Saw an anectodal example of this on Facebook this week. Woman waited three hours for an ambulance.
The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record.
More junior doctors news this morning.
It seems as if Jeremy Hunt may not have the legal powers to simply impose a new contract.
Jeremy Huntās legal power to impose a controversial new contract on junior doctors has been put into question following what appears to be U-turn from the Health Secretary.
A letter seen by the Guardian states the Health Secretary is āintroducingā the contract, rather than unilaterally āimposingā it upon junior doctors.
Mr Hunt had previously said he may opt for the ānuclear optionāto āimposeā the new proposals if no deal was reached over the changes to hospital doctorsā working contracts.
More trouble. Last week, the official line was that John Whittingdale, Culture Minister, was simply a single man enjoying a private life. Thereās nothing wrong with that.
Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday did a five page spread detailing some of his interactions, alleging that Whittingdale could have let one or more of his ladies in on documents they should not have seen.
Today, the Mirror reports that he could be investigated by the Security Services.
A stupid man who canāt control his little chap is targeted by foreign agencies as a weak link.
At what point would our security forces say to the PM, we donāt like what we see of his antics?
The man canāt control his own urges and keep them secret, why should he be trusted with a government department?
And it looks like he has been played by the media as their little puppet over Leveson, so who thought it was a good idea to employ such an idiot?
The quality of MPs across all parties is like the fucking referees at the moment.
What a shambles.
I blame Europe.
Do you think heāll miss every little tug in the box?
More trouble (fuckās sakes, Tories!)
The poorest people are losing out on places at the best primary schools in England, research suggests on the day parents receive news of allocations.
The least wealthy families have less than half the chance of the wealthiest of sending a child to a top-rated school, analysis from Teach First says.
The teacher training group adds poorer familiesā children are four times more likely to be at weaker schools.
Iām glad youāve highlighted the car crash waiting to happen that is primary education. Thereās a lot of discussion going on in my town about Key Stage 2 SATs and a sample test has been published. Have a go at it and see how you all do. This test is for 11 year olds.
I went to a grammar school and took English at A level and I barely passed this test. And a lot of my answers were guesses. Iām genuinely puzzled as to what this test is supposed to demonstrate? Robotic thinking - is that the plan?
http://www.sats2016.co.uk/think-youd-pass-your-sats-in-2016/
50% and I have an English degree 
Originally posted by @hoofinruth
Iām genuinely puzzled as to what this test is supposed to demonstrate? Robotic thinking - is that the plan?
Precisely. The indoctrination (education) system is designed to produce good little drones that will all sing from the same hymn sheet, and not rock the boat. Canāt have a bunch of radical free thinkers running around out there at large now, can we? That would be disastrous!
All about the āCommon Purposeā now.
40% in English, 90% in the maths one because I missed out a minus sign in one of the answers
50% English 81.75% maths
The English was a complete guess - what actual use is some of that shite any way. I cannot think of one time in my life I have needed to know any of that.
More academic trouble.
Unless government officials make a major U-turn in the next few days, many British scientists will soon be blocked from speaking out on key issues affecting the UK ā from climate change to embryo research and from animal experiments to flood defences. This startling, and highly controversial, state of affairs follows a Cabinet Office decision, revealed by the_Observer_ in February, that researchers who receive government grants will be banned, as of 1 May, from using the results of their work to lobby for changes in laws or regulations.
The aim of the Cabinet Office edict was to stop NGOs from lobbying politicians and Whitehall departments using the governmentās own funds. The effect, say senior scientists, campaigners and research groups, will be to muzzle scientists from speaking out on important issues. The government move is a straightforward assault on academic freedom, they argue.
One has to wonder. Are they secretly on a mission to fuck everything up?
Lol, youāre having a good day Pap. 
They just make it all so easy for you.
I really wish that they didnāt, or that I had something particularly new to say on the subject. In truth, I have been saying the same things since around 2011. This, especially now it has been purged of any moderating Liberal Democrat influences, is a bandit government, out to steal as much booty for itself and its friends before the electorate finally cotton on and vote the cunts out of office.
Up until recently, it has really been the cottoning on part that is a problem. It certainly doesnāt help that one of the few things that the Tories are actually good at is spin. They all spin, of course - and they all spin for the same reason - to get the public to go along with things that the merest bit of examination, turn out to be pretty bad ideas for the public. Labour span like fuck over Iraq; the Tories are doing it as a cover for their banditry.
Until we get to an electoral checkpoint, it is going to be very difficult to determine just how badly recent events have affected the Tories and whether their gigantic spin machine is still as effective at changing minds for the worse.
Got 90% on that, but then Iām a linguist. It certainly tests knowledge of the different parts of language and their uses - or grammar, as itās also known. Iād hardly say such a level of knowledge is needed on a day-to-day basis, and it certainly isnāt required in order for somebody to speak and write in perfectly good English. It sure as hell isnāt about robotic thinking though.
Originally posted by @Fowllyd
Got 90% on that, but then Iām a @linguist.
Ahh, but are you a cunning one though Fowlly? That is the question.
New Statesman piece on the Chancellorās failure to deliver.
Last summer David Cameron and George Osborne promised they would make Britain a āhigh wage, low tax, low welfareā economy.
But less than a year on, it is clear they are failing. The Budget documents show that the Government are set to miss their own welfare cap in every year of this Parliament, by around Ā£4 billion each year, a staggering Ā£20 billion gap over the next five years. And this is even as they pull vital support from low-paid workers, disabled people and children living in poverty.
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Where their failure is perhaps most catastrophic however, is in delivering a āhigh-wageā economy. In fact, the outlook for wages instead gets worse every time the Chancellor comes to Parliament.
Official documentation accompanying last monthās Budget revealed that expected earnings for workers have been revised down in every year for the rest of the parliament, and this is on top of the falls we had already seen in projected wages in last Novemberās Autumn Statement.
I have a friend from Mullingar who put ācunnilingusā as one of his hobbies on his CV. His logic was that theyād think it was some Irish thing.
But did it help get him the job?
In other news, it looks like another defeat for the Government looming thanks to the Lords