Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0
YouTube video by Christina Pagel
Why do we still not have clean air in schools, hospitals etc? It would avoid so much misery and disruption.
âPolitically, if you take away a relatively small amount of money from 10 million pensioners, that is a much bigger political issue than if you take away several thousand pounds from a few hundred thousand very poor, very marginalised families who donât have such a voice,â he says.
Any child poverty strategy worthy of the name will abolish the two-child limit. Thoughts from me & @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social in this excellent piece by Amelia Gentleman. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
The limit was introduced by George Osborne and has pushed whole households into poverty. Why isnât the Labour government ditching it?
Spot on from @rentouljohn.bsky.social : "I have said it before: in the Netherlands 65 people per 100,000 are in prison; in Germany it is 67; in England and Wales the figure is 143. We are doing something wrong in this country. If only this crisis were a chance to put it right."
A very interesting read. The plight of people who just want a life. The industrial world is responsible for the pillaging and destruction of Africa. It needs to be payback time. Countries need help. aje.io/y8fpvh
People who took the âbackwayâ to EU countries and were sent home find few opportunities.
Ah, thank you Paul, it's good to make contact again. đ
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I haven't posted for a while, so here's a picture of two of our garden guests. In a few weeks they'll be able to fly away.
