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

Tag: health

  • Why Are Birth Rates Declining?

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    On 28th January 2025, The Daily Telegraph ran an article entitled “How soaring housing costs have crushed the birth rate”. This article detailed the very real and potentially devastating problem of Britain’s declining birth rate and made a link, albeit tenuous, between this seemingly inexorable decline and the availability of affordable housing. The lowest birth…

  • 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…