Tag: health
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Content warning: cancer, medical treatment (not all of which is positive) I have absolutely no intention what those of us of a certain age would call “doing a John Diamond“. But it’s been an eventful month so I thought I’d better briefly update the situation. I started my cancer treatment on 3 January. It did…
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Content warning: cancer, blood (not graphic) So lets get this out of the way as things are starting to happen quite fast: I have cancer. To be precise, I have Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. That isn’t quite as scary as it sounds. In fact, when it comes to rolling on the Random Cancer Table, I got…
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I’m a bit of a shy republican, but today gave me a glowing reminder of why any sane person should be one (sorry Dad). On the same day the Queen “generously” agreed to “rededicate” herself to the UK, Downing Street let it be known that the Cabinet spent their time “banging the table” to celebrate…
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Since I previously wrote about what it was, and then wasn’t, I feel it is encumbant on me to include here what the official line on homeopathy now is: A recent report by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee examined the provision of homeopathy through the NHS and called for funding by the…
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I’ve signally failed to blog about what has become known as Alan Johnson’s Nutt Sack. The appalling way in which this government is sliding into irrelevance – and how Her Majesty’s Opposition is always only too ready to act as an echo chamber on matters when this government is truly, spectacularly wrong, is both profoundly…