Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
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Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
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Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#2It is well-known that the austerity ushered in by Cameron's new Conservative goverment heavily contributed to excess deaths.
After a decade of continued underfunding of public services, leading to a collapsed social and health service, you realise the question really isn't that deep
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#3Strange that the article doesn't mention Brexit. Many nurses (and doctors) in the UK used to be from EU countries.
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#4It is well-known that the austerity ushered in by Cameron's new Conservative goverment heavily contributed to excess deaths. After a decade of continued underfunding of public services, leading to a collapsed social and health service, you realise the question really isn't that deep
Well known anecdotally perhaps, but this is the first time I've seen a major publication link the two issues (possibly I don't read enough of the news). Hopefully we see more like this.
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#5Strange that the article doesn't mention Brexit. Many nurses (and doctors) in the UK used to be from EU countries.
The article doesn't mention it because the trend began way before Brexit was concluded.
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#6Strange that the article doesn't mention Brexit. Many nurses (and doctors) in the UK used to be from EU countries.
The effect mentioned started before Brexit, so the link has to be with something else - in the article's conclusion it's a related Tory problem, austerity
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#7A bit offtopic, but does anyone who has worked with media organisations in the past know, how much an individual developer time is spent in creating an interactive feature report like this? Also, are there publishing tools that allow creation by something like drag and drop in the CMS or is it often custom frontend code?
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#8A bit offtopic, but does anyone who has worked with media organisations in the past know, how much an individual developer time is spent in creating an interactive feature report like this? Also, are there publishing tools that allow creation by something like drag and drop in the CMS or is it often custom frontend code?
My understanding is that these places slowly accumulate their own libraries for some semi-automated framework (like svelte for example, though I don’t think this is svelte). This knowledge comes from my working in a media watchdog, and my own analysis of the New York Times’ code so the economist may be different. I also (obviously) don’t have first class access to these things only what we’ve been able to probe using osint tools and analyzing the javascript/html/css.
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#9As a Brit I can't help but notice that on every axis, our country appears to be in decline at the moment. Even before Brexit, things hadn't been going well, as this article shows. It's making me seriously consider moving away.
I want to have hope that as a country we can turn around this societal regression, but I fear it's a deeper problem than just the current government. The class system and an unhealthy nostalgia for when we were more important in the world seem to be holding us back.
Re: Why did 250k Britons die sooner than expected?
#10A bit offtopic, but does anyone who has worked with media organisations in the past know, how much an individual developer time is spent in creating an interactive feature report like this? Also, are there publishing tools that allow creation by something like drag and drop in the CMS or is it often custom frontend code?
My understanding is that these places slowly accumulate their own libraries for some semi-automated framework (like svelte for example, though I don’t think this is svelte). This knowledge comes from my working in a media watchdog, and my own analysis of the New York Times’ code so the economist may be different. I also (obviously) don’t have first class access to these things only what we’ve been able to probe using…
Ah, thanks for the insight. That would make sense, I will try to probe around more to see if it is possible to make them more accessible to other media publications as well.