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used to have a bagpiper,’ Miller said wistfully. ‘A splendid fellow! He couldn’t play to save his life, but the noise he made was simply magnificent! Bloody dagoes shot him in a nasty little fight when we captured one of their frigates. One
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“The World Health Organization’s 1995 definition of privatisation within healthcare is ‘a … process in which non-government actors become increasingly involved in the financing and/or provision of health care services’.38 And this is exactly what is happening in the NHS.”
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
“The provision of public healthcare across the UK provides a bedrock of support that has shaped our society for the past 75 years.”
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
“The process of formal education in universities typically consists of listening to spoken text in lectures, and reading written text, as typified by the phrase “to read for a degree” in law for example. The use of this phrase implies that the study of written text has been considered an efficient and effective strategy for learning.”
― Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature
― Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature
“The result is that the Web creates islands of opinion, fertile environments in which conspiracy theories thrive. A juicy fiction is read, replicated and propagated far more widely than a boring fact, so many fictions appear to be common knowledge.”
― Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature
― Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature
“Politicians have found it too easy to make empty promises. Margaret Thatcher claimed that ‘the NHS is safe in our hands’43 before creating an internal marketplace within the service. Tony Blair’s election manifesto in 1997 claimed that only Labour could ‘save the NHS’,44 and he then proceeded to enable many of the PFI projects that burden the NHS with billions of pounds of debt repayment every single year. And David Cameron, not to be outdone, declared in his first speech following the General Election in 2015 that the NHS ‘will be safe in his hands “for every generation to come”’.45 And while politicians have evaded proper scrutiny, dismissing concerns and making empty statements, their real work happens behind the scenes.”
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
― Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
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