Professor Ian Gabriel
I encountered Professor Gabriel seven years ago in Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He is a hematologist. What many people do not know is that in 2013 he proved beyond doubt that he had completely reversed a diagnosis of AIDS. AIDS had hitherto been regarded as impossible to reverse, but he did it. It amazes me that he's never had a knighthood. Readers are asked to write to the honourable secretariat at 10 Downing Street, and get this failure to recognise public service
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Neoliberalism
This neologism popped up a few weeks ago from the mouth of the prime minister. I don't think he knows what it means. Perhaps a reader can tell me what it means.
4 days ago1 min read
Slavery reparations - the joke is over
Whoever cooked up the slavery reparation claim had a sense of humour. But the joke has been repeated so often that it ceases to be a joke.
6 days ago1 min read
DINO
Using my initiative, I sent my granddaughter to the hospital’s third or fourth-hand bookshop and she acquired for £1.60 a book called Dino by Nick Tosches. It is an account of Rat Pack member Dean Martin. I'm particularly drawn to it because on the outside cover there is the recommendation that readers should buy it on the grounds that it contains ‘one hundred-proof prose at its most scorching…it will melt cash registers.’ I think that is a sufficient recommendation to buy th
Nov 11 min read
The Labour Way
I am mystified by the Chancellor's description of changes coming along, he says will be introduced using the 'Labor Way'. I have absolutely no idea what the term the 'Labor Way' means. Has any reader got a view?
Oct 301 min read
JOG on
Firstly, keep the faith and buy more Jersey Oil & Gas (JOG). Secondly, the government will yield on Rosebank.
Oct 251 min read
A book recommendation
I think the most remarkable book that I have ever read was and is the Tower of Babel. To give readers an idea, it is asserted in this book that since the onset of some method of identifying languages, there have been about 15,000 languages - of which only 5000 remain in use. As a result, it causes the reader to wonder why there have been so many entirely separate languages. I recommend people get this book. It's by George Steiner. George was a Cambridge linguistics professor,
Oct 201 min read
