tomo,
Any GP refusing to face patients should be cashiered.

As for the bureaucrats, the situation is ideal Sir Humphrey territory. With so many NHS "managers" and so few doctors, you have a perpetual "overworked doctors" problem. Even with a reasonable increase in number of doctors they stay overworked because the more rapidly increasing number of managers puts extra burden on each doctor.

I suppose it's all justified on the basis that the NHS pays the doctors, so it must supervise them. That's fair enough financially, but it has never made sense clinically (yes, the loathsome guidelines again).

Was listening to a recent Law Report about the lack of Aboriginal language interpreters in courts in the Northern Territory. This has led to various iffy situations where you're out of prison sooner if you just plead guilty than if you stay on remand while waiting for a translator.

Doesn't seem great value for the tens of billions of dollars we spend on Aboriginal welfare each year. And ironic this year in particular, with so much talk of the "Voice"; these people can speak in court, but can't make themselves understood.

Ross Lea, and .,
Disgraceful of the BBC, but they don't seem to be suffering too badly for it.

tomo,
The bureaucratic bloat is surely just as bad in the UK and Australia, but the massive public sector does wonders for the unemployment figures. As for carbon capture, it's always struck me as pie in the sky. but that doesn't seem quite the right phrase. Perhaps gold in the hole?

This presentation by Dr Denis Rancourt to a Canadian National Citizens' Inquiry was linked at Jo Nova's. He makes a pretty compelling case that the pandemic was largely confected and that the real lift in mortality was initially due to panicked mistreatment by doctors and more recently due to dodgy vaccines. Quite compelling. I particularly liked his dry observation about the virus apparently honouring state boundaries. Think he was a bit OTT at the end on the deliberate military experiment notion, but the formal part of the talk was very good.

Enjoyed Brendan O'Neill interviewing Nigel Farage about his de-banking troubles (not a difficult interview: just wind him up and let him run). Entertaining, and well worth listening to. Paricularly liked his scorn for (IIRC) Rachel Reeves (the Shadow Chancellor) complaining about the bank's CEO losing her job because she was a woman. An opportunity was missed. Someone should have asked Ms Reeves whether she was a biologist, or in what other way she might be qualified to conclude that the the CEO in question was a woman.

Crazy times.

A Round-Up of the BBC’s Climate Howlers of the Past 12 Months

An other paper by Paul Homewood calling out the BBC lies.

https://www.netzerowatch.com/content/uploads/2023/08/BBC-tall-climate-tales.pdf?mc_cid=7b2bcafebc&mc_eid=4961da7cb1

An other good video by Australia's Andrew Bolt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4a8at-irQE

Mailman,
Yeah, stored energy sounds nice and scary but it's *released* energy that carries the bang.

A more popular scare is about nuclear waste. We always hear about radioactive half-lives of 100,000 years or whatever. It sounds very scary, but a granite countertop, so fashionable in the kitchen, has radioactive elements in it with half-lives in the millions of years. Horrors!

The material to worry about is anything with a half life of minutes, hours or days. These really pump out the radiation, but are depleted fairly quickly. Typical media reports about radioactivity give the opposite idea.

Robert,

Yeah, daily mail I guess! Had to go for the click bait...THE ENERGY OF SIX HAND GRENADES!!! Then shows a photo of some scorching while the story is retold by those in the room. Crazy stuff!!