With many thanks to ChatGPT for the above title and after fellow Hull resident Martin Rispin’s The Fat of the Land article in these pages, I was inspired to reflect on the sheer size of the nursing profession in the UK. I don’t mean the size of the profession as a whole; I mean the […]
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I am sure that one should not take pleasure in others’ misery. The Left’s congenital schadenfreude whenever conservatives are convicted of thought crimes notwithstanding, two wrongs never make a right. But, by God am I enjoying the left-wing liberal meltdown following the resounding victory of Donald Trump in the US elections. “How can I count
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Washington DC was buzzing on Saturday 2 November with the news that the UK had appointed its first black woman as leader of a major political party. And, if you believe that let me play you at poker. Not only did I not hear a word about Kemi Badenoch’s victory, I did not (and never
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From my perspective, which today happens to be Singapore, I am halfway through a ten-flight round the world tour of international conferences. I have ‘done’ Hong Kong and mainland China; next up New York and Washington DC. I wonder how much longer I can keep this up. I do it regularly. I often reflect, and
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And this week’s prize for the stupidest bloody university in Britain goes to…Nottingham University! Sadly, we are almost inured to the inanities we now witness on a daily basis. If it isn’t a bag of nuts with a ‘this bag contains nuts’ warning, sleeping pills that ‘may cause drowsiness’ and bottles of gas that proclaim
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We’ve refrained so far from referring to ‘sausagegate’ in these pages. After all, anyone can make a mistake. Many of us are old enough to remember 1980 when the SAS (Sausage Alert Service) rescued the sausages from the grip of the terrorists during the Iranian Embassy siege. An easy mistake to make Sir Keir. But
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Wales, essentially now a political blemish on the face of the well-known landscape of the west of England due to the workings of the Welsh Assembly, is a place most people in the rest of Britain don’t give a hoot about. For that reason, the Assembly (sorry, the Senned) must keep doing things to ensure
Ennobled by Tony Blair, Lord Waheed Alli was the first ‘openly’ gay member of the House of Lords. He also claims to be an ‘openly gay Muslim’ which not only seems like a contradiction in terms but, if he bumps into the wrong kind of Muslims, also a life-shortening strategy. I guess he doesn’t have
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We are being assaulted by such a plethora of viruses these days that it is a wonder any of us are still alive. We had barely emerged from the Covid-19 scam and its bewildering array of scariants, then monkeypox trotted along threatening to wipe us out. Now we have bird flu, West Nile virus, Oropouche
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(Photograph: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) As if Kingston upon Hull did not have enough problems. Once a thriving fishing port, that industry is long gone; we were the most bomb-damaged place by area of the city in Britain during the Second World War; we are home to what is considered one of
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