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@Cornishview I’m very sorry to hear of your wife. However, private medicine cannot replicate the complex and comprehensive level of service for all medical conditions that the NHS does. It’s comparing apples and oranges.

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@David_Cameron No, spend the money on something that will actually make a difference.

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@RishiSunak It won’t save lives. Read the evidence.

[Margaret McCartney @mgtmccartney]

am going to write about this, but in meantime: here's a v good graphic from @CR_UK on the portion of benefits/risks of PSA screening https://t.co/K5ezqDrApE.... overdiagnosis is a weird thing and counterintuative -

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@c76995436 @mgtmccartney Yes, this exactly. We have had the same issue in anaesthesia.

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@mgtmccartney And a “minor illness” in an otherwise complex patient may have implications and repercussions that only a doctor will recognise.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

@owenjonesjourno @EHRC We don’t share women’s facilities with gay men, disabled men, young men, old men or any other vulnerable men. We won’t do it for trans-ID men either. It would eliminate the protection those spaces offer to us. And we fought for them. They are ours...

[Ana_LaPatata @ymuchosmemes]

Cuando tienes que conquistar Mongolia pero no tienes con quién dejar al gato

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In 2011, Japanese telecom company Docomo created one of the most beautiful adverts we've ever seen.

A giant xylophone in Kyushu playing Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" with a wooden ball rolling down its keys.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.

The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.

This grifter must not become prime minister.

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

Britain has lost around half its hedgerows since the Second World War. The wildlife that depended on them has followed a similar trajectory. 🌿

The old field boundary — a strip of blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose, and elder two to five metres wide between cultivated ground — was not wasted agricultural space. It was a functioning ecological system that maintained pollinators, pest predators, and farmland birds across centuries of working land.

Each hedgerow is a nesting corridor for grey partridge and skylark, a foraging habitat for brown hares and hedgehogs, a site for solitary bee colonies, and a windbreak for the crops alongside it.

The field cultivated to its very edge gives the maximum return this season. It removes the populations of beneficial insects, farmland birds, and small mammals on which stable long-term production depended.

The field with a hedgerow yields a few percent less per cultivated hectare — but remains productive across decades without compensatory chemical inputs. The documented declines in grey partridge, lapwing, and skylark across the British agricultural landscape since the 1970s are directly linked to field consolidation and hedgerow removal.

Practical equivalents for the garden or smallholding:
- A strip of wildflower meadow at least one metre wide at the plot boundary
- A clump of nettles in a shaded corner as a habitat base for red admiral, small tortoiseshell, and peacock butterflies
- A native mixed hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn in place of post-and-wire fencing
- A section of uncut grass between rows of fruit trees

#HedgerowHabitat #FarmlandWildlife #NativeHedge #GardenWildlife

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@notadogonline @Emma_A_Webb @TalkTV @JuliaHB1 He got in on the list. Nobody votes for him directly.

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@MageShrugged @Helen_Fields No jobs for medical graduates either. Many are heading off to Australia.

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@NatashaNew24957 @paullewismoney Obviously!

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@paullewismoney I am actually agreeing with you!

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@helensaxby11 @HadleyFreeman Can you imagine if a female lecturer walked in wearing a giant pair of fake bollocks.

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@mccarthymt7 @mgtmccartney There’s a disconnect in UK between graduate doctor numbers and places on training schemes. Lots of unemployed doctors. Many going overseas.