Monthly Archives: October 2022

My grandfather’s wristwatch

On Thursday 13th October, after suffering indignities and egregious lapses in care at Basildon Hospital, Dad registered his profound disapproval of it all by checking out permanently. As a result, and partly with the aim of supporting my freshly-widowed mother, … Continue reading

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Healthcare… or something else?

A few weeks back, I ruminated briefly on aspects of the nature of modern policing, which at times seems to have very little to do with justice, or with catching criminals, or anything much which resembles that which we used … Continue reading

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