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Every now and then a conference – and I’m at one now – is enlivened by masterful presentation, brimming with insights on vital matters, the ...

It’s a lot of fun working for a company that has a product that actually does what it says. Sadly, rather a lot of people selling informatio...

It was a pleasure to have a chat with a Palliative Care Consultant the other day. Noble mission A Consultant, in this context, and fo...

For years now, British governments – sadly, Labour as well as Conservative – have attempted to convince us that what we really need in heal...

Curious the similarities and dissimilarities between the US and Europe. On both sides of the Atlantic, we live in societies that proclaim...

‘The press lives by disclosure,’ wrote John Delane, iconic editor of the London  Times in the nineteenth century.  It isn’t even any old...

British doctors have set the alarm bells ringing again, over the government’s alleged drive to privatise more of the NHS. Many fear that...

I was intrigued by an article I read recently by Denis Piveteau, a member of the French equivalent of the Supreme Court (the Conseil d’Etat ...

It's Sunday afternoon, which reminds me of how bad a time this was for one of my sons when he was a young child. His good cheer would st...

It's said often enough but that doesn't make it any less true: you really need to be careful what you wish for. When David Cameron s...