My mum had a heart attack yesterday afternoon, followed by an angioplasty. She was sitting up in bed and drinking coffee by 9pm last night, and seems to be fine now. They're keeping her in until Monday to make sure, but panic over. Turns out that an angioplasty is nowadays an outpatient operation under local anaesthetic, with over 97% success rate. Modern medicine is awesome. And thank fuck for the NHS! comments

With Reform on the rise, how has that affected other parties? In short, Reform are lapping up the 2021 Conservative and 2024 Labour votes, but barely registering amongst past SNP voters.

Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights has become a defining issue for political parties

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

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Zack Polanski is once again proposing solutions to capitalist problems while the Labour Party bury their heads in the sand

In this blog, Callum MacIver and Keith Bell set out to dig a little deeper into the current state of wind curtailment.

At most, Iran can hope to wound America or Israel when attacked. But its own weapons can never win a war.

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A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

I think it might be autumn.

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