Paulb
@paulb3964.bsky.social
Retired pharmacist from UK, Married, Spaniel owner, private pilot, EV (not Tesla) driver.
The really weird thing is how the idea that people will choose to have another child simply to get an increase in benefit has taken root.
I’m not a parent but am guessing that the costs associated with brining up a child far exceed any benefit you might receive.
I’m not a parent but am guessing that the costs associated with brining up a child far exceed any benefit you might receive.
A 19-year-old Tory kid, still living off mummy’s Wi-Fi, is giving parental advice.
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The really weird thing is how the idea that people will choose to have another child simply to get an increase in benefit has taken root.
I’m not a parent but am guessing that the costs associated with brining up a child far exceed any benefit you might receive.
I’m not a parent but am guessing that the costs associated with brining up a child far exceed any benefit you might receive.
November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea …
#EMobility
#EMobility
August 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea …
#EMobility
#EMobility
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
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This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this!
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this!
What!!
“Airbus is asking its customers to "immediately stop flights" of 6,000 A320s due to control software vulnerable to solar radiation.”
“Airbus is asking its customers to "immediately stop flights" of 6,000 A320s due to control software vulnerable to solar radiation.”
Airbus demande à ses clients d’« arrêter immédiatement les vols » de 6 000 A320, en raison d’un logiciel de commande vulnérable aux radiations solaires
Airbus demande à ses clients d’« arrêter immédiatement les vols » de 6 000 A320, en raison d’un logiciel de commande vulnérable aux radiations solaires
Cela fait suite à un incident survenu aux Etats-Unis le 30 octobre, quand un appareil a soudainement piqué vers le bas sans intervention des pilotes. L’avionneur reconnaît que ces « recommandations entraîneront des perturbations opérationnelles pour les passagers et les clients ».
www.lemonde.fr
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What!!
“Airbus is asking its customers to "immediately stop flights" of 6,000 A320s due to control software vulnerable to solar radiation.”
“Airbus is asking its customers to "immediately stop flights" of 6,000 A320s due to control software vulnerable to solar radiation.”
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Poor Josh won’t be able to save more than £12k a year tax free! However will he cope?
Josh Hall, 20, is 'worried' about how the cash ISA allowance cut announced in Wednesday’s Budget will affect his long-term savings plans
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
➡#Read More: trib.al/UPCzygg
November 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Poor Josh won’t be able to save more than £12k a year tax free! However will he cope?
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The new 3p per mile electric vehicle tax has lots of details still to be worked out bit.ly/3Koku5P and it could end up an even bigger mess than the provision of fast, cheap, clearly priced charging points
Electric cars will need annual checks under Reeves’s new rules
Under the chancellor’s pay-per-mile scheme motorists would have to have mileage officially verified each year
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The new 3p per mile electric vehicle tax has lots of details still to be worked out bit.ly/3Koku5P and it could end up an even bigger mess than the provision of fast, cheap, clearly priced charging points
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I know a lot of you will be giving books for Christmas. If you can afford to, do what Ariane’s doing and buy them from anywhere but Amazon, preferably an indie bookshop - if you don’t have a local one, use bookshop.org who support them
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I know a lot of you will be giving books for Christmas. If you can afford to, do what Ariane’s doing and buy them from anywhere but Amazon, preferably an indie bookshop - if you don’t have a local one, use bookshop.org who support them
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Your transient receptor potential (TRP) vanilloid 1 receptor mediates your response to capsaicin, but mustard oil and wasabi go through the TRP ankyrin 1 receptor 🥵 🧪
Tell me something spicy
November 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Your transient receptor potential (TRP) vanilloid 1 receptor mediates your response to capsaicin, but mustard oil and wasabi go through the TRP ankyrin 1 receptor 🥵 🧪
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All integrated care boards or health boards should have a lead paediatric palliative care pharmacist role, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s updated palliative care policy
#ukpharmacy #palliativecare #paediatrics
#ukpharmacy #palliativecare #paediatrics
Lead paediatric palliative care pharmacists should be part of local plans, says RPS
All integrated care boards (ICBs) or health boards should have a lead paediatric palliative care pharmacist role, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s (RPS’s) updated palliative care…
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November 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
All integrated care boards or health boards should have a lead paediatric palliative care pharmacist role, according to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s updated palliative care policy
#ukpharmacy #palliativecare #paediatrics
#ukpharmacy #palliativecare #paediatrics
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Three weeks left share your views:
We’ve published draft interim Regulations that will support our transition to becoming the Royal College of Pharmacy.
They are open to consultation and all RPS members are welcome to submit feedback by 19 December.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/u7iZ50XiZcU
We’ve published draft interim Regulations that will support our transition to becoming the Royal College of Pharmacy.
They are open to consultation and all RPS members are welcome to submit feedback by 19 December.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/u7iZ50XiZcU
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Three weeks left share your views:
We’ve published draft interim Regulations that will support our transition to becoming the Royal College of Pharmacy.
They are open to consultation and all RPS members are welcome to submit feedback by 19 December.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/u7iZ50XiZcU
We’ve published draft interim Regulations that will support our transition to becoming the Royal College of Pharmacy.
They are open to consultation and all RPS members are welcome to submit feedback by 19 December.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/u7iZ50XiZcU
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Worth pointing out that this is a direct breach of the manifesto
NEW - the government poised to water down flagship workers rights bill, ditching day one rights to unfair dismissal but reducing qualifying period from two years to six months.
But in concession to unions, government will remove provisions for up to nine months probation.
But in concession to unions, government will remove provisions for up to nine months probation.
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Worth pointing out that this is a direct breach of the manifesto
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NHS productivity is often framed as working harder or doing more work.
This is the wrong perspective and a harmful one that makes achieving productivity improvement harder...
This is the wrong perspective and a harmful one that makes achieving productivity improvement harder...
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
NHS productivity is often framed as working harder or doing more work.
This is the wrong perspective and a harmful one that makes achieving productivity improvement harder...
This is the wrong perspective and a harmful one that makes achieving productivity improvement harder...
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Vaccines really do work !!
How we beat cancer…
How we beat cancer…
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Vaccines really do work !!
How we beat cancer…
How we beat cancer…
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I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
OpenSAFELY team awarded Queen Elizabeth Prize for Higher and Further
Oxford’s OpenSAFELY team wins the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for revolutionising secure NHS data research, protecting patient privacy while unlocking life-saving health insights.
www.ox.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I'm delighted to say we have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
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On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism".
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.
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Let's hope you can persuade more political journalists and, gasp, politicians to make the leap (or at least dual post)!
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Let's hope you can persuade more political journalists and, gasp, politicians to make the leap (or at least dual post)!
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MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reaffirmed that childhood vaccination is safe
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
MHRA issues reassurance on vaccine safety in children
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
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#MHRA #vaccines #vaccinesafety #childhoodvaccine #pharmacy #UKpharmacy
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Most of the attention tomorrow will be on the big tax-raising measures. But there are an unusual number of important other items, which appear technical, but will impact everyone from billionaire non-doms to the poorest people in the country.
We'll be watching for these six:
We'll be watching for these six:
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Most of the attention tomorrow will be on the big tax-raising measures. But there are an unusual number of important other items, which appear technical, but will impact everyone from billionaire non-doms to the poorest people in the country.
We'll be watching for these six:
We'll be watching for these six:
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Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵
Experimental mRNA flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Two exciting phase two trials show incredible success of mrna vaccines for seasonal flu with infectious symptoms prevented in some healthy individuals. 🧪🧵
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We should abolish juries because
1. The don't give reasons
2. There is little evidence of their competence
3. We don't use them outside a narrow area of the criminal law, other jurisdictions don't use them and are perfectly just
/1
1. The don't give reasons
2. There is little evidence of their competence
3. We don't use them outside a narrow area of the criminal law, other jurisdictions don't use them and are perfectly just
/1
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We should abolish juries because
1. The don't give reasons
2. There is little evidence of their competence
3. We don't use them outside a narrow area of the criminal law, other jurisdictions don't use them and are perfectly just
/1
1. The don't give reasons
2. There is little evidence of their competence
3. We don't use them outside a narrow area of the criminal law, other jurisdictions don't use them and are perfectly just
/1
Most people will have WiFi at home and pods at work too, so as long as your mobile signal is strong enough for voice calls (and even they may go via WiFi) you really need a strong mobile signal when you’re out and about.
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Most people will have WiFi at home and pods at work too, so as long as your mobile signal is strong enough for voice calls (and even they may go via WiFi) you really need a strong mobile signal when you’re out and about.
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com
@martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com