Promoting the Politics of Courage
“The saddest day of the week: awful news from Flambards today. “After almost half a century, Flambards has been a constant in our lives, for visitor activity, employment, community events and parties. “The owners have assured me that Ferdi’s Indoor Play will remain open, and that redundancies will be kept to a minimum. But that […]
A welcome to Kemi Badenoch who took the helm of the Conservatives last weekend. Though I don’t share many of her values or political priorities, I was encouraged by some of what she promised at her acceptance speech. She assured us that “to be heard we have to be honest – honest about the fact […]
“I don’t know why you bother. You’ll never change anything”, is the sort of refrain campaigners often hear from those who’ve become world-weary and cynical about the whole political process. But I disagree. I admit, it isn’t easy to change things for the better (nor should it be, otherwise we’d risk living in a world […]
London is so remote and often out of touch. The unique challenges of transport in West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are sometimes hard to fathom for those more than 300 miles away in Westminster. Whether it’s price hikes for school bus tickets, securing investment for infrastructure or seeking parity for Scillonians with those […]
London is so remote and often out of touch. The unique challenges of transport in West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are sometimes hard to fathom for those more than 300 miles away in Westminster. Whether it’s price hikes for school bus tickets, securing investment for infrastructure or seeking parity for Scillonians with those […]
Rebuilding our NHS should be the highest priority for government. Meaningful workforce planning has been largely absent for a decade. Registered nurses are the backbone of our NHS. But Nurse and midwife retention has become a massive challenge. Nurses have become powerless as the “normalisation of unsafe and inappropriate care,” as the Royal College of […]
Rebuilding our NHS should be the highest priority for government. Meaningful workforce planning has been largely absent for a decade. Registered nurses are the backbone of our NHS. But Nurse and midwife retention has become a massive challenge. Nurses have become powerless as the “normalisation of unsafe and inappropriate care,” as the Royal College of […]
The landmark Climate and Nature Bill which would put the UK back on course to meet its international climate and nature targets has taken an important step forward in Westminster. Andrew George MP, a leading supporter of the Bill, says the decision of a fellow Liberal Democrat (Dr Roz Savage MP) who came high in […]
I’ll speak at the West Cornwall Healthwatch Annual Meeting this Friday 11th October – at 7pm in St John’s Hall, Penzance – along with the widely respected now retired consultant physician, Dr David Levine. We jointly drafted, along with others, a prospectus for the restoration of West Cornwall Hospital a couple of years ago. It’ll […]
I’ll speak at the West Cornwall Healthwatch Annual Meeting this Friday 11th October – at 7pm in St John’s Hall, Penzance – along with the highly respected now retired consultant physician, Dr David Levine. We jointly drafted, along with others, a Prospectus for the restoration of West Cornwall Hospital a couple of years ago. It’ll […]