This week, I am experiencing a dilemma. As a long-term left-leaning person, I have continually over the years expressed my deeply held opposition to private healthcare. As I age, I…
Pantomime time is here again, the time when terrible puns proliferate. My first of the season was Beowulf, an original pantomime devised for the annual Charles Court Opera Company in…
NHS Scotland’s original spring booster letter told me my appointment was at 8.30am on 11 April at the Glasgow Central Mosque. A neighbour had received an identical letter. She had…
Someone in my family had a brilliant idea, a few years ago now. The Eardley family comprises of me, my wife Karen and my sons Nicholas, Dominic and Mark, in…
We had some unexpected and unwelcome visitors last week. Neither long lost friends nor close family, these, though I suppose they may have been a family, usurpers, simply moved in…
I have been feeling extremely guilty. As the festive season looms threateningly on the horizon, our television screen has been replete with appeals on behalf of the homeless and those…
In an undistinguished business career, it has been my pleasure to share an office with a number of talented individuals. I have also partnered some for whom the description ‘fruitcake’…
I feel that I must respond to Gerry Hassan’s article as he normally writes such good sense. Last week’s article about the health and well-being survey in schools and the…
Sometimes in life, you can’t do anything right for doing wrong. Well, at least that is the phrase my mother used to use whenever I rebuffed her advice as a…
It is with doubt a deeply troubling dark and misanthropic anthem. To what do I refer? Well, it’s Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. It’s ostensibly presented, in the main by…