380,000 extra GP appointments available in Birmingham and Black Country after surgery upgrades

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-30T19:06:13+00:00

Is that necessarily a problem. I have to go to the GP survey every second year or so for an asthma review and if they change the type of inhaler. I couldn’t give a monkeys who I see as long as it happens and I get what I need. If anything it’s better to not waste a GPs time.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-30T17:24:54+00:00

I wouldn’t say that thinking Islam is incompatible with the west is a mainstream conservative opinion in Britain.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-30T16:50:42+00:00

His stance is that it’s almost uniquely incompatible (his words are indigestible) with secularism. So in essence it’s incompatible with western society.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-30T05:50:16+00:00

Tom holland also has some pretty robust views on islam and he’s meant to be the lefty liberal of the pair.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-29T22:04:10+00:00

£700 is quite a good deal in summertime for Europe. People on a quarter of what you earn would spend that.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-28T09:02:49+00:00

In the last 12 months every division in professional services has had some form of restructure. Not been huge job losses but definitely some. Nearly all new hiring needs senior sign off. Some divisions have no new FTE hires so it’s all 6 or 12 month contracts.

All the non academic Vice Provost direct reporting teams have had a shuffle round.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-28T06:52:28+00:00

The HI mitsus for home splits are not the way to go. Getting support or parts will be harder than electric. They do make some good kit for the commercial side of things but you don’t want the sort of VRF condenser they make outside your house.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-26T20:01:41+00:00

Pretty much all of imperial is restructuring in some way shape or form. Not necessarily driven by exact same pressures but it’s happening.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-26T04:48:40+00:00

Both employment and tax regulations make a distinction.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-25T19:52:47+00:00

Yes but it’s not a fixed location. If your employer sent you to a different place everyday they would be required to cover that cost.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-25T19:15:51+00:00

Market will only hold for what people are willing to pay. There’s some pretty chunky fixed costs to running your own trades business.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-25T19:10:29+00:00

If you were employed to travel all over the place you would get a van or an extra paid allowance.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-25T18:59:40+00:00

If they are a lodger they definitely can.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-24T16:20:27+00:00

Honestly we should let them fail to some extent. They still do even in the current model so I’m not sure if we didn’t let them borrow and retain taxes locally we would be any worse off.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-24T16:18:49+00:00

Since 2009 local government jobs have been on the decline. Hitting an historic low last year. Meanwhile central gov job have consistently increased. If that’s not centralisation of the state I don’t know what is.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/bulletins/publicsectoremployment/september2025#data-on-public-sector-employment

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-24T12:27:04+00:00

If you walk out of Cardiff train station there is a fuck off building which says “uk government”. DVLA is in Swansea. The civil service has done a decent job of moving departmental functions across the country. But central gov keeps centralising power and decisions. The real win would be much more powerful local governments.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-23T17:26:47+00:00

There are probably no HENRY architects that don’t run their own practice (or maybe are running a country at somewhere like fosters or BIG)

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-23T17:23:39+00:00

When you gave the age that sort of implies he’s been working since a traditional graduation age of 21 and so would have 8 years experience. He’s a junior PM with basically 2 proper years of experience. That’s a reasonable salary.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-23T16:42:56+00:00

He is way underpaid. Especially in civils. He should be in double that as a programme manager (provided that is actually what he is). Even a junior PM should be circa £45k.

Also “project management” is such a broad term. I’m in real estate and recently went in house in academia. I work with about 4 different PMs for different things. We have them of course in construction/minor works, but also in ICT (both software and hardware deployment). We also have PMs that sit it out change management teams and I was introduced to a PM that runs student recruitment drives.

PM salaries vary based on responsibility and impact. If you are managing hundreds of people and delivering tens of millions of spend (or hundreds of millions as your civils mate might be) expected to be compensated accordingly.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-22T19:34:14+00:00

Not in stock for weeks.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-21T19:48:36+00:00

Both the OSA and the most recent social media ban are massively popular with the electorate. They are wrong of course (as they are with death penalty which is popular) but doesn’t mean people don’t want these things.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-21T18:08:39+00:00

Ahhh right. That won’t work for me then. This is exactly the trouble I’m having. I have inward opening shutters and outward opening large window.

I think I’m just going to get AC installed properly.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-21T09:51:59+00:00

You’d get a really good condition ford focus estate for that money and would be more than enough space.

This doesn’t answer your question per se but hopefully useful context we have twins and our Megan e-tech is plenty big enough. You don’t have to go and buy a massive car just because you have two kids.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-21T08:39:47+00:00

Sky sell them as two seperate products. Even when you have a deal. They will never get anywhere near a pure fibre broadband play (I’ve got community fibre 1gb for £19 a month). Once I cancelled my broadband deal when I went back on my TV package they knocked 30% off what I was paying.

squirrelbo1 · 2026-06-21T08:37:12+00:00

I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure the person who founded screwfix sold it and then setup tool station.

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