Week in the UK. Good or bad

 On Saturday, Conservative party accused of undermining the BBC by flooding it with cronies after chair’s resignation. Sunak under pressure to stop choosing Tories for BBC jobs after Sharp row . "To a Tory, the idea of being trusted with any kind of power or responsibility and then not abusing it for your own personal gain just doesn't make sense. Whats the point in being able to appoint the chair of the BBC if you can't basically auction the appointment off to the highest bidder?" "No one with any political affiliation should have this job. I accept that is a tall order, but that's sort of meant too be the point of the BBC." "Over 150 years ago, Britain discovered that merit based appointment is superior to cronyism. Incidentally, this was learned from observing the Chinese civil service who had been doing it for centuries. You'd think it'd be the expected norm by now." Yet, we were happy to know that in Sudan NHS doctors wer...

There was rather controversial  the MSN headline, on Thursday, "NHS doctors denied seats on British evacuation planes left stranded in Sudan ."    It infuriated by it's message at first and then it's clickbaitness. Because it turned out to be an ill-use of the Independent news based on the Sky news piece which ran that  "it confirmed to The Independent that only British Nationals and their immediate family members with existing eligibility to enter the UK were being evacuated.This does not include NHS doctors who are non-British and visa holders, the British Medical Association (BMA) said." It raised a discussion in the Web. "I don't think there's any country on earth in this situation that would prioritise foreign nationals with work visas, over genuine British citizens, when it comes to evacuation priority." "Should we leave British citizens behind, in favour of non citizen medical professionals?" "I wonder if there w...