The Middle Aged Revolutionary

“If the writer of these lines has succeeded in providing some material for clarifying these problems, he may regard his labours as not having been fruitless.”

V.I. Lenin, 1899

Category: health

  • The Rise of the HMO

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    The recent news that Medway Council in Kent is considering introducing new rules on the licensing for homes in multiple occupancy (also known as HMOs) in an attempt to curb antisocial behaviour and poor housing standards is just one in a plethora of examples of the rise of the HMO and how these dwellings serve…

  • Euthanasia: Legal Implications and Ethical Concerns

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    On November 29th, MPs will debate the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill, put to Parliament by the Labour MP Kim Leadbeater. If passed, it would legally empower people with terminal diseases to consent to ‘medical assistance in dying’, or to use the much older and more common term, euthanasia. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary,…

  • Labour and the NHS: Why More People are Turning to Private Healthcare

    Labour and the NHS: Why More People are Turning to Private Healthcare

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    I recently spoke at some length to a very good friend of mine who retired from our employer a little over six years ago. As always, we talked about work-related bits and bobs, caught up on things affecting the railway industry in general (including another lengthy closure on the line between Ryde Esplanade and Ryde…

  • Trouble at the Doctor’s

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    For anybody who has had to engage with their local GP surgery at any point in the last five years or so, there would have in all likelihood been a deep sense of dread as they picked up the phone to call the receptionist. Whether it was the trouble getting through at all, the near…