Monthly Archives: February 2013

As those of you who drift along here occasionally to catch up with my ramblings will undoubtably have realised, I haven't really had a great deal of enthusiasm for blogging over the last year or so. So, in the immortal … Continue reading →

A splendid piece from The Guardian about lazy journalism and raging hypocrisy. To see the Mail gasping at Mantel's suggestion that the duchess is “designed to breed” when it has been on “bump watch” since she walked down the aisle … Continue reading →

Roy Lilley in brilliant form on the Francis Report: Well, I've done it. With a bucket of builder's and a box of Hobnobs, I've ploughed through the Francis Inquiry Report. I'm not sure I'm going to be too popular for … Continue reading →

I suppose it is a little insensitive to refer to medics slang in the week that Robert Francis's report into the ghastly lack of basic human care and dignity at Mid-Staffs hospital is published, but in my defence I'm referring … Continue reading →

If David Nicholson is offered up as the sacrificial lamb to the Tory press when the Francis report is published tomorrow, who will David Cameron and his Sooty puppy Jeremy Hunt choose to be the next Chief Executive of the … Continue reading →

I suppose I'm not best qualified to talk about the 'sanctity of marriage'. I have no religion whatsoever, (although some of my best Christians are friends) and I was raised in a family where religion played no part in a … Continue reading →