Straight to the point

It isn’t just the poor quality of the food we buy which makes us ill – damaging our immune systems and making us vulnerable to infections and to cancer.

The way we prepare our food can also have a dramatic …

The Jubilee nonsense which filled four early days of June in the UK made me feel very uncomfortable. The royals are supposed to be apolitical. But they are not.

How could people cheer and wave flags and hold street parties …

As the world races towards poverty it is vital to remember that poverty and death are inextricably linked.

In Africa and Asia, there are hundreds of millions of people dying because recent events – particularly the sanctions against Russia – …

There is much confusion among patients (and NHS staff) in the UK about whether patients can mix’n’match private medical care and NHS care. I have heard of patients being told (quite wrongly) that if they have something done privately then …

For decades now, just about every attempt to show that medical screening programmes save lives has proved that they are a waste of time, energy and money. Indeed, surveys have proved that, because of the risk of false positives, medical …

It is frighteningly easy to become an ‘expert’. When I was in my 20s and newly qualified I was regularly described as a ‘world famous expert’ or a ‘leading expert’ whenever I was quoted in the media.

At least I …

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.…

In the UK, the Government has told arthritis sufferers that they won’t be given painkillers. So, it’s vital for those with arthritis to deal with their pain themselves.

Numerous claims have made about the importance of diet to arthritis sufferers …

Diagnosing The Twenty First Century Blues is something that you have to do yourself – the disease has yet to be recognised by the medical establishment (and in view of the fact that the disease cannot be treated with any …

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.…

Vegetarianism has become fashionable (for some very strange reasons). The following list was compiled in 2008 but is just as valid now as it was then.

Avoiding meat is one of the best and simplest ways to cut down fat

Sunak, Britain’s very left wing Chancellor of the Exchequer, is continuing his war on pensioners – and the Government’s secret plan to see 250,000 pensioners die of cold and hunger next winter.

In a vain and pretty damned obvious attempt …

Some of the truth-tellers appear to me to becoming rather institutionalised. A word of warning: beware of people offering sponsorship, advertising money or financial support. The drug companies use fronts (which may appear to be NGOs or charities) to distribute …

Everyone is disgusted that Boris Johnson and assorted aides and civil servants ignored the lockdown rules they’d created. And they should be disgusted.

Anyone other than civil servants would be fined and sacked for such foul behaviour.

Some commentators seem …

Sri Lanka is in terrible financial trouble because of the global crisis deliberately created by the sanctions against Russia. Around another 69 countries are now in dire straits as they struggle to cope with rising food prices, rising energy prices