Well. Apologies. I thought I was up-to-date with all the structures and new developments in the NHS. And I’m absolutely not. Thing is, I realise now why Jeremy Hunt did his utmost to persuade Theresa May that he should not being moved on as Secretary of State for Health, and
How to save the NHS
How to save the NHS I’ve been away from this blog too long. The list of things I want to write about is also long: Brexit, of course, there’s much to say there. Russia, oh, yes, indeed, I’ll be saying things about that one, and then something that fascinates me,
The silence around Weinstein et al – what to do?
If you have a Facebook account you’ll know there’s a trend for putting #MeToo up on your timeline. That’s women stating that they are survivors of rape and/or sexual harassment. I haven’t done that. Because I’m a little uncertain about it. Why? Well, in this piece I’m going to order
The Exit from the EU – a situation report
It’s some time since I’ve posted here and for those of you who’ve joined this blog recently, apologies. Life and events, dear readers. Anyway, here is an update on the exit of the British from the European Union. And before that a short note on my stance. I let out
The Corbyn phenomenon – what happened and why.
Apologies, I’m a bit behind with these blog posts, but here’s a short blast on the results of the recent British General Election. Goodness. What an upset. The predictions were that Corbyn and the Labour party would be slaughtered with Theresa May increasing her majority by at least 52 with
The British General Election: A sit rep
Instead of the usual, nothing much to report, events in the UK are moving quite speedily in this fair land. Indeed, quite a lot has been happening. And, first of all, I want to say that regarding the tragedy in Manchester, I commend you to read George Monbiot’s recent article,
A General Election!
Well, well, well! I usually start my blog posts by saying nothing’s happening in the UK, and, with regard to exiting the EU, that’s probably still true. Nothing’s happened. Yet! As a consequence, our Prime Minister, Theresa May, has taken it upon herself (and wow, was everyone blind-sided by this
Over the cliff we go
It’s happened, Article 50 is initiated. And the long walk to the political suicide of a nation has begun. Well, by long walk, I mean it depends whether you think that two years from now we’ll have a trade agreement, and everything that we wanted to be ‘in control of’
The cultural revolution that’s just occurred – within which I’ve lost my identity
This is another situation report written as an overview for those of you who don’t get the detail on Brexit from their media that we do in the UK. And, just like the last post there has been a great deal of activity, with many accompanying articles in the press,
Brexit – a situation report
Well that was dangerous – promising a post ‘later this week’! Now it’s next year and not even the first month of next year. Not to worry, because a great deal has happened and then again, nothing has happened. For those of you living outside the UK I’ll put you