@redneeraj.bsky.social
ICU doctor. Long suffering supporter of LFC. Lapsed optimist.
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The BMA has to renew its mandate to pursue strike action in January. This will help.
For who? The people hit by this tax only have one paycheque, I doubt, say, a junior doctor is going 'oh - thank goodness, instead of just taking back that £1,508 a year from me by reversing Jeremy Hunt's NI cuts, you are taking that money via PAYE in a *different way*!|
Extending the scope of a tax is patently different to increasing it
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The BMA has to renew its mandate to pursue strike action in January. This will help.
In the 70s, 80s there were people with first hand experience of fighting Nazis. Racism may have been more common, praise of Hitler and singing Hitler youth songs was not. That was the action of pariahs.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
In the 70s, 80s there were people with first hand experience of fighting Nazis. Racism may have been more common, praise of Hitler and singing Hitler youth songs was not. That was the action of pariahs.
I go to meetings at my work, where we talk about solving problems without spending any money whatsoever. Nothing proposed is ever likelu to work and so nothing gets actioned. Repeated throughout the public sector and government.
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I go to meetings at my work, where we talk about solving problems without spending any money whatsoever. Nothing proposed is ever likelu to work and so nothing gets actioned. Repeated throughout the public sector and government.
Whenever there's a story about how the British passport let's you into a country, I think that maybe so but the British government will do bugger all to get you out should you need it.
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Whenever there's a story about how the British passport let's you into a country, I think that maybe so but the British government will do bugger all to get you out should you need it.
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ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
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FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
FFS 😡
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS
Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!
Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
Clearly the BBC were not paying attention to the 2022 Reith lectures
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Clearly the BBC were not paying attention to the 2022 Reith lectures
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
The seats on the Jubilee line could do with being reupholstered.
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The seats on the Jubilee line could do with being reupholstered.
Rediscovering London with the older children
Thought experiments powering future physics
Vlatko Vedral explores thought experiments which could alter our understanding of the universe if they became reality.
www.rigb.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Rediscovering London with the older children
"You can't always get what you want"
November 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"You can't always get what you want"
A bully squirms
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A bully squirms
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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You are not allowed to post a property listing which posits “unspeakable acts” without referencing the Vice article on the dungeon of fuck. I thank you. www.vice.com/en/article/l...
London Rental Opportunity of the Week: A £3 Million Fuck Dungeon in Vauxhall
What else are you doing with your basement?
www.vice.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You are not allowed to post a property listing which posits “unspeakable acts” without referencing the Vice article on the dungeon of fuck. I thank you. www.vice.com/en/article/l...
The only thing the modern (little c) conservative believes in is the power of attrition.
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The only thing the modern (little c) conservative believes in is the power of attrition.
Hard not to dislike this.
Postpartum prescription of #GLP-1RAs in Denmark increased between 2018 and 2024, with #semaglutide accounting for most prescriptions since 2023. Most users had #overweight or #obesity, and only 23% had a #diabetes diagnosis.
ja.ma/4pyyJEd
ja.ma/4pyyJEd
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hard not to dislike this.
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RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
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My friend and fellow menswear writer Bruce Boyer is fond of saying that clothes are more important than most people think, but less important than fashion people think. I'm of the same mind. I'm of the same mind. I think it's perfectly fine to use clothing to communicate something about yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
My friend and fellow menswear writer Bruce Boyer is fond of saying that clothes are more important than most people think, but less important than fashion people think. I'm of the same mind. I'm of the same mind. I think it's perfectly fine to use clothing to communicate something about yourself.
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).
www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
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It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.