Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.
07.03.2026 21:30
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Time to make Turnberry Golf Club a huge windfarm.
Good article from Labour Heartlands
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You see it, most ironically, in the Domesday Book. In 1986, the BBC marked the 900th anniversary by making a modern version. It conducted a new census of the nation, taking down thoughts, feelings and occupations, all recorded using a technology lIth-century scribes would have marvelled at. A technology that was, a few years later, defunct: the LaserDisc. A few years after that, no computer could read it. The original Domesday Book persisted, unchanged, on vellum. The modern one barely lasted a generation.
Books will outlast your puny digital technology
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Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
Beautifully put!
"... we are told that Epstein was a “one-off,” that “sex work is work” and that only “pearl-clutchers” could possibly condemn prostitution."
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RUSSIA GETS:
-Higher oil prices
-Reduced US economic pressure
-Bogged down US military
-Air defense assets not sent to Ukraine
US GETS:
-Indefinite war in pursuit of undefined outcome
-Weaker economy
-Frayed international partnerships
-Combat deaths
I still find it astonishing that, during Covid, the first response of so many people connected to the Conservative party was that it presented an opportunity to loot the country undercover of a national emergency.
Unforgivable wartime profiteering.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you.
Article from BMJ. Excerpt here: I recently spotted a LinkedIn post titled, “Dress how you want to be addressed.” The accompanying image showed someone power dressed to perfection. It made me reflect on my own work attire as a GP. My default is more casual than smart. I know a generation of older doctors who would disapprove: I often hear GP trainers complaining about how casually trainees dress nowadays. But a recent consultation made me realise that my choice, although subconscious, is in fact deliberate. A patient and her husband described a hospital appointment they attended where they felt talked at, unable to voice their worries. They contrasted this with seeing me, saying that they could talk to me “like you are our friend or family.” That comment stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me that the way we present ourselves—our words, our body language, and yes, even our clothes—shapes the kind of relationship patients feel able to have with us. General practice, at its best, is defined by the absence of hierarchy. Yet doctors hold immense power: to label, to reassure, to prescribe, to withhold. Divesting ourselves of that power takes conscious effort. Listening more than talking is one way to do it. Choosing words that frame us as partners is another. And for me, part of that effort is dressing in a way that doesn’t command authority but instead signals approachability. I try not to look too different from the average patient who walks through my door. My clothes are one signal that I’m accessible. Some of my colleagues use their first names with patients, which works in the same way. I don’t do that—largely because mine is harder to pronounce—but I admire how it helps to level the playing field. These gestures may seem small, but they can be transformative. Patients need to feel able to bring their deepest fears to the GP, however minor, without fear of judgment.
As someone who has been a patient recently, and who has written blogs on this topic in the past, I strongly concur with Dr Rammya Matthew that we need to do everything we can to redress the power imbalances in healthcare.
From the @bmj.com.
Link:
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#MedSky
🇬🇧 50 UK families have more wealth than 34 million of us COMBINED. 🙃
Extreme wealth concentration is the crisis. Everything else is just a useful distraction for the billionaires bleeding us dry.
Yet I've seen reports saying Russia is arming Iran. Am confused!
Right-wing media, Reform and Tories all betrayed us this week. They couldn’t bring themselves to back the govt or our country because it would mean putting their nasty, point-scoring, twatty politics aside for the greater good. They exposed our post-Brexit weakness and their own toxic incompetence.
I dunno police, but Quakers seem an unlikely group to be planning deadly attacks.
When you see the glee with which the men in charge of US recount civilian deaths in Iran it is no wonder they care so little about the climate crisis which will kill so many of us.
It's horrible to see. We all know that most people dying in Iran are ordinary civilians who just want to get on with their lives like we do. Crowing over unleashing death and destruction on them, as Hegseth is doing, is disgusting.
What a sad story. This young woman had been subjected to coercive control by her partner and police had failed her.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Excellent writing.
‘Trump is wearing a cheap-looking white cap with a USA logo on it. It’s a small detail. But it’s still jarring. He looks like a Florida golf pensioner ordering the surf and turf platter at an early bird diner. Presidents don’t generally wear random baseball caps to declare war.’
While Russians paraded under their flag to the sporting world’s cheers, their missiles murdered a 13 year old girl in Kharkiv. Shame on the IOC!
"Oh Christ. I couldn't care less… I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think they were probably thinking they'd probably better give it to me now before I've popped off.
— Doris Lessing #Nobel
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
These should be human values, nothing feminine about them.
No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.
Latest substack from me.
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In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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#Music Simple Minds, 'Don't You (Forget about Me)'.
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These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians?
An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame
by Kristina Foster for @financialtimes.com
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This oaf is fast becoming a serious challenger to Daniel Hannan for the ‘Wrongest Man In The World’ title.
Okay, I 100% had the bunny/duck optical illusion experience when I scrolled by this photo. (My brain went - why is that bunny in a trenchcoat so taken aback?)
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform while also advising company ft.trib.al/5F32aYS
