Pair this with a law that says a man must have the written permission of a woman to impregnate her and you relieve women of the awful effects/pain of female contraceptives.

Here’s one of your boxes recently installed.

Nestlé’s pollution scandal shows exactly how broken our system is – corporations profit while communities are left with contaminated land and water

Strong regulation and real consequences are long overdue.

#Nestle #CleanWater

Such an important record to keep. Thank you.

The constraint on NHS throughput is very rarely physical space. Commonly it is available consultant hours. So use of the private sector merely steals those hours from the NHS and transfers funds to the private sector. There are better ways of improving throughput.

Madness. We need world population to fall. Women should not be coerced into having or not having children.

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Depressing.

Climate Success!
UK just completed 1st full year with zero coal electricity grid.
Huge kudos to activists who protested & got arrested to stop new coal in the 80s & 90s & all the others who made this happen. 💚🎊🙏
Down from 80% in 1990.
Renewables produced just over 40% for 1st time.
#YesWeAre

National Grid: Live Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

One of my favourite websites. It shows where our power comes from. grid.iamkate.com It also shows when power demand peaks and when renewable energy production peaks. They don’t match. The more we can move power use to daylight hours the better.

Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.

You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.

Letter: ‘Irresistible’ rise of eugenics: something we must all fight From Natalie Bennett, Green Peer, House of Lords, London SW1, UK The other side of Quinn Slobodian’s op-ed, which online ran as “The irresistible rise of libertarian eugenics” (November 15), is an explosion in the use by many of the prominent would-be eugenicists, and their allies, of abusive terms for the learning-disabled and others they label inferior. These are terms that seemed to be consigned to history, but are being proudly brandished in America, by everyone from Elon Musk to Joe Rogan, who described the return of the word “retarded” as “one of the great culture victories”. Acknowledging that every human being has strengths and capacities, has the right to equal respect and dignified treatment, and the right to be supported to develop to their and the right to be supported to develop to their full potential, was one sign of progress in the late 20th century. We cannot allow the return of eugenicist thinking.

My letter in today's Financial Times

#DisabilityRights #Discrimination #Equalities
@disabledgreens.bsky.social

Thank you. Little do they know what a thin edge of the wedge this is. To stop valuing any human is the first step on the path to valuing no one.

I hope it included services that enable positive and safe birth for women and babies and supporting breastfeeding including full implementation of the WHO Code on the marketing of breastmilk substitutes.

Why Sweden Clears Snow-Covered Walkways Before Roads — Streetsblog USA It's part of "gender-balanced" policy that reflects the fact that women walk more than men.

As I slipped and slid along slushy and icy pavements on my way to the metro, it feels like it’s worth resharing the story of how Swedish cities flipped the order of snow clearance as they reflected on how gendered normal practices were:

usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/24/w...

The key thing managers in the NHS need to understand is how service or production systems work and how to run them to maximise throughput while maintaining quality and holding costs, all without burning out the delivery staff. It can be done but NHS managers are not taught how.

I can highly recommend it. Just get a copy and have a read.

Read it carefully. The issues were minor. The reduction in section rate in births planned as out of hospital birth also has a knock on beneficial effect for subsequent pregnancy outcomes.

The study is on 64,000 low risk pregnancies. Hospitals are the place for high risk pregnancies. Many people think hospital makes birth a lot safer. For low risk women it doesn’t.

It depends how you calculate it. The costs of a home birth look considerably cheaper but you have to factor in that hospital facilities need to be there for home birth if the mother or midwife decides they need to transfer in.

Yes high risk births are what hospitals are for. However for the rest hospital birth isn’t improving safety in the way it is often implied it is.

It would be a very good idea to warn women of hospital birth risks. www.npeu.ox.ac.uk/birthplace.

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

They don’t have spare capacity. Across most of the NHS the constraint is available clinician hours. Private sector takes those hours, makes a profit from them so making NHS waiting lists worse! When will Wes learn. #nhs @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

Getting ultra rich is a particular narrow skill which also requires having a rich daddy. It doesn’t make you compassionate or able to advise on world issues. So why do we think it does.

This is such a miserable thing to do. Loosing any semblance of light in the late afternoon. Forcing more energy use. How about we delay until end of November and reset in Feb. Gives us just enough dark not to be sick of it.

Advertising beguiled people into unhealthy choices. Advertising should only be allowed for single ingredient food items.

The food crisis is more complicated. Women do not have time to shop daily and cook from scratch. Men don’t think it’s their job to do it. Manufacturers ought to have to pay to be allowed to use non traditional interference and wrap things in plastic.