I remember, but can’t confirm, Jim Callaghan in opposition taunting the then Conservative Government with the metaphor: ‘The sky is black with the wings of chickens coming home to roost’….
I suspect that many of you have had, appropriately during the season of Advent, experience of waiting for a medical appointment. The verb, to wait, apparently came across with the…
This being the last issue before Christmas, I shall postpone until the New Year writing of the many problems confronting those who work in the NHS and social care, and…
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You won’t remember the event, but your first breath was a miracle of nature. Prior to that, your lungs contained only fluid and all your nourishment and oxygen had come…
Among the many inducements offered by the proponents of Brexit to a gullible public was to reduce the burden imposed on our economy by European regulations, the so called ‘red…
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COMMENT Burnout Anthony Seaton Grangemouth. Photograph by Islay McLeod It is more likely than not, as the lawyers would say, that climate change is approaching a crisis point. In spite…
There has been only one surprise among the latest COVID-19 events. In the UK, we have continued to see high levels of infection, mainly among gregarious younger people and the…