From the Telegraph online we find an interesting article about a leading cancer research organisation that claims that 6,500 people die each year just from the waiting lists and other delays in obtaining treatment from specialists. They also project that if the NHS matched the best treatment available in Europe, that they’d save 11,000 people […]
As soon as our election is over, there will be a sharp increase in Islamist violence in Iraq and in other trouble spots around the world. They have not wanted to risk angering the American electorate for fear that we will not elect their favoured candidate, Barack Hussein Obama. It is no small coincidence that […]
While going through my daily internet reading, I found these two stories side by side in the headlines at CNet.com. The first is about the purported largest producer of ethanol for fuel in the US going bankrupt and the second is about how Tesla, the maker of the critically acclaimed Tesla Roadster are still struggling […]
Read this. It’s an article from some academic who thinks that organ donation should be mandatory through a system presumed consent. In other words, he’s recommending that participation in organ donation programmes should be universal except for those who take the time and effort to opt out of them. Nice guy. Real warm and sensitive, […]
A week or two ago, a couple of Democrats in the House of Representatives blew the dust off their plan to gut your 401(k) (as though the recent market tumble hasn’t done enough of that!) by removing the tax favoured status of the funds you put into your investments plan. It also means that the […]
Well, it’s been hovering over our shoulders for two years now, like the shadow of a ghost haunting us in our waking dreams. It’s terrified us, depressed us, caused anxieties and ruined our sleep. It’s been the cause of tensions, the likes of which we haven’t seen in years and years. And now it’s almost […]
