Our national health service, coincidentally known as the National Health Service (NHS), continues to disintegrate into chaos and, in some places, paralysis. Fêted for decades as the jewel in the crown of our welfare state, it has fallen for its own rhetoric and thinks that it only needs to exist to merit praise. When troubles […]
The NHS is not working Read More »
I had the misfortune to be the inaugural chair of one of the series of Lancet Commissions, this one into nursing. This was one of the many mistakes I have made in my professional life and not one of my proudest aspects of my Wikipedia entry which some charitable souls curate for me. I tried
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It is hard to imagine that anyone could stand up in front of a group of people and say, with a straight face, that there are at least one hundred and fifty (that’s one-five-zero or 150) different genders. But someone does and has at the BBC. Just exactly what is going on is hard to
No, there really aren’t 150 genders. Read More »
When it was announced that Covid-19 was going to wipe out the human race, I cowered in my house; determined to drink myself to death before the virus got me. Having done my liver irreparable damage in the process, I was dismayed to learn we are not all going to die. Still, I continued drinking,
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I had never heard of the journalist Dom Phillips and had no idea he was missing; now I hear he is dead, along with his local guide, and identifiable only by dental records. I guess it does not take long for a body to decompose in the Amazon rainforest. But since his death I have
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A bunch of Muslim fanatics is protesting about something. Nothing new there, but what is it this time? A teacher daring to show a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed? A pig farm in the middle of Bradford? A string of sex shops opening in predominantly Muslim areas, or has someone else written a book suggesting
Essential viewing: The Lady of Heaven Read More »
“Dear me” is all I can say having watched the Platinum Jubilee Concert broadcast from outside Buckingham Palace and the Mall. The highlight was definitely HM The Queen exchanging views on marmalade sandwiches with Paddington Bear. Why she felt the need to do this or got talked into it however remains a mystery. It was
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Genesis chapter 5 verse 2 (“God created them male and female”) is so yesterday. How we laughed when Norfolk Constabulary announced that it was going to recognise 37 sexualities and genders, but it is clear now they were barely scratching the surface. The Civil Service has announced that they are identifying over 100 sexualities and
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Let’s get the obvious out of the way first. As I wrote two years ago, the murder of George Floyd was a monstrous crime. The image of Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck is a repugnant sight. George was no saint, but the police have a duty of protection to all, not just the good
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The nation’s children have recently endured two years of social and educational deprivation. They are now more depressed, less able to socialise, behind with reading and counting and very young ones are having problems with facial recognition and communication. Scare the bejeebers out of them about a virus that they were unlikely to become infected
Dragging kids to the library Read More »
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