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Headlines From the UK, US and around the World - 31 March 2020 New blood test can detect 50 types of cancer System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard-to-detect cancers   Dr Geoffrey Oxnard of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, part of Harvard Medical School, said the test was now being explored in clinical trials. Here comes the bit where I ask for your help The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon . If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help to fund improvements. The channel can go from strength to strength with your support.  Please look in on us at the following: youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube twitter: https://twitter.com/PuffinPolitics podcast: bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin

Headlines From the UK, US and around the World for 30 March 2020 As always, whatever the time is with you, I hope you are having a good day. Please look after yourself, your family, friends and loved ones. All the best, Dave Here comes the bit where I ask for your help. The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon. If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help it survive and fund improvements. The channel can go from strength to strength with your support. Please look in on us at the following: youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube  twitter: https://twitter.com/PuffinPolitics podcast: bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin

Todays Summary of Headlines From the UK, US and around the World for 28 March 2020 Have a look at the webpage that the podcasts are hosted on. I'd like to keep on doing these as I've got some ideas on how better to use them for you the audience and for me to be able to get across ideas and paint a picture with words. https://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast As always, whatever the time is with you, I hope you are having a good day. Please look after yourself, your family, friends and loved ones. All the best, Dave Here comes the bit where I ask for your help.  The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon.  If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help to fund improvements.  The channel can go from strength to strength with your support.  Please look in on us at the following:  youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube   twitter: https://

It has been difficult to realise the original vision of what the channel would look like. Originally, the thought was that a 'Daily News' article would go up on YouTube every day, giving an overview of the days news. The channel would also provide a weekly 'Opinion' piece at the weekend. The 'enthusiastic' view of being able to get this done was just that, enthusiastic, but it wasn't realistic. With the channel just starting and having to be organised, the fact that I am just one person, for the moment and all the technicalities of getting pieces up, there just wasn't the time to do all of this. As those of you that have see the YouTube videos will be aware, they go quite in depth in an attempt to cater for those of us that do not spend every waking minute reading, listening to or watching some sort of news content. I wanted to make sure that if people didn't quite get some of the nuance or terminology or background to a piece then they woul

Coronavirus: First Let's ALL Be Safe - Healthcare and Coronavirus part 1 This is the first part of the series of videos called  Healthcare and Coronavirus In this we discuss the most important aspect of this crisis, YOU! The practical aspects of the virus and the steps we need to take to keep ourselves healthy and safe. Such as: How and where do I get information that will help and will be accurate? What is 'Social Distancing' and what do I have to do to conform? We also talk about the type of healthcare systems there are around the world. Will they be up to the job and do they look after ALL of society around the world. Here comes the bit where I ask for your help. The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon. If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help to fund improvements. The channel can go from strength to strength with your support. Please look in on us at the following:

The Coronavirus, COVID-19, has swept across the planet in a matter of weeks. As it is a novel version, no one has immunity to it and there are currently no vaccines. A robust and urgent response is and was required to this. A 'Universal' healthcare response to it, if you will. However, there are countries that have no form of 'nationalised' healthcare system and require their citizens to essentially fend for themselves. Of course, this means there is no joined up, national system to coordinate not just the medical aspect of fighting this virus but also the logist aspect of it. I'm not talking about some small, basically unknown 'tribe' or clan off the top of Scotland here. No, I'm talking about the richest country on the planet, the USA. I've filmed a four part series looking at the relationship between coronavirus and healthcare and the systems that will be employed. Please join me to look at what this could mean for the countries invol

Coronavirus is creating a lot of data. Could this help to establish healthcare as a human right? I appreciate that not everyone is a 'big nerd'. Nor is the planet occupied by 'number junkies'. The World Health Organisation seems to have realised this, and thankfully so. The WHO are doing a good job at getting information and data out to not just the media, but also the public and in simple, straightforward ways. One way they communicate how the world is fairing during this pandemic is through their situation dashboard ( WHO Covid-19 Dashboard ). For anyone looking at the data plots of coronavirus for each country, you can see a general theme. Over the first 4 to 6 weeks, the number of cases are relatively low. Then buckle up as the next 4 to 6 weeks will be like a rocket launch. Those numbers of increase in confirmed cases just take off. Watching TV can be scary. There's wall to wall coverage on a 24/7 basis of something that is very serious and new t

On 21 December 1998, Pan Am flight 103 was on its way from London to New York when it exploded over Lockerbie , Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This killed 243 passengers and 16 crew and also led to the deaths of a further 1 1 people from the town of Lockerbie as the falling debris rained down. The total number of those killed in one of the UK's worst terrorist attack came to 270 . The wreckage of Pan Am 103 on a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. Photograph: AP The subsequent investigation led to the   Lamin Khalifah Fhimah  and  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi  being indicted by  US Attorney General and the Scottish Lord Advocate. The question is, did these two men commit this horrendous crime?

In response to a video I saw via Reddit (which was very good), I wrote some thoughts I had on the subject. Only after I had got finished, it occurred to me that there may be interest from others in either what I had to say or in being able to provide their own response. Please find the text of the response below: Part of the problem in the US seems to be that the right uses ‘Socialism’ to mean whatever they want it to mean. You’ve heard Trump recently talking as though the ‘Reds under the bed’ are coming, coming for you and coming for you now! The right use the mechanics of Socialism all the time. At the moment, the US farmers have had $28 Billion of subsidies. The Trump tax cut has allowed the richest 400 families pay less tax than the bottom half of Americans. The banking bill rolling back Dodd-Frank will create monopolies. These are all examples of good old left-wing policies of redistributing wealth. Unfortunately for us and the likes of us it is being redistributed in

Coronavirus is serious. Seems some need to be made aware of this. The world is being 'represented' by a buffoon, a man-child, someone that cares not a jot for anyone that isn't him or his family. He shouldn't be the story of a pandemic that as of just a week ago has taken the lives of over 3,000 people. BBC News Website - Coronavirus: World in 'uncharted territory' He shouldn't be so I'm not going to make him the story, for once! However, I will just say that it is more than 'sad' that I went to a news organisation for an accurate take on the number of deaths rather than go to the US government's website. Why? I simply don't trust anything from Trump's administration and with good reason(s) (many, many of them!). Firstly, I implore anyone that is unsure of what Coronavirus is, to go and check out the W.H.O.'s website  (shown below) as it gives a good, no nonsense summary of what it is. I understand people c

Where Does Party Political Puffin Stand Politically? Party Political Puffin, here in the UK, are trying to better explain and portray a set of beliefs. This is to educate and provide a basis for discussion. These beliefs are encapsulated in policies and protections such as: Housing for all End to food inequality Equitable wages starting with enforcing an increased minimum living wage Equality for all regardless of someones: age having undergone gender reassignment being married or in a civil partnership being pregnant or on maternity leave any disability their race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin their religion or beliefs their sex or their sexual orientation A Green New Deal to begin roll back climate change and prevents any further decline A social security program that provides for citizens when they need it most and also to support them in retirement Guaranteed free further e