Category Archives: Health

Washing on the Front Room Table

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

Just before bedtime, We boys had to be washed The bowl of hot water, soap, flannel and towel On the table, waiting for each boy Dad would select one of us Never the same one twice, in line A soaped … Continue reading →

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Elderly Prisoners, Over-crowded Prisons and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Posted on March 23, 2020 by

‘Prisons designed for fit, young men must adjust to the largely unexpected and unplanned roles of care home and even hospice. Increasingly, prison staff are having to manage not just ageing prisoners and their age-related conditions, but also the end … Continue reading →

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A Tale from a Tower Block

Posted on March 19, 2020 by

Life in a Council tower block has its problems. Noise and other selfish behaviour can be significant. Social housing has been available to the working classes since 1945, which massively reduced private rented accommodation with improved housing at a lower … Continue reading →

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A Disappointed Conservative

Posted on March 16, 2020 by
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Medicine in the good old days

Posted on February 27, 2020 by
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Doctors: What do they know?

Posted on February 20, 2020 by

Just after Christmas 2019, I wasn’t at all well. No energy, headache, fever with terrible back pains in my lower back. Jan, my wife, dialled 999 and in what felt like a few minutes, two young paramedics were in my … Continue reading →

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Wittgenstein as a school teacher

Posted on February 17, 2020 by

Jonathan Rée writes insightfully about Wittgenstein’s life and work, but he does skate over one crucial detail (LRB, 21 November). After six years working in village schools in the Austrian Alps, Rée remarks, Wittgenstein ‘gave up teaching and returned to … Continue reading →

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