RolloTreadway

Autistic Welsh NHS emergency care quality improvement person. Absolute believer in universal human rights being actually universal to all humans.
(they/them or he/him)

Tends to post about music, sandwiches, bit of cricket, a little politics (not too much). May sometimes be a bit miserable because things haven't been great, apologies in advance.

And really doesn't get on with Tories.

(Profile pic: Buster Keaton sits unhappily in a steamship funnel; header is a glass teapot full of leaves.)

Location: Tynedale, sunny Northumberland, in the northeast of England
having: a nice cup of tea and a sit down
and listening to: all sorts of music that I shall wang on about with great enthusiasm, once, then never mention again
follow requests turned on because: there's been too many spammy accounts about, but if you look vaguely human (or animal, or plant) then I'll accept the request as soon as I notice it

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2025-02-09 17:05:14 UTC

Insect enthusiasts: do you know what this fellow is? #insects #entomology
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2025-01-25 13:38:55 UTC

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There are huge staffing issues. Staffing is at the heart of everything. But I don't think it's possible to go from 'the DoH are trying to solve NHS problems without solving the staffing problem first' (which is probably true) to 'the DoH is planning to end the NHS as a free-at-the-point-of-use public service, even though doing so would likely guarantee defeat at the next election'.
I'm just so tired of imaginary privatisation being talked up instead of actual problems. There's probably nothing, save for another major inflation crisis, that will have more impact on whether or not Labour retain power in 2029 than whether the NHS is improving. And they absolutely know this. So I just don't buy this idea that there's a sneaky plan to lose the next election.

2025-01-18 08:42:32 UTC

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But there is an enormous amount of fantastic new music being made, all the time. It's never been easier to make and distribute music.
None of which takes away from the huge financial problems. Musicians should of course be able to make a fair income from their music, whether recorded or live, and that's not happening (and it's worth remembering that, contrary to what is often stated, streaming produces *enormous* profits; it's just that those profits are sucked up by the labels).
I don't know how to solve this problem, because the solution is to convince a tremendous number of people to buy the music they enjoy, and how do you do that? How do you change consumer behaviour when it involves spending more money? I have no clue. Although even then, if there was a radical increase in spending on music, we'd also inevitably see an increase in how much is taken by labels. As was ever the case.
However, I do get confused by the dichotomy here: on the one hand, I hear all the time about what a terrible crisis music is facing; on the other hand, I hear so much amazing new music. I posted something a few weeks ago about all the new releases I'd loved, and there were 150 albums (well, albums and a handful of EPs) released in 2024 that thrilled me.
That's not to say there is no trouble, because of course there is, the financial issues are not going away. And yet, it's not impacting on how much wonderful music is being released. Great art will always endure; it's up to the rest of us to ensure great artists can do so too.

2024-09-19 07:23:44 UTC

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You do know what happened with Johnson and subsequently, yes? You have noticed the past three years?

2024-09-19 07:14:30 UTC

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No, I said someone plausible and willing to work hard.
Farage is a clown, he has no interest in anything other than money and attention. His political positions beyond immigration are not remotely popular - his main focuses other than not liking foreigners are opposing the NHS and denying climate change, both of which are extremely far from mainstream politics and likely to become more so. And he has no interest in actually working.
Farage is not going to be leader of the Tories, and if he was, the party would likely cease to exist.

2024-09-08 09:01:15 UTC

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The notes are there, but no guarantee on how easy they'll be to find!
Plus, being able to use the data is essential. My mum's antenatal notes might exist in decades from now, but if the problems around my birth were part of some pattern, you'll never be able to study that and make improvements from a coffee-stained piece of paper.

2024-08-23 07:49:26 UTC

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That reminds me of my Dad. Left school at the earliest opportunity, no qualifications to speak of, but had an intuitive understanding of how any kind of machine worked that has always been beyond me.
(He was also someone who rarely ever read a book his whole life, but one of the only books he did read was A Brief History Of Time. He is always a reminder to me that how society judges intelligence is completely messed up, and dismisses so many brilliant minds who aren't academic.)

2024-08-05 08:03:32 UTC

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I'd think so. Personally, I'd like appointments to be around 50% of the membership; I feel that many crossbench experts have done a sterling job in recent years, and that the only problem with appointments is how the system has been grossly abused. Have an independent panel, similar to the judicial appointments panels, and I think we can have a much better upper house.
I've always liked the idea of picking the other half by lottery (or the kind of demographically balanced sortition as used by the Irish constitutional convention), but I suspect elections would be more popular amongst the general public.
However, I might well be wrong - and that's why I think a major public consultation is indeed the right way to approach this.