Spoke at the Future of Palliative Care debate, highlighting challenges facing hospices like John Taylor in Erdington.
The truth is, relying on donations is unsustainable. We need a real strategy so everyone can live, and die, with dignity.
Watch in full: youtu.be/pXDTHwbgXWM
This is very well said.
I work in paediatric palliative care in Birmingham, and my wages are not paid by the NHS but by charity.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
@drkidneyash.bsky.social is definitely here 😊
We’re just innocent men
Spiderman looking poorly in a hospital bed
🎶 Is he strong?
Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood 🎶
So no, he's not strong. He's really ill. Have some sympathy.
I love humans so much because at any given moment they can look at you with a straight face and tell you their dog is in Dubai
Oh my goodness, I actually sniggered out loud in a coffee shop
Sanchez putting in a strong performance for the Gunners, to be fair
This is a masterpiece
I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.
I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.
Sahar Delijani said it best:
😂
Under four months till Iran kick off in Group G of the World Cup, hosted by the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize winner.
Considering he co-wrote one of their finest ever TV shows, I can't seem to see any reference to Rob Grant's death on the BBC
Which seems a bit... wrong
#RedDwarf
I've got that, and it looks just as well read!
100%! That was a wide all day long...
Incredible, isn't it? Loved it so much.
Found this thread, saw this clip, instant watch.
It's incredible! It's just impeccable delivery.
Day 6: Peter Serafinowicz first moment in Dictionary Corner.
youtu.be/8IDmSnD2pzc?...
#februaryisfunny
Yes, Kranjska Gora in Slovenia last week 😊
Me too!
(Really hope there's just an excellent, dark-comedy mind behind this... and it's not real)
GNU Rob Grant. 💔
Index of Discarded First Lines Also, I am bleeding profusely so please stay for a while…………… 8 Carter called again today, enquiring of his ladder …………………. 22 For that was the winter we listened to Enya ……………………….. 31 her eyes were a question mark, her mouth a semi-colon …………… 36 I am a bowl, chipped at the rim …………………………………….. 43 I remembered Newport Pagnell and wept ……………………….. 5 I see you forgot the fabric softener again …….…………………… 25 In the vacuum between when and how, I squat …………………….. 3 Me and you in matching tank tops ……………………………….... 39 Oi Oi! …………………………………….………………………... 78 Our love is a broken oatcake ……………………………………….. 61 Please don’t do that, it’s disgusting. ………..……………………… 27 She loved his unfinished similes like ………………………………. 52 That, my dear, is a diphthong ………………………………………. 73 The sky is darkening and yet the dove …………………………….. 11 Today, we shall make strudel ……………………………………….. 4 Whither the hair tongs? I have seen them not ……………………... 19 Brian Bilston
Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.
When you're into bondage but also have a sore neck
Incredible
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