Andy S-W

Keen cyclist, windsurfer, kitesurfer, BHA fan, and Dad of 3. My personal views on stuff and anything else.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly offered to admit he knowingly lied for years about the Obama Birther conspiracy in exchange for Obama agreeing not to also run for a third term against him in 2028.

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@sky_atlantic_ @SkyNews why do you create a great new series - Prisoner - and then ruin it with trailers in the breaks that tell you what happens next??? Give your heads a wobble!

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@langcatsteve The photo of the year 💪

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@campbellclaret And probably one of the key reasons Brighton & Hove Albion are where they are today. Without his determination we'd never have got our wonderful new home, the Premier League and Europe. Thank you JP 💙🤍

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@langcatsteve ...and Billy?

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@rwilliams1947 @itvcycling @nedboulting @friebos @millarmind @mrendell @Petekennaugh Wtf?

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@langcatmike @langcatsteve @PensionsMonkey Does that double up as Wimbledon uniform @langcatsteve?

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@theactualpolson Even on the south coast

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@piersmorgan ...and that's at the start of May - what a wonderful talent 😢

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@langcatsteve ...you all have suits on. Is this a flash back?

[Professor Karol Sikora @ProfKarolSikora]

Please read and share if you are as frustrated as I am...

Not long ago, Britain was a world-leader across all aspects of cancer care - diagnosis, treatment and research. Now? We are the sick man of Europe.

Thousands and thousands of patients experiencing horrific delays just to get diagnosed, with our survival rates reflecting this.

Politicians from all parties pontificate with the usual confected outrage, but when it comes to delivering change it’s the same old story - all talk, no action.

Whilst countless patients endure such torturous delays, three advanced cancer facilities remain unused in Reading, Newport and Northumberland. I can honestly say that these centres are amongst the very best I have seen anywhere in the world, yet our establishment is happy for them to remain empty? It is a national scandal.

Throughout my half a century in medicine, I have never been so disappointed. This network has the capacity to help 20,000 patients a year, with some of the most advanced equipment known to man - including proton beam therapy, a state-of-the-art treatment that can drastically reduce side-effects and significantly improve the quality of life for patients.

Charities, politicians and commentators will all bemoan the state of UK cancer care, yet almost nobody has lifted a finger to help open these centres. Here is a ready-made solution that could deliver results for patients almost overnight. Why on earth aren’t we grabbing it with both hands?

Countries across the world are desperately scrambling around to build proton capable facilities - I know, I am advising many of them. But in broken Britain, we are content to let three of these sites rot away at a time of record delays.

The NHS claims that these centres do not meet their requirements, but speaking honestly this is a flat-out mistruth. The machines within the centres are of the highest quality and used throughout the world. When the network was operating, all three centres had contracts with local NHS Trusts.

They also suggested that there were no senior consultants overseeing treatment and that we had no participation with academic centres - both entirely untrue.

Even removing the Proton Beam Therapy, there is still a vast amount of expensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy equipment unused, with diagnostic capacity on top of that.

The individuals within the NHS and Department of Health pushing these falsehoods are either actively lying, or understand nothing about oncology.

If we are serious about overturning the awful state of British cancer care, let's start with reopening these three magnificent facilities.

This is surely an objective we can all share.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Brexit. The disaster that keeps on disastering. But hey, Johnson is raking in millions, Farage is in the jungle launching his Tory leadership bid, Sunak is PM, Braverman is plotting his downfall, and if the NHS is on its knees surely a small price to pay for their lies and vanity

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@langcatsteve I presume that has pride of place Lang Cat HQ?

[Professor Karol Sikora @ProfKarolSikora]

Excellent article in the Telegraph today on the growing national scandal of the three empty cancer centres.

To suggest that three advanced facilities would not help with delays is so obviously wrong.

@SteveBarclay - with the greatest respect if this is the level of understanding of cancer at your department, then it's no surprise that the UK is falling so drastically behind international standards.

I would be happy to have a call at any time of your convenience to explain how three of the most advanced cancer centres in the world could reduce delays and benefit thousands of patients.

The Department of Health has some cheek using the word 'nonsense' after penning that petition response which demonstrates zero understanding of practical oncology.

NHS/DHSC bureaucrats clearly want this story to go away, but it's not happening.

https://t.co/xq0bjaDGjB

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@Stephen_WJ @nucleuswrap Love this! Well done.

[We Are Brighton @wearebrighton]

Nothing to see here, just Brighton chairman Tony Bloom doing a landing announcement on the delayed Heathrow to Marseille flight letting everyone know the Albion were picking them all up from the airport😂

Best owner in world football #BHAFC

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@langcatsteve And Billy is now getting game time...and he's on 🔥

[North Stand Chat @NorthStandChat]

Chelsea - next time you have three months, uncontested, to complete a transfer, there's another approach that might work better.

Hope this helps.

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@MikeOvett Wrong.

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@PensionsMonkey You do know where the Cav story is heading?