Following a recent survey by NHS Providers on the NHS financial 'reset', @saffroncordery.bsky.social writes for Public Finance to discuss the survey's findings, calling them a "reality check" for longer term ambitions for the health service.
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Astonished to see the guy opposite me on the train reading this, this evening 🙄
The weaponising of child sexual abuse/exploitation by the right is outrageous, ideologically-driven opportunism. Tragically grooming and abuse transcend race, class, religion etc. Society and its structures are wilfully blind to this, and content to look “elsewhere”.
Here is a New Year's resolution that's easy to keep: For less than the price of a coffee, you can help ensure we keep this important part of the information ecosystem alive and thriving. And annoy Musk. 🥇
Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.
Pretty good.
“It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them” Gisèle Pelicot
Time magazine may have named Trump Person of the Year, but we all know 2024 belongs to this incredible woman:
Worth a read … !
It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown is all my brain can manage.
Hero
The perpetrators deserve every single day of their sentences. This is so important. Gisèle Pelicot is brave beyond words. As she rightly said the shame of these crimes is on society not victim/survivors. #endviolenceagainstwomen
The most telling sentence in this is “There is no mention of pluralism.” Worrying. However you couch or define it pluralism can only be additive … building not undermining the case for change/evolution/reform but right now even suggesting it can make you feel like the enemy within. 🙄
Or… that early morning slot after the dinner the night before
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #20 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #19 Whereabouts by Jumpha Lahiri #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #18 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett #bookchallenge
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I’m glad! She is less appealing when jumping on your head at 3.30 am! X
Have one of those too! ☺️
I read it in 1984, when I was 14, and the film also came out. I was obsessed for a while.
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #17 Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #16 New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #15 ATale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki [dammit missed a day] #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #14 Norwegian Wood, Murakami #bookchallenge
I loved it.
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #13 The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry #bookchallenge
Choose twenty books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for twenty days, in no particular order. No explanation, no reviews, just covers. (sure, why not.) Day #12 East West Street, Philippe Sands. #bookchallenge
