Autistic Welsh NHS emergency care quality improvement person. Absolute believer in universal human rights being actually universal to all humans.
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Last Notes npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I'm really glad that the long-running English coastal path project is finally on the verge of completion. It's a very good thing and I've been following its development over many years. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It's so vacuous and self-important, isn't it? One of the main things that voting can change is that you can vote for people who will continue to enable the right to vote. Or, as happened in the US a year and a bit ago, lots of people can decide not to bother voting and then likely lose the right to do so in future. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I think this is key. Labour (and the Tories) are so bound up in the Westminster bubble that their understanding of political views is just a dialogue between front bench MPs and the political lobby. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway This process has been happening in Scotland and Wales a lot longer than it's been happening in England. In Scotland it lost the party power a long time ago; in Wales, the impact has been partially hidden, because so much of the population lives in a small corner of the country where hatred of the English right means that Labour could steadily lose support and still (just about) win - so they've been teetering on the edge of collapse for twenty-odd years without much realising it. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway For some reason, I have as an earworm the muzak version of Tie A Yellow Ribbon, as featured prominently in The Wrong Trousers. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Seems a bit weird that their claim of 12% of votes being affected by family voting is precisely what Reform would've needed to win. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Very important questions. The bit about not raising it at the time feels important to me. Why wouldn't you do that, if you were actually trying to help? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I hate that this is true, given that Morrissey turned out to be a monster, but in my younger days I could happily sing every single Smiths song and - despite not having deliberately listened to the Smiths in a long time now (my music tastes changed, as well as the Morrissey problem) - I'm pretty sure I still could. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Also in gardening news, I forgot I planted irises last year, so this was a very pleasant surprise. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Because I know there are strong feelings here, I might highlight that the same article is available at DAG's personal blog, https://davidallengreen.com/2026/02/what-the-palestine-action-judgment-means-and-what-it-does-not-mean/, for those who object to substack. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Here in the UK, today marks the beginning of LGBT+ History Month! This year's theme is science and innovation. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I completely agree, but I do wonder: what's the best way to investigate crimes committed by police officers? This seems to be a particularly pressing issue for violent and sexual crimes (systems for investigating corruption and financial crimes already having long-established specialist units). npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It's not inaccurate. It's lying. You could make a map like this which is true and it would still be a hell of a lot of pink. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Yes, this kind of thing is annoying. There are very serious points to be made, but many people will look at a pile of bullshit like this and use it as a reason to dismiss things that are actually true. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway No, I'm sorry for getting so worked up. I just don't express myself very well! Thank you for being very reasonable about it. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I was trying - and apologies if my wording was poor - to find a way of saying 'different people were treated differently' and 'nearly all people were treated badly in some way' without one appearing to contradict the other. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I'm sorry, what part do you disagree with? That Indian royalty was treated well? That nomads in Australia were hunted and killed like game animals? That lower caste Indians were allowed to starve to death in their millions, as were the Irish? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway How the British treated people in the lands they occupied was greatly influenced by how familiar they found their systems of government. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It's completely made up. If they actually had 268k members they'd claim it was half a million. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I've just started a new party, and we've already got 269k members. So the Rollo Treadway party is the biggest in the country! npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Should I have to go to the US at any point, I look forward to sharing my sandwich suggestions with everyone in airport security. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I missed this sad news from last night: the incomparable Steve Cropper, guitarist for Stax house band the M.G.'s (and later the Blues Brothers), has passed away at 84. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway This is an issue I've encountered at work. Healthy Life Expectancy is lower in our region than any other region in England, primarily because of respiratory illnesses, and the respiratory illnesses have their roots in mining and pollution and smoking. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I have a choice. Either put more ink into my ancient and crotchety Canon inkjet printer for £39. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Friends, we're all here on fedi, so many of us have no fondness for AI and its nonsense, nor for the very rich who are using the bubble to get richer, nor for the buffoons who are devoted to it. I understand that. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway As a tall person, I don't want a bathroom without a tub. I want a tub built for tall people. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway You know, after the previous fourteen years, I'm somewhat disinclined to trust the right wing media's view of what policies actually work. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway A lot of those organisations are going to be very surprised when they try to get AI that can replace staff, and find that the AI they've been promised doesn't actually exist. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Absolutely not. It means I'm glad it was posted. I'm glad many things are posted. I never want to be one of those accounts which is just 24 hours a day of boost boost boost boost. I don't want to flood all my followers. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Oh no. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Greens were not relevant in this case. And I hope they put no effort in at all. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway And they're so bloody heavy. Nobody should have to hurt their neck wearing a crown. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I think it's very difficult. People sign up in a rush of excitement and honest commitment, but then it's a long time until the election, and a lot of people will start to question the subs they're paying at a time when everything else is expensive. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I hope so, but sometimes membership waves fall away. Like with the LibDems, who picked up a huge number of members as the main anti-brexit party in England and it appears from recent reports that they've pretty much all left again. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Years back - sufficiently long ago that it might no longer be true - I read a study of how likely it was that people would believe a story on social media without verifying it. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Decided to have a gander and see if this thread is still going. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway You come swanning into this thread, throwing your puns around, no care for the fowl behaviour you're exhibiting. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Online loons? Here is a loon. And it is online. Does it know that it's online? Probably not. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway This is a really interesting new compilation from Ostinato Records. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway There's all these things you're supposed to do to stay healthy and have a decent life, but nobody ever tells you how you're supposed to do them when you're so fucking tired. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway If we'd accepted our reduced standing back in 1945, things would've been a lot better. So many things would be better. No Suez nonsense, no crashing out of the ERM, no brexit, quite possibly no involvement in the invasion of Iraq either. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I feel this probably needs detailed research. Otherwise we're just assuming how demographic groups react in understudied circumstances. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I don't have an answer to the question, but the first thought that came to my very sleepy mind was: if disengagement with news served populists, why are populists so desperate to take over the news? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Took a picture of a footpath the other day then decided to save it for #FootpathFriday. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Surprised they have the time, given all the resources they're putting into arresting harmless people who are quietly protesting. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway DEAR LORD STOP CHASING THE WIDE ONE OUTSIDE OFF STUMP npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway So many small, seemingly inconsequential decisions. Someone in 1983 decides for entirely sensible reasons to vote SDP, and so their constituency elects a Tory for the first time. Someone on the board of an American company in the 70s has to make an instant decision and agrees that hiding some environmentally problematic development is probably okay, at that moment. Someone in the back of Vladimir Putin's taxi is rude to him. A million small waves can erode the largest beach. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Does anyone want to see some chrysanthemums? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Yep. I protested about that back when it was still a Bill. One of the first things that politicised me (along with the ban on protesting during the visit of Jiang Zemin the same year). npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Years ago, back on twitter, I remember the writer George Monbiot talking about an automatic stirring device as an example of how materialist society was obsessed with creating useless things for no good reason. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I wouldn't expect any kind of alliance. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway #Kneecap news: according to the band themselves, they've been told that their set will not be streamed live but will be available on demand (presumably with some politically inappropriate words cut out) this evening. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Another thing I'd like to add, having thought about this: npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway They're also a very good example of how there are many MPs who - when not cowed by the party whip or overly concerned with ambition - are actually reasonable people who want to do what they believe to be the right thing for their constituents. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It seems utterly ludicrous to me that anyone would refer to something like supporting trans rights as far left. I've always felt that defending human rights for everyone, universally, is the most politically central thing you can possibly have. It's not making any distinction between anyone. Human rights for everyone without exception. How can that not be straight down the political middle? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Well, for starters, I wouldn't describe myself as far left. Although perhaps I would be considered that way in the US, I don't know. I've always felt that far left is more 'workers seizing the means of production', rather than simply 'maybe we could try to not let everyone die'. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I've long suspected that it's at least partially because Jefferson is on Mount Rushmore as a result of having significantly increased the size of the US, and Trump wants the same. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Sly Stone on Monday and now Brian Wilson. Oh heavens. Two of the most innovative and thrilling composers of the twentieth century. Two whose work will be cited and heard and performed as long as humans are around to listen to it. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It appears that the decriminalisation legislation (that was lost before the election) is going to be brought back soon. Hopefully it'll get through as looked likely last time. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Fun fact (which I'm sure you already know but some won't): one of the lawyers working to try and defend the rights of people to dance, against the government's ridiculous anti-rave legislation, was an earnest young bloke called Keir Starmer. Wonder what ever happened to him. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Took a very gentle walk down to the pond in the woods and back. You can't really see them, my camera isn't good enough, but there are baby moorhens here. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway If you have an election to vote in tomorrow, please vote. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I remember some years ago, there was talk of scrapping the fifty, because the only people who were using them regularly were buying coke. Which explains why a lot of MPs were determined to keep them, I suppose. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway There's something that has always bothered me about Easter. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I want to say a few things, after having read the Supreme Court judgement on the characteristic of sex in the Equality Act. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Honestly, there is only one Beatles film that has ever been or will ever be needed. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Chilli seedlings! npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Referees in all sports should be required to wear a hat and a waistcoat. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Okay, having looked into it a bit more thoroughly: beta.argyle.social is full of copied accounts, exact - save for the lack of pictures - and I presume unconsenting copies of real people and organisations who have accounts elsewhere on fedi. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I mean, sure, there are a lot of very real things to criticise the Government for. But I really don't understand these constant accusations that they'd never do things that they are literally doing. It's not as if legislation is a secret. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway The Renters' Rights Bill, which includes the abolition of fixed term assured tenancies and assured shorthold tenancies amongst various other protections for tenants, has already passed the Commons and is currently making its way through the Lords. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway By which I mean, this sort of thing should probably be identifiable and stoppable with early intervention? Shouldn't it? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway On Thursday, I posted "Today has not been good. I had all that stress about the trains, then I shouted at people for political reasons, and then I felt shitty and guilty for shouting, and I got hardly any work done, and also my Mum says she's going to phone this evening, and my brain feels like it's taking a beating." npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Does the D stand for Tony Drago? He was seriously fast. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway The daffs are out, as are the scillas, periwinkles, and primroses. #bloomscrolling npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I know Firefox is bad now because of the lack of privacy, and Vivaldi is bad because chromium, and Windows is bad because it's spying on me, and my tv is plotting to kill me and my phone is sending every detail of my life to whoever pays, and AI is in everything and everything and everything and and and and... npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway And - as has been a persistent problem at Tesla - exceptionally bad business. If it was just in Government, you could say that it's an ideological position, but given the notoriously extreme bad management at Tesla, I think we can simply assume that he hasn't got a fucking clue. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Went into the garden, needed to plant the tulips and irises that I bought last week. There's a longish tub outside my back porch that had flowers in last summer, I have no recollection of what was in there, just some pretty flowers that have long since moved on. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I'm tickled by the Swiss Guards at the ends of the stage, standing there in their stripy jumpsuits as if everything is completely normal. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I live in northeast England, so fairly cold and windy. One of the easiest and most dependable things to grow, I've found, is runner beans. I grow them in tubs with bamboo canes sticking out, one cane per beanstalk. I plant the beans in the spring, keep them reasonably watered, and the only extra bit of work required is that when they get to a few inches tall, they have to be tied on to the canes so they'll learn to climb. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Garden centre was nice. At this time of year, very much in between seasons, some empty shelves where the summer flowers and herbs will go, lots of boxes and racks of things waiting to be part of a display, and so on. But still lots of spring bedding plants and all-year shrubs, and some things that smelt lovely. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway No, it's dark, almost black (I think it's actually very dark brown but that might just be the light). npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Insect enthusiasts: do you know what this fellow is? #insects #entomology npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I had a shower and a shave and now the right side of my face feels significantly warmer than the left. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway This week's #ThursdayFiveList topic comes from @npub13n8…a49k and it's short songs, #5under3. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Going to be grey and miserable here, but I can stay in. Hope you're well. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Morning everyone. Had a dream with a thrilling story but woke up just as the big secret was about to revealed. Gahhh. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Also, and I've said this a lot of times but I don't think anyone bloody listens: my Trust has had to pay a lot of private ambulance services to do work that we should be able to do, but can't, because the previous Government didn't allow us enough staff and resources. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I think that, as usual, the necessity of the private sector is just being completely ignored. I know everyone likes to say 'get rid of all private contracts!', but private contracts in the NHS provide us with: npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway There are huge staffing issues. Staffing is at the heart of everything. But I don't think it's possible to go from 'the DoH are trying to solve NHS problems without solving the staffing problem first' (which is probably true) to 'the DoH is planning to end the NHS as a free-at-the-point-of-use public service, even though doing so would likely guarantee defeat at the next election'. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Or alternatively, we could simply read it as a desire to deal with the fact that - like all large government departments - the DoH is highly inefficient at rapidly moving funds from the Treasury to where they're actually needed. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway It seems to me (though I really don't know much about this) that novelists are also affected in the same way, that there's still a lot of money in the industry but only a tiny proportion of authors can get anywhere near making a living. And even then, that living involves far more self-promotion than used to be the case. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I think that's very much the direction. There will always be some people able to make a full-time living from music alone, but I doubt it will ever again be so many as in the late 20th century. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway But there is an enormous amount of fantastic new music being made, all the time. It's never been easier to make and distribute music. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Not just the act of brexit itself, but the years of absolutely appalling behaviour by the Government that went along with it. Leaving the EU was always a bad idea but our international standing was made so, so much worse by the behaviour of a bunch of chancers and clowns. They should not be forgiven. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway Morning everyone. Dreamt I was running. Running! I don't run. Anyway, it was no fun because Simon Mayo stole my drink. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I can't overstate how much I love bed. I have a superb bed, and at this time of year I have a bunch of additional blankets too. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway If I'm kind of unwell, I don't have to keep up with the mandatory minimum amount of exercise, do I? npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway I wouldn't say so. I think it's just straight-up ineptitude. Having ministers in place for a decent amount of time makes any kind of government run more smoothly. npub15n7gcq8qd5a5gtvth6k57lwrxy7hjvqq78nm2vw30zj6fqg2x4hq9nt9fk RolloTreadway No, that would be very silly (I mean Reeves resigning, have no objection to Bailey going). The last thing we need is to go back to the Tory ways, with constant changes and no stability. In any Government role it's immensely harmful.
