How is he still lying about this and not one member of the press is prepared to call him out in real time? How?

BBC Newsnight points out net migration fell from 649k (year to June 2024) to 205k (year to June 2025) (Small boat arrivals up 5k to 41k) When only 1/6 people know it came down from record levels, the main bulletins should take 10 seconds to convey the context when reporting

That Manchester United statement in full...

"I said Jim Ratcliffe pays all his taxes, lives in England and is doing measured commentary on the state of the communities he moves in" "What did i say Roy?" "You said he had shot his mouth of in an unscripted media interview, got his facts wrong and shown his true colours"

Jim Ratcliffe has my full support. Anyone who lies about population figures, claims £120m in public money for his own company after paying no UK tax at all, while immigrants pay at least £15bn is my kind of guy!

Also I don't see an acknowledgment that he got the basic facts on which he based his racist comments wrong

There are two issues here that should go beyond tone policing “offensive language” Are the facts of where we are right or wrong? But even more importantly, does it matter if the balance of skin colour / historic country of origin shifts like this, regardless of the exact number now?

I'm flabbergasted at the way the debate on Jim Radcliffe's comments on immigration has gone. People's offence at his language is not the point. His basic claim was wrong. He quoted fake numbers on immigration. Exaggerating the numbers more than fivefold...

For all of those who - think we are still in the middle of a raging pandemic 😷 - believe conspiracies about the covid vaccines 🤡 I have some more data for you to ignore or explain away

His numbers are all wrong. And he lives in Monaco to avoid taxes. So, all in all, this is a good reminder that the state of UK public services is less to do with immigrants and more to do with people like Ratcliffe refusing to contribute to the common good

Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance. As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.

Important

The problem with this argument is Sanchez has been PM in Spain since 2018; Friedericksen in Denmark since 2019; Albanese in Australia since 2022 etc... And they have social media in all those countries.

🆕 The commissioning layer of the NHS has been its most reorganised part – and it is changing again. A guest article from @nigel-edwards.bsky.social looks at what needs to happen for ICB-led strategic commissioning to succeed where other models have struggled www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/co...

Oh this is superb. Rude, but superb. Also - serious.

The biggest NHS problems are inside the system not outside the system: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

But not convinced that a new 'department for growth' would shift the dial unless you get different political decisions. As @gilesyb.bsky.social paper on getting growth said "Strategy means choosing one path over another, and for this the politics part is key"

They bet our entire economy on this. Covid gave us that period of Work From Home that made workers productive and middle management useless. Now, middle management wants employees to correct a computer all day while it takes longer to accomplish less.

Report: Employers Created 40,000 New Jobs For Existing Employees Last Month https://theonion.com/report-employers-created-40-000-new-jobs-for-existing-1819575878/

More spaces for patients to queue is not a solution to the problem that causes long waits in A&E. The new NHSE A&E model is is a failure and a dodge not a solution: www.hsj.co.uk/emergency-ca...

the problem is not that it is expensive: it is that it is a collective action problem. If action in Somerset or the UK on climate affected climate damage in a 1-for-1 way in Somerset or the UK, then there would not be a public policy problem

Older, sicker patients are not the key drivers of current NHS crises: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

Made me want to share it. You? #WomenInSTEM

October 29, 2024. bsky.app/profile/atru...

It’s a round number

Best review of Melania so far: "like doing a documentary of Eva Braun feeling sad about the horror of war while her boyfriend invades Poland"

An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.

The costs of the urgently needed refurbishment of the UK's parliament building are ridiculously huge. But much needed for safety reasons as much as improvements to functionality. And much higher because government keeps delaying action...

But given the sensitivity of basically every kind of high-end processor to radiation the level of shielding you'd need is insane. Or else you'd need to use really low performance chips and memory that's more robust. It's just fully daft.

I did a quick dive into this (obvs not as a space expert) and the radiation problem is the one that outweighs all the other ones, though they're huge (which mostly boil down to "this is an insanely expensive way to do this that solves no problem")

No surprises ever from the Government Of Pedophiles.

This guy is the second dumbest GOP Senator, Tommy Tuberville is in a not so secure first place if Tim keeps saying stupid things like this.

Recent events have exposed the real problem with the Republican Party. It isn't bad policy. It is their catastrophic lack of sufficient character or backbone. They can't even criticise their leader when he calls for actions blatantly in contradiction to the US constitution.

WHY IS THERE CONSCRIPTION IN UKRAINE, PET?

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

France’s Foreign Ministry owns Elon Musk in this response:

A reminder that if you are a Real Person* on here you absolutely SHOULD NOT start a DM chain just by saying "hello" or "hi". I know you think you're being polite, but anyone with a decent number of followers is going to block you instantly as it's what the bots do. *(Not that any of you are real)

The real problem with RFK, jr is that he thinks like a lawyer not a doctor or scientist. Verdicts in court are binary. And proof "beyond reasonable doubt" is often required. Science rarely has binary conclusions and evidence is rarely beyond reasonable doubt...

Why should the NHS pay for the government policy of appeasing Trump?

I have decided that ALL physical analogies for the economy are rubbish. open.substack.com/pub/gileswil... Income is not located in a place. Money doesn't flow. The economy isn't a machine. Or a body. There's no meaningful "fuel".

Back in 2016, Trump told Karl Rove—with utter seriousness—that he would win California, Illinois, & New York, because he'd done so well in the Republican primaries. Trump's egomania is such he believes it. In his mind, fair elections must be fraud, which justifies extreme measures. It'll get worse.

Straight up admitting he wants to take over the voting process that has lasted 250 years because he is upset he lost in 2020.

Sunday: Todd Blanche goes on the talk shows to deny that Trump had any role in directing the Fulton County FBI raids. Monday: Trump had a role in directing the FBI raids. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Sad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...

This is a quite spectacular miss of the point. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

I would say 1. Management systems need managers not “front line staff” 2. Management systems need systems designed and implemented by guess who. This is a classic example of short term savings leading to long term costs. But I think you knew that.

A meaningful question to ask about waiting lists is validation would be why English NHS management systems (at provider, regional and national level) had not ensured that waiting list validation was a regular part of how they operated.