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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2h

It is, there’s no doubt about that. But there are also issues regarding expense, and the priorities of a government which refuses to do anything to disrupt a very questionable status quo.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 3h

His food travelogues were great. So thoughtful and entertaining.
There’s nothing remotely as good in that genre these days.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 5h

generally acted as if Covid has gone away, when it really hasn’t. Meanwhile, hospital admissions are creeping up, and it’s only October. JCVI’s argument is all about ‘cost effectiveness,’ and it’s not too much of a leap to ‘cost cutting.’
That’s not whinging, that’s reasonable scepticism.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be sceptical about a decision to move the eligibility boundary up by ten years, given government record on managing Covid (and its insistence it was always following ‘the science.’) This govt have done very little as regards mitigation in schools and have..1/2

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing that. In the end it still feels like an elaborate excuse for not wanting to spend the money upfront. Let’s hope that hospitals aren’t overwhelmed this winter by Covid patients who would in previous years have been vaccinated.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. We are entitled to be angry, but, as usual, the people we should be angry with aren’t around, and it’s not right to get cross with GPs and/or nurses.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Same here. Hence my question. I can only think it’s about saving money, though if lots of older people end up in hospital this winter it won’t be much of a saving.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Are there any justifiable clinical reasons to change the eligibility to 75 year olds? I’m 71, had pneumonia a few years ago following Covid, and am suddenly ineligible, despite having had the booster a year ago.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

He should be stunned. Anyone got a spare taser?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of flag-botherers over on Facebook now suddenly demanding the council step in to take these down
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point, though Fiona Bruce’s response to Zack calling Reform out over Russia bribes shows what we are all up against.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will be fuming!

What a shame…

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Me neither, tbf. Though the Welsh apparently saw it as a useful test for them - which they failed, obvs.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Comedy of Errors, morelike

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Great to see

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Aye. Did well to pounce for the goal

Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 2d

This Scotland game is loads more entertaining than the borefest at Wembley.
I’ve only been watching for ten minutes, mind.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 3d

Loyalty has replaced competence. PPE has replaced life experience.

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 4d

Robert Jenrick is a grubby, power-grabbing arsehole. Did he even go to Handsworth? If he did, did he actually step out of his tinted-windowed Range Rover, or whatever bastardmobile his chauffeur drives for him?

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 4d

Hiya. Yep, after a good start, St Pauli, like Albion, have stuttered. It’s a bit early to call their next game a 6-pointer, but, given that they both have 7 points atm, it kind-of is.
And Mason needs 3 points v PNE, to lift some pressure off him.
Hope both sides get the result needed (obvs)

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 4d

And if the wind is blowing towards Reform, she won’t want to miss the boat.

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stuartmaconie.bsky.social @stuartmaconie.bsky.social · 4d

I know Handsworth well. I love it. The Soho Road is one of the most vibrant streets in the world. I was attached to the library there for a writing project last year and I wrote a whole chunk about it in my book Hope And Glory. Read it if you get a chance

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 4d

She’s keeping her options open

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Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 9d

It’s quite a common thing for all sorts of young people to avoid food & drink during the school day, so they don’t have to visit the toilets. They’ve long been a site of all kinds of bullying. Debate about unisex, cubicle-based loos was ‘live’ around 20-odd years ago.

Beestonbaggie @beestonbaggie.bsky.social · 9d

To be fair (though I get your general point), it wasn’t Mason who missed those second-half sitters v Leicester. We had quite a bit of attacking intent second half last Friday.
But last night was grim, faw shaw.