Neil Robertson

Shows the early morning sun reflecting off the sea and beach

Sunrise in Scarborough, UK

Note to feckless House Republicans: Regardless of what Elon Musk thinks, Trump’s so-called “mandate” did NOT justify slashing $190 million for 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 from the government funding bill.

Restore the funding, you heartless bastards!

Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.

Steve Bartlett as a case study in how misinformation is popular & lucrative- clickbait -> more listeners -> more advertising revenue. It’s a sound business model if you don’t care about evidence or data.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🤔🎯

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud

Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.

Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power."

"In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

Third of each Yorkshire Water bill goes on debt and dividend The firm has amassed debts of £6.2bn and paid out dividends worth £522m since 2017-18, figures show.

Third of Yorkshire Water customer bill cash goes on debt & dividend

Similar with other water companies.

Money borrowed to pay dividends, investment neglected, sewage dumped, customers fleeced; aapproved by OFWAT.

Must end the farce. Nationalise without compensation.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

High interest rates are not helping. They were too high for too long anyway but the (possibly temporary) impact on sentiment from the budget is making them seem even more unsuitable for current conditions.

Are we surprised?

In the old days, fizzy drinks came in glass bottles which could be returned for reuse at most shops for welcome pennies.

The wanton waste of resources has to stop #PlasticBottles #GlassBottles

We need an effective #DepositReturnScheme system and a shift in practice by sellers.

The wonders of private healthcare.

“How will an ambulance get through?”

A question only asked of those trying to save our planet, not millionaire landowners trying to hoard wealth.

Farmers received record support in the budget. Pay what is still less than your fair share, take your tractors and piss off.

I suppose there is always sun/wind/tide somewhere.

Can an “Internet of energy” combined with small-scale storage and energy demand smoothing work?

I have an amateur enthusiasm for the idea!

I don’t really know.
Flow batteries are an interesting technology.
The proliferation of home solar installations with batteries will provide some demand smoothing.
But for seasonal rather than daily fluctuations maybe long-distance transfers could work?

Don’t restrict the sources to just Europe. There are proposals to bring renewable electricity to the UK from North Africa.
I’m just commenting as an interested citizen- no particular industry knowledge

The problem is not the EU but rather the last Gov’t negotiated the first trade deal in history which actually involved walling the country off from a trading bloc made up of its nearest neighbours - making it harder both to sell your stuff & buy their stuff. Some might call that economic lunacy

Good boi.

I loved all the blues when I took this shot: the sky, the faded wall and the car.

The Old Town, Havana. 🇨🇺

#Cuba #Havana #life #photography #explore #travel

It is always someone else's fault. Always.

Morning.

The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

UK Govt is unleashing finance industry for economic growth.

History:
2007-08 crash, Govt provided £133bn cash + £1,029bn guarantees for bailouts, £895bn QE.

Mid-1970s banking crash. Govt negotiated loan with IMF.

What next? How much finance does the UK need?
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...

Agreed. It seems likely that we won’t need nuclear. Instead we will have a combination of renewables, storage and long-distance electricity transmission.

THIS is my Sentiment

Vaccinated and still alive.

Anyone else?

The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

World GDP is $105 trillion.

Value of derivatives (clever bets on price of food, everything) is $667 trillion.

It hikes prices, enriches few speculators, produces nothing of value to society.

UK Govt thinks finance industry will deliver prosperity. Madness.
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...

Someone needs his diaper changed.

After I got my doctorate in health admin, I could have taken a cushy job atop a corporate health firm & gotten rich off denying claims, but instead, I chose a low-paying civil service job to help care for Veterans & the Military. So don't give me that "he was only doing his job" crap.

Thames Water customers 'risk paying extra £263 a year' to rescue embattled firm Campaigners say £800million cost of emergency loan will hit bill payers - as former government adviser adds to calls for Thames Water to be temporarily renationalised

Thames Water customers risk paying £263 a year extra to rescue firm.

Serial offender, dumped sewage for decades, neglected investment, borrowed to pay dividends.

Now wants customers to bail it out. They will own nothing.

Let it go bust. Nationalise at nominal cost
www.mirror.co.uk/money/thames...

There is ZERO connection between vaccines and autism!

NONE!