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Both newts and housing, please. Scientific technical editor. Personal account, views my own.
Problems delivering the emergency water supply to a dialysis centre. Interaction of water infrastructure and management with what I'm guessing is NHS buildings infrastructure and management.
January 6, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Example of the excellent content, this is quite well-known in the adult autistic community and am really glad to see this communicated to parents by expert dentists.

www.autismtoothcare.com/toothbrushin...
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
This is really pathetic. Both Starmer's actions and lack of action on defending liberal multiculturalism and human rights has caused what may yet be deep and lasting harm.
December 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Are there not better places for the puzzles?
December 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I feel like this would have been better reported by health specialists, as surely this paragraph should mention JCVI?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Winding down to listen to Nine Lessons and Carols. This year's commissioned carol is a setting of Thomas Hardy's poem, The Darkling Thrush.
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is the doc for the South Cambs and Cambridge City shared waste service going to a four day week from 2023.

democracy.cambridge.gov.uk/documents/s6...
December 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This from chair Alun Francis in the Guardian write-up of the report seems like fair criticism to me.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am really fed-up and upset about poorly older people being blamed via this framing for mismanagement and a lack of foresight given that these trends have been predicted for a long time.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
December 15, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Continuing to be very rattled and upset about this piece in Renewal, this part in particular.

If this is how people feel, they need to be told they are wrong.

renewal.org.uk/blog/a-unite...
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Systemic barriers to Accessible Information Standards implementation.
December 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More from the main report on the lack of implementation of the Accessible Information Standard.

www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I am a Renewal subscriber and I am not impressed by this.

I think this paragraph is especially telling. This is another Mr Blobby Patriotism laundry list. Describing the Welsh language as a "love of consonants" is offensively belittling imv.
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Inadvisably reading the Home Office Impact Assessment.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Am interpreting Wes Streeting's Guardian op-ed as an attempt to get back to the "written off" labelling framing from the overdiagnosis framing, following in the same style as the PM's earlier piece.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Too busy to write anything longer, but noting that the Health Foundation say that in 2024 the two most common work-limiting health categories were musculoskeletal and mental health conditions.

www.health.org.uk/evidence-hub...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This reporting on a water outage suggests the possibility that priority service registers have either not been used properly or that the service level specified wasn't reached.

(Unless I misunderstood what the service level is meant to be.)

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Some ground water sources are still declining.
December 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Really do think that the situation with water is not being explained properly to the public. Hopefully we get an at least normally wet winter, but maybe we won't.

www.gov.uk/government/p...
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In my view, outsourcing to a single web developer in this way should have been a signal to management that further probing of this process was warranted.

Report does say that this was on the risk register.
December 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Misconfigured WordPress plugin, because the scale and importance of the task wasn't provided for adequately. I feel really sorry for the staff.
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The PM has used the word neurodivergent in a Graun oped. Hmm.
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Was reading this article yesterday on reduced West Coast Main Line train services with weary resignation. Thought we got to the crux of the matter in paragraphs 14 and 15.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Feels like a good day to reshare this piece by Ciaran Martin apropos the reanimated discussion of the British Library cyberattack.

www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/blog/jaguar-...
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Had forgotten what this paper published last year concluded, but it supports what this report says about attainment for SEND pupils.

> The academic achievement gap between students with and without special educational needs and disabilities

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM