Gareth Nickless

Husband, father, pharmacist and educator.
Educational interests include #WBL and digital learning.
Other interests
@wba fan
#pharmfoods

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@THEPLVAULT For years I said we hadn't replaced it but now we have Diakite!

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@RoyLilley My wife's a district nurse and highlighted challenges years ago.

Her team currently has 53 insulin calls per day (always seems to be rising) to allocate before they do anything else - years ago it was five or six.

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@Roger_Organ That whole album is quality but this tune is an all time classic

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We could be in for a classic in the @EFL Championship this season

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@80s_Kidz This and the one of the kid flying his kite by the electricity pylon!

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One for @AccidentalP

[Simon Harris @SimonHarrisMBD]

A few years ago, Premier Inn went viral on social media when they came up with the concept of a plate for a full English breakfast with a ‘baked bean barrier’ - this was a raised version of their moon logo that prevents juice from the baked beans coming into contact with the rest of the breakfast.

It was originally just a speculative design, but Premier Inn’s people saw my thoughts about it and I was incredibly lucky to be offered the chance to test a prototype at their Tamworth location. As you can see it actually did the job pretty well.

During testing, I applied what I considered to be a reasonable amount of cutlery pressure throughout, and then a little more of what I would consider to be ‘excessive’ force, and to the designer’s credit the plate worked flawlessly. The beans also ricocheted satisfyingly back onto a teaspoon when I switched cutlery.

Hopefully they will put these into mass production one day. I still have the plate in a cupboard as a memento.

[Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy]

The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation.

There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East.

It also knows that raising interest rates cannot reduce those prices.

So why is it doing this?

The answer is that the Bank believes it must suppress demand elsewhere in the economy to compensate for rising energy costs.

In other words, it is deliberately making mortgages more expensive, increasing business borrowing costs, discouraging investment and reducing household spending power.

And all this when people are already struggling with higher energy bills. That is problem number one.

There is, however, another problem. Higher interest rates increase costs for businesses, which can then feed through into higher prices. They can, in that case, add to inflation rather than reduce it.

The Bank is imposing economic pain to address a problem its chosen policy cannot directly solve.

That is not sound economic management. It is the consequence of an economic dogma that refuses to recognise the difference between inflation caused by excessive demand and inflation caused by supply shocks.

When will we learn?

[Gareth Nickless @NicklessG]

Why does it list the other teams as winning but then say West Ham behind instad of @WBA ahead?

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@Lott777 Hodggson or Megson for me - can argue for either for different reasons

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Sad news - a great actor

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for roles in Star Trek and X-Men, dies aged 86 https://t.co/oFGTzAdMOh

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@80s_Kidz This and
https://t.co/yE3VvODz1C

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@chris_kammy I knew they'd be up there this season - already a strong side from last season, kept their manager and spent money from Rogers sell on fee well.
Lankshear looking a bargain!

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@damzy_chillin Rudi Voller
Platini
Des Walker
Klimsman
Vialli
Baggio
Van Basten

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@WWENostalgia_ The 🐐

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@TheDailyDraught

[QuantativeBrah @QuantMashine]

Asylum hotels may be down but spending is still over
£4bn a year

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@Dentale16u Black - it's the small triangle that's part of the A

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@A_MacLullich I've seen patients come in prescribed two of these anticholinergic incontinence meds!

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@andyburnham Andy, we know that Supermarkets are cheaper than Shell and BP garages and that you'd have to be desperate to fill up at a motorway service station.

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@AlbionAnalysis @Colg51272781 @CJHall83 I remember his debut against Fulham - thought we had signed a real gem.
No idea what went wrong 🤷‍♂️