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Procurement and life sciences correspondent at HSJ, formerly natsec/GWOT geek.
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An integrated care board has halted a procurement worth up to £465m, with little more than a month’s notice, after receiving legal challenges regarding its process. www.hsj.co.uk/finance-and-...

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Plenty of people in jobs around the world have to endure overpowered tools like this, laughing and smiling like they have rictus at their painfully cringe behaviour. Just ghastly. #MakePoliticsBoringAgain

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It's Mackey and Dash, the hard-bitten crime fighting duo keeping the streets of Chicago safe for ordinary folk like you and me. Orrrr they're the chief exec and chair of NHS England for the couple of years. www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

I just checked and this is a real result in Google search.

submitted 18 hours ago • 20 comments

Still find it jarring when I see people using “ofc” in a normal sentence, meaning “of course” rather than the old, rude meaning.

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Oooh. Could be the first use of the new debarment rules under the Procurement Act 2023 (which came into force on Monday, what do you mean you didn't notice?). www.ft.com/content/948e...

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Free entry is an amazing thing one doesn't appreciate until you go to the Pompidou or MoMA or whatever and have a nasty shock.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Democracy dies in deference

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“And you’ll struggle to see Uranus too.”

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I watched the presumptive new chair of NHSE, Penny Dash, give evidence to MPs on the health select committee this morning. I covered it live for the mag over on the other place (x.com/HSJnews/stat...). But some immediate additional thoughts...

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Streeting has gone doge. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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"I’m slashing red tape to fix the NHS" Okay great but how? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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Change at the top. www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...

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Frankly I think some people are asking us to disbelieve the evidence of our own eyes & ears. This sort of thing is an insult to our intelligence. "Mr. Trump’s Russia policy is, in many respects" mainstream." www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

How _dare_ a hospital try to save money and cut emissions. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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Happy New Procurement Act Day everyone!

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Meanwhile Microsoft has been researching a fourth state of matter... www.ft.com/content/a60f...

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MAGA world is proving *extremely* litigious at the moment. Corporate parent companies are settling cases that should be easy wins. And the Supreme Court is clearly open to overturning NYT v Sullivan. The result? The hesitant descriptions of Steve Bannon’s salute that you’re reading everywhere.

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Capital investment in infrastructure, like railways, hospitals and power stations? I think you'll find that's not the way we do things around here. Turns out that's not how they do things in Germany too where some rail kit dates back to Keiser Wilhelm II. www.ft.com/content/d3b6...

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Right, here's an update on the community health services waiting list - that's the one govt is largely ignoring, axing the national objective to cut it last month. Data to December shows another rise (c2,500) in kids waiting a year or more for help, small fall for adults (c.200)

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What is it about the news stories of mendacious Americans being beastly to helpless Europeans that has given me a sudden irresistible urge to rewatch The Third Man?

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So hard to tell who the good guys are www.ft.com/video/cffdbf...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The most humiliating thing to happen to the Washington Post yet. Not being on this list.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Woke up to Trump continuing to ostentatiously screw Ukraine in particular and Europe in general. Briefly marvelled at yet more evidence of Badenoch being awful at this. Now we have the US admin demanding embassies cancel their subs to The Economist, NYT, et al. What a day? What a week?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

bluesky has finally arrived!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

We brought the people we conquered and enslaved freedom. Trump lickspittle Jacob Rees Mogg actually said this on live TV.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

a thought experiment of switching 'Gazans' with 'Israelis' might also have helped kill this article before publication

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments