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'Moment of reckoning' needed in social care, says Louise Casey The chair of the independent commission on social care recommends introducing a full-time dementia tsar, and new fast-track passport system for people diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).

"This divide between what is care and what is health does not exist to the public. It is our divide. It is not about what is best for the patient or the person."

TV Tops - short-run putative channel-straddling non-compelling Look-In rival, notoriously home to a strip in which Kings Of The Wild Frontier-era Adam Ant was catapulted into deeply surreal post-Sapphire And Steel adventures pitting him against elemental forces.

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The pivot away from television in the last few months of Tops towards a girl-friendly pop format in advance of the merger with Suzy said something of the partial eclipse of TV in the mid-80s, I think.

I've not seen much of either strip, but I suspect the creators of the Adam Ant strip were aware of the Fleetway character Adam Eterno.

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

The Telegraph being owned by the Germans is very funny.

The only series of Tiswas we received in the Tyne Tees ITV region; it was far removed from the series I dimly remembered from living in ATV land five to six years before, with less spontaneous chaos.

I did wonder why it was so white as a child, I'm sure.

German twist in the Telegraph tale shatters Lord Rothermere’s dreams The European powerhouse has scuppered the Daily Mail owner. But why did it not bid sooner? And what will Brexit-backing readers think?

Three years, failed bids, internal rebellions, law changes - the blighted Telegraph sale has had it all.

But Axel Springer looks to have ended the saga - & Lord Rothermere's hopes of a massive UK empire.

Analysis of a European giant buying the Tel:

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

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Merz Warns of Economic Damage Due to ‘Endless’ War Against Iran German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the US and Israel against waging an “endless war” against Iran that could lead to the disintegration of the whole Middle Eastern state, a new migration crisis i...

Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.

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Utterly fantastic meetings with an NHS matron and paramedic today - one for my mother and one for me. Also brightly, my default destination on a certain taxi app will no longer be the hospital where my father died.

I'm so sorry, Paul.

Arranging social care can be The chair of the independent commission on adult social care also says the care system relies on the exploitation of its workforce.

Arranging social care can indeed take months...

Take two 7 year olds in a primary school in PM's constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is cleaner at that bank

Does he say Pascal Banque's son gets perm status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate Marie Cleaner not until 22 (consequence: international student fees)

Rather like the 'not well? Here are some online worksheets and a commercial app' school of managing patients.

Frequently bought together: Hebrew Daily Prayer Book (Singer Sacks) The Lay of Autrou and Itroun Beren and Luthien

And here, we see the hand of the mysterious Jewish-Tolkienist worldwide cabal at work. harpercollins.co.uk/products/heb...

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If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

If Reform gets control of Wakefield and flogs off the modern art collection, I actually might cry.

The same...

Hai from this little creepy crawlie, lurking for more than six centuries in this fourteenth-century compilation of religious and other texts now @theulspeccoll.bsky.social (MS Mm.4.41).

Solidarity with all those dealing with multiple instances requiring cutlery sets of spoons, as the metaphor extends.

The Doctor (Tom Baker) stands in a vanishing cabinet during a magic act

I see there are episodes of The Good Old Days on iPlayer, for those of you who need to understand the background to the 1977 Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Of course - tempus fugit...

Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the LGBTQ Fans Who Love It In , editors Sigrid Ellis ( ) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is , in the tradition of the Hugo Award-win...

While this is great, it's not the first to address queerness & Doctor Who. www.amazon.com/Queers-Dig-T...

I know!

More angles on the history of Doctor Who from Ten Acre Books. Patrick Mulkern's writing on his own fan journey for Radio Times was revealing and sensitive and promises much from this.

I hope so.

The Philippa Pearce Lecture 2026 - Juno Dawson

The wonderful @junodawson.bsky.social will be giving the Philippa Pearce Lecture @homertoncollege.bsky.social next month. #DoctorWho

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