Martin Mariappan
@MartinMariappan
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Interventional Radiologist based in Bristol, UK. Views few and far between but all my own. Likes/follows/retweet ≠ endorsement beyond what is explicitly stated.
Bristol, England
Joined October 2010
Lots of people on the right believe that each of these incidents makes the public wake up and back them. But what if the opposite’s true? What if each terrorist attack desensitises voters and becomes the ‘new normal’?
Wayne Broadhurst, 49, who died as a result of the knife attack in Uxbridge. A council binman and well-respected member of the local community. Tragic.
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A clash of the titans as the two strongest forces in British politics collide: the NHS cult, and the planning system
Today in UK planning law ruins everything: NHS patients waiting for surgery in Lincolnshire could face a further one year delay for a new surgical centre, as the developers have to prove that they are providing "integrated bat bricks" and "provisions for hedgehogs to pass"
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So doctors are legally obliged to reject a £15 box of chocolates from a patient as a “conflict of interest”… …but the bloke in charge of the ENTIRE BRITISH MEDICAL SYSTEM can take ~£400K from “private health sources” since coming into office… …and that’s totally okay???
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Trevor Phillips explains why Labour didn't want a national inquiry into Pakistani rape gangs. 'I suspect the reason why is because much of this took place in areas that are run by local Labour councils' Spot on. Labour can't be trusted They're complicit https://t.co/dY8xK3f5Ef
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Just got stopped and practically interrogated at Liverpool Street over my ticket. Showed it straight away, but was questioned for 10 minutes because my railcard photo wouldn’t load (no WiFi). She refused to give my ticket back and said she’d “let me off this time.” I HAD A VALID
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🚨 Unpopular opinion: left-wing racism is FAR worse than right-wing racism. The far right? Nasty, ignorant, but simple. They don’t like me because of my skin colour. You know where you stand, and they’re a tiny minority of 1–3% of the country. But left-wing racism? That’s
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What I find striking about Polanski is his lack of curiosity. How can you seriously argue against nuclear on jobs grounds? Get out of the M25 and visit any nuclear community from Anglesey and Dunbar to Whitehaven and Hartlepool. They’ll all tell you nuclear means good jobs.
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Delighted that Jimmy Carr has shown support. I hope it's now safe to say that he alone visited me when I was being cancelled and trying desperately to save my marriage and career. He wasn't even a close friend, so it was exceptionally kind.
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🚨 I agree with @SarahForRuncorn I’m mixed race. My wife’s Japanese. My daughter’s tri-racial. But let’s be clear — mixed race people make up around 3% of the UK. Yet turn on the TV, and you’d think half the country is in a mixed marriage. Britain is 70%+ white, 4% black, 7%
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Okay we’ve announced it. We’re building a city. The first major city in the UK for fifty years. And we want the Labour government to back it. We’ve already got amazing prominent supporters. But we need everyone to sign the pledge first to prove real demand. Sign it and read more
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Much is reaffirmed here. Recommendations are a bit wishy washy but a building platform as this is a stage 1. Important to note that; No system will satisfy all. There will be trade offs. That the solutions MUST come from within the profession. I think more should be made of
Training is central to doctors providing the best care for patients. The Medical Training Review, out today, is a diagnostic report with input from many doctors, medical students and patients. It shows we need to rethink many aspects of training. https://t.co/hlpO4O9Msb
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What’s more indicative of our failure as a society? That parts of the state tried to cover up these crimes, or that they were covering up crimes in the twenty first century using tippex? It’s all so demoralising.
There’s a detail in the grooming gang scandal that has received far too little attention. In her rapid audit, Baroness Casey had to explicitly say that local authorities, police forces, and related agencies “should be required not to delete evidence.” This was after she found
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The judge said while sentencing my abusers "for many years she felt as though she didnt have a voice, well gentlemen, she has a voice now" and honestly that was the main thing that made me waver my anonymity outside the court house that very same day. This period of time while on
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You shd listen to former Commanding Officer of SAS, Richard Williams, on the lawfare campaign against the regiment which I described on my blog. Yookay state systematically attacking its own Special Forces is a guaranteed disaster. Someone show General Roly Walker, head of
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Andy's Iron Law: Media outlets are physically incapable of comparing AI water use to any other industry. They only compare it to massive multiples of personal household use. All AI water use in Scotland is less than a single car factory uses.
Scottish data centres powering AI are already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. More on this story ➡️ https://t.co/tHHEwafmTO
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@Cartermill65675 @Anisocyte @ukmat82 No one has faith in the culture of the NHS or GMC to allow raising concerns. Raising concerns is almost always met with implicit threats, the consequences of which can be life destroying quite literally. There have been suicides induced by GMC investigation. There is enormous
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Imagine what this is for the bottom 50% of UK households? About zero?
Bottom 50% of U.S. households now hold ~$530B in equities, about $8k per household on average (≈66M households) likely with large dispersion. Huge jump vs pre-2020. Broad participation matters: even small balances can compound over time. #Investing #StockMarket #PersonalFinance
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The government is not denying the claim from Dominic Cummings that China succeeded in compromising the system used to transfer highly secret data around Whitehall Cummings said that China obtained 'vast amounts' of classified information over a period of many years A Cabinet
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Yesterday 6pm, the RCPEGM was leaked by an anonymous account onto YouTube. Having watched it, these are some of the most jaw-dropping moments I heard, some not even factually true. Everyone should watch it for themselves though and make up their own mind. Link at the end.
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I struggle to understand how there isn’t widespread alarm and panic in medical leadership about the hardships young doctors face and their bleak future. I cannot believe the lack of discussion and planning around neighbourhoods and postgraduate medical education reforms over the
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