With the US now on the verge of achieving pure idiocracy and a brand new form of government that can only be described in terms of coconuts and bananas, Iโve decided to expand my guide to what is arguably the most cartoonishly stupid administration known to modern man. ๐งต
I've never received such a quick response from the BBC to a complaint. I know others here received the same response to complaints about @BBCWomansHour. Here is the BBC's response, and my response to theirs. @JournalismSEEN@ripx4nutmeg
A couple of years ago my life was saved by a very special man.
His name is Hanny Anwar. Heโs a surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He removed the cancer from the base of my spine. Along with a lot of bone.
But he did so much more than that.
Surgeons have a reputation for being cocky, arrogant and cursed with poor people skills. Hanny isn't like that. As well as being exceptionally gifted, he's also a very thoughtful and spiritual man.
Once he'd diagnosed my cancer as chordoma, he explained to me that it has a very high recurrence rate. On average, there's a 60% chance that chordomas return.
I was trying to get my head around this. That I was going to put myself through brutal surgery with a long recovery, losing bladder bowel and sexual function... to emerge with the odds against me.
Hanny said something to me that I'll never forget.
He reassured me that if the cancer did return that it could be treated with radiotherapy or further surgery. He told me that the hospital treats patients with recurrent cancer that live for decades.
'So if it comes back, it's not necessarily a death sentence?', I asked.
'No more than life is', he replied.
Wow. It was such a great answer, I burst out laughing.
In that moment I knew that I completely trusted him. I felt immensely privileged to be his patient.
Along with his colleague who also operated on me, John Afolayan, he is currently trekking ONE HUNDRED KILOMETRES across THE SAHARA DESERT. It will take them five days.
Yes, they're insane.
But theyโre doing it to raise money for the @thernohcharity.
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All the money raised goes back into NHS services at the hospital to help more patients in the future.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital is our only national orthopaedic hospital. It treats patients from all over the country, including injured service personnel and people like me who suffer from rare bone cancer.
Anything you can give will make a massive difference.
Surely they deserve it.
Thank you.
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These stories really are coming thick and fast at the moment๐
Guess what?
The Canadian school is NOT 'banning food at lunchtime' during Ramadan๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Obviously...
And if you BELIEVED it to be true, then you need to ask why you would choose to believe such an obviously ludicrous headline?
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Why wasn't Boris Johnson arrested for bringing "misconduct in a public office" when he abandoned his duties as Foreign secretary and absconded to party with the son of a Russian KGB officer?
And why didn't @bbclaurak refuse to interview him until he tidied himself up?
#bbcpm
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UK grandmother handcuffed, shackled, forced to sleep on the floor of a locked cell in an ICE detention centre for 6 weeks, ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ having valid visa @guardian
ICE agents get paid per detainee
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โDonโt go to the US โ not with Trump in chargeโ: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks - The Guardian https://t.co/wa9xlO89KC