Very much looking forward to the arrival of the Mirage, the IV is a great looking aircraft.

Plus in, terms of big, noisy, and impressive historic jets, the PR.9 is about the next best thing to a Vulcan, when there are no Vulcans left.

Concorde 🙂 That is something people would throw money at to see fly again.

Preview here 🙂

I don’t know about other forum members but I think that the B-25 is, without question, the most boring (significant) aircraft that fought in the Second World War!

I don’t know how you’ve come to that conclusion, it had a great track record in variety of roles, was much loved by its crews, carried out the legendary Doolittle raid, and was a nightmare to Japanese shipping. They participated in some of the most daring, most dangerous missions of the war, so I don’t think they deserve to be called boring.

The best looking low back Spit’ of them all, IMO. Just stunning.

I fear you are confusing the number of doctors trained over the whole NHS and those who choose to become GP’s

It is the dramatic fall of those electing to train as a GP rather than an anaesthetist , or surgeon or paediatrician etc. that is really concerning. For whatever reason (and the vilification in the tabloids has some culpability) the numbers electing to train is dropping as a percentage of the cohort. For example in the the two surgeries that I work at that are training practices, the pool of available trainees is roughly half that it was five years ago. And the projected number in two or three years time based on preferences expressed by doctors in training at the local teaching hospitals is even lower.

There are things the government could and should be doing to address that though, stealing doctors from poorer countries is pretty unethical.

Indeed the NHS would not survive without immigration.

Pffft….:sleeping:

11% of NHS staff are migrants. More than 11% of the population are migrants. If there were fewer migrants, the dependency on migrants would be less. Besides, why can’y we make the distinction between migrants we do want (medical staff, professionals etc) and migrants we don’t want (unskilled, criminal records ETC) and at a level that we want.