Britain’s youngest bus driver is taking to the roads after passing his test with no minors, at the age of just 18.
Luke Brown is now a qualified bus driver for National Express in Coventry, West Midlands, and says he loves everything about driving.
The teenager was motivated by his dad, Stuart, who’s worked for the company for 20 years as a bus driver.
After completing his driver training, Luke passed his Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence for the first time with no faults.
He said working with his dad would be one of the best things about the new job, along with helping people to get around.
A full-time driver in Coventry can earn £28,500, even more with overtime.
Luke said that he was looking forward to spending more time on the road, helping more people get around and working alongside his dad, who’s worked for the garage for the past 20 years. Although, he said, that there’s now a bit of competition between him and his dad for who’s the better driver, and he said that it feels great to have passed with no minors.
He said that he put a lot of time and effort into practising for the test so it was very satisfying to know that his hard work paid off and that having a supportive team around him helped a lot.
He said that during his training, no question was too silly and my instructor was calm and informative so he didn’t feel pressured at all, which he believes really spurred his development.
Darren Dunbar, driver training officer at National Express Coventry, said that to pass a PCV licence at 18 years of age with zero minors was a major achievement and that each year they have hundreds of drivers who start training, and out of those, only about two or three pass their test without fault.
He said that they weren’t surprised by Luke’s result. He puts 100 per cent into everything he does and that definitely showed in his driving, and he said that he was really pleased for him, that he’s a lovely guy and was a great asset to the garage.
It comes after a teenage girl previously became Britain’s youngest bus driver aged 18.
Ellie Rose Houghton passed her PCV bus test with flying colours and started driving an 87-seater double-decker bus.
An Amazon driver taking a cheeky toilet break outside her van was caught on CCTV by the homeowners she was delivering to.
Les Weston, 54, and Emma Marsden, 44, had been eagerly awaiting the delivery of their new hair trimmer and tracking the delivery, they were keeping an eye on the CCTV camera positioned outside their front door on February 28.
When the delivery driver arrived that evening, they thought that she’d fallen over and were concerned that she was injured, but when they studied the footage again after the delivery, they uncovered the truth, that she’d been urinating at the bottom of their driveway.
The CCTV footage sees the Amazon Prime van pull up outside the house before the woman hops out of the cab, and there squatting over behind the open van door, she quickly tugs down her trousers and urinates, before standing up again a few seconds later.
She checks about to see if anyone has noticed before grabbing the parcel for Mr Watson and Ms Marsden and then delivers it to their home.
The couple, who were watching the camera at home, thought she might have been hurt as she squats down after hopping out of the van.
Amazon has previously encountered criticism from drivers for not allowing enough time for bathroom breaks on delivery routes, and members of the GMB union based at a Coventry warehouse walked out in a disagreement over pay after voting in favour of taking industrial action.
The union, which isn’t recognised by the retail colossus, is asking for a base pay of £15.
Warehouse operatives for Amazon are presently being recruited for wages of £10.75 an hour, which equates to almost £21,000 per annum for those working 37 and a half hours a week. Operatives also have the opportunity of working overtime.
An Amazon representative said that they have very high standards for the delivery service providers they work with and how they serve customers, and that they would contact the customer to apologise for the experience and would make this right.
The spokesperson said they were committed to treating drivers with respect and set realistic performance expectations.
They continued that they use sophisticated technology to plan delivery routes to ensure that drivers weren’t receiving and driving with too many packages and that drivers delivered at their own pace and took breaks at their discretion and this was clearly communicated during training.
It must have been extremely embarrassing that the woman was put on footage and then online. These drivers are under such pressure and obviously don’t have the time to go and find a proper place for a wee.
Of course, it’s much easier for a male driver because they can have a pail in the back or a few bottles to wee into, but for women, it’s very much different.
The woman likely hasn’t got the time to stop for a toilet break or to eat, come to that with Amazon’s unrealistic delivery deadlines – it’s nothing but slave labour! And it probably happens every day with most delivery drivers because there are not many toilets available, and they’re under pressure on their delivery routes.
This poor woman needed a pee for pity’s sake, and when you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go, and now this woman could lose her job over this.
This is just natural human body function, and people need to stop twitching their curtains to see what’s going on, and I feel for the drivers who are on horrible targets and low pay!
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been invited to the coronation of his father King Charles later this year, but are declining to ascertain whether or not they will attend.
Prince Harry, who along with his wife Meghan, has launched a string of notable attacks against the Royal Family in recent months, has confirmed he received an email from his father about the event.
The coronation, which is set to be seen by millions of people in the United Kingdom and potentially billions around the world, will take place on May 6, the same day as the fourth birthday of Archie, Harry’s son.
The news comes days after Charles booted his son and daughter-in-law out of their British home, Frogmore Cottage, a move that’s thought to complicate any forthcoming visits to the United Kingdom from the California-based couple.
It was revealed the same night Harry talked openly about his use of illegal drugs during a private conversation with toxic trauma expert Dr Gabor Mate in an online live stream.
There’s been much discussion in recent months about whether King Charles would invite his youngest son to his coronation.
The relationship between the Sussexes and the remainder of the Royal Family has become strained in recent years, with both Harry and Meghan publicly criticising the Firm.
As well as hitting out at the institution, Harry exposed private and intimate conversations concerning himself and other members of this family in his memoir ‘Spare’, which was released earlier this year.
The publication saw tumultuous details of the fractious relationship between Harry and his older brother William laid bare, including the Duke retelling how they were involved in a physical argument that left Harry visibly injured.
This was followed by Charles evicting Harry and Meghan from their grace-and-favour home, Frogmore Cottage, which lies on the grounds of the Windsor estate.
It’s been suggested that the King will offer the Sussexes the opportunity to use Prince Andrew’s Buckingham Palace apartment as an olive branch to entice them into returning to the United Kingdom for visits.
Despite this, a spokesman for the Sussexes confirmed that the couple has now been invited to the occasion.
A Sussex representative told a newspaper outlet that they could confirm The Duke has newly received email correspondence from His Majesty’s office concerning the coronation, and that an immediate decision on whether The Duke and Duchess would attend would not be revealed by them at this time.
Although, I would guess that a lot of the British public doesn’t want them here in the United Kingdom. Although, I can’t speak for the British public! And it doesn’t look like the King is thinking of his British public – why should he, after all, Harry is his son, although I hope that his being here with his wife won’t ruin such a big event – remember Harry, it’s your father’s coronation, NOT YOURS!
At least now with their invitation, they can’t play the victims in all of this.
King Charles is a father and he will do what he can to try to repair his relationship with his son, and as a Grandfather build a relationship with his grandchildren.
Being far from a Royalist I still understand that they’re a family and that King Charles would want to mend the tatters that Harry and Meghan have caused. I can also understand that Harry is a human being and wants to have his voice in things, and how his family life has impacted him. After all, feelings and compassion aren’t something that the Royal Family have much of!
Actor Tom Sizemore has died at the age of 61 after his family took him off life support after suffering from a brain aneurysm last month.
Tom Sizemore, best known for his roles in Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and Pearl Harbor, passed away in a Los Angeles hospital after his family made the difficult decision to take him off life support.
The actor had been in the hospital since February 18 after he suffered from a brain aneurysm that was brought on by a stroke.
His representative Charles Lago said in a statement that it was with great sadness and sorrow to have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore, aged 61, passed away peacefully in his sleep at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank. His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger were by his side.
Tom Sizemore collapsed last month around 2 am and was rushed to the emergency room in critical condition while unconscious. He never regained consciousness.
It was reported by USA Today that his family had announced that there wasn’t much else they could do for Tom as he was showing no signs of improvement and remained in a coma.
Lago said that doctors informed the family that there was no further hope and had advised an end-of-life decision.
The Pearl Harbour actor had a history of addiction and wrote a memoir on it in 2013, titled: By Some Miracle, I Made It Out of There.
He told AP in 2013 that people could tell if he was drunk, and then he would say, ‘Hey, look, let me find a drug where I feel comfortable in my own skin’, and he said that he did find a drug, it was called cocaine, and that he did that for a while. Then he found an even better drug, it was called heroin.
He also had a few run-ins with the law, including a conviction for assault and battery in 2003 from his ex-partner Heidi Fleiss. He was also accused in 2020 of groping an 11-year-old on set, but the case was later dismissed.
Prior to his hospitalisation, Tom Sizemore was set to teach an acting class, at Harvelle’s Nightclub in Los Angeles.
The Golden Globe nominee, who was born in Detroit, has appeared in 230 roles over his 30-year career.
His manager also said he was personally very saddened by the loss of not only his client but a great friend and mentor of almost 15 years.
He was a fantastic performer, and he was a talented man that undoubtedly lived with so many demons, but with everything that was going on, he was also extremely charismatic.
He starred in some great movies and fitted each character perfectly, and our condolences should go out to his family and friends, who I’m sure will miss him very much.
Tom Sizemore was one of the greats, and he will never be forgotten because his talent and brilliance will live on in acting.
He was definitely the greatest actor of his generation, and he should be put up there with De Niro and Pacino, and had the action of McQueen. Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry will never be the same.
He was one of the bad boys, and when he was on screen, you felt that heat and intensity, and he could say a lot, with just one look, and that’s called good acting.
Actually, scrap that, the question should be, are you letting your bank rip you off?
We all know that banks and building societies like to pass on rate hikes in a more timely and complete manner to borrowers than they do to savers.
Yet, as interest rates have been picked up off the floor and launched into the sky over the past year, Britain’s major banks have been thoroughly gratifying themselves.
Analysis by This is Money showed the magnitude of this last week when number crunching of Britain’s Big Five banks’ annual results revealed they raked in an additional £7 billion from broadening net interest margins.
Net interest margin is a fundamental banking industry figure, calculating the gap between what borrowers are charged and what savers are paid.
The greater the number, the better the spread, and the more returns for the bank.
Figures revealed the full scale of how Barclays, NatWest, Lloyds, HSBC and Santander made additional money by passing on more of the Bank of England’s interest rate hikes to borrowers than savers.
In total, the banks scooped a tidy £39.9 billion in total from the gap between savers and borrowers, and this is how much each bank made on net interest margins.
Of course, you would expect banks to make some money on this. A banking industry with no or very low net interest margins isn’t going to be a particularly stable one, and we all have long enough memories
Of course, you would expect banks to make some money on this. A banking industry with no or very low net interest margins is not going to be a particularly stable one – and we all have long enough memories to remember why we like banks and building societies to have a healthy degree of stability.
Nonetheless, the Big Five clocking up an additional £7 billion means that they made a chunky 21 per cent more from net interest margins than they did the year before.
And don’t forget, the analysis only looked at the figures from the big banks, the real cost to savers once you count in the rest of the banks and big and small building societies would be far greater.
You’d like to believe that after years of rock bottom rates, and a recent history of such illustrious insult accounts as the 0.1 or even 0.01 per cent savings rate, banks would endeavour to offer savers a better deal as the base rate finally began to rise.
Energy companies make billions. Banks make billions. Supermarkets make record profits. Yet there’s never enough money for reasonable salaries, and we’ve got a Government that constantly fails the people and provides no defence against silly price hikes, and all that banks are – are gangsters in suits. Along with pharmaceutical companies, energy goliaths and politicians who all work hand in hand to steal from us legally.
And now they’re trying to close banks so it’s impossible to get cash and then when you use your credit or debit cards to pay for something they then deduct a percentage from the already struggling businesses who are receiving your payments. So, they’re making money over fist because they no longer have to pay for the upkeep of their branches or pay workers, and then as soon as interest rates rise they raise mortgage fees. So, you’d really expect them to pass some of that bounty onto their customers.
Never in the field of finance have so many been shafted by so few.
British motorists could face a ‘tyre tax’ in the Government’s latest crackdown on emissions detrimental to the environment.
Ministers at the Department for Transport have hired consultants to advise on how to deal with the emissions that scientists say are more harmful than the fumes from fuel.
Although numerous brits are struggling with the cost of living crisis there are strong indications some could be hit with a ‘tyre tax’.
After environment activists won ground in pushing UK drivers to purchase electric cars, the next battle will probably be in brake and tyre wear.
And there’s a possibility that electric vehicles could create more road emissions than petrol cars as they’re usually heavier, so damage the tarmac to a greater degree.
A newspaper outlet, however, said that Whitehall had insisted the consultancy work wasn’t being carried out ahead of a new proposed tax.
A Government spokesman said that they want to better understand the impacts of non-exhaust emissions, such as tyres, on the environment which was why they were conducting research on the matter, and that the research wasn’t commissioned to inform tax policy development.
The spokesman said that as they continue to deliver on their target to meet Net Zero by 2050, they were committed to keeping the switch to electric vehicles affordable to consumers, which was why they were spending billions to help incentivise uptake and fund the rollout of charging infrastructure across the United Kingdom.
RAC’s roads policy chief Nicholas Lyes told a newspaper outlet that the talk of a tyre tax was incredibly premature and that it could do more harm than good by causing more injuries and deaths on the roads by putting drivers off replacing worn-out tyres when they should.
He said that if levied at the point of sale, it would lead to cheaper tyres being taxed more heavily as they’re far more likely to wear more quickly and shed a higher number of particles into the environment and better quality ones being taxed less. And that making cheaper tyres more expensive would no doubt cause some to continue driving on illegal tyres, compromising road safety for everyone.
The news comes as it was revealed most Britons believe controversial ultra-low emission zones (ULEZ) in the capital were designed to cream money off motorists and stimulate new car sales.
Some 40 per cent of Britons surveyed for MailOnline believe that the primary function of the zones, where high-polluting vehicles have to pay a daily tariff was improving air quality.
How about we just end the technocratic betrayal that’s UK Parliament and replace it with something that’s honest and lawful? But hey people, they’ve found a new fake excuse to tax you all!
It’s all about tax, tax, tax and if you don’t pay it they’ll fine you and might even take you to court, and people are getting sick to death of it. Meanwhile, there are those who have just set foot in this country of ours from their little sailboats who have everything provided by those who pay their taxes. Here, let’s give you some money. Here let’s give you a house – oh and here, let’s give you a car!
And here was me stupidly thinking we already paid a ‘tyre tax’. That’s what I thought the Road Fund Licence was all about.
The Government should just go away, but of course, while they’re doing that they’ll have far too much time on their hands thinking up another tax they can impose on us!
Britain could be hit by snow and ice in the coming days as temperatures plunge below the average for March.
The Met Office said a highly amplified jet stream will push colder weather from near Greenland towards the north of the United Kingdom by the weekend.
Meteorologists say that could then lead to disruptive snow in areas by the beginning of next week.
However, the disruption isn’t expected to be as severe as the conditions witnessed in 2018 when Britain was struck by the ‘Beast from the East’.
It comes as a deep freeze has gripped Europe in recent days, with snow even covering some of the continent’s most favoured summer holiday destinations.
Explaining next week’s forecast, Aidan McGivern, from the Met Office, said that during the weekend, low pressure over the Mid-North Atlantic would start to feed energy northward and allow high pressure over the United Kingdom to migrate towards Greenland.
He said that at the same time, there’s a highly amplified, very perturbed jet stream.
He added that it loops around this low pressure and then pushes all the way back to the north of the high pressure that’s developing over Greenland, allowing this northerly feed that’s allowing the colder weather to push into the north of the United Kingdom by the end of Saturday.
Mr McGivern added that the cold air would most likely be pushed into the north and east areas of Britain, though the pattern could change as the week progresses.
He said that as that happens the low pressure from the south and the west was likely to push in and mix with the cold in the north and east, leading to some disruptive snow in places by the start of next week.
The Met Office’s long-range forecast for the rest of the month also warns of wintry showers and heavy snow. However, any disruption in the coming days isn’t expected to be on the scale of the snowstorm dubbed the Beast from the East.
Mark Sidaway, the deputy chief meteorologist with the Met Office, told Sky News that although there had been a sudden stratospheric warming event and other drivers pointing towards colder conditions in March, at this stage there was a low chance of having widely disruptive winter weather like that of five years ago in March 2018.
It comes as regions of the continent renowned for its hot temperatures, including the French island of Corsica, have been covered with snow this week as Storm Juliette sweeps across the Mediterranean.
Saying that, it’s a bit of bad weather, expected for this time of the year. It’s not like we’re going to war, or all dying of bird flu, although numerous pensioners with the cost of living crisis could freeze to death – but watch this space because anything could happen in the next ten minutes!
But it’s all about doom and gloom, and let’s face it, there’s a lot of that about.
The weather is all about models and predictions that indicate it could occur, but they can’t predict which way the front will go, and if it does come our way we might get some sleet or snow, maybe even a few cold spells, and we will deal with it, but it always gets sensationalised by the weatherman.
Let’s face it, an inch of snow on the high ground isn’t going to batter Great Britain, but the chilly weather could batter an old-aged pensioner, and as usual, Scotland will likely get some snow, and the rest of the UK might get a tad chilly.
Mallorca has been gripped by a winter storm that’s wreaking mayhem, with 20 inches of snow closing roads and cutting power to dozens of towns.
The Spanish holiday island is covered with snow and officials issued a rare red alert warning for the second day in a row as a further 15 inches is predicted to fall.
Storm Juliette struck Mallorca, known for its sun-drenched beaches, and has since brought blizzards and chilly weather to the Balearic island.
Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET warned the coastal regions in northern Mallorca would be hit with 55mph winds and 25-foot waves.
AEMET issued a red warning for snow and warned 15 inches would fall in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range in the north of the island within 24 hours.
The meteorological experts had predicted 16 inches of snow would fall by early this morning, but more than 20 inches covered the town of Valldemossa where temperatures have plummeted to -2C (28.4 Fahrenheit).
The snowstorm has also led to power cuts in dozens of towns including Valldemossa, Alaró, Vilafranca and Port d’Alcúdia.
The 20 inches of snow has also forced the closure of up to 15 roads in the Serra de Tramuntana region.
The AEMET has also issued an amber alert for rainfall, with 100mm predicted in the Serra de Tramuntana range.
In the past eight hours the highest accumulated rainfall, 128.4 mm, has been recorded in Pollença, a town in northern Mallorca.
In the remainder of the island, orange and yellow warnings have been activated for winds of more than 70 km/hr and rainfall that could exceed three inches in some places.
Snow has also covered parts of Ibiza and it has an active yellow warning for 13 feet waves today, and in neighbouring Menorca, there were active orange warnings for 90 km/hr winds which have left the island cut off by the sea following the closure of port Maó.
Storm Juliette also hit Spain on Monday, leaving some regions completely white as heavy snowfalls hit across the country.
AEMET said the storm was predicted to cause low temperatures and intense cold winds across the country and the Balearic Islands until Thursday.
Elsewhere in Europe, hundreds of people in Croatia were stuck in their cars on Monday after a snowstorm stopped traffic and cut off parts of the country.
Unfortunately, shifts in the Earth’s trajectory around the sun and shifts in the tilt and wobble of the Earth’s axis can lead to cooling or warming of the Earth’s climate because they alter the amount of energy our planet obtains from the sun.
These changes, known as Milankovitch cycles, cause climate changes on time scales of thousands of years. They’re responsible for the rapid warming the Earth has experienced over the last 100 years.
Almost all of Earth’s atmospheric energy is ultimately emanated from the sun, so it makes sense that the planet’s position and orientation relative to the sun would have an impact on our climate.
These orbital and astronomical shifts repeat on time scales ranging from 26,000 to 100,000 years, and one can calculate their impact on the amount of energy our planet receives from the sun.
The effect of this changing solar input over time has been significant, and it’s forced the Earth’s climate in and out of cold and warm phases.
The ‘global’ part was right but they got the ‘warming’ wrong, they should have said ‘lying’. It’s always been a tactic to attempt to scaremonger for numerous years and yet there are still numerous people who fall for the same old drivel.
And how does paying £15 daily congestion charge save the planet? Just another money-making scheme, and if there is a shift in how our climate, this is just Mother Nature showing the world who’s in charge because it’s certainly not our Government, or that someone is playing about with the weather.
Whatever happens, it’s rather evident that humanity will not be on this planet forever, and we will all be in the history books if any form of existence comes after us.
We’ve been told that we’re destroying ourselves because we are destroying our ozone layer which protects us and other living things from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation, but the depletion could have profound consequences on human health and the environment.
Ozone depletion and climate change are connected in a number of ways, but ozone depletion isn’t the main cause of climate change.
Climate change is concerned with how carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases are seemingly changing the global system. Ozone depletion, on the other hand, involves how certain industrially produced chemicals containing chlorine or bromine are harming the earth’s protective stratospheric ozone layer.
Of course, we’re an evolving race, and evidently, even monkeys may be evolving into a human-like race as they’re spotted leaving trees. So, perhaps a new wave of primates could be taking an evolutionary leap due to climate change and deforestation.
And millions of years ago, the species of humankind once consumed their lives swinging about the trees and then started to walk on the ground instead, and it appears as though the same process of evolution has the possibility of occurring again.
Governments use the cautionary effect to tell us a tale so that they can forewarn us of danger.
There are three fundamental elements to a cautionary tale, that can be introduced in a number of ways.
First, a taboo or prohibition is noted, some act, location, or thing is said to be a danger, although citation is required for this. Then, the narrative itself is told by someone who disregarded the warning and who committed the prohibited act.
Finally, the violator comes to an undesirable fate, which is often related in expansive and gruesome detail.
Cautionary tales are also frequently utilised to spread awareness of moral issues. For this reason, they’re frequently told to children to make them conform to those rules that either protect them or are for their own safety – it’s a form of brainwashing folks!
Now, all children believe that the world will end if they don’t do what they’re told to do.
Of course, the world is going to end – at some point!
The cautionary tale has been about for an extremely long time. Once it was called folklore, but it’s endured to the present day in another form, especially with the rise of modern mass media such as film and television, with so many public service announcements and public information films which frame themselves as cautionary tales regarding both societal issues and common dangers in modern life, forcing conformity by warning viewers of the hazards and directing them towards sidestepping the causes, or simply not doing actions that result in such dangers.
Hospitals are stopping the use of pain-relieving gas and air for mothers to over fears for midwives’ safety.
NHS Trusts have sought to temporarily suspend the use of laughing gas following concerns that medical staff are being exposed to dangerous levels in the workplace.
According to a newspaper outlet, the nitrous oxide and oxygen combination has been measured at 50 times higher than safety caps in some NHS units, but suspensions have also been labelled madness with the popular choice of pain relief taken out of reach for some.
Pregnant Amy Fantis is due to have her baby at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Essex which stopped use of the Entonox gas last month.
While the hospital has ordered machines which can break up the gas into unharmful components, it presently only has three of these to hand.
As a consequence, the hospital stressed that it may not be able to deliver gas and air to everyone who would like to use it and would prioritise use on a case-by-case basis.
Amy told the publication this was a stress that she didn’t need, having been dependent on the pain relief while giving birth four years ago.
She said that it wasn’t available to everyone and that she might not get it, and that her birth might only be 40 minutes, but that it was a stress that she didn’t need and that she understood that they have to keep midwives safe but to just take it away seems madness, and it would be the poor mums that would be paying the price.
Joanna Keable, head of midwifery at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust also added that mothers should be reassured that there was no risk, with safety concerns only arising with prolonged exposure.
She said that they should be reassured that there’s no risk to mothers, birthing people, their partners and babies and that the use of Entonox was temporarily suspended to protect their midwifery and medical teams from prolonged exposure to nitrous oxide in the atmosphere arising from the patient use of gas and air.
And she thanked all of the women and families who use their services to their maternity and medical team for their understanding and support.
It was said that increased levels of nitrous oxide had also previously been detected at a number of trusts including Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, and Watford General Hospital.
Before Watford General Hospital had installed air purifiers, it experienced levels 50 times above nitrous oxide safety caps last year.
Essex’s Basildon University Hospital was reportedly among the hospitals that temporarily discontinued the use of the gas but have since reinstated it following an investigation and additional ventilation measures.
A BBC report suggests that the Health and Safety Executive recorded a total of 11 nitrous oxide incidents in NHS trusts between August 2018 and December 2022.
Ipswich Hospital also temporarily stopped pain relief last year but is now using it again following the installation of new ventilation units.
An NHS England spokesman told a newspaper outlet that NHS England has been working with the Trusts where gas and air supplies have been affected due to differing and localised issues, and this was not a widespread issue and patients should continue to access services as normal.
It appears that they want to send us back to the dark ages in all facets of our lives, although lots of surgeries are done with conscious anaesthetics these days, but before long they’ll be handing you a stick to bite down on and a swig of cheap alcohol.
I wonder what it will be next, will they refuse to drive to work in case they’re run over, and pregnant mums in labour have to go to them?
Nitrous oxide, generally known as laughing gas is a chemical compound. At room temperature, it’s a colourless non flammable gas and has a slightly sweet scent and taste, and at elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a powerful oxidiser similar to molecular oxygen.
Nitrous oxide has significant medical benefits, particularly in surgery and dentistry, for anaesthetic and pain-reducing effects.
Its colloquial name, ‘laughing gas’, coined by Humphry Davy, is due to the euphoric effects upon inhaling it, a property that’s led to its recreational use as a dissociative anaesthetic.
It’s on the World Health Organisation’s list of Essential Medicines. It’s also used as an oxidiser in rocket propellants, and in motor racing to improve the power output of engines.
Hospitals need to vent this stuff safely so it’s not a danger in the workplace, and if so, this ‘laughing gas’ shouldn’t be a threat to anaesthetists and medical staff.
What will be next? Will they stop surgeons from using sharp implements in case they cut themselves? And I hope no wokies don’t see this because then any scheduled surgeries could be in for a blunt plastic scalpel anytime soon.
I’m now starting to wonder if hospitals have done this as a cost-cutting measure.
And if this ‘laughing gas’ is so harmful why has it not been reported before? Perhaps it’s because they couldn’t stop laughing.
Gas and air has been about for a rather long time. The first gas and air device used as a form of pain alleviation in labour was developed in 1935. They increased in popularity after the Second World War, and in particular during the first two decades of the NHS.
If gas and air are stopped there would likely be an increased chance of more epidurals, which is temporarily debilitating for the woman, and carries a risk, but gas and air would essentially lower the nominal risk that has been there for an extremely long time, by increasing the greater risks to the mother and baby.
It appears that they don’t care about the patient, now it’s all about health and safety, and during the pandemic, hundreds of women were forced to wear face masks while giving birth.
And one woman said that she said she felt like she was dying because she was in so much pain, and that while she was pushing the baby out she had to have this mask on her face and that the feeling of claustrophobia was just massive.
Noa Tishby is an Israeli actress, writer, producer, and activist, and last week she broadcast a video describing the Jewish community’s dismay at Kanye being glorified at the #SuperBowl, and in response, she received even more antisemitic attacks than she’d ever encountered.
Noa Tishby is Jewish, and she said that she watched the Super Bowl like a bunch of other people did, particularly because Rihanna was performing, but that as she watched her perform she began to feel incredibly uncomfortable, and that before the performance she saw social media posts calling Rihanna to bring Kanye on stage, but she thought that they’d probably know better than to perform songs by a guy who’s been so publicly antisemitic and who says that he loves Hitler.
Kanye called for Death Con 3 on Jewish people, and so much more, but Noa Tishby was wrong.
Rihanna’s first song ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ was produced by Kanye. Rihanna also performed ‘Run’, and ‘This Town’, which featured Kanye and then she started singing Kanye’s song ‘All Of The Lights’.
After the performance, that song was number one on iTunes after 13 years. So, this was essentially a tribute to Kanye West at the Super Bowl.
That’s when Noa Tishby recorded a video.
Rihanna has so many hit songs. Did she have to do a Kanye song?
The title post went viral and it got 20 million views and impressions across social media.
It was picked up by Newsweek and other media platforms.
Many of Noa Tishby’s followers were also upset by Rihanna’s song choice, but numerous Kanye supporters came after Noa Tishby with horrendous antisemitic attacks, but a lot of the comments were too offensive to share, but they included attacks on her religion, her home country, her looks, her son, and her safety was threatened.
She got numerous Free Palestine, and a ton mostly, shut the $@#%& up hashtag Jew. She also found that there are many, many Hitler enthusiasts out there. A lot, with a lot of Hitler references such as Hitler, should have finished the job.
But this was not news to her. This is an everyday thing and every single Jewish person knows precisely what Noa Tishby is talking about. She calls it being online while Jewish because if you broadcast anything about Jew hostility, you get back every single trope and insult in the book. And this is what happens. This is what occurs when people believe the antisemitic trope, the conspiracy theory about Jewish power and Jewish control. Because if you believe that, then aggression against Jews is totally okay.
And make no mistakes, what’s online, goes offline. With antisemitic taunts shouted out at high school soccer games. Mezuzahs ripped off, and pork left outside dorm rooms at the University of Denver.
And two people were shot outside a synagogue in Los Angeles. And that was just a taste of what’s been going down.
She said she wished we had as much control and power as some people believe that we do, but we don’t. Yet anti-Jewish hostility is now totally normalised, and she said: ‘So, let me be clear once again, anyone who promotes Jewish hatred should not be promoted at the Super Bowl.
To be honest we could do without Rihanna and Kanye West. They’re both overrated, and we actually don’t need them, or their music. There are plenty of other brilliant singers out there.
Rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, has posted antisemitic tropes on his social media accounts, shared antisemitic conspiracy theories with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and later, on social media, threatened brutality against Jews.
And since launching a presidential bid during the week of Thanksgiving, he has gone on a media tour, going after Jewish people on podcasts and travelling with a posse of known antisemites.
In his latest appearance on the InfoWars talk show hosted by provocateur Alex Jones, Kanye West, alongside white supremacist Nick Fuentes, said people should quit dissing the Nazis and exalted Adolf Hitler.
Alex Jones, a far-right conspiracy theorist who’s been ordered to pay parents more than a billion dollars for insisting the carnage of their children in one of America’s deadliest school shootings was a hoax, pushed back on Kanye West’s praise, but made references to the Jewish mafia.
Later, Kanye West posted to Twitter a picture of a swastika combined with a Star of David. AJC called out the heinous Jew hatred on social media.
Why are we still giving Kanye West airtime, he’s obviously not well – pots of money, yet nobody in his life cares enough to intervene and get him some help.
No one has to collude to destroy his career, he’s doing that all by himself, and he’s on a destructive downward spiral and now it’s decomposing faster with every venom that escapes his lips, and why is anyone giving this fool interviews? Perhaps it’s to make him look like an even bigger fool, and he needs to beef up his security, otherwise, I can see another John Lennon moment coming up.
How can Kanye West be anti-semitic, he’s a man of colour, and he’d soon play the race card if it was his family that was being persecuted!
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