…in 2021, the NHS was around 16% less productive than before the pandemic. …one of the managers lamented to me that he could schedule a maximum of four knee operations a day but in the private sector they manage eight a day. …7m people on NHS waiting lists. The NHS, like all or...
Last year the group that my primary care provider belongs to was hit by a ransomware attack, that took down their phone and computer system. I had to physically go into the office to schedule an appointment and when I saw my provider, they couldn’t access records on their computer system...
Marc Hetherington, a professor at the University of North Carolina, said the public conversation about government began to shift with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. …“What changed with Reagan and the decades since is that the conversation moves away from what government ought to do to...
A recent paper by two economists who helped Warren create her plan — University of California, Berkeley professors Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman — calculated what effect Warren’s plan would have had on America’s richest, including Gates, if it had been imposed starting in 1982 (the first...
Despite my slight beef with Howard, this film is great fun and well worth an evening at the movie theater. It’s a frothy delight, one that dissipates as quickly as cotton candy on the tongue or the mist from a fog machine (Vaughn’s set designer must have found them on sale), But...
How do I schedule a Lyft ride from Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Newark Liberty International Airport to Hertz? How many passengers can ride in a Lyft? How many passengers can ride in a Lyft Shared ride? How many passengers can ride in a Lyft XL?Other...
Another 37 days are in February, April and September, which reflects the fact that my teaching schedule is likely to be an ongoing obstacle to getting these days. I also have 11 days left in December, mostly in the first two weeks, which also conflict with my teaching duties. Still I ...
In September of this year, the president rescinded this program. The regents of the University of California and Janet Napolitano sued to enjoin the rescission, andJudge Alsup did so, apparently using a copy of the U.S. Constitution known only to practitioners and jurists in the Ninth Circuit...
When he graduated from university in 2013, the only work he could find was as a stevedore at the local port. Jobs in his hometown of Ende, a small city on the island of Flores, were scarce. Local government promised a steady income and a pension. …Budi was one of the lucky ones. ...