New Year greetings to all! As we enter 2024, there’s no doubt that the starting gun has been fired on the general election, Rishi Sunak predictably trying to distract from Starmer’s key speech with the declaration that his ‘working assumption’ (odd choice of words when the timing is solely his decision) that it will beContinue reading “6 January 2024”
Tag Archives: New Year
Sunday 31 December 2023
As the year ends it’s increasingly clear that nothing is working under this Conservative administration – from the NHS to railways, from the creaking justice system to impoverished schools, from the non-functioning regulatory system to our polluted coasts and rivers, everything’s worse. (It’s been suggested that it will take 10 years to clear the backlogsContinue reading “Sunday 31 December 2023”
Sunday 8 January 2023
In the circumstances saying Happy New Year to all sounds somewhat hollow so I’ll settle for very best wishes for 2023. Over the years we’ve got used to various ‘Twixmas’ and New Year occurrences, some of them proving irritating, if not infuriating, bah humbug (or whatever the New Year equivalent is). One is the numerousContinue reading “Sunday 8 January 2023”
Saturday 8 January 2022
Happy New Year to all readers, insofar as this is possible given the current worrying situation! The feeling in many quarters that things are out of control can rarely have been so pronounced. Since the last blog post in mid-December, the intertwined Covid and political situations have been a rollercoaster, and just when you thinkContinue reading “Saturday 8 January 2022”
Saturday 2 January 2021
Happy New Year to all, or at least a better one than 2020, despite entering 2021 facing the dire situation of daily deaths approaching 1,000, a lockdown in almost everything but name, new variants running rife, overburdened and exhausted clinicians and medics’ concern about the policy to change the timing of the Pfizer vaccine secondContinue reading “Saturday 2 January 2021”
Politics and mental health - the missing link? 