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[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

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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

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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 🤷‍♂️

[Johnsond]

25 minutes ago, Mark J said:

benefit cheats are a scapegoat

😂

[Johnsond]

Absolute insanity 

Hamas supporter triggers security scare after filming himself arriving in UK on migrant boat

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Palestinian firebrand Abu Wadei has more than 170,000 followers on TikTok

 

 

Edited Sunday at 12:27 by Johnsond

[Steven P]

12 hours ago, Steve Bullman said:

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.

 

I think we are going to see a raft for these stories this week - depends on the rest of world news, but I'm taking some with a pinch of salt. The one I read earlier was financial how the UK hasn't recovered financially like our counterparts in Europe, but failed to mention Brexit (the press don't like to mention that in case it upsets the politicians) and of course Liz Truss. Both have been impacting the UKs economy since they happened and neither affected our neighbours.

 

So a little pinch of salt with these stories when it comes to finances

 

[Mark J]

How do two muckle boats manage to run into each other? It has been canny foggy but you'd think they would have worked out how to negate that.
 

North Sea tanker and cargo ship collision latest: Crew of oil tanker safe, Stena boss says

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More than 30 people have been brought ashore, as video shows both vessels on fire off the East Yorkshire coast.

 

Edited yesterday at 15:19 by Mark J

[Doug Tait]

Bet someone was asleep