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I love Stephen Fry. I went to see QI being filmed recently (the hardest I have laughed in a long time) and what struck me was that not only...

There has been a lot in the news recently about pressures on the ambulance service, A&E and the NHS generally. In response to these hea...

As I sit here writing, my back on fire, my feet feeling like they have shards of glass inserted deep into the tendons, I want to say this:...

Happy New Year! (can I still say that on 15th February?) I guess when I haven't posted on my blog for a while, certain chronological l...

The eagle-eyed amongst you will notice that my blog has changed. In place of a spine in the background, there is now a rather attractive ima...

Every year, like the inevitable turning of the leaves, darkening of the evenings and cooling of the temperature, comes the return of vast nu...

It's been a while since I've posted here, mostly because PhD-related matters have taken over, so that I have become obsessed with p-...