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Did you know Wes Streeting is limiting the number of NHS training places for doctors, despite the chronic shortage of GPs and hospital doctors in the NHS? He's a danger to the UK ins o many ways. Here are the receipts 👇 https://t.co/JI7VowG5GG

The Story of Jocelyn Bell Burnell 📜 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, born in 1943, is a giant of modern astronomy. In 1967, as a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge, she was manually analyzing miles of paper data from a radio telescope she had helped build. While squinting

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A Tory peer is to quit the Conservatives & retire from the Lords after facing suspension over PPE contract deals It comes after an investigation found he breached Lords code of conduct for helping a subsidiary of a company he chaired, to get contracts

The UK does not have a welfare problem. It's got a corrupt politician and corrupt political elite problem. It's got a billionaire problem. Tax the rich.

“Captured for life by chemistry and by crystals,” as she described it, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin turned a childhood interest into the ground-breaking use of X-ray crystallography to “see” the molecules of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin. At the age of 14, while she was

Hamburg parsley - like a parsnip, but sweeter - in this month's Morning Star gardening column:

🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in procuring Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott https://t.co/7lUUOgifhU

How asset managers and private equity dominate Labour: A list of Labour’s many links to private equity, venture capital, asset managers and hedge funds #BlackRock #KKR #BVCA #Quadrature https://t.co/ILOvEQc5RR

Barristers defending indecent exposure charges, take note.

Developer to build 127 homes on hotel grounds

A woven fence from start to finish in a day. Not too shabby!

Shades of early C.20 British scandalsheet headline: "Fog in Channel - Continent Isolated."

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It's remarkable how many world leaders still have the same effect.

“If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they will kill you.” - Oscar Wilde

In 2017–2018, Finland quietly ran a national experiment where 2,000 unemployed people were given a guaranteed monthly income with no work requirements, to see how removing conditional welfare would affect stress, motivation, and everyday life rather than employment alone. From

"Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell." — J.R.R. Tolkien

Ladybird things I really, really wanted. To make my own igloo Artist: BH Robinson (Homes, 1975)