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Independent Wales viable, says Welsh government report https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-67949443
Welsh independence: Leaving UK is viable, says new report

But experts warns Wales would face a "significant" challenge raising enough tax revenue.

BBC News

It's stunning that the technical leader of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 response, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, publically reaffirmed that COVID-19 is still a global health threat and still a pandemic, yet hardly any media outlet has covered this except for this one.

https://themessenger.com/health/covid-pandemic-who-cdc-russia-world-health-organization

COVID Is 'Still a Pandemic,' WHO Leader Says

The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, according to one of the World Health Organization’s leading infectious disease experts

The Messenger

RMT taking the fight over ticket office closures to Rishi Sunak’s front door

We all need to get behind his protest and make our views against closure known

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/15/ticket-office-closures-rmt-protest-downing-street/

RMT taking the fight over ticket office closures to Rishi Sunak's front door

After two days of national action, the RMT will be taking the fight to stop ticket office closures to Downing Street

Canary

Wrote a short article for the BMJ about the current Covid situation in England and what might be coming down the road.

whistlestop tour through surveillance, vaccines, variants, hospitals, long covid...

https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1885

Covid is on the rise again—so what next?

It is reasonably certain that we have entered another covid-19 wave, writes Christina Pagel. But what are the implications? There are very few ways now to track the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England since the end of wastewater monitoring in March 2022, the end of the Office for National Statistics Covid-19 Infection Survey in March 2023, and the gradual reduction of SARS-CoV-2 testing in hospitals since August 2022.123 However, all indications are that prevalence reached its lowest level this June/July since the summer of 2020. Weekly deaths with covid on the death certificate from that period are at the lowest recorded level since the start of the pandemic.4 But since the start of July 2023, daily hospital admissions with covid have been increasing (more than doubled as at 4 August compared to four weeks earlier), and the number of patients in hospital primarily because of covid has also doubled in that time.56 Secondary indicators such as the Zoe Symptom Tracker app and …

The BMJ
Re-rebooked for 6 pm 🙄🤔
Drat! Vet rebooked for 11.45 🤞🏻🙄
Shall I shut the pet flap, causing panic and a game of hide and seek, or just leave him snooze till 9?

Wait, so what you're saying is U.K. PM Rishi Sunak's family has just signed a £1.5 Billion deal with BP? So that means destroying the fossil fuel industry also destroys Sunak's wealth? Like a 2 for 1 deal? Cool.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23697572.rishi-sunaks-family-firm-infosys-signed-1-5b-deal-bp/