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HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

StephenDolan wrote:

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

Damn, missed it, thanks for the info. Might try catch up.

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

Dr Phil Hammond ‏@drphilhammond 18m18 minutes ago

I'm in favour of more funding for the NHS, but it must be spent on frontline care that's proven to work, not reckless reform & marketization

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Death this morning of Anthony King, Essex professor, BBC psephologist, prolific writer, husband of Jan, most generous of friends. #tonyking

Willow904 wrote:

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

If you mean the weird guy who talked too fast, told an implausibly convenient anecdote about his child who had been poorly at the weekend and insisted the reason A&Es were overwhelmed was because people didn't have apps to book out of hours doctor's appointments (because dialling 111 is too complicated, presumably) then I wouldn't exactly call it an advert. More "WTF was that?!"

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

StephenDolan wrote:Bad innings. Sticky wicket. Not a good day for cricket references

gilsey wrote:

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

Presumably it was the BBC's attempt at balance, they might think they're on a sticky wicket at the moment because of the perfect timing of the Hospital programme.

He was so far from being relevant to the issue Newsnight just looked ridiculous.

StephenDolan wrote:

Willow904 wrote:

HindleA wrote:@SD
I didn't see it but apparently there was more or less an advert for Babylon on Newsnight last night

If you mean the weird guy who talked too fast, told an implausibly convenient anecdote about his child who had been poorly at the weekend and insisted the reason A&Es were overwhelmed was because people didn't have apps to book out of hours doctor's appointments (because dialling 111 is too complicated, presumably) then I wouldn't exactly call it an advert. More "WTF was that?!"

When he gives that anecdote involving his own company's app, quotes the subscription fee then I'd consider it advertising.

for the purposes of illustrating the point, imagine that existing households saw no change in their income between 2014/15 and 2015/16 and that all of the new households had incomes falling within the income range of the second quintile of households in 2014/15. All quintiles must expand by the same amount as they are simply equal fifths of whatever the household population happens to be. When the 2015/16 household population is divided up into quintiles, each of which must contain 90,000 more households than in 2014/15, the income of the bottom quintile would increase because the 90,000 lowest earners in the previous second quintile would be displaced into the bottom quintile, increasing the average income there. At the other end of the scale, 90,000 more households must be allocated to the top quintile but as all of the new households have nowhere near that income, the top quintile can only increase in size by expanding to include households previously in the 4th quintile, thus reducing average top quintile income.

Willow904 wrote: not people who could see a GP turning up at A&E.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh, this is sad news...

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Death this morning of Anthony King, Essex professor, BBC psephologist, prolific writer, husband of Jan, most generous of friends. #tonyking

82 by the look of it so not a bad innings.

Willow904 wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:

Willow904 wrote: If you mean the weird guy who talked too fast, told an implausibly convenient anecdote about his child who had been poorly at the weekend and insisted the reason A&Es were overwhelmed was because people didn't have apps to book out of hours doctor's appointments (because dialling 111 is too complicated, presumably) then I wouldn't exactly call it an advert. More "WTF was that?!"

When he gives that anecdote involving his own company's app, quotes the subscription fee then I'd consider it advertising.

So the garbled rubbish about the app was the plug? I missed him quoting the subscription fee, too busy wondering who the nutter was! It did really stand out as wildly irrelevant as NHS England is citing high levels of genuine demand as the reason behind the crisis, not people who could see a GP turning up at A&E.

HindleA wrote:Morning.

I found this interesting :-


Debate: should we be fighting for a universal basic income in Australia?
Is a universal basic income a solution to Australia’s growing inequality problem, or is it a utopian distraction that ignores suffering today?

PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.

I'm completely at sea re the "Babylon" conversation. What's it all about, please?

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HindleA wrote:Stephen asked about them a couple of days ago.

AngryAsWell wrote:MSM doing a better job of highlighting the NHS problems than Labour at the moment

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:MSM doing a better job of highlighting the NHS problems than Labour at the moment

Erm, really?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Milne is Milne.

That doesn't have to stop one feeling uneasy about the all too obvious enthusiasm of some for war with Russia.