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This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.

So, the UK Government is…

When I became a GP I took over a single handed practice which had been run for over 40 years by a rather truculent but good hearted Scotsman. He had run his practice from two downstairs rooms in the terraced house where he lived. He carried on living i…

You’ve been waiting for the world’s first independent, scientifically based factchecker.

Here it is.

There are thousands of factcheckers already in existence on the internet. But many of them have links with organisations which have a financial inter…

We spent an hour or so at the beach at a busy seaside resort. There were around 2,000 people sitting or lying around on the sand or on benches or deckchairs. I estimate that at least 50% were studying their smart phones. I saw four people reading books…

This is a long standing series of small items which have caught my eye or mind and which seem relevant, startling, amusing or all three. Occasionally, items which appear here may return as a longer piece. Mostly they will not.

My good friend Dr Colin …

It has, for one reason or another, been a scary day.

Driving back home I called in at a petrol station to buy some fuel. The only local place won’t take cash so I put my credit card into the machine and pressed a few buttons. To my relief the machine …