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Tory pledge to hire 6,000 extra GPs has been scrapped
A TORY manifesto pledge to hire 6,000 extra GPs has been scrapped.
Rishi Sunak refused to repeat the vow when challenged during an NHS visit yesterday, instead saying: “Right now, there are almost 2,000 more doctors working in general practice than in 2019.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s manifesto pledge to hire 6,000 extra GPs has been scrapped[/caption]
Labour branded it “yet another broken promise”.
Shadow health minister Andrew Gwynne said: “The Conservatives have a plan for managed decline of the NHS.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed that tens of thousands of future docs will be trained by apprenticeship on the job, rather than via university.
NHS England chief Amanda Pritchard said: “Some young people want to start earning straight away.”
Standard routes currently see doctors train at university for at least five years and nurses at least three.
The NHS England chief said: “University isn’t right for every school-leaver and some young people want to start earning straight away, while others may decide on a career in healthcare later in life.
“This radical new approach could see tens of thousands of school-leavers becoming doctors and nurses, or other key healthcare roles, after being trained on the job over the next 25 years.
“But this move isn’t just something that will benefit school leavers of the future.
“Young people finishing their A-levels this summer can apply for the first ever medical degree apprenticeship next year.
“There are already hundreds of other apprenticeship schemes offering a route into the NHS, from pharmacist assistants, ambulance practitioners, through to HR schemes.”
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The Mandalorian Season 3, Episode 6 Easter Eggs: 7 Things You Missed In Chapter 22: Guns For Hire
This week on The Mandalorian, Din Djarin and Bo-Katan visit a new planet we’ve never seen nor heard of before: Plazir-15, a beautiful and verdant planet with a sick-looking domed city at its heart. And the place is run by celebrities.
Warning: This article contains major spoilers for Chapter 22 of The Mandalorian, Guns For Hire.
Our heroes have come to Plazir-15 because it’s the new home of Bo-Katan’s old Mandalorian army. These guys now follow Axe Woves, a character who appeared back in Season 2 when we first met Bo-Katan.
But before they have their little parlay with the Axe Man, they have to deal with the local leaders, a former Imperial middle manager who’s married to the local royalty. Plazir’s power couple has a problem: Their droids are going crazy and wrecking stuff and even harming organic beings. But since they have a former Imperial in charge, they aren’t able to do much about it–they cannot have their own weapons in their city.
This is an issue because with the droid help, Plazir is an automated society where the organic beings live lives of luxury and don’t have to go to work. It’s a planet that’s just nobility–if you don’t count those droids, anyway. But we’ll come back to that.
There are plenty of Easter eggs this week, both big and small. Which is good, because we can’t have them slacking on the Easter eggs when actual Easter is coming up this weekend. Read on for some fun facts!
1. Quarren and Mon Calamari forbidden romance
This episode opens with a little bit of a Romeo and Juliet scene–the Mandalorians who used to work for Bo-Katan are now mercenaries hired to retrieve a Mon Calamari nobleman from a starship full of Quarrens. But it turns out the Mon Cal is in love with the Quarren captain.
In Star Wars lore, the Mon Calamari and the Quarrens are from the same planet, and the two species have an ancient and permanent rivalry with one another. So, yes, they really are pretty much the space fish Montegues and Capulets. Fortunately, nobody ended up dead in this version of the story, though.
2. Tom Holland’s brother is the Mon Calamari
The voice of the Mon Calamari noble isn’t a random voice actor or anything like that. No, it’s Harry Holland, the brother of Spider-Man himself, Tom Holland. Harry doesn’t act much–mostly he’s appeared as an extra in some of his brother’s movies.
3. Battle droids and super battle droids
Since The Mandalorian is mostly connected to the rest of Star Wars through the Clone Wars and Rebels shows rather than the movies, these battle droids and super battle droids (B1s and B2s, if you wanna be a nerd about it) are more of a Clone Wars reference than a prequel trilogy reference. But what’s particularly interesting about this scene is the way it lets one of these droids talk without making it a complete idiot–in contrast to the prequel films, where they were always just stupid. The Clone Wars show had some decent scenes where they talked, but this is the first time they managed to not be completely a joke in a live-action thing.
Bonus fun fact: the battle droids have been voiced by sound designer/editor Matthew Wood since the start of the Clone Wars series, and before that he was General Grievous in Attack of the Clones and worked as a sound editor on all three prequel movies. And this week on The Mandalorian, Wood provided the voice for the battle droid that Din Djarin and Bo-Katan meet during their investigation.
4. Jack Black and Lizzo
Someday, Star Wars might cool it with the cameos, but that day is not today. Because today we got Jack Black and Lizzo playing the leaders of the decadent planet Plazir-15. They aren’t extremely serious characters–they’re rich and out-of-touch goobers who are here to be mildly amusing and to keep the tone light. And, well, it’s Jack Black and Lizzo, so they accomplish that.
5. Christopher Lloyd
The head of security on Plazir-15 and the perpetrator behind the droid attacks is a man named Commissioner Helgait (yes, like “hellgate”), who is played by Christopher Lloyd. It’s a shame he only had a couple minutes of screentime, because this character still holding loyalty to the Separatists from the Clone Wars is a nice little piece of world-building. These glimpses at people just being people in this universe–which happens so rarely–are always welcome.
6. Nano bots from the Techno Union
Our two Mando detectives eventually manage to track down the cause of the rogue droids: nano bots from the Techno Union that were hidden in a droid beverage. A large conglomerate of tech companies, the Techno Union had a seat on the Separatist Council–its representative, Wat Tambor, has frequently been referenced in memes over the past two decades since his original brief appearance in Attack of the Clones.
7. Droids as people
All the droids in the Star Wars franchise are pretty much intelligent beings. And while this isn’t a franchise that likes to ponder meaningful questions of morality, this week’s visit to a droid-only cantina is the latest in a long thread of franchise moments that at least pay lip service to the idea that all these droids are actually people with the same free will as organic beings. But in the past, this topic hasn’t often been dealt with with any kind of meaningful seriousness. See, for example, L3-37 in Solo: A Star Wars Story, who is treated as the butt of the joke.
This episode of The Mandalorian does it better. The bartender there tells Din Djarin and Bo-Katan they want the malfunctions to stop because they’re worried it will turn the people of Plazir-15 racist against droids, and so these ones decide to help the investigation. For once, the droids are just other characters. That said, the droid bartender also has a line that attempts to justify their enslavement and forced servitude–like I said, Star Wars really can’t ponder this too hard.
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Can’t hire? Can’t get hired? How to avoid the “Great Mismatch” trap!
The job market is weird.
I’m hearing from employers that they’re struggling to hire. Job ads bring in a fraction of the number of candidates they used to, and the candidates who do apply tend to be unqualified, at least more so than in the past.
Meanwhile, prospective employees say it’s hard to find work and struggle to get hired.
There are lots of job openings and plenty of people looking for work. But companies just can’t seem to find the right people, and applicants apply but get ghosted by the companies they apply to. Tim Brackney, president and COO of the management consulting firm RGP, calls it the “Great Mismatch.”
The problem is especially acute in IT and in IT specialties like cybersecurity.
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Apple’s latest hire could mean more ads are coming to TV+
An ad-supported Apple TV+ tier is starting to look all but inevitable. According to The Information, Apple recently hired Lauren Fry, a former ad tech executive, “to help build a video advertising business” for its streaming service. Before her most recent stint at digital advertising firm Simulmedia, Fry held ad sales roles at AT&T and Comcast.
Bringing more ads to Apple TV+ would fall in line with some of Apple’s more recent actions. Toward the end of last year, the company began displaying additional ads within the App Store, a move that could be a precursor to search ads appearing in Apple Maps and other first-party software. It’s worth noting before Fry’s hiring, Apple was already showing ads alongside Major League Baseball games. In November, Bloomberg also reported Apple was building a live tv ad network to support its 10-year deal with Major League Soccer. As The Information points out, an ad-supported tier would be the most straightforward way for Apple to bring more ads to TV+. A handful of other streaming platforms, including Netflix and Disney+, already offer such tiers to customers as they’re an easy way for those services to broaden their subscriber base.