic to a participatory one…

Enjoy… you might find it a an interesting process!

I think it’s a different orientation entirely…more than just semantics. It’s perhaps a different ontology…and a different ethics…

It will take the lives of our own most vulnerable citizens as well as those we wage war with and on…

Well worth a read!
Paying in 30 days would help too when we do get the work!