Well, I managed to beat political journalist John Rentoul again, despite scoring only 5/10 (had 2 near-misses as well). Rentoul awarded himself 2/10, plus two half-points, this week. I knew the answers to questions 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8.
“Hundreds of thousands of dementia patients in England face being denied access to revolutionary new drugs because the diagnostic capacity of the NHS lags behind every other G7 country, according to a damning report.
After decades of research to find a cure for the condition projected to affect 153 million people worldwide by 2050, scientists have successfully developed the first treatments to tackle the underlying causes rather than only relieve the symptoms. Two new drugs could get the green light for use on the NHS within weeks.
However, their effectiveness depends on prompt and early diagnosis of patients. The report, obtained by the Guardian, says the NHS lacks the diagnostic capacity to accurately identify those eligible in time.
The analysis reveals England is unprepared for the rollout of new treatments, with “large gaps in diagnostic capacity” for dementia. It also warns of a £14bn funding black hole that must be plugged if England is to diagnose dementia as quickly as the other G7 countries, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.“
I have to say that the few Palestinians I have met (mostly in Qatar and around) have impressed me in that way, and far more favourably than the arrogant and stupid Gulf Arabs (Qataris and Kuwaitis) also met.
Sometime in the 1970s, I think probably in late 1977, I met the PLO representative in London, Said Hammami, who was based at the Arab League offices in Mayfair, and he was rather dismissive, but in retrospect I suppose that he had things on his mind, and probably little time in which to speak to a young person (21-y-o) with his head in the clouds in some ways…
I do not remember much about the discussion; mostly that the PLO man wore a rather filthy sheepskin coat in his little office, and that a young and rather stylish Arab woman in the outer office smoked a kind of long brown cigarette called More; I remember asking her what they were [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(cigarette)].
Unfortunately, that PLO fellow was shot dead in the same office only (as far as I can recall) a few weeks later. The matter was never solved by the police. Either MOSSAD, or a different Palestinian faction to his own (he belonged to Fatah, I think). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Said_Hammami. Apparently he was in favour of talking to the Israelis; that may have been the reason behind the assassination.
A senior #Tory MP sends intimate images to a total stranger and the numbers of 12 of his colleagues, two of them also then send images. These types of scandal used to bring down Governments but in a post Boris Johnson era it doesn't even become the lead news story #WilliamWraggpic.twitter.com/kak51SjSMB
— The Man of Hidden Shallows (@Richiemuso) April 5, 2024
Voters of Britain: whatever your ideology, whatever you support or dislike, when GE 2024 arrives vote any way you like except “Conservative”, or do not vote at all. Crush and exterminate this useless party. Equally-bad “Labour” can fall later, but first things first.
I don't see why this chap is attracting so much sympathy from the journalism trade. I don't have an issue with him being duped into sending pictures, it's that he then betrayed his colleagues – leaving them open to blackmail attempts too.
The whole Westminster monkeyhouse should be done away with.
Latest from @PeoplePolling, which tends to give biggest Lab leads, 4 Apr Lab 45% -1 Con 19% +1 Reform 14% +1 Lib Dem 9% -1 Green 8% +1 (Changes since 7 Mar)
How would flooding the country with foreigners and bulldozing down the last of the forests and meadows for low-cost housing be better for the environment? Does the British losing their homeland excite you or something? pic.twitter.com/7XuwGnAb1K
A senior US CIA official stated: If Iran attacks Israeli territory, it will target military or intelligence installations inside Israel. pic.twitter.com/Oiyi5SAL6a
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
The Israelis await events— will they be attacked soon or not? Just as the people in Gaza have awaited attacks from Israel for decades. “What goes around comes around“…
A police robot in Nanjing, China, stops at a police station and politely asks, “Please open the door. I need to recharge. Thank you". pic.twitter.com/fwUUyE71uJ
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Not so much a sign of the times as the shape of things to come.
Weasel words from Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar who voted for Scotland’s new Hate Crime Law, won’t repeal it and says the problem has been the manner of its implementation. Not good enough.
An example of how Labour, after GE 2024, intends to be an “elected” (by default) tyranny.
Meanwhile, thick “diversity hire”, David Lammy, has been on TV saying that Churchill replaced Chamberlain “a few days before” the outbreak of war with Germany. In fact, it was 8 months after the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France.
🇮🇱 Protest in Tel Aviv on the eve of half a year after the war in Gaza
▪️Demonstrators are demanding early elections, the removal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and an urgent agreement on the release of hostages.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
Near-hysteria. Imagine what would happen if Israel were to be invaded.
A war with Russia can only lead to the complete destruction of France , said the leader of the French left, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. He also called to find a way to talk about peace. pic.twitter.com/bCMeHwIBSF
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 6, 2024
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“BRIT billionaire businessman Joe Lewis has been sentenced for insider training. Here is the rise and fall of the ex-Spurs chief:
After quitting school at the age of 15, entrepreneurial Lewis went to work for his dad’s catering company.
Lewis began managing a super-club called The Talk of the Town – where the likes of Frank Sinatra performed – in the 1960s, and granted girl group The Nolans their first live show.
He then got a taste for business and took over the firm – turning it into a string of restaurants before flogging it in 1979 for a whopping £30million.
Lewis used his cash influx to invest in currency trading and was subbed The Boxer in a nod to his wild success and power in the investment ring.
Lewis forked out £22million in 2001 to buy a controlling stake in Tottenham Hotspur from Lord Sugar.
One particular investment on Black Wednesday in September 1992 helped elevate him to uber-rich status, as he successfully bet on the Pound crashing out of the European Exchange Rate as Britain tried to align it with other Euro countries.
He became a billionaire overnight…”
[The Sun]
Note how the Sun “newspaper” fails to identify the defendant as Jewish, despite said defaulter having profited hugely, e.g. on “Black Wednesday” (1992), from the impoverishment of the British people.
“The shattered limbs, burnt skin and broken bones of the passengers on board the Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi depict the horrifying reality of Gaza‘s destruction.
Dozens of patients, largely children, are being evacuated to the UAE to receive critical medical treatment on a commercial plane that has been converted into a flying hospital.
The Daily Mail was granted permission by the UAE authorities to join them on the Boeing 777 where we witnessed up close a scale of suffering that is difficult to comprehend.
These shocking pictures, which include a little boy who was shot at by the IDF in an ambulance, come after Israeli drone pilots this week killed three British war heroes dispensing aid in the territory.“
[Daily Mail]
The leech-state of Israel is a threat to the whole world, in a number of ways. It has an organized lobby supporting it, not least in the UK, concentrated in the fields of TV, radio, the mainstream Press, the legal professions, in politics, and in lucrative business activities.
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“If the UK government were to decide not to allow those to go, then the Israeli war on the Palestinians would grind to a halt.”
Anna Stavrianakis International Relations Professor at Sussex says the UK supplies 15% of components for every Israeli F35 fighter jet.#Newsnightpic.twitter.com/MpJUf7Za2u
I wonder whether any of those components [REDACTED]? I suppose that the quality control prevents that.
#Newsnight is doing a review of Starmer's time as Labour leader and chosen to interview the guy who wrote a puff piece biog for Starmer, and a woman who wrote a terrible hatchet job biog of Corbyn.
I guess they'll claim that is balance? Absolute jokers.
No, Philip Dunne MP. The fundamental problem is that the Conservative Party handed over the water companies to profit-seeking private interests & then allowed them to use these monopoly utilities as cash machines while failing to invest in vital infrastructure.#Newsnight
To @donaldtusk: Poland was complicit in the Holocaust; you owe compensation to the descendants of the 3m Polish Jews who were murdered. pic.twitter.com/qM5TyD5IUr
Jews are still demanding “reparations” (cash) to be paid to the alleged descendants of other Jews supposedly killed off in the early 1940s, over 80 years ago! The sheer cheek of “them”; unbelievable.
“Police have been filmed arresting a woman at a London railway station after footage was shared of a violent thug branded the ‘female Mizzy‘ punching strangers seemingly for social media clout.
Officers in hi-vis clothing were filmed restraining a woman in a dark jacket and a grey hood at the edge of the concourse in London Victoria railway station, in video footage disseminated on Snapchat.
The clip showed a woman being restrained by a police officer within the station.
The arrest came after an as-yet-unnamed twisted prankster was filmed seemingly clobbering innocent victims on the London Underground as well as in a supermarket, and on the steps outside the Westfield Stratford shopping centre.
So make her famous— put her in stocks somewhere such as Leicester Square for 24 hours, and let the mob throw rotten tomatoes etc at her. Same goes for that “Mizzy” cretin.
With large numbers of untermenschen of that type, Britain will not only be unable to create a better society; it will be unable even to maintain the present crumbling one.
A ‘brilliant’ professor died aged just 43 after doctors botched treatment for a rare condition on which he was a national expert, his GP widow told an inquest today.
His wife, Dr Shivani Tanna, said it was ‘terrifying’ for him to realise that doctors there didn’t ‘understand’ HLH, for which he sat on a national panel.
As a result, despite being seriously unwell and feeling ‘foggy in the brain’, he had to help advise doctors on how to treat him.
But even though he was a haematologist himself, he faced a struggle to persuade nurses to show him his blood test results, she said.
‘He kept himself alive on the wards because he was a doctor,’ Dr Tanna told Manchester Coroner’s Court.
If he had just been ‘Joe Bloggs’, he would have been dead within three days of being admitted, ‘just by sheer negligence’, she claimed.“
[Daily Mail]
Just how bad does the NHS have to get before the people start to demand real root-and-branch reform?
“Members of the public should be ready to be called up to defend their country, a former head of MI6 has suggested.
Sir Alex Younger said Britons have been ‘infantilised’ since the end of the Cold War and the Government should consider having the power to ‘compel’ people to serve.”
[Daily Mail]
In fact, Younger is just part of the problem, and offers no solutions. [What might be called] “an educated cretin” who, after an expensive education, did 2-3 years as a Guards officer before joining the “niche career opportunity for the English middle classes”— SIS/MI6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Younger
Younger seems entirely unaware that, even now, the UK seems (not to me, but to most of the British people, meaning real British people) not worth defending. What does Younger think the UK will be like by, say, 2034? 2044?
By 2050, half of those inhabiting these islands will not even be British in any real sense. Does Younger imagine that they will agree to be conscripted? Incidentally, it is no answer to say that the agreement of the conscripted is unnecessary; enlistment of the unwilling usually produces poor results.
Younger seems to be part of that UK pseudo-elite at the top of UK affairs which is so featherbedded and isolated from reality—reality as most people experience it in this country— that the same (self-regarding) “elite” constantly get it wrong in every way.
My idea of a Secret Service chief is someone such as Maurice Oldfield, or Admiral Canaris, or Beria, or Markus Wolf; in the words of a John le Carré character, “a positive serpent“.
Horrific: A Palestinian woman and her child were forcibly displaced by the Israeli army from Al-Shifa Hospital nearly 13 days ago. According to available information, the woman was forced to leave through the eastern gate of the hospital heading south. When she reached al-Abbas… pic.twitter.com/7R8eIdtQGv
Look at the Jewish lawyers in the UK who weasel about the slaughter in Gaza. Just one example.
BREAKING: The New York Times claimed extensive "visual evidence" of "targeted genital mutilation" and "inserting of objects [knives and nails] into vaginas" as part of its "mass rape" hoax. This was definitively debunked by the UN report, stating there is no such visual evidence pic.twitter.com/R2RGIDOwfP
Never believe a word “they” say, whether it concerns the 2020s or the 1940s.
Israel attacked Iran. In Syria, which is not Israel or Palestine. This is an act of aggression. Now Iran has no choice but to attack Israel. With all the forces of the Resistance. This war will be started by the Shiites, but at some point it cannot but become a war of all…
"Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event," the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through straws, defecate in diapers, and are held in constant restraints..https://t.co/8hTQPbWTr4
Ukraine will soon use long-range UAVs that can attack the Urals and the Arctic – source BILD
Recently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked UAV targets in Tatarstan for the first time. They were 1300 km from the front line. For one of the attacks, a Ukrainian UJ-22 UAV was used.… pic.twitter.com/gGOfN1oPwB
If I had to bet, it would be that the major Ukrainian cities will not even exist in 10 years’ time.
Elon Musk, in a comment to a post in X, compared the idea of Ukraine joining NATO with the beginning of a film about a nuclear apocalypse. “This is exactly how a film about a nuclear apocalypse begins,” he commented on a statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about… pic.twitter.com/RFEvQpwcOS
William Wragg's membership of the "Common Sense Group" really says it all, doesn't it. How could any savvy, sensible Member of Parliament allow themselves to fall victim to this? pic.twitter.com/GCD6GNCjCX
Should William Wragg resign? He was stupid to send nude pictures of himself to a stranger and he was weak to give out personal data of colleagues to protect himself. Doesn't the UK deserve better MPs than stupid, weak Wragg? pic.twitter.com/Is92YWn9p4
— Mark Ingall lives in Bush Fair (@mingall63) April 5, 2024
Just look at that little twit. Idiots of that sort have the temerity to sit in judgment on policy and legislation affecting every person in Britain. I was just looking at his Wikipedia entry. By 2015, at the age of 27/28, having never really had a job, he was an MP, on the strength of a degree in History from Manchester, 2 years training to be a primary school teacher, and a few months gophering for an existing MP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wragg. Not good enough.
Some idiot on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, I think that know-nothing Justin Webb individual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Webb], referred to Wragg as a “senior Conservative“! Jesus H. Christ!
"Millions of Brits do not just disapprove of the Tories; they are actively punishing them and want to remove them from the system altogether. This is why the party's crisis is more existential than electoral. Many people just want to blow them apart"https://t.co/WtFmh6FXyy
I am sure that Matt Goodwin reads this blog! More seriously (though I think that he does read it), I have been saying what he is now saying for at least 18 months, maybe longer. As on numerous other occasions, the blog has been well ahead of the curve.
I've never felt so unrepresented by Parliament as I do now. I won't just pick on the Tories here, I'll pick on all the main Parties. They've not only turned their back on the country/UK, I feel like they've turned their back on us, the indigenous population.
Labour voters voted for Brexit too. And Labour are even worse when it comes to the rest of the pantomime that is politics in this country.
— Christine MacKenzie (@Christi61144576) April 5, 2024
Good point (about Labour), but GE 2024 will be more about judging the Con Party record than supporting the underwhelming Lab promises.
As for Brexit, it might have worked had it been done properly, and still could, were there a real British government in place, and one willing to treat with Russia. Britain could have very cheap oil and gas, and an open market.
The wide-eyed empty-headed simpering that passes for centrist analysis, failing to take into consideration Starmer's personal standing or the fact the Tories have imploded utterly.
I have no idea who the bimbo is, presumably some sort of “journalist” (scribbler). The fall of journalism in this country has been one of the most disappointing developments during my lifetime, I should say.
Look at the state of British politics we have gotten to the stage now where MP’s and political parties feel comfortable enough to blatantly flaunt their corruption and laugh about it and at us 😡
Labour are not going to win the next general election, the Tories are going to lose it. When asked people just want the Tories out and will vote on that basis. There's a world of difference in voting for something, or against. Doing brilliantly, my ar$e.
— Jeanette Fletcher #NeverLabour (@LillMagill) April 5, 2024
Ah…aforesaid bimbo identified: one Rosa Prince, presently Editor of London Playbook at Politico Europe, previously employed/self-employed journalist at the Daily Mirror (4-5 years) and the Daily Telegraph (15-16 years) etc.
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