A good friend had triplets at 6 months, and they were in the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, where apparently Lucy Letby worked (several years later thankfully). I found the fact that she killed two triplets really upsetting; I’d imagine a lot of people are feeling particularly upset by this because of personal experience of neonatal care and premature birth. Gonna give my mate’s now 17 year old lads extra big hugs next time I see them. Hugs to you too.
Is this the basis for MPs pay rises then?
Why the hell did I go into the comments on a Telegraph article… White flight wtf…
I am just under 50 and I would love to leave the UK for another country, but I don’t have the resources to do so. I don’t have a profession or skillset that is in demand in another country, I don’t really speak another language (GCSE French and a bit of Duolingo Spanish). I don’t own property I can sell for a chunk of funds. And I have an elderly mother I’m semi responsible for and wouldn’t want to leave.
Emigration is something of a privilege. The people who are suffering most under the social and economic conditions created by years of austerity and aggressive neoliberalism aren’t generally going to be the ones who can move elsewhere. I suspect a lot of the people who can and will leave are the ones who voted for this shit show in the first place. Twats.
It’s the pay rises of the rich that are currently fueling inflation.
There’s a big explosion in evangelical Christianity that is very concerning to me. There’s a lot of new small churches springing up all the time. They work on a ‘planting’ basis, so each church will ‘seed’ and send out people to new places to set up churches of their own. They work like a pyramid scheme really.
My mum very nearly got scammed, it was one of those phone calls pretending to be BT about the phone line getting hacked. It was only a few days after my dad died, and she was in shock and not thinking straight, and panicked because she was waiting for the coroner to email her and went into stress mode at the thought of not getting the email. They got her to install an app on her tablet, but when they asked her for bank details she refused. They then spent nearly an hour trying to convince her, getting her into a worse and worse state. I’ve never wanted to kill someone as much as I did when I found out. Particularly when I found out that she’d told them her husband had just died and he’d always dealt with computer stuff… I knew as soon as they heard that they just went “ker-ching we’ve got a juicy one”. Still makes my blood boil two years later.
Even aside from the health impact of that, our infrastructure is not built to withstand that. Trains and roads are going to be even more fucked.
It appears to be Michael Winner, Les Battisby from Corrie, and Compo from the Last Summer Wine on his holidays. Impressive line up tbf.