Classic LPs for vinyl returnees No.32 Neneh Cherry. Raw Lik Sushi Neneh Cherry's explosive debut LP mashed-up UK soul & US hip-hop to great effect, offering a raw sound that offered a particularly British take on how the new beats could be deployed behind song-writing rather than rap. Its full of energy with a hard beat defined production that remains a key moment in the continuing interaction between US & British approaches to music. Incendiary & a great listen! #VinylCoreCollection #Music image
On the Hillsborough Law requiring candour by public institutions, the Govt. seems to once again be willing to allow the security services to hide their failures behind the cloak of national security... which as campaigners argue would be a major weakling of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill's 'duty of candour'. As a result they have withdrawn their support. Its starting to look like another Labour own goal? #Hillsborough #politics
BBC News
Hillsborough Law campaigners say they cannot back proposed bill
They are concerned security services will be exempt from a law designed to stop cover-ups.
The Royal College of Nursing calls corridor care a form of torture with significant negative effects on the well-being of patients whose hospital stay is patterned by out-of-ward care.... in a sense this dossier of cases is no surprise but is further evidence that after a decade & half of Tory engineered crisis, the Labour Govt. has yet to get to grips with how to resolve the crisis. We Streeting may want more time, but that's the one things he's not got! #NHS #health
the Guardian
NHS corridor care is β€˜torture’ leading to patient deaths and staff nightmares
Royal College of Nursing publishes dossier of evidence including case of elderly patient who choked to death in corridor
More evidence of the (further?) damage that the Tangerine Tyrant is doing to the reputation of the USA. As has been clear for some time that Trump's second term has seen a developing pivot away from the US in both social & economic terms with China reaping much of the benefit from such a re-orientation. There is often speculation that Trump is a Russian asset, but on this evidence he may also be supporting China's global ambitions... #USpol #Trump #China
the Guardian
Trump is making China – not America – great again, global survey suggests
Exclusive: US is less feared by its traditional adversaries, while its allies feel ever more distant, results show
When people talk about the unsustainable character of the triple lock on pensions & the 'wealth' of retirees... you should remind them that the state pension in the UK is around a third of median wages (lower than many other comparable countries). Some top that up with private pensions, but many don't... so ask the critics whether after a life of work & contribution to society, they'd be happy to live on a third or less of their salary? My guess is they wouldn't! #pensions #politics
The latest auction of offshore and farm contracts has seen a number of successful bids (dominated by RWE from Germany) as opposed to the last round which saw no bids at the lower contract price offered. In the long-run its good news at it (again) expends wind generation capacity, but will again refocus attention on interconnectivity & network capacity where the energy links land (primarily on the east coast). But the green transition looks alive(ish) #renewables #energy #WindPower h/t FT
Q. is the relative silence on Nigel Farage's inks with the unpopular US President Trump, and his centrality to the disaster of Brexit, the *cause* of his relative political popularity, or is the silence itself *because* of his popularity? Either way until/unlessl his links to Trump are properly reported & his driving role behind Brexit foregrounded whenever he talks about his policy aims, his popularity is being stoked by a complicit media! #Brexit #politics h/t Janan Ganesh/FT