"Its really inefficient to pay private companies to provide care because they don't have the incentive to provide good care, they have the incentive to strip money out of the system & dish it out to their shareholders" Grace Blakeley last year on privatisation in the NHS

What a pathetic angle to take. This sort of interaction from a referee happens all through the game. It is normal. And the show is a great addition. Spinning into this rubbish is the reason why it’s taken so long to get refs comfortable with this level of public communication.

An amazing piece of reporting and a chilling insight into the secret world of power: theguardian.com/news/2024/sep/…

This is what they were like last time: major crackdowns on things that were either just a bit annoying or already illegal, alongside big money backroom deals for donors and bullshit hectoring of the public for still eating donuts.

LOL come on, I wouldn’t even bother saying “from the Tony Blair Institute” as a joke, but here it is.

Flying_Rodent I'll just drop this completely unrelated paper on the kind of reforms that are patently not envisaged here.... They certainly won't be after our data. No siree bob. institute.global/insights/publi…

I note that Britain, America and Australia have all been compelled to launch inquiries into their own war crimes in the war on terror, and that these are only being looked into because they’re the ones somebody blabbed about, as opposed to the ones we’ll learn about in 2057.

Something makes me suspect that all the people who once queued up to salute his throbbing political mastery will deny ever having said any such thing, about three years from now.