Man aged 91 is kept in hospital for two nights without a bed.
He's discharged home where he lived alone, with no support, monitoring, or follow-up arrangements.
He died shortly afterwards.
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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
Congratulations to the French booksellers’ association for forcing Amazon to withdraw from the Paris book festival.
Amazon has long had a negative impacts on writers, independent booksellers and publishers.
This development shows how powerful and positive a boycott can be.
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Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.
Private Eye brightened up my morning.
Latest issue out now!
I loved Our Town, Thornton Wilder's masterpiece seen through a Welsh lens and starring Michael Sheen.
I was lucky to see it at the reborn @theatrclwyd.bsky.social.
But it's transferring to London's Rose Theatre - not to be missed!
It's about privatisation and profiteering.
Letters go undelivered "for weeks" while the new owner concentrates on lucrative parcel services.
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The BBC may not be perfect, but it's the world's leading public service broadcaster.
Spending cuts will further reduce its investment in high-quality journalism and programming that make it a success.
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The situation is dire and leaves the country with no political party to represent the majority of its citizens, including the many people who are struggling.
£60bn. That's last year's cost for clinical negligence in the NHS.
The figure has quadrupled over 20 years.
Yet MPs found that the DHSC hasn't shown meaningful action taken to address this and the NHS hasn't done enough to tackle the underlying causes of patient harm.
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From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1080, May 2003.
Billionaire wealth jumps to highest ever at $18.3 trillion, up 16% in 2025, up 81% since 2020
Half the world lives in poverty.
Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than normal people.
Richest 56 Britons hold more wealth than 27m.
Concentration of wealth is a danger.
Many in Britain have been deeply unhappy about our dependence on the US for a long time. They were right to be. It’s not helped us build a fairer, better society. As difficult as the transition will be, we must fight for our independence now.
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If you can’t admit Trump is a dangerous, lunatic moron, you’re part of the problem. My latest.
www.thedailybeast.com/now-is-the-t...
We're facing the most dangerous time since 1945.
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The #NHS is desperate for new hospitals after years of under-investment.
Surgeons are blocked by lack of theatre space.
Scarce funds go into patching up old buildings, money that should be for extra operating theatres and employing staff to run them.
@rcsed.bsky.social
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There's a growing trend for UK citizens to seem surgery abroad - ranging from dentistry, cosmetic surgery, even bariatric surgery.
The NHS is left to pick up huge bills when these procedures go wrong.
Also true of private medicine in the UK. The sector leeches off the NHS.
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Scary reading.
If the UK falls out with Trump over Greenland, he could order US tech giants to jam access by our public services.
Just the type of thing he'd do.
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A reminder of what a pathetic but dangerous bully Trump is - and why the UK and EU need to stand up to him
Trump's bullying of Cuba is like something out of The Sopranos.
The Revolution brought safety and peace to Cuba.
While the disappearance of the Soviet market and the US trade embargo have brought suffering, if Trump's turns his threats into action the outcome would be worse.
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Why rail fares are so high and why nationalising the loss making operators will not solve the real problem bit.ly/4jugYE9 the massive profits (£380m in 2 years for just one) of the rolling stock leasing companies on the £4.1bn annual cost of leasing and maintaining trains
Yes, it's all about "taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground".
At last someone's said it.
Plus Trump's also threatening Greenland and Canada.
Not one word of condemnation by our government of Trump's illegal act of war in Venezuela.
Not one word.
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice.
Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance.
Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products.
Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
UK can't end child/parental poverty without equitable distribution of income.
34% of the people on Universal Credit are in employment.
1.17m workers are on zero-hour contracts.
4.5m jobs pay less than the real Living Wage.
Employment Rights Bill will not end zero-hour contracts, fire and rehire.
An important investigation into the gig economy and commercial parcel deliveries.
Certain, Evri always dump parcels at our house without attempting to see if anyone's home.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Care Leavers Association says accessing files from a childhood in care can be one of the most important experiences of a care-leaver's life.
But the information watchdog warns that people trying to access their own care records are being let down.
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"You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Don't be afraid to take bad pictures… You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you’ve got a good one."
RIP Martin Parr, a unique photographer and an inspiration to others who love photography.
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Dismal and short-sighted.
