This week the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee published it’s report on the 21st anniversary of Lord McPherson’s report into the death of Stephen Lawrence. I always thought it should have been called the Lawrence report, but apparently thats not how things work https://committees.parliament.uk/work/347/the-macpherson-report-twentyone-years-on/ The committee concluded, correctly that a huge amount of progress has … Read more
A year ago I wrote a rather gloomy blog about US healthcare in which I compared their failure to tackle Covid, with their failure to eradicate human plague – the Black Death The US is still the only developed country in the world to regularly record new cases of the Bubonic Plauge, which was eradicated … Read more
Trump’s failure in the Presidential election and his subsequent retreat into self pitying conspiracy theories may have reduced his number of supporters, but it hasn’t made them less weird. Last year I tried to engage with Trump voters to find out what motivated them to support him, mostly what I found was loneliness, random anger … Read more
I’m currently in Slovenia and Croatia, finalising the delivery of our new Whisky stills. It’s the 30th anniversary of the Yugoslavian civil war, and the horror of the 90s makes it too easy to forget what a unique country Yugoslavia was. Although Yugoslavia was part of the Communist world it followed it’s own path, equally … Read more