George Pate

vet, hockey player, family history, LA Rams

[George Pate @PateGeorge24]

@PaMemorial @janetcwebsterb1 a lot of strikes in 1921. Pretty sure the census was delayed because of them. Still a lot of people out of work when the census was taken

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[Brian Spurrell @BrianSpanner1]

This is nuts.

Whoever sent these cops needs to be sacked immediately.

Utterly bizarre behaviour.

[Alastair Hilton @London_W4]

I am having a drink this evening with a friend in a Chiswick pub. Two policemen have just come into the pub and asked me to step outside. I have stepped outside and they have threatened me because I tweeted about a councillor banning seating outside pubs in Chiswick. They admit on video (watch it!) that I did not break the law at all. They came to threaten me. To warn me off tweeting about councillors and the council. This is modern Britain. This is the police state. Please, please, please watch this video. It does involve me using very bad language, but this has got to be seen. Police coming out to threaten someone who hasn’t committed a crime. I’m fuming.

[George Pate @PateGeorge24]

@Newbattleatwar any mention in the papers John?

[George Pate @PateGeorge24]

@Newbattleatwar opposite side of the country. Are they having a laugh? or just daft

[𝕀𝕋𝔸ℂℍ𝕀 𝕌ℂℍ𝕀ℍ𝔸 ⚛ @joshibza]

Let us be absolutely clear: the issue here is not the absence of a referral note. While a handwritten letter is a useful tool, fixating on it completely misses the point of clinical accountability.

If that patient had lost the referral, would we truly send a distressed child back to the GP to get another copy? Of course not. The moment a patient arrives in the Emergency Department, they are our responsibility regardless of what is written on a piece of paper. The referral is an aide, not a crutch, and it certainly does not replace independent clinical assessment.

The real failure occurred when a nurse, operating beyond their competence, failed to clerk the patient, failed to examine them, and dismissed a child in severe painful distress as simply constipated. That is the fundamental error we must address. The question that should have been asked in that moment is painfully obvious: why would a General Practitioner refer a routine case of constipation to an Emergency Department if it could be managed safely in the community? The answer is that they wouldn't. The GP recognised an emergency; the nurse, unfortunately, did not.

Let us not make excuses for poor clinical judgment or for placing unqualified individuals in positions of critical responsibility. In Australia, Canada, and the United States, such unsafe practices would not be tolerated. Cheap labour comes with costly consequences misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, and avoidable harm. We cannot use gaps in the rota to justify gaps in competence.

Medicine demands that we all work strictly within our scope of training. Do not use qualifications you do not possess to make decisions you are not equipped to make. A referral note may guide you, but it does not replace your own history-taking, physical examination, and sound clinical reasoning. That is the standard we must uphold not just for the sake of process, but for the safety of every patient who walks through our doors. That is non-negotiable.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"You're spending something like £65 billion on defence and £360 billion on welfare. Lucky you, you must not feel any danger..."

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Britain's defence spending.

#Newsnight

[George Pate @PateGeorge24]

@Kristinartz maud

[George Pate @PateGeorge24]

@SommePhantom Historic Environment Scotland

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

> A 10-day-old baby was deliberately sniped in the head by a quadcopter while being breastfed inside a tent
> The bullet exited the back of his head and hit the pillow behind his mother
> The mother was unharmed
> The baby survived
> The only evidence for this whole story is a picture of a bullet

How the f is this a serious report?

[Stuart @StuartMaggs]

Here we go again.

Rumours of a wealth tax, capital gains tax to 45%, and an immediate exit tax to stop people escaping. You’d have thought Labour would have learned.

Our Government should try to attract global entrepreneurs, not threaten leavers with an exit tax.

[Jennifer Thetford-Kay @JenKteach]

Remembering Those Who Gave Their Lives On the 20th June 1967: The Arab Police Mutiny, Aden

On the morning of 20th June 1967, Arab soldiers of the South Arabian Army (SAA) mutinied at their barracks (notably at Lake Lines and Champion Lines). They set fire to buildings and, amid tribal rivalries and unrest following the suspension of Arab officers, opened fire on British forces and positions.

A three-ton truck from 60 Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport, carrying men returning from weapons training, was ambushed with heavy machine-gun fire as it passed an SAA camp. Eight RCT soldiers were killed. SAA mutineers then directed fire into Radfan Camp, killing Second Lieutenant Robert Young (1st Battalion, Lancashire Regiment), two policemen, and a civilian public works employee.

British troops from the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (C Company) and Queen’s Dragoon Guards moved in to restore order at Champion Lines. They rescued British and Arab officers from the guardroom with minimal force and disarmed the mutineers. One KOBR soldier, Private Anthony Ferguson, was killed in this action. Unrest quickly spread to the Aden Armed Police (AAP) in the Crater district. They seized their barracks, took to the rooftops, and ambushed a British patrol (elements of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, with some Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders personnel). The patrol came under heavy crossfire; most of those in the vehicles were killed. The AAP, together with armed nationalist fighters, then occupied and controlled the Crater district.

In total, twenty-two British soldiers were killed that day in a series of separate clashes. Crater was lost to British control. On 3rd July 1967, the 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (under Lt Col Colin “Mad Mitch” Mitchell), reoccupied Crater in a swift operation that met minimal resistance. They remained in firm control of the district for the remaining five months until the final British withdrawal from Aden on 29th November 1967.

Those who gave their lives on 20th June 1967

Royal Corps of Transport (60 Squadron)
Staff Sergeant Butler
Driver Fraser
Sergeant Garth
Driver Geall
Driver Goldsworthy
Driver Pouton
Driver Tevendale
Driver West

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Fusilier Crombie
Second Lieutenant Davies
Warrant Officer 2 Hoare
Fusilier Hoult
Lance Corporal Liddell
Major Moncur
Fusilier Smyth
Fusilier Stewart
Fusilier Wylie

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (elements involved in the Crater patrol on 20 June)
Private Hunter
Major Malcolm
Private Moores

King’s Own Royal Border Regiment
Private Ferguson

Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers)
Second Lieutenant Young
We Will Remember Them “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13
#LestWeForget #WeWillRememberThem #Aden1967

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Remember, it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead, use the giant iPad built into the car and flip through 50 settings to use navigation or turn ac on.

[Dartmoor Hill Pony Assoc @ponykeepersDTMR]

Fact check. A response to inaccurate and incorrect assertions inDartmoor Nature Alliance's claim of fake news. 3 pages.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

I think the British Army should never have amalgamated its regiments.
It should have retained all of them.
It could have made each company in a battalion carry the regiment’s name to keep it alive.
It could then have done the same with the Army Reserve.
Just a thought for tradition.

[Will Iredale @WIredale]

"The strategic myopia displayed by Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is a condition shared by a parliamentary Labour Party that is the most unserious and most intellectually arid ever to attain power." A withering leader in today's Times.

[Deborah Haynes @haynesdeborah]

Extraordinarily - and this seems to demonstrate a complete disregard of the seriousness of defence at the heart of government - John Healey was only told what the offer was for additional defence funding on Monday afternoon.

I am told Number 10 then tried to rush and publish the Defence Investment Plan on Thursday.

Then a handbrake was applied by Mr Healey and his military chiefs. The (now ex) defence secretary made clear that racing to release the blueprint without a settlement that had been accepted by him and his team would be a risk for defence and for its soldiers, sailors and aviators.

You can only imagine the tone of the exchange that must have taken place - and I know that people were in the MOD until very late last night.

But John Healey firmly believes the settlement was inadequate and, if left unchallenged, would not enable the UK to keep the country safe or meet its international commitments - such as help defend Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire with Russia.

A key detail is that Mr Healey believes defence spending must be increased to 3% of GDP by 2030, up from 2.3% now. This would guarantee tens of billions of additional pounds for defence.

But - despite the stakes and the position of the defence secretary - the Prime Minister and Chancellor agreed just to inch it up to 2.68% of GDP within that time frame, after hitting a new target of 2.6% next year (which is already being inflated by lumping in the 0.1% that is spent on the intelligence agencies).

Utterly incredible.

What must our allies and our adversaries be thinking, let alone everyone in the UK armed forces and, frankly, everyone in our country?

We all rely on a secure UK to live, work, go to school, enjoy holidays, access healthcare, spend time with friends and families.

This is not a divine right. It happens because we have security - something that might not be apparent until or unless it is compromised...

[John Duncan @Newbattleatwar]

Okay, I make no bones about it, the London Gazette is my nemesis. I never seem to find a damn thing on it. Trying to find a DCM citation for this Black Watch soldier, Sgt 3/3934 Nicol Peacock. 🫩