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  • Leukemia Update

    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…

    Leukemia Update

  • Health update

    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…

    Health update

  • Jack Monroe and “Hodge’s killer baby adverts”

    One of the latest things to trend on Twitter is the hashtag #CameronMustGo and the celebrity chef Jack Monroe waded in with a series of tweets, the most notable one of which was “Because he uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends #CameronMustGo”. Because he…

    Jack Monroe and “Hodge’s killer baby adverts”

  • UPDATE: What the Liberal Democrat position on homeopathy IS

    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…

  • Andy Burnham’s unhealthy flag wrapping claptrap

    I’ve written a response to Andy Burnham’s astounding Guardian article on the NHS on the SLF website: Given the choice between “national”, “health” and “service” the word that Burnham considers most key to the Labour approach is the former. Ignore “health”, never mind “service” – who needs a bandage when you can wrap yourself in…