December 2, 2011
The demonisation of the elderly continues. Yesterday we were told that bed blocking ‘by elderly patients’ was costing the NHS ‘more than £500,000 per day’ without a shred of evidence that the bed blockers were in fact elderly! Today we are told – with some pride – that between April and June of this year [...]
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October 12, 2009
Back in Victorian times, death was never far from people’s thoughts thanks to the diseases and poor medicine of those times. You can see evidence of this in old sepia photos of sombre matronly women (including Queen Victoria herself) posing in their widow’s weeds. Back in those days the grim reaper was rushed off his [...]
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