I’d like all the people working to dismantle our NHS by stealth, to watch “The Repair Shop” as they preserve Michael Rosen’s Patient Diary. Kept by the staff that looked after him while he was in an induced coma having contracted Covid. He was alone and had he died this would have been the only witness to his last days. Epicurus said “for a life to be...
This last year £400 of your tax has been given back to your household to help with your electricity bill. You have given that money to your power company. Your power company has then made a profit and given some of that back to its shareholders. Anyway, you look at your tax money is being given to the shareholders of power companies. Capitalism no longer functions. One...
We have to change the narrative; Education is not a business, and lower the school leaving age from 21 back to 18. Scrap the universities from the 1992 reform. We need to educate people, not cohorts. Education is not a business. Trade, Craft, and vocation should be as valued as letters after a person’s name. We need to change the narrative. Let’s value people, have skills equity...
I think we all agree the House of Lords is out of date. I do think we need an upper house. A senate if you will. A place that is a critical friend to the commons. in the 14th century the evolution of our system made perfect sense. in tne 11 century our parliament was made up of tne Saxon Whitans, the nobles from the lands presided...
The Harry and Meghan Documentary: Hidden Messages is part one of my look at some of the production techniques used in the Netflix documentary. It’s not a review of the documentary or a commentary on the story. Its is my analysis of how the production team have used certain techniques to tell the story. Some of these techniques have a hidden psychological effect on the audience. They...
ITV’s The Ipcress File: Good or Bad? This is a review of the latest version of the Ipcress File by TV director and producer Jonathan Glazier. Starring Michael Caine, the original film of Len Deighton’s book became a classic. It epitomises the 60’s with its cool visuals and restrained performances from the cast. The ITV remake still has that wonderful retro look, although of course, in the...
Come the Revolution and this is why. Glaziers Lane is in a small village called Easeborne in Sussex. It’s my family seat, not the big house but the slum where some 17 Glaziers lived in poverty, but with love and I suspect a lot of laughter. This is the estate gate house, now the Cowdray Estate farm shop featured on the C5 tv show. Every morning the...
There’s much talk on social media about human rights LGBTQ and Womens’ at the moment. I’ve contributed to the discussion myself. Rightly so, particularly of course rights for women, migrants and of course LGBTQ communities. I’d recommend that before anyone posts, a read of the amnesty international website is a valuable exercise. Especially a good look at your own country’s record. Any violation is abhorrent and there...
Fear is a very personal emotion. One only has to watch “I am a celebrity, get me out of here” to see just how personal. I think a viewer gets some idea of how debilitating fear can be and how it can affect your entire personality. Fear can make a person feel inadequate, guilty, worthless, and depressed. Especially when another human, a person with one of everything...
Do the media have a responsibility to society? We have a serving MP who played a leading role in the pandemic apearing on a reality tv show. He will at some point have to answer questions at a public enquiry about his part in our excess deaths, and the awarding of contracts for among other things PPE. In the meeting where the casting of the programme happened,...
