Paul Stenton
@paulstenton.bsky.social
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Retired Scientific & Commercial Satellites. Europhile, Freedom of Movement. We're all the same on the inside, same hopes & fears. "c"onservative, Social Conscience. Landslide Gov't != Democracy. Loves Collies & Walking Highlands. Block empty profiles
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Well said @bearlypolitics.co.uk. The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state.
However, the elephant still in the room is the 4% GDP and Billions Nigel Garbage has continually ReFuk's our nations with. Just imagine how much better off everyone would be. Brexiteers🤦‍♂️
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The Ceaseless Snip-Snip-Snip of a Dying State
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse - and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well.
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Slashing 000,000s from the integrated care budget will result in many more elderly and disabled being inadaquately-cared for, resulting in many more A&E/ITC/NHS hospital visits.

The care is already shabby to nonexistent.

So much for an integrated service

www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aber...
'Unworked hours' slashed by half as at least 77 'fed-up' staff quit in Aberdeenshire healthcare shake-up
Trade union branch secretary, Inez Kirk, fears home carers and emergency responders are a being treated as a "second thought" in the redesign process.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
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bestforbritain.org
"Our polling shows a majority of voters - including Labour's own winning coalition - increasingly view Brexit as a failure for the country, and rightly expect ministers to urgently work with the EU to find a pragmatic way to fix the damage."
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The amount of old pensioners that believe GB‼️News is patriotic is unbelievable. I live in the Highlands, there are no immigrants that anyone would recognise other than in the NHS & Care/Nursing Homes and still, not having "ever" seen an immigrant they believe we are being invaded.
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bestforbritain.org
The global network of the radical right is a threat to our democracy. 🚨

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social on Musk and Tommy Robinson: "It is outrageous that a man who has so much control over what people read online could be funding someone who stokes far right extremism on our streets."
paulstenton.bsky.social
And yet....Labour are following both oppositions
bestforbritain.org
The Conservative Party’s plan for our economy? More austerity.

Keir Starmer: "We're certainly not going to be following the Leader of the Opposition."
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bestforbritain.org
We're running out of time. 🚨 🌎

Douglas Parr, Greenpeace UK’s chief scientist: "Alarm bells should be ringing in government that doubled chances of heatwaves, droughts and wildfires will make life in the UK look very different, very quickly."

https://bit.ly/3WCmrOn
UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
www.theguardian.com
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The smog just keeps getting thick.....and closer.
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Scotlands Ultra Low Emission Zones ULEZ.

32 Landowners burning ⅓ of Scotlands moors every year producing 50% of Scotlands emissions and reducing life expectancy.

Yet ScotGov play with the cities knowing full well where the issues lay.

Bent MPs and MSPs firmly in the grip of big money.
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Scotland £80 & £20, Covid LP.8.1. & Flu resp. What does daylight robbery look down south.

Fortunate we both believe and can afford our own protection.
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Brexit and former Prime Minister Liz Truss made the UK a less-competitive, slower-growing economy that faces a greater risk of inflation, Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said.

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American private equity hospital care at its best😏

Increasingly coming to health are & hospitals near us I
In the UK.

Why the fuck are our governments increasingly divesting our NHS system to private equity?

More profit ≡ less health care‼️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study
Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals
www.theguardian.com
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premnsikka.bsky.social
Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.

Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.

More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications

Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?
Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study
Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals
www.theguardian.com
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thegodpodcast.com
Donald Trump is NEVER winning the Nobel Peace Prize and he is NEVER getting into Heaven.
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Unfortunate Title, but a great article.

As ever, thanks @davidjoffe64.bsky.social
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HIV integrates into DNA, whereas SARS-CoV-2 and its parts persist in organs like the blood vessels, brain, heart, tonsils, and lungs.
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Both can establish persistent infections in tissue reservoirs, immune dysfunction, vulnerability to other infections, systemic damage including hallmarks of accelerated biological aging, and premature neurocognitive disorders.
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Another great day at the office
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COVID exhausts, ages and cumulatively wears down the immune system with each infection.

Both SARS and MERS could overcome the defences of the immune system, and result in prolonged chronic illness that lasted years.

SARS-CoV-2 is no different.
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It's a great chart. Thank you.
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Be careful, it's a log scale‼️ However, covid is on the rise and ,you are at moderate risk of infection.

This wave is a different beast a slow long climb, probably due to waning immunity, old NHS vaccines and the current variants changes since the last wave.
If you can afford it, pay for the LP.8.1.
drjoepajak.bsky.social
As COVID-19 infections rise in England, more people appear to be turning to private tests especially now that NHS vaccines are restricted to fewer groups this winter.
Meanwhile, COVID hospitalisations (🔗 @ukhsa.bsky.social) creep up despite a mild autumn. @theipaper.com
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As COVID-19 infections rise in England, more people appear to be turning to private tests especially now that NHS vaccines are restricted to fewer groups this winter.
Meanwhile, COVID hospitalisations (🔗 @ukhsa.bsky.social) creep up despite a mild autumn. @theipaper.com 
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/covid-cases-surge-private-tests-autumn-jab-scheme-cut-3974297?ITO=newsnow