Arts
Postcard from Romania – Part Two
Part One of the Postcard from Romania covered our arrival in the beautiful city of Cluj-Napoca, in May of 2018. In writing it, I tried to dispel just a little of the negative impression many [more…]
Medicine
Health
Misdiagnosis
It was 05:45 on a Wednesday morning, in the spring of 2012, when my radio alarm woke me up at my normal time to get ready for work. I immediately realised something was badly wrong. [more…]
Engineering
Sleep Apnoea, a Load of CPAP, Part Two
In Sleep Apnoea, Part One we learned that if you’re falling asleep while driving, abruptly waking during the night gasping for breath and falling asleep in front of the TV in the evening, it might [more…]
Authoritarianism
Coronavirus – the inevitable inquiry
When, this bloody war is ooooover, Oh, how happy I will beeeee. That’s how I feel about that virus! At some stage, we do need to get back to normal. Remember those days, when you’d [more…]
Engineering
Sleep Apnoea, “What a load of CPAP!”
“You, you may not know this about me but years ago I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder” – William Shatner Pronounced “Sleep ap knee ah”. I remember an episode of the Sopranos from 2000 [more…]
Authoritarianism
Book Review: They Thought They Were Free
Sorry, this isn’t a book review……………As such. It is, however, an attempt to highlight the similarities between life in Germany during the early 1930s & life in the UK in 2021. In 1955, Milton Mayer [more…]
Authoritarianism
You Refuse/Decline to Get Vaccinated…..
Let’s assume for a minute, that the vaccination campaign is led by people who genuinely want to end the current crisis and restore the country to “normal”. Let’s also assume, that they believe that mass [more…]
Authoritarianism
Dr Feelgood (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying & Love The Vaxx)
So………….good news, peeps! It appears that the Big Pharma Genetic Modification Division has come up with a miracle vaccine for Covid !! It’s an absolutely safe, non-experimental, messenger-RNA vaccine that teaches your cells to produce [more…]
Democracy
Racism – The Root of All Evil
There was a time when the love of money was the root of all evil. Then socialists in schools tweaked that lesson ever so subtly and suddenly, unnoticed, money was the root of all evil. [more…]