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Thatcher‘s regime saw apprenticeships scrapped for “cost reasons” mainly. Then we saw her pathetic attempts to provide state funded “training“ via WEP, WOP, YOP, and then YTS. In effect her business mates shifting the cost of training onto the taxpayer.

HUGE surprise that Palantir’s tool hasn’t improved hospital discharge rates. Their business model isn’t about delivering a service - its only objective is wrapping its tentacles so comprehensively around our systems that they become the permanent gatekeeper to all our problems. Andy - get on it!

Couldn’t agree more. Dr. Fauci is an American hero.

Cornish artist Kirsty Elson trawls the beaches of her home collecting driftwood as the raw material for her coastal scene sculptures #WomensArt

"Silence" - my oil painting

There are still some threads that need trimming, but I'm happy that my wall quilt is now done.

Pleeees ignor da Messi tabol... i hab sum thin I liik to get ovv me chest #sheltie #dogsofsky

Well, it's back to work for me tomorrow! I'm up at the Market Hall Museum in Warwick, where one paper plate will become a baby elephant! 😮 If you're around, come and join me for some art alchemy. darrellwakelam.com #edusky #UKEd #artworkshop #art

Ridiculous. I'm buying one.

100 lbs of maters from the garden this morning. Some are ready now, some need a few more days to ripen. We'll be saucing and canning soon 🍅🌱

"ICE is out of control." .. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) .. (cartoon David Horsey) #politics

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50C AGAIN IN ALGERIA (50.0 In Salah) Real Madness Weeks always >49C and Mins >35C every day: Totally unprecedented in African history. ALL TIME RECORDS HOT NIGHTS MINS ALGERIA 35.2 Touggourt TUNISIA 30.5 Djerba 29.6 Sfax MONTHLY HIGH MINS IN NIGER 30.4 Diffa 29.7 Maine Soroa

On Reform’s latest idiocy: “The *predictable* risks would be reduced access to home care, harming individuals and families, more people stuck in hospital, greater exploitation of workers, and provider failure damaging continuity of care for people – with the bill… landing back on the public purse”

New from me: Reform UK’s plan to make employers pay an annual levy for overseas staff would harm the NHS and social care, cause a shortage of schoolteachers, and could push some universities into bankruptcy, experts have warned. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

That reminds me of this quote: