For the background to this post, please read this companion piece.  Imagine you are alone on a desert island. You have nothing. You have a
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I had a pain-free day yesterday. After the six previous days, that was blissful. That said, I am not pretending that the problem I have
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This video on enshittification from The Norwegian Council is brilliant: The term enshittification was created by Cory Doctorow to describe the process where online services and
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I am shamelessly using material where I can find it right now – without apology, and this post is based on a comment by RobertJ,
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I could not help but notice that Addenbrooke’s Hospital, as part of Cambridge University Hospitals, claims, all over the place, that the three pillars of
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Amongst the stresses of yesterday, there were some moments that were both enjoyable and worth sharing. Having got very used to the question, “Are you
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Yesterday was a long day, and did not deliver all that I hoped. Let me be clear, I was treated quite brilliantly by staff who
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Commentator Katy J contributed this comment yesterday: “Herewith a few possible alternatives to the anodyne ‘neocapitalism’ – mostly verging on the outlandish, but it was
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It has been widely reported that Andy Burnham is planning to appoint James Purnell, with whom Burnham served in Gordon Brown’s cabinet, as his chief
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