Making the news today....

[sime42]

Or indeed the actions of a toddler. The irony being that his rapid, decisive, (or knee jerk/impetuous/reactionary) decisions are one of the principal traits beloved of the MAGA.

 

Trump and Kim Jong are both just overgrown toddlers really. Not Putin though, he is far more calculating and patient. He is happy to game out all the moves in pursuit of his long term strategy. I don't suppose that Trump is a Go player ...........

[Steven P]

He wants to stop deaths in The Ukraine.... and withdrawing support and any decent defence capability, I think has just condemned many many more Ukrainians.

[Mark J]

[Mark J]

High Returns: The economic benefits of UK cannabis legalisation | Transform

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[Mark J]

This bloke seems to talk some sense. 

[sime42]

Disappointing

 

Plans to make phone use safer for children watered down

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The MP behind the bill says proposals have been altered in a bid to gain government support.

 

 

 

[Mark J]

Self-driving cars can still be fooled by tampered-with signs • The Register

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Now that's sticker shock

 

[Steve Bullman]

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout

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Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other...

I wonder if they’ve considered that deprived families are more likely to game the benefits system for a condition that’s probably quite easy to fake 🙄

 

Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, said inequality was “the primary story of the pandemic”. “You still find that people from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have been impacted,” Shah said, adding that the rate of long Covid in the most deprived households is double that of the most wealthy.

[Mark J]

48 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout

APPLE.NEWS

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Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were among the areas where Britain performed poorly despite spending more than other...

I wonder if they’ve considered that deprived families are more likely to game the benefits system for a condition that’s probably quite easy to fake 🙄

 

Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, said inequality was “the primary story of the pandemic”. “You still find that people from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have been impacted,” Shah said, adding that the rate of long Covid in the most deprived households is double that of the most wealthy.

Alternatively, it might well be the case that benefit cheats are a scapegoat. 

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout

APPLE.NEWS

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Life expectancy, homelessness and young people’s mental health were...

I wonder if they’ve considered that deprived families are more likely to game the benefits system for a condition that’s probably quite easy to fake 🙄

 

Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, said inequality was “the primary story of the pandemic”. “You still find that people from poorer backgrounds are more likely to have been impacted,” Shah said, adding that the rate of long Covid in the most deprived households is double that of the most wealthy.

I tend to work with predominantly self employed people and for some reason none of them have had or know anyone with “ long covid”, maybe it’s the fact no work equals no pay that wards off the illness 🤔I guess it must be a condition more prevalent in the public sector 🤷‍♂️