Strangely Perfect

Healthcare Woes Lying sick in bed this morning listening to a Radio 5 phone-in about the “state” of our Accident & Emergency (A&E) healthcare system here in the UK, I was struck by the failure of the radio show’s producers to engender the expected flurry of tales of woe and poor service. Happy and Immaculate [...]

How Summer Camps Could Change Britain by Christopher M. Green (Convenor of the Summer Camps Forum and Founding Director of The ATE Trust) Download Links to Original Chris Green Articles: Letter to MPs February 2010 Suggested letter format to lobby your local MP on behalf of Chris Green’s summer camps’ initiative. How Summer Camps …inline [...]

Too Little, Too Late, Gordon Brown This morning, PM Gordon Brown told Andrew Marr that he wants to ‘clean up’ parliament. He wants a ‘code of conduct’ for MPs to follow. The thing is, there’s already a code of conduct – it’s called the law! All we,  ‘the people’ want, is to have reasonable laws [...]

A Secret Shared: – Is Not  a Secret One Third of Second-Hand Hard Drives Contain Secrets This is the astonishing findings from research conducted by three Universities, from Wales, the US & Australia (see here). In an absolutely random sample of second-hand discs bought at computer fairs and places like eBay, 34% had secret, classified [...]

Highlighting the Differences in Public Health provision, the Attitudes to Death and Responsibilities of the State and the Individual to Public Welfare. The title is the biggest bit – trust me. Introduction This takes us from today’s news from America and the Duffy’s Cut project to a tiny hamlet in Northumberland, England, called Throckrington. Duffy’s [...]

Our weirdly bipolar government, will spring a few surprises today for most people.  (The realisation that bi-polar disorder affects organisations as well as individuals fully explains their behaviour and thus, holds no surprises for me, any more ). Coloured comments added later on Wednesday, 3rd Dec 2008. Predictably, even though a few thousand gambling bankers [...]

Following on from a rapid two day whizz oop North (where it’s grim), I can confirm that it is indeed cold and wet. Time constraints meant I couldn’t visit anyone except close family.  Some may be glad at this eventuality, some maybe sad..   The low point of the trip I’ll leave for another time.  [...]

Revealed: 8 million victims in the world’s biggest cyber heist By Iain S Bruce of the Scottish Sunday Herald Some bad guys have stolen the identities of about 8 million people in a hacking raid instigated by an Indian cracker that could ultimately steal more than £2.8billion from people’s credit card and bank accounts plus [...]

Hospitals ‘infested with vermin’ In the latest bout of the fear and gloom sweeping the country, (BBC link above), this time it’s the tories mixing facts and data up with proper information – and typically, the media are going along with it because it makes good copy. Read the article, illustrated with a picture of [...]

Following on from my recent Visual Studio training which will lead onto asp in my day job working for a company under the .nhs.uk domain name, it’s interesting to see some of the things that have been going on to make the system dead slow recently. NHS website affected by mass SQL ‘Asprox’ attack said [...]

The latest “news” in healthcare is (see this BBC item): Firms ‘to run failing NHS trusts’ Now where have I heard this before? I know! Let’s check (see this BBC item) here in April 2002! What we have is Alan Milburn saying exactly the same thing… The whole point of it is that they reckon [...]

We had a visit on Saturday from Mahmoud (Mark) Benzahia who was popping back from Saudi to collect his family. I feel very privileged that he stopped by and found time to see us in his lightning fast schedule . He exchanged ideas with my wife on systemic education and management and we reminisced about [...]