Yet another glaring example of how utterly failed the water industry is. All it took was one hot weekend and not one but two water companies have been brought to their knees, incapable of doing the most basic job possible, supplying their customers with water.
And we tolerate this nonsense.
This is Trevor Fisher, an inpatient in @ArthurRankHouse in Cambridgeshire, speaking to @Channel4News this week.
I am a palliative care specialist and Trevor’s interview has devastated me.
His hospice has just found out that in 6 months, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust will withdraw its £800k funding.
This means that 9 of the hospice’s 16 beds will close, denying patients like Trevor the precious end-of-life care they need.
In total, 200 people a year in Cambridgeshire will now be forced to die in an overcrowded hospital instead of the hospice environment they so longed for. Some will doubtless end up dying on trolleys in corridors - we witness this far too often, these days & I can tell you, it is barbaric.
@CUH_NHS says it has made this “very difficult decision” following a “value for money assessment” - confirming what I have long known as a doctor, that too often, patients with terminal illnesses are treated as second class citizens whose lives simply don’t matter as much as other people's.
Yet the real responsibility here lies not with the NHS trust but with the current government, who is forcing the NHS nationwide to cut clinical services in order to meet impossible “efficiency savings” (what weasel words those are).
These cuts were necessary, say @CUH_NHS, “in order to maintain core services within a reduced budget” - that is to say, the reduced budget they are now receiving from this government.
So this is on you, @wesstreeting, and on you @UKLabour. You've chosen to do this & now patients like Trevor must live - and die - with your choices.
I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.
So I will put it to you directly, Mr Streeting.
We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all. Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to fail them on your watch?
Thank you @channel4news for covering this story.
#palliativecare
#hospicecare
#NHS
🚨⚪️: Former Tottenham manager and player Glenn Hoddle has offered to save Tottenham from relegation should Igor Tudor be moved on as interim boss.
Source: @MailSport
A better catch: Waitrose becomes first UK supermarket to suspend mackerel sourcing over sustainability concerns – John Lewis Partnership https://t.co/AQOW3HtePu
“For 8 years, I was raped and beaten and videotaped by hundreds of men, women and even married couples. I never thought I would live to be 18…”
Below is the story of a child victim exploited for profit on P*rnhub, told in her own words & shared with permission. She pleads with us to take action — Below are two ways we can take action.
**Warning: Disturbing Content**
“At the age of 9, my biological mother sold me to johns (people who buy sex) in exchange for drugs and for money. This happened until I was rescued at the age of 17 and placed into a safe house, where I was able to escape my bio mom and the people she worked with.
For 8 years, I was raped and beaten and video taped by hundreds of men, women and even married couples. I never thought I would live to be 18 years old. I was hospitalized dozens of times, and one time I was forced to drink ammonia until I passed out and was raped for hours after that even though my mouth and throat were burning so bad. I have seen many other children raped in front of me even a 3 year old boy being raped by a man that was in his 40s. I was forced to have sex with other children, especially young girls. I still have nightmares and extreme PTSD from this.
I am thankful that I have a family now who helps me through my flashbacks and my panics. But it’s not fair that my life is so hard now because I was forced into a life of sex and p*rnography as a child. I have had to get police involved on multiple occasions to try and get Redtube & P*rnhub to remove videos of me being raped AS A MINOR.
I don’t understand why it’s so difficult.
Please, stop allowing people to make money off of the torture and coercion of children. It’s not fair.”
How can we stop predatory corporations from immortalizing, commercializing and globally distributing the worst moments of victim’s lives?
1. Severe civil and criminal penalties for individual abusers and the corporations profiting from distributing these crimes. There must be serious financial, criminal, and reputational consequences until the risk of continued exploitation outweighs any benefit these abusers get by maintaining the status quo.
2. Mandatory, third-party, age and consent verification for every individual in every explicit video and image on every website that per terms of service distributes user-generated p*rn.
This is absolutely fantastic from Spurs. 👏
If anyone ever needs to chat, our DM’s are open. Feel free to message, we regularly monitor them and will get back to you. You’re not alone. 🤍
The lobster MCRS will increase to 90mm in the South West in 1st March 2026 and phased in at 1mm/year in the rest of English waters.
A new post has just been published on the Fisheries Management Plans blog.
Read the new post here: https://t.co/iCTVuGOVpK
Science from the Shore 🔬🥼👩🔬
The first of our 2 part science series, giving you an insight into the science that goes on in the fishing industry 🐟
Did you know science takes place on the fish market? Stay tuned for the next episode in this series... Science from the Sea! 🌊
This is Richard Smith. He probably wouldn't want you sharing this everywhere. It's him striking a poor horse over the head with a riding crop at the weekend.
This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.
Filmed by North East Hunt Monitors on 08/11/25
AD of the day (possibly ad of the season) 🏆
Waitrose just raised the bar for Christmas campaign with a four-minute festive romcom, starring Keira Knightley and Joe Wilkinson, with food at the heart of the story.