They’re not playing chess. They’re not even playing draughts. They’re playing snakes and ladders and losing.

Although Glasgow accounts for 20% of Scotland’s economy, the city underperforms relative to its peers, largely due to its poor public transport infrastructure. 📉 This underperformance is equivalent to 4.6% of Scotland’s GDP – the size of the nation’s entire Oil & Gas sector.

This is Beautiful— Chris Whitty “Some of the evidence to the inquiry on the precautionary principle misunderstands it quite profoundly”

RIP to Benjamin Zephaniah who has died at the age of 65. The poet was a massive fan of the Welsh language saying it should be taught across the UK so people understand “different cultures and languages". Here’s a clip of him visiting the eisteddfod in 2015:

@Dr_BellaR One of the most insidious things the Tories have done with the NHS is created a culture where the Health Secretary doesn't see it as their role to sort out the problems in the NHS but to make a public demonstration of "holding the NHS to account" on behalf of the public.

🔥Appendicitis and CT scans🔥 Is your practice evidence-based, or just based on previous difficult cases? The new RIFT-2 paper is published today in impact-surgery.com Here is why I CT scan nearly every patient with a medium/high risk of appendicitis 🧵:

I learnt this lesson when I did my paper round when I was 13. The council houses that looked liked they had the least to give always had the best christmas tips, easter eggs, everything . The nice houses… not so much

If I could like this a hundred times I would- the thing that would move the dial the most on NHS productivity isn’t more clinical staff but better logistics. So so many of our processes in emergency and elective care are stupidly inefficient.

EXCL: Newly published accounts reveal Infosys - the firm founded by Rishi Sunak's father in law and the source of the PM and his wife's wealth - is still in a dispute with HMRC for unpaid corporation tax. Infosys has appealed a bill for roughly £20m.

Given the importance of this story and out of concern for Hannah Blythyn’s wellbeing, we have decided that the right thing to do is to state publicly that she was not the source of our story. nation.cymru/news/hannah-bl…

The same story on moves to control second homes and holiday lets framed completely differently by the BBC in Welsh and English this morning. The Welsh - leads with the aims of the policy The English - leads with the concerns of opponents

Welsh vs Breton vs Cornish 🌍 Chwiorydd Celtaidd!✊ Cymharu’r ieithoedd Celtaidd yng Ngŵyl Rhyng-Geltaidd Lorient gyda Seren, Azenor & Lowenna! #Kernow #Breizh #Cymraeg #CelticLanguages S4C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @FESTIVALLORIENT

The PM of Barbados followed the PM of Israel in addressing the United Nations.

Training logbook numbers by specialty relative to 2019. Millions fewer procedures performed with/by a trainee. Consultants - remember that you were all trainees once. Time to train the next generation! Every case is a training case. #NoTrainingTodayNoSurgeonsTomorrow