I have thus far refrained from comment on last week’s attempted murder of Salman Rushdie. Primarily this was out of respect for Sir Salman, who in the immediate aftermath looked like he might not pull through. Heartened as I am to discover that this is not the case, I also wanted to gauge the extent […]
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That supreme basket case among economic basket cases, Scotland, may have turned its back on independence but that has not saved it from the ongoing madness of the SNP. People used to go to Scotland annually to the Fringe Festival to have a laugh at the comedians on show there. Now you don’t need to
It may come as a shock to readers to learn that pocket billiards, choking the chicken or bashing the bishop—choose your euphemism—is now a university level subject. It has always been available as an extracurricular activity but now it has officially moved to the mainstream, and someone is writing a PhD about it. Not only
Polishing the banister Read More »
Reluctant as I am to kick over a ladder I have recently climbed, it has to be said, British Universities aren’t what they used to be. Having worked in a series of them myself, one can’t help feeling they are reaching their sell by date. At the very least, their politically correct antics are making
A friend messaged me to say there was a report on the BBC News website about a tree hugging contest recently held in Scotland. I thought it was a joke and checked that the date was not April 1st. Then I checked Google, and it turned out to be true. To be precise, the inaugural
Tree hugging. What the hell next? Read More »
I first picked up a copy of The New Statesman at Glasgow Central Station on one of many trips I made between my parents’ home on the west coast of Scotland to Edinburgh where I was a student. I can’t recall the year, but it must have been during the editorial reign of Anthony Howard
The New Statesman past and present Read More »
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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