Excuse the tangent, but let me just start with a great banking suggestion – not mine but from the comedian, Phil Wang:- instead of cringeworthy ads with herds of black horses (CGI no doubt), banks should just display a large, blank sheet
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How is the NHS & Social Care system faring this winter? Try asking Sarah Pinnington-Auld, the Mother of three-year-old Lucy, who has cystic fibrosis and is treated in King’s College Hospital in London. On Monday 19th December, she confronted Health Secretary, Steve
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A great morning overall – the news from Brazil (although the appalling incumbent hasn’t yet conceded) and from Downing St, that Sunak may yet get his priorities right………. and then here is one of the reasons it’s good to live by the
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STOP PRESS – I’m afraid I’m still too shocked and too angry at the moment to write much about the ”mini-budget” – the “Through the Looking-glass” statement that exhumed “trickle-down” economics; that handed £55,000 to the wealthiest taxpayers, but only £7.66 to
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Yes, the first, great news is that on Friday evening (2nd), the BBC put on a special edition of ”Have I got news for you”, as a ”tribute” to the outgoing PM! If you haven’t yet seen it, it’s really worth getting
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Everywhere you look this Summer, there is waste, of various types, only matched in scale by the crippling inaction, when the various crises have actually required immediate and decisive action. The most obvious area of ”zombie government” is in the realm of
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