Well

only one in 10 council planning departments are fully staffed, with 13% operating with fewer than three-quarters of posts filled

with

80% [of local authorities] reporting they did not have enough officers to carry out their workload

because

long-term cuts to funding have had a visible impact on planning departments’ ability to retain staff... there has been a 43% fall in resources to the planning system from local authorities since 2009-10.

https://www.lgcplus.com/services/regeneration-and-planning/planning-people-go-from-council-to-council-chasing-the-money-17-05-2023/

I guess the shift would have been around the time he began

promoting an energetic blend of conspiracy theories, COVID denial, and the liberal use of capital letters, with videos like “The TRUTH About Pfizer” and “The CDC Are SPYING On You,"

promoting ivermectin for viral infections, and hanging out with Tucker Carlson.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34zd9/russell-brand-ivermectin https://deadline.com/2023/07/tucker-carlson-fox-firing-reaction-russell-brand-interview-1235431938/

Sticker price isn't the price you pay at the till. Why? Why do you do that.

Massive gaps between the walls and doors of public lavatory cubicles. This is not some mystical, advanced technology. Get it together.

I quit with the death of RiF.

If you are talking about ChatGPT: please do not do this.

ChatGPT guesses which words should come next in a sequence, based on its training data and your prompt. It is not intelligent, and it has no concept of what is real and what is not. It will cheerfully make things up.

I sympathise with your frustration at having to pay money to see a doctor. I can't imagine how stressful life would be without the NHS.

I won't miss seeing those cannisters littered around.

It was eventually removed from the woman’s abdomen in 2021, approximately 18 months after the initial procedure and a number of visits to her GP. On one occasion, her pain was so severe that she visited the emergency department at Auckland city hospital.

I wish this was surprising.

From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors

‘I was told to live with it’: women tell of doctors dismissing their pain

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/16/painkillers-women-tell-of-doctors-dismissing-their-pain

Also by this author:

• Planet Normal: Ulez expansion feels like lockdown all over again
• First it was Covid – now we’re being scared into submission over the weather
• The NHS is on life support – it’s time to switch it off and start again
• The BBC’s liberal bubble has finally burst
• I’m sick of people with an ounce of common sense being labelled ‘far-Right’
• Britain is becoming too woke to defend itself
• Over-50s are being driven out of work by wokery

"When looking at the use of face masks and mask mandates, studies consistently reported the measures were an effective approach to reduce infection. The evidence further indicates higher-quality respirator masks (such as N95 masks) were more effective than surgical-type masks."

The content of the full text of this article is frankly appalling.

"Media Matters' report said that X remains a "dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers," noting that "since Elon Musk took over the company," X has restored extremist accounts and "placed ads for numerous brands directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi accounts."

“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead."