And the NHS actually spends less on things we consider “waste”, like admin and managers, than many other nations.

The NHS may indeed be inefficient — but it is not “bloated”. Rather, it is inefficient because it is run too lean.

More in my column 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/1130...

1pm. Cheshire, UK. 53degN. -5C outside. The house is at 20C. The heatpump is using 1.7kW, of which 1.6kW is being provided by our 13 year old solar panels. Current cost to heat the house, 2p/hr.

Punctuation matters. Way more than you think. Bad punctuation can be devastating.

Don't believe me?

Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.

Summer ahoy!

You know you’re back in the West Country when a bloke in a cape gets on the train twirling a fire stick (the flaming kind, not the Amazon gizmo)

“He’s never made sexually inappropriate comments about me” says a man.

What's weird about where we are with Brexit is that it is more clear than ever that it was a catastrophic idea, that NO ONE in the country believes that Starmer is going to "make Brexit work", yet there is still no constructive way to talk about a way out of the situation.

Made me laugh anyway