The world sniggers at the heir to the British Throne. ++++++++++ Let’s face it, the Quacktitioner Royal is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, even in a Royal drawer renowned for bluntness. Mostly, he is a harmless old duffer and his rambling opinions may be dismissed as nothing more than a sour...

Oh! Dear God, the birth loonies have escaped from the asylum again. There is a certain sort of health care professional, well known to the readers of NHS BLOG DOCTOR as a madwife, who believes it to be important for women to have as painful and unpleasant an experience as possible during childbirth....

A talented broadcast journalist of the utmost integrity? The furore caused by Jeni Barnett’s irresponsible and ill-educated foray into matters medical has still not died down. Indeed, due to Jonathan Richards' inability to deal with the problem, it is now being considered at the highest level. Ear...

Accrington Odeon - 1960 As a child, I went to the cinema frequently. Most Saturday mornings. To the cinema in the picture. And that is how it looked. That is how it was. We sang: “We come along on Saturday morning,Greeting everybody with a smile,We come along on Saturday morning,Knowing it's well ...

Jade Goody & Professor Michael Baum The media loves nothing more than building something up only to knock it down again. Occasionally, it will do the opposite. Jade Goody provides the classic example. She has been universally derided by the media for years but now, because she is seriously ill, ...

A colleague down in the stock broker belt sends me a copy of the latest emission from the commissariat. It lays out in detail what the PCT is not prepared to pay for. It runs to 38 pages. A line has to be drawn and there are many treatments listed that few would say the taxpayer should pay for....

As recommended by the Church of England My teenage daughter once caught me at it, in  flagrante, late at night when I thought everyone else was in bed. She was appalled and ashamed. I would never do it in public. I am usually on-line when I do it, and always in the privacy of my own home. I keep pr...

I have only recently started looking at the JABS site and, every time I do, I worry that I might increase their hit rate. So I am grateful to Becky of JABS Loonies - Justice, Awareness, Basic Support and Mind Blowing Stupidity - for drawing my attention to the Jabs-o-Tron. This allows you to view a ...

Stifling freedom of speech in London The debate between Ben Goldacre/Jeni Barnett has taken a turn for the worse. It seems that Jeni Barnett has received a number of personally abusive emails and is upset. LBC, oddly, has contacted Ben Goldacre to complain. As I said earlier, abusive ad hominen atta...

Smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by variola virus, a member of the orthopoxvirus family. Smallpox, which is believed to have originated over 3,000 years ago in India or Egypt, is one of the most devastating diseases known to humanity. For centuries, repeated epidemics swept across cont...