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Six months!

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It's very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It's all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven't watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.

It's been happening before Brexit. The Tories hate the NHS and want to replace it, as you say, with a private healthcare system. However, saying so publicly would be political suicide so the NHS has been gradually privatised within by outsourcing backroom services to the private sector. Having said that Brexit has not helped the NHS.

Such privatisation has failed in a lot of cases.

Here's a list of such services privatised.

The common phrase "The NHS will remain free at point of use" is used to side step accusations of privatising the NHS.

Privatisation through defunding

So that Zombie apocalypse could still happen.

Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.

I think this story will be around for a while.

If this is true then it's only a matter of time for the collapse in Tesla sales and any commercial venture linked to Musk.

Liz Truss makes for a better parody version of herself than the best comedian. She's is so inept in public.

Pretty much sums up the UK since 2010.

Extract from Basic Principles of the Russian Federation’s State Policy in the Domain of Nuclear Deterrence

“The Russian Federation retains the right to use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies…” But that sentence ends with an unusual statement: “… and also in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is put under threat”

"In a local war with a non-nuclear adversary, however, the small-scale tactical use of nuclear weapons might be a serious temptation, especially if the war were not going according to plan. In short, the impulse to escalate in a tight corner could be strong."

Source

Could this be a precursor to Putin using tactical nuclear weapons against the Ukraine military on Russian soil?