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20th Century

How Is The Health Service Working?

25th April 2023 Going Postal 2364 Comments

In September 1948, a few weeks after its launch, John Alldridge set out to answer this question – His findings make very interesting reading 75 years later – Jerry F On Monday, July 5, nearly [more…]

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Halfcock’s a Tool of The Banks

15th March 2023 Going Postal 2615 Comments

The Torygraph’s “exposé” ignores the planning of the Convid response and its aftermath. Eugenics is the man without a face; the continuity that links families and regimes. Bojo had promised families would spend Christmas of [more…]

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ParkRun

18th February 2023 Going Postal 2551 Comments

Introduction This is an article about the ParkRun movement that is dragging thousands of people out of bed every Saturday to do a 5km (3.1 mile) run/walk around a park. It is enjoyed by all [more…]

Authoritarianism

Year of the Rabbit

18th January 2023 Going Postal 2798 Comments

When I first arrived in Hong Kong, many years ago, I bought a microwave grill for the new flat from Park and Shop, a big supermarket chain. Could it be delivered? “Yes, when do you [more…]

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The Final Cut

9th January 2023 Going Postal 2267 Comments

“You promised!” I certainly didn’t recall promising my wife anything of the sort, but then I also promised to be careful one night in Rome twelve months earlier, so I suppose she did have a [more…]

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What Will The New Year Bring

4th January 2023 Godfrey Bloom 2978 Comments

Much has been written about the disastrous effect of experimental spike protein therapy on hitherto healthy young adults & children, much more will be when the slow exposure of the criminals involved get put under [more…]

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How MRI Works

19th December 2022 Going Postal 2777 Comments

I guess quite a few of you will have had to undergo a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan over the past few years.  As you lie in the machine’s tube with headphones on to muffle the [more…]

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Coronavirus – the first thousand days

14th October 2022 Going Postal 2695 Comments

The earliest stats on the coronavirus that I can find  – numbers of cases and deaths – were recorded by John Hopkins university on 19th January 2020, with 204 cases and 3 deaths.  There are [more…]

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Reflections on The National Health Service – based on personal experience

3rd October 2022 Emile Woolf 3046 Comments

Some seven years ago, after experiencing the dizzying effects of a very low pulse rate, I was given a pacemaker and, as an anti-clotting precaution, a blood-thinning medicine, which I was taking for several years [more…]

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