Clinically vulnerable people are among the many realities denied in the endless drive for “normality”.
Category: health
Lying Through Their Teeth
What the government has done to NHS Dentistry is what it wants to do to the rest of our public services.
How to Build a Bioweapon
There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions.
Covid Roulette
Your next infection could be the one that permanently disables you.
Bleeding Out
Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell.
Burning Shame
Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake.
Borderline
The government has gone to extreme lengths to close our borders to refugees and people seeking work, yet has left them wide open to Covid-19.
Oral Transmission
How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered.
Viral Lies
Some falsehoods about the pandemic are so dangerous that they should be banned.
Long-Suffering
Long Covid is devastating the health and lives of many thousands of people, and highlights the terrible neglect of patients with chronic conditions such as ME/CFS.
Clueless
It is hard to imagine how the government’s handling of the pandemic could have been more catastrophic.
Lessons Unlearnt
Privatisation, outsourcing, packed classrooms and a total government failure to make them safe expose schools to deadly levels of infection.
A Total Fiasco
England’s response to the coronavirus pandemic now relies on unskilled teenaged call centre workers, taking the place of experienced clinicians.
Without Trace
The huge amount of public money spent on test and trace has been wasted by incompetent private contractors and executives, with devastating results.
Contract Killers
Coronavirus deals worth billions of pounds have been awarded by the government to “unusual” companies, without advertising or competition.
Culpable Negligence
The disastrous collapse of the UK’s pandemic response has been caused by the deliberate evisceration of our health services. Worse is coming.
The Machine Stops
The government knowingly and deliberately de-prepared the UK, even as the pandemic began to bite.
Prescription for Disaster
In the UK, the US and Australia, governments built on dirty money cannot be trusted to protect us from the coronavirus.
A Slow-Burning Scandal
The government refuses to act on toxic flame retardants in our bedding and furnishings.
Obesophobia
In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter?