Is it my imagination or is Leavitt visibly ageing with every press conference?

And education?

That's a function of misguided 'efficiency'

Spot on

...a national health service needs redundancy built in, as we have seen demonstrated during COVID and, in fact, almost every winter.
That spare capacity at other times, enables the reduction of waste such as staff burnout, unrealistic expectations of CPD, maintenance of basic infrastructure.

When you have an under-resourced organisation that cannot be allowed to collapse, it will continue to swallow money simply staving off that collapse.
The real problem is that it has tried to be 'efficient' as consecutive health secretaries believe they can cut out waste. THEY can't. But also...

Why are you so angry?

See also "climate of fear"

You're a cheery soul, aren't you?
Have you tried X.com?

Americano was, allegedly, invented for Americans in Italy (?) who weren't used to strong coffee (ie coffee tasting of coffee).
Moving on to Espresso Lungo...then espresso...double espresso... dabbling with Turkish coffee... it's all a sign of growth. 😊

So sorry to hear this Robin. It's an awful loss for the programme, the audience, the Monkey Cage team and you.
But you have always felt injustice deeply and done your best to counter it. That the BBC don't value THAT 'balance' is another injustice.

And....they're blocked

And all because some politicians are c*nts

Erm...good?

I must give it a listen. Love Sibelius.

So utterly divorced from reality. 🙄

I've been once and have two more booked 😏

Very smooth, the pair of them 😊

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