The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #922

Harry and Beau are joined by fellow Islander Luca Johnson to discuss the new plans to press–gang NHS dentists, the best magazine you’ll ever read and the destruction of the British steel industry.

Reading List

• You Will Clean Ze Teeth

  • Massive queues - The Guardian

  • Ukrainians in UK shocked by shortage of dentists, survey finds - The Guardian

  • First baby born on NHS having to save to go private because she cannot get NHS dentist - Mirror

  • New payments for dentists to make more appointments available - GOV.UK

  • Visual interpretation - Discord

  • Long-term international migration, provisional: year ending June 2023 - ONS

  • UK dentists warn staff ‘crisis’ will worsen without more overseas recruits - Financial Times

  • New NHS dentist rules will put patients in England at 'significant risk' - Yahoo News

  • I remember how this one goes… - kunley_drukpa - Twitter

  • Plans to roll out 'dental vans' in effort to tackle shortage of practitioners could be shelved by ministers due to 'limited availability' of vehicles - Daily Mail

  • Newly trained dentists face being forced to work for the NHS in a bid to populate 'dental deserts' amid shortage of practitioners - Daily Mail

  • New dentists required to deliver NHS care under government plans - GOV.UK

• The Destruction of British Steel

  • Welsh Politics and Voter ID - BBC News

  • Tata Steel Closure and Green Claims - The Guardian

  • Rwanda Bill and Rishi Sunak - Yahoo News

  •  British Steel and Jingye Group - British Steel

  • British Steel Investment Scrutiny - Archive.ph

  • British Steel's Chinese Owner - This Is Money

  • Government Support for British Steel - Grimsby Telegraph

  • British Steel Wins Multi-Million Deal - Grimsby Telegraph

  • EDF and French Energy Policies - The Guardian