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Yes, ‘corridor care’ horrors persist, yet statistics show my timely, efficient treatment wasn’t a matter of fortune but quite ordinary
It was a bad start to the new year. Slipping on ice, I fell and broke my right wrist, so now I can’t hold a pen with my writing hand. But my experience of the NHS was a good reminder of a few facts.
Heading to the nearest A&E, I expected one of those 12-hour waits and corridors lined with trolleys of the near-dead, rowdy with drunken and psychotic mayhem. The Guardian recently found that violent incidents recorded by 212 NHS trusts in England rose from 91,175 in 2022-23 to 104,079 in 2024-25, the equivalent of about 285 cases reported every day. So I was ready for whatever. Notices warned that there would be zero tolerance of abuse of staff.
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist
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© Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The Guardian

© Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare/The Guardian






Connaissez-vous le point commun à toutes les rumeurs ayant trait à un produit Apple adoptant un écran OLED ? Le retard, bien sûr ! La sortie de certains produits est souvent évoquée, mais toujours repoussée.
Cette transition vers l’OLED est, quoi qu’il en soit, un processus de longue haleine. Sur les petits formats, l’affaire semble entendue : cette technologie fait les beaux jours de l’Apple Watch depuis ses débuts et de l’iPhone depuis le lancement de l'iPhone X en 2017.
Dès que la diagonale s'étire, c’est une autre paire de manches. Les dalles OLED ont fini par faire leur apparition sur l’iPad Pro en 2024, marquant le début d'une nouvelle ère pour les tablettes de Cupertino. Cette transition devrait s’accélérer dans les mois et années à venir. Pour Apple, l'enjeu est de taille : faire de cette technologie un argument commercial massue pour inciter les utilisateurs à renouveler des équipements dont le cycle de vie a tendance à s'allonger.
Si l’on en croit DigiTimes, la quasi-totalité du catalogue Apple devrait avoir effectué sa mue à l’horizon 2028. Voici à quoi devrait ressembler le calendrier des réjouissances :
Au passage, notez qu’une nouvelle référence d’écran externe Apple a récemment fait son apparition dans une base de données appartenant au régulateur chinois. Ce nouveau modèle resterait fidèle au LCD.
Un nouvel écran apparaît chez le régulateur chinois : Studio Display ou Pro Display XDR ?
L’une des questions que l’on peut se poser, c’est l’impact de l’arrivée de cette technologie sur le prix des appareils. Quoi qu’il en soit, le passage à l'OLED apporte un bond qualitatif immédiat que les utilisateurs sauront apprécier : une qualité d'image globalement supérieure au LCD grâce à des couleurs plus riches et, surtout, un taux de contraste quasi infini.
Contrairement au rétroéclairage classique, chaque pixel OLED produit sa propre lumière. Résultat : quand c'est noir, c'est vraiment noir. Cette gestion fine permet non seulement une image plus profonde, mais aussi une meilleure efficacité énergétique, un point crucial pour l'autonomie de nos machines nomades. Reste maintenant à espérer que cette transition ne connaisse plus de nouveaux couacs.











My jaw was left agape by this rich, moving spinoff. Its two lead characters have the making of a classic comic double act
The Game of Thrones franchise has fruited again, like an abundant oak. Where’s left to go? A startling opening, in which a lumbering oaf takes a dump behind a tree, gives us a clue. Chronologically, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (Monday 19 January, 9pm, Sky Atlantic) sits between the juggernaut original and its courtly prequel, House of the Dragon. Tonally, it’s in a world of its own.
That oaf eventually gets a name: Dunk. Contrary to expectation, Dunk is a knight. Specifically, a “hedge knight”, a lower-status category whose kind cannot afford their keep and must sleep under trees. “Any knight can make a knight” we are reminded, by simply dubbing them. This lack of gatekeeping has resulted in a class system in which highborn valiants scorn their ignoble brethren. They are knights in name only, and only just. Of course, there’s nothing just about this.
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© Photograph: HBO/2025 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and all related programs are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.

© Photograph: HBO/2025 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and all related programs are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.
Being able to understand the comedian talking in French in his Dress to Kill show led to me learning several languages and working on the continent
Until the age of 13, I had never taken much interest in school French lessons. I had visited the country a couple of times, on family driving holidays to Brittany and Normandy, but my parents did all the talking and I didn’t see the point of learning le and la, soixante-dix or quatre-vingts. It was just something on the curriculum that I had to do.
Then, one evening at home, in Stirlingshire, Scotland, with everyone else in bed, I sat on the sofa and put on a VHS of Eddie Izzard’s standup show Dress to Kill. My parents were fans and I’d caught a glimpse on TV and thought it looked funny. I was young and some of the material was probably too rude but I enjoyed the surreal and absurd comedy, impressions and mad tangents.
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© Illustration: Martin O'Neill

© Illustration: Martin O'Neill

© Illustration: Martin O'Neill
From Clarissa Strozzi and Charles V to Tom Parker and Walt Disney, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 What did LA plumber George Holliday videotape on 3 March 1991?
2 Named after a Greek god, what is Earth’s largest land biome?
3 Abigail, in November 2015, was the first what?
4 Which literary character says, “Come not, Lucifer! I’ll burn my books!”?
5 Which Play School presenter sits in the House of Lords?
6 What cricket fixture was played from 1806 until 1962?
7 Which rescue organisation is based in Poole, Dorset?
8 The Kanneh-Mason siblings are famous names in what field?
What links:
9 Babington; Parry; Ridolfi; Throckmorton?
10 Bleu; saignant; à point; bien cuit?
11 Basilisk lizard; fishing spider; jacana; pond skater; Clark’s grebe?
12 Virginia (8); Ohio (7); New York (5); Arkansas, California, Hawaii (one each)?
13 Enhanced Fujita; Modified Mercalli; Saffir-Simpson; Torino?
14 Ben Bradlee; Walt Disney; Jim Lovell; Colonel Tom Parker; Chesley Sullenberger?
15 Clarissa Strozzi; Charles V with a dog; Philip II; Pope Paul III and his grandsons?

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