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Saw it with my ex where she worked in the NHS. She worked in a specialise service for young people with mental health issues at risk of offending, and we're talking serious offences like murder. Their department was hugely successful to the point that people would visit from around the world to...

Fair enough. Personally I think we're going to be years off seeing substantial results given how fucked everything is. We're at the slowing the tanker down stage, still a long way off the turning it round stage. Not sure we'll get to that point as there's already people complaining months into...

Does there not come a point, maybe after 14 years of efficiency savings, that you stop thinking the answer to the problem of a huge decrease in the performance of pubic services in the last 14 years is more efficiency savings? Thats not to say everything is perfect of course but it seems pretty...

Just got in, thought id watch a couple of hours - pissing down

I think Iran have been within weeks of producing nuclear bombs as long as I’ve been alive 😂 Meanwhile let’s all ignore Israel who actually have them and have threatened to use them on Gaza

Anyone watched Adam Curtis' Shifty? Fascinating, but thoroughly depressing, look at how we ended up in the shit state we are in. When its laid out like this its quite shocking how quickly the changes happened and how people just rolled over and accepted them.

about £2K per room to retro fit

We seem to say the same thing every season but there just seems something fundamentally wrong at the club. Same thing every season. An unbalanced side, players coming in on short term contracts / loans. Never able to capitalise on promising positions. It’s now got the point where they’re a...

Read an article in the FT recently that said exactly that. Measuring public sector productivity is a largely meaningless exercise and comparing it to private sector, which isn’t calculated the same way is pointless. Article suggested that after years of austerity to then turn round and question...

Its heartbreaking and I genuinely think the majority of people who are against giving people the option of another way out haven't been through it with a family member. I had similar to you, the last three times in his life that I saw my Dad in any way coherent he was asking me to help him jump...

not going to happen any time soon but long term the future for test cricket looks pretty grim. Nobody seems interested once you move outside of the 'big 3'. we've already got young players coming through that are ditching red ball cricket before they've even started. Can only see that getting...

Seems to be a lot of empty seats today. Not great on for the opening day of a major series. Plus it's a Friday and beautiful weather, you'd expect it to be packed.

Could see this coming when the entire build up spoke about this series as a warm up to the Ashes. Not sure Jaiswal is going to be able to keep going, seems to be in a lot of pain.

Was at the O2 earlier this week. They've closed a decent number of the bars and replace them with unstaffed self service units. A camera monitors what you take out of the fridge or pour from the self service machines and charges you accordingly. Almost comically the only member of staff is...

Pleased its passed. suspect there will be a lot of scrutiny and suggestions from the Lords but its a step in the right direction. Personally I think not having anything in there for dementia is a glaring omission. Every relative I speak to at my Dads care home says the same thing 'they...

Keeping expensive office spaces is the decision of individual companies. And as you say, large office spaces are expensive, both in rent and running costs. There's absolutely no reason businesses can't downsize and the market is increasingly adapting with more serviced offices that allow...

Most seasons I consider moving to one of the lower end hospitality offerings but the value just isn't there. OK as a one off special occasions but hard to justify for every game. Also think some of the newer offerings they have launched are all a bit similar.

And then there's Cleverly banging on about how much it might cost Thought Gordon Brown made a good point the other day. You really need to sort out end of life care if you're going to have a discussion on assisted dying otherwise you risk the options being substandard care or ending your life

No idea what your thoughts were before you started doing it yourself but I find a lot of people change their mind when they get the chance to try it for themselves. Fair enough I guess as it is counter intuitive that more work gets done in 4 days at home / hybrid than 5 days in the office. But...

Feels like we’re a couple of posts from a section of the forum insisting the earth is flat