Archive for January, 2014

Deadly guidance

Deadly guidance

January 31, 2014 at 9:31 pm 0 comments

The Leadership Alliance for the Care of Dying People (LACDP) professes to be involved in public engagement on a proposed substitute for the UK’s Liverpool Care Pathway. Families of victims who died on the pathway and many who made submissions to the Neuberger Review have been omitted from its trumpetedRead More

A serious conflict of interest and the death pathway review

A serious conflict of interest and the death pathway review

January 19, 2014 at 9:53 pm 0 comments

Baroness Julia Neuberger was chair of the 2012-13 Review into the Liverpool Care Pathway. The Review was ordered after it emerged, thanks to some revealing Freedom of Information Act requests, that hundreds of thousands of people had died on the financially incentivized Pathway after 2008 when the strategy to increase numbersRead More

France’s armed forces are stronger than Britain’s because we spend more

France’s armed forces are stronger than Britain’s because we spend more

January 16, 2014 at 11:24 pm 0 comments

According to Robert Gates, America’s former defence secretary, Britain no longer has ‘full-spectrum military capabilities’. In other words, we’re strictly second rate in military muscle, which doesn’t sound all that bad. Second-rate would be a shining ideal for our third-rate healthcare and fourth-rate education. So in a way Gates wasRead More

On the function and purpose of an inquest

January 9, 2014 at 10:39 pm 0 comments

Neither justice nor public confidence has been served by the costly three month inquest into Mark Duggan’s death. Part of the problem is that the inquest has been used as the vehicle for an examination of matters more appropriate, at least in cases like these, to the criminal process. TheRead More

A squalid display of prejudice

A squalid display of prejudice

January 7, 2014 at 10:18 am 0 comments

Most of us celebrated the 12 days of Christmas as a time to exercise peace and love. At the Wren church of St James’s Church, Piccadilly, in London, they used the festival to demonstrate prejudice and hatred. The vicar and church council erected a replica of Israel’s security fence asRead More