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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

At the NHSE board today, NED Jeremy Townsend said of emergency care performance that "we're not necessarily where we'd like to be". I think this might count as euphemism and understatement of the year...

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Worth remembering this as many people today are arguing that the west should pressure Ukraine into conceding territory for peace.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm still waiting to see much, if any, substantive commentary on the @healthfoundation.bsky.social report on NHS productivity. Anyone have any good reason why such an important issues in garnering so little attention?

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 29/09/2026

Let's be clear. The is nonsense. 1. There is limited evidence at best to show that AI will safely reduce processing costs and increase operational efficiency. 2. There is growing evidence that AI will vastly increase the loading on public services and require more human agents.

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Royal College of Emergency Medicine @rcem.ac.uk · 25/09/2026

An estimated 554 people are dying every week in the UK in association with overcrowding in Emergency Departments. That's according to new research presented today (25 September) from the Trainee Emergency Research Network, which is supported by RCEM. More below. rcem.ac.uk/college-n...

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Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I would be embarrassed to push a piece of software that lied to and defamed its users like this.

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Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What kind of utter pervert would want this, and can we put a hit out on them?

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"This attack on misinformation is an attack on us" is quite the line for a political party to take.

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The recent NAO report on NHSE's emergency care strategy uses some very gentle language to make some very damning claims. and it is 50 pages long: www.nao.org.uk/reports/mana... Here is my simple summary...

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Managing the flow of patients through hospital from A&E - NAO report

This report looks at how well patients flow through A&E into the wider hospital in England and at the support NHSE provides.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump doesn’t care a bit about Ukrainian civilians as he starves Ukraine of air defense. But he is terrified about the damage to Putin’s oil industry. Why is that?

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When discussing NHS productivity it is common to argue that the problem is intractable because the Baumol effect. This is blatant nonsense. Here is why...

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com · 17/09/2026

Kurt Vonnegut, writing in 1959

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I get a surprising number of messages from people who’ve used ChatGPT to prove their pet theory. Always ChatGPT. And often mad. So I did a little test. Seems ChatGPT is much more ready to validate crazy theories than its rivals. Why?

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Daz @dazwright.com · 16/09/2026

I think the public would be very surprised to find out how much of NHS management is really just clinicians winging it based the perception they're "clever"

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here is an analogy that illustrates why NHS manager regulation is a ridiculous approach to improving the quality of management: ...

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Helen Whately on Sky News: "We want to bring down the tax burden on working people. Kemi has asked her economic unit for a fiscally responsible way to bring down inheritance tax, another tax that hits hard working people hard." One of the dumbest people in politics. Liz Truss levels of stupid.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please please do not let the news media shape your opinion of AI, they haven't got a clue. Plus they're always searching for a juicy headline like 'The world will end in a decade'. Look elsewhere. Here's a good start.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Canada has a total ban on company/corporate donations. Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions and it's capped at $1,750 a year. They still have functioning parties and the sky hasn't fallen in. Quite the opposite... www.elections.ca/content.aspx...

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 14/09/2026

Danny Tommo (real name Daniel Thomas) was stopped driving someone else’s car without insurance and, naturally, calls it persecution. The police car had ANPR. His plate flagged. He was stopped using TPAC. That’s not persecution. It's the system working. And "I'm on my way to church” doesn't wash.

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today is the 152nd anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in New Orleans history, when 5,000 members of the Crescent City White League overthrew the Louisiana government in an armed assault that left at least 35 dead. The attack was a turning point in Reconstruction www.nola.com/gambit/comme...

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John Stanton: Marking the anniversary of the 1874 terrorist attack on New Orleans

Sept. 14 marks the 152nd anniversary of the terrorist attack on New Orleans by the Crescent City White League, the white nationalist organization made up of former Confederate soldiers and led by weal...

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1938: Hitler has clearly laid out his ambitions on Sudetenland. We have the rest of the deal sorted out to avoid future war. Czechoslovakia does not want to do that.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Essentially indistinguishable from Putin propaganda

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The person who put the 0 and the o adjacent on a computer keyboard should rot in hell.

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Paul Scarpelli @paulscarpelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I don't know ANYONE on the Right who fact checks.

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 08/09/2026

Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount -- a Skydance Capitulation.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just a reminder. It was exactly 2 months ago that Trump “promised” to get Ukraine a license to build Patriots. Since then it’s been all backtracking and lies. It was always a plan to help Putin by further delaying help for Ukraine. And it worked. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

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Trump gives Ukraine OK to produce Patriot missiles as war with Russia drags on

Their meeting came as Ukraine faces an urgent ammunition shortfall.

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

All the analytical power now available from modern developments in AI and big data are useless if you apply them without asking the right question. The NHs is still asking the wrong questions: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

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The mythbuster: AI and analysis will not solve the NHS productivity problem

Technology can transform NHS productivity, but only if leaders first understand the problems they need data and AI to solve, says Steve Black

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OTD in 1978 Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov deliberately walked into a KGB umbrella that had been accidentally dipped in the poison ricin by Hunter Biden's laptop. Imagine us poisoning critics in this day and age...

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I withdraw any suggestions that Trump is a terrible businessman. He has successfully persuaded his supporters to pay up to $2 for cheap brass $1 coins with his portrait on them.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 05/09/2026

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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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steve the skeptic @policyskeptic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This might be a spoof but it is disturbingly accurate: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

That's unlikely. A properly proportional system would mean no single party would govern alone. It would need multiple parties to decide it no longer suited them with a combined total of seats to give them a majority. No PR country has ever gone back to FPTP for national elections. That's instructive

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Alf Collins @alfcollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The people that design these policies and do this work should be ashamed of themselves. That said, a significant proportion of people on WLs don’t know what they are waiting for, and an even bigger proportion would opt for alternative treatments if they had shared a decision earlier in the pathway

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 02/09/2026

Back when Wes Streeting became SoS DHSC, he said the NHS was “broken”, and many NHS insiders took great offence at it with many excuses for why it was not. I spent yesterday talking to folk in significant health difficulties with waits for pretty basic but important surgery of around a year. 1/3

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Craig @craig.nikolic.co.uk · 02/09/2026

What’s worse is those who actively make the life of patients worse by that list reducing grift, or artificially increasing referral bars because the list numbers are embarrassing. Fixing the NHS is possible, it just requires actions and decisions that politicians and Execs don’t want to make. 3/3

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Mel Bartley @zetkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nightmare scenario: huge debts built up to fund AI. AI turns out to be less useful than imagined. Big losses on the AI investments. Govt steps in to support stock market & economy. Govt forced to cut expenditure on health, social security, infrastructure, education. Sound familiar? #economics

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Obviously we knew Hegseth was bad. Not sure my January 2025 self would've believed: "Pushed a strategically disastrous war of choice vs. Iran that decimated hardware stockpiles, morale, and readiness, while purging competent, dedicated soldiers/leaders out of the Pentagon to sooth his insecurity."

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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 01/09/2026

Well played, Guardian Transfer Deadline Day Live Blog.

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

More unscientific US presidential babble and disinformation. Is it purposely made to hurt people, to hurt science, or both? The common claim that the Amish have "no autism" is not supported by the evidence. www.statnews.com/202... 1/2

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The Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026

GOP Congressman Pleads To Be Reassigned To New District After Feelings Really Hurt At Town Hall Meeting

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