#WALES The Welsh rugby team couldn’t, as my Grandfather used to say, knock a hole in a wet Echo.

Jerry Muller on Soll's _Free Market: The History of An Idea_.

The errors in which Muller catches Soll aren't minor, and aren't matters of controversial interpretation. They're gross mistakes on basic questions like "was Smith a Physiocrat" and "did Smith support slavery."

https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/muller-soll-free-market-review

Disturbing but not surprising - #academicfreedom disappearing in Florida

https://www.propublica.org/article/desantis-critical-race-theory-florida-college-professors

#Wheaten

Whenever they tell you a change is impossible, show them Utrecht.

An urban freeway with many lanes can become a green park with a beautiful canal. Instead of a car sewer, the water flows.

Catharijnesingel, Utrecht. Winner European Urban Public Space Award 2022 by OKRA landschapsarchitecten

https://www.archdaily.com/992550/okra-receives-the-european-urban-public-space-award-2022

Sadly the section between Washington & Shawmut looked like this. My only clue it was a bike lane was that it seemed narrow for parking

Yesterday reminded me the joy of biking in snow! Some scenes from the #SWCorridorPark and #FranklinPark @universalhub

Adult crimson rosella (Platycercus elegans) on #GadubanudCountry at Kennett River, 165km south west of Melbourne, Australia
#ownpic #birds #parrots #BirdPhotography #birdwatching #AustralianBirds #WildOz

🧵 #NHSCrisis heartbreaking 💔 and terrifying - thanks & respect to @LiamThorpECHO for reporting
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RT @LiamThorpECHO
I spoke to several doctors working in Accident and Emergency departments in Liverpool hospitals about the current crisis, their words and experiences are harrowing to say the least

One told me: "This is not healthcare - It is now a lottery whether you survive"

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https://twitter.com/LiamThorpECHO/status/1611804666731323392

Tomorrow’s Sunday Times, discusses the NHS crisis and how this can be linked to UK excess deaths being among the worst in Europe. The article includes patient stories as well as commentary from prominent clinicians and statisticians.

I say that “I’m absolutely convinced the NHS crisis, the healthcare failure, is an absolutely pivotal part of the UK story.”

#ExcessDeaths #nhscrisis

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-is-britain-falling-behind-europe-on-excess-deaths-svc69cth7

🙄Trying to explain to OH that nothing is coming up on my Twitter notifications ( he doesn’t do social media at all)… is like trying to explain line dancing to fish. #marriage #oldies

To support McCarthy, the extreme right of the GOP obtained large powers on the legislative agenda (including legislation for keeping the government open and avoiding debt default) by @ESCochrane@twitter.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/us/politics/mccarthy-speaker-rules-house.html?smid=tw-share

Non capisco perché si debbano usare anglicismi come hater quando in italiano abbiamo il termine ‘coglione’

- All of these risks are manageable, but only if we cared, and most in the US are pretending the pandemic is over. Masks work (https://theconversation.com/as-viral-infections-skyrocket-masks-are-still-a-tried-and-true-way-to-help-keep-yourself-and-others-safe-195788), and many know they should wear them, but they won't because they fear others' judgement. (Risking your health because you care what strangers think feels like messed-up priorities to me.)

McCarthy represents the Republican establishment. That doesn’t mean he’s a “moderate.” It means the GOP establishment is fully embracing the extremism as the party has moved so far to the right that yesterday’s radical fringe is now firmly in the center of conservative politics.

#ukraine The People’s Fight

Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine’s southern front, gaining unique and privileged access to a group of volunteer special forces on the frontline as they begin the push to retake Kherson that would ultimately change the course of the war

They were drawn from all walks of life but had one thing in common - they simply were not going to give up until they could say they’d won

Watch it here on YouTube 📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/6uFW7baBPg4

#SlavaUkraine

The 3 parts of the GOP — the fiscal conservatives, the cultural warriors, and the MAGA anti-democracy Trumpers — have come together behind fiscal conservatism, draped in warrior language, with the potential for a MAGA anti-democracy outcome. They are as dangerous as ever.

#Wheaten

Ken Roth was apparently deemed not appropriate as a fellow at the Kennedy School’s human rights center. ??? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hrw-harvard-israel-kennedy-school/

A new survey has revealed that 40% of junior doctors plan to leave the health service as soon as they can find another role https://nation.cymru/news/nhs-faces-mass-exodus-of-junior-doctors/