That's not really what crossing the Rubicon means, Sean.

She is very wise! Killing other people's darlings is what I do all day.

Absolutely. The good news is that the paper is very well written. It's about as dense as they come and full of alien concepts but at least it's clear and well-reasoned, if one has the patience to carefully work through it (which I am, very slowly!). I feel there's a lot to be learned from doing so.

Sorry, David. I tried listening to this and just can't get past the AI-generated simulation of human conversation. It's not for me, I'm afraid. Perhaps others might find it more to their taste but I can't engage with this sort of format. I'd rather just muddle through the paper!

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Thanks, Beth. I've sent you an email this afternoon. Any help much appreciated. :)

Oh no. I had similar when I thought ReSPECT was done but it turned out my mother had just had a chat with a nurse. I learned from that never to assume anything unless Ive seen it with my own eyes! It’s exhausting though.

It sounds exhausting. Was the ACP in place but not enacted or referred to, or did it turn out it had just never been completed?

I completely agree this is spineless.
We need to vociferously complain and change the BBC to make it better though, not defund it. Its role providing impartial news to the UK massively reduces the polarisation that has torn the US apart. We need to hold it to that task, not seek its destruction.

Wow. I think I understood about 20% of that but what I did get was very intriguing! I’ll have a look at the paper obviously but for something so groundbreaking to have impact it will need to be broken down so generalists can get the gist, if not the detail. If you do a talk on it please let me know!

Still not an apology. That would have been something. This is just more meaningless sewage.