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A Failed Ambulance Service Part 2 A&E - Anything and Everything.
The ambulance service is possibly one of the most abused and misused aspects of healthcare along with A&E To prove my point lets look at...
Jan 9, 20233 min read
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A Failed Ambulance Service Part 1.
East Midlands Ambulance Service has warned of slower response times during the strikes and in recent weeks. I guess some may not notice...
Jan 8, 20232 min read
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Truth in Politics
Truth is often seen as a singularity, but, especially in politics it is often a plurality. This is because truth often depends on...
Aug 23, 20223 min read
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Ethics in Politics
This is the first of six posts inspired by the thoughts and words of Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart in their highly successful...
Aug 23, 20222 min read
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Insulated - how my house held the heat.
This is my home. Built in 1980's by Scott Builders in Spalding these houses won awards at the time for energy saving insulation. Indeed,...
Aug 22, 20222 min read
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ENERGY LED INFLATION – THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENT
Any government that cannot control inflation will not remain a government for long. Yet we see many administrations ringing their hands...
Aug 5, 20223 min read
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Hannah Fry, Truth on the Internet and my Dogs Bollocks
Last night I watched a program by Hannah Fry looking at why some people are against vaccines. Part of the discussion was about truth and...
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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Energy Inflation
Throughout 2022 the world has been left in no doubt of the gravity of the economic situation with which we are now faced. Almost daily...
Jul 20, 20222 min read
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THE DUTCH FARMER PROTEST – WINNERS AND LOSERS
The “Dutch N” case and the “Urgenda” case are compelling the Dutch government to seek massive reductions of greenhouse gases by 2040 and...
Jul 16, 20224 min read
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NETHERLANDS FARMER’S PROTEST - NEDERLANDS BOERENPROTEST
“Twice as much food using half as many resources” was the ambitious aim of Dutch Agriculture. Indeed, you can see it being achieved and...
Jul 14, 20228 min read
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The short-changing of Spalding – a lesson for other rural towns.
In 2003 I wrote a letter to the local press “Wake Up Spalding we are being short-changed”. About two weeks later I was approached by an...
Jul 8, 20226 min read
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Holiday Homes and Second Homes
Holiday homes and second homes are a paradox for the rural dweller. On one hand tourism provides income and employment to the local...
Jul 7, 20224 min read
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Tied Housing
If you build bird boxes you get birds. If you build affordable housing you get employees.....at least that's the hope. If you go back In...
Jul 6, 20223 min read
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The Scourge of Multiple-Occupancy Housing
This post is about the scourge in housing that blights Spalding – the multiple-occupancy house. One of the greatest gifts that a...
Jul 5, 20223 min read
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The One Bedroom House.
In the Thames Road Estate, Spalding is a two bedroom house that was bought by South Holland District Council. They have then spent a...
Jul 4, 20222 min read
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Why pronouns matter – especially if you get them wrong.
Respecting someone costs very little.
Jun 29, 20223 min read
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General Strike?
It was the late Sir Richard Body's writings that first suggested to me the idea that an elected British government with an overall...
Jun 22, 20223 min read
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The British Countryside - Managed by Man
I cannot help but feel as I wander through the British countryside that its nature is as God intended......managed by man. The last week...
Jun 5, 20222 min read
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WELFARE AND CHARITY AND GOVERNMENT
It is somewhat a paradox that Rishi Sunak, the most generous chancellor to ramp up the support of the state has become vilified for his...
Apr 19, 20222 min read
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