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From the newspapers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13149509/physician-associates-nhs-training.html
“Trainee physician associates (PAs) are being employed by the NHS to work with patients despite having no medical training, this newspaper has learned.
There are already growing concerns about the escalating use of these ‘cut-price medics’ – who are supposed to assist doctors and nurses with routine duties after two years’ training.
But many are being asked to take on clinical duties which go far beyond their remit, with mounting evidence that this has caused harm to patients and led to misdiagnoses and even deaths.
But The Mail on Sunday has now discovered that the NHS is rolling out ‘apprenticeships’ for PAs – which means untrained staff are going directly into paying jobs working with patients.“
[Daily Mail]
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The Great Replacement?
I just saw, on Sky News, a few minutes of Sunday-something-or-other with Trevor Phillips. Like a caricature of “the great replacement” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement].
The presenter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Phillips] a black man from Guyanese origins, and the three commentators also of non-European origin: a mixed-race (?) youngish man, a possibly Chinese (?) woman, and another woman, possibly/probably South Asian. The main other commentator expected, but not yet present, would be Shami Chakrabarti [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shami_Chakrabarti], the well known commentator, activist etc, who is of Indian (Bengali) origins.
One sometimes feels, mutatis mutandis, a bit like Boris Savinkov [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Savinkov] as portrayed in Reilly, Ace of Spies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly,_Ace_of_Spies]. At one point in the drama, Savinkov complains, of the anti-Bolshevik forces, “Latvians, Poles, Czechs…where are the Russians?!“
Sam Melia and Laura Towler
Many readers will be aware that Sam Melia of Patriotic Alternative was imprisoned on Friday for 2 years, which means that he will be incarcerated for a period somewhere between 6-12 months.
Melia’s wife, Laura Towler, is looking after their small child while Melia himself sits in prison; another child is expected within the next 2 months.
While I am unacquainted personally with Melia and Laura Towler, and while I do not belong to or (as such) “support” Patriotic Alternative, it is our duty to help those in trouble, especially those on our side of the overall societal argument. Even the New Testament says that.
There is a crowdfunder: https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia. Minimum donation is £4. So far, the crowdfunder has raised not far short of £48,000, which is a stunning compliment both to the couple themselves and to all those who have donated.
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I agree with Kurten, and the same is true of my “case” (I am going to be sentenced in a couple of weeks, in effect for having written the truth as I see it).
I wonder whether Melia will appeal, at least on sentence. It can be risky, but might work out for him on the facts as I have read of them. Hard to call. At present, it seems that he may be able to get out before the full year (out of two years) is up, but I only know what I have read here and there about his case.
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It has been a long time since I swam in similar places in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Caribbean. Too long, perhaps.
Wake up. “Free speech” is over in the UK. “They” have killed it…
https://www.givesendgo.com/sammelia
Hero.
Next time you go there, light one for me too. I am going to be sentenced soon for having blogged the truth…
Meanwhile, the Israeli war crimes continue.
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Ian Robert Millard 