The Guardian ran a striking headline on Thursday last: Scrap laws driving privatisation of health service, say NHS bosses . I confess I did a double-take. If this is for real then it has to be heartily welcomed. [They are] proposals which, if taken forward by ministers – who are supportive – would unwind and… Read more
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Health
Vegan meat problem
A short pointer towards a suggested read – Joanna Blythman’s concise article here (in the food trade Bible – ‘The Grocer’) ‘Why we should resist the vegan putsch’ on the suggestion that we should eat very little meat from the Eat-Lancet Commission. Surprisingly and worryingly to me, it seems to have the chemical company, Monsanto,… Read more
US regulatory food incompetence
Just in case anyone was subdued into acceptance of the idea that the USA food system functions well – never mind even better than the UK or EU systems, we should just take on board, that here is the world’s largest meatpacker recalling 6.9 million pounds of beef linked to antibiotic-resistant Salmonella. So input antibiotics… Read more
Government Healthy Eating advice is useless and Tom Watson MP proves it!
There is a particularly trenchant article in the ‘Grocer’, no less, for this is the Bible of the food trade (and for once this is actually free to view) – on Government Healthy Eating advice, and Tom Watson’s role in showing them up for the sham they are. We have to look after ourselves and not… Read more
Not so healthy
An interesting article on the Health Committee’s recent report suggests that privatisation is not as simple as we’re encouraged to believe by this and previous government’s. In an earlier blog I suggested that donors were unduly influencing our ‘democracy’ and here is an instance – the Tory Party has received donations, it is suggested, from… Read more
Food is Healthcare ..
Mentioning the Pioppi Diet to a couple in passing the other day, ‘Well’, they said, pretty much in unison, ‘you know what they say…’ As I didn’t, I thought I’d share the reply: “Food is basically Healthcare, Medicine is certainly not Healthcare, Medicine is Sickcare.” Now we all know – and if we don’t, there… Read more
Not Spending, but Investing – a guest post by Michael Green
For anyone interested in creating an economy that can fund a fairer society, the recent post in Progressive Pulse by Charles Adams is essential reading (The Magic Multiplier Effect). It gives links to two other documents, an explanation by Richard Murphy of multiplier effects (It really is time that people realised most government spending pays… Read more
Food Rotting at Ports, Prime Minister?
In a late addition – but as further support of Mike Parr’s blog on our potential fresh goods delivery problems should we leave the EU in any sort of muddle, his suggestions are now supported (although personally, I consider it rather late in the day) – by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) in a letter… Read more
Simple is best
I draw attention to this story from France with a heavy heart since it also shows that it it is not only the the NHS that has problems. In Britain, 999 is the oldest emergency telephone number in the world having been launched in 1937. In France there are also emergency numbers – but four… Read more
Why bankers are rich and our health is poor
I have started subscribing to Money statistics at ‘The Money Charity’. I rather wish I hadn’t. It is an uncomfortable realisation that a whopping 3,118 Consumer County Court Judgements were issued every day in 2017, with an average value of £1,493. Meanwhile the so called National Debt (which many might prefer to call National Savings)… Read more