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[Paul Martin @PaulMartinUK2]

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[Put The Telly On @putthetellyon]

I’m pleased someone captured this, George Michael epically improving the whole of Do They Know It’s Christmas? just by going up an octave. Incredible. “But say a prayer..” #BandAid

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Approx 29k resident doctors applied for 9k training posts this year. They're not "choosing" to forgo specialist training, @gmcuk, they're being forced out of it by the decision to artificially suppress numbers of doctor training posts, even though we're so short of consultants.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The art of sentence length by Gary Provost

[Dr Rachel Clarke @doctor_oxford]

Misleadingingly contextualised piece, @NickTriggle, which relies, predictably enough, on those infamous anonymous NHS senior sources.

The crux of the issue is not, as you claim, 'the speed at which [PAs] are being recruited". 1/n

https://t.co/ufKy8uaVcK

[𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 @Matt_Pinner]

Finally I got the picture 😮

Snowy Durdle door in Dorset

One of my most memorable moments, capturing this very rare image. The fact that we never really get snow down south and especially at such an iconic tourist attraction such as Durdle Door!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

The BBC, which has been downplaying – or more usually ignoring – Israeli atrocities in Gaza every day for 13 months, dedicates 2 minutes of its hour-long lunchtime news to the ICC issuing an arrest warrant against Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity.

Those two minutes are from their Jerusalem correspondent, explaining why Netanyahu and Israelis will disagree. That's it.

Nothing on the diplomatic significance.

Nothing on how this will strengthen the genocide case against Israel at the World Court.

Nothing from international law experts.

Nothing on how embarrassing this is for Israel's patrons like the UK and US.

And nothing, of course, on how it leaves western politicians – and media like the BBC – dangerously exposed for their complicity in the genocide.

[Rob Butler @robbutler1984]

I always loved the bit in Gavin and Stacey where John Prescott arrives at Ness and Dave’s wedding.

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Why are these headlines never in Western media?

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Alright, who made this?! 😂🤣

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Now it all makes sense. #brexit

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Laundry art

[📸 Helga Stentzel]

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This cartoon. 🥺

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since privatisation United Utilities has been convicted 205 times and fined £5.02 million.

Now you know why they still illegally dumped hundreds of millions of litres of sewage into Windermere over the last 3 years. The system is dysfunctional, it doesn't work.

Time to start revoking operating licenses.

https://t.co/GzpOPM9XNl

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

It can’t just be me thinking this. It just makes no sense to me that we are looking to make tax rises & spending cuts to the value of £40bn in this month’s Budget whilst refusing to talk about the economic damage we’ve self inflicted on the economy with Brexit. Bloomberg has calculated that Brexit is costing the UK £100bn a year in lost output— that’s roughly £40bn less for the new Labour Government to invest in the UK - every year

Why are we not talking about this?

How much longer can our politicians deliberately avoid the negative impact of Brexit in their list of things which have battered and continue to batter the UK economy? The Office for Budget Responsibility says Brexit will reduce the UK’s potential GDP by 4% in the long run by lowering the trade intensity of the economy, Goldman Sachs puts it at 5% and the National Institute of Economic & Social Research calculates it at up to 6%.

These analysis’s chime with that of the Bank of England by showing that a long-term squeeze on the country’s economic potential from Brexit is playing out as they had feared

Until we have an honest and open discussion about the negative impact of Brexit and take steps remedy it Britain’s growth, productivity and living standards will continue to be weighed down by the structural handicap of Brexit

So why are we not talking about this?