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Outside, the trees and hedgerows were displaying the colours of autumn in a rainbow of browns, greens, yellows, golds and reds. The smoke, dust and dirt of London had been left far behind. He loved this time of year in the English
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so eonderfully fescropyive…Dickens is thinking this, but he could easily have written it
“In total, between 2008/09 and 2020, 32,000 overnight hospital beds were cut in the NHS in England.3”
― 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 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
“just tried typing “why do men” into the address bar of Google Search, and the auto-complete function immediately suggested the following: “cheat?”, “rape?”, “have nipples?” presumably calculating that these are my three most likely questions! Searching for the phrase “why do men cheat?” in quotes, returns well over a million entries, more than twice the number that I get for the phrase “why do men work?”, suggesting that Google thinks that cheating is twice as popular as work, at least for men!”
― 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 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
“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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